The Legend of the Yi Horse Cherry Blossom Festival

Every year on the eighth day of the second lunar month, it is the annual traditional Ma Cherry Blossom Festival of the Yi people in Zixishan, Chuxiong City, Yunnan Province, which is called Meiweilu Creek in Yi language. There is also a beautiful love story about the origin of Yima Cherry Blossom Festival.

According to legend, a long time ago, there were a pair of identical twin brothers in the Yi village. My brother's name is Aowu Ghost, and my brother's name is Abhay Ghost. My brother is very honest. He drives cattle up the mountain every day, 360 days a year. Pei Gui's younger brother, an elf, is very capable. He goes up the mountain to chop wood every day, 360 days a year. Because the family is poor, the two brothers can't afford a daughter-in-law in their early twenties. Suddenly one day, my brother Wu Gui told his younger brother, Ah Di, I have a sweetheart. I met him on the grazing mountain, and he was very beautiful. Brother Peggy also told brother, brother, I also have a sweetheart. I met him on the firewood cutting mountain, which is beautiful. The two brothers brag to each other about how beautiful their sweetheart is. On the fifteenth day of the first month of this year, both brothers said they had an appointment. When I got up in the morning, my brother Wu Gui put on new clothes, drove the cows, went up the mountain early and played the bamboo flute. My younger brother, Peggy, got up early, put on a wooden frame and played a melodious little muffled flute up the hill. When the two brothers came to a big tree at the same time, Miss Ayu, who had been waiting there, was stunned. Did they see it with their own eyes Why did their lovers suddenly become two? When the hands of the two brothers pointed at Miss Ayu to introduce each other at the same time, Miss Ayu realized that she was in love with a pair of twin brothers. I am loved by two brothers at the same time. At this time, Miss Ayu's heart is really fifteen buckets to draw water, so anxious. Look at Owen and Abhisit. Both brothers have good personalities. Which one should they marry? Miss ayu felt really embarrassed. Besides, both brothers think that Miss Ayu fell in love with herself first, and neither of them is willing to give in. Finally, a clever girl, Ayu, came up with a brilliant idea. She brought a cherry blossom and a peony seedling, both of which bloomed in spring. She asked the two brothers to choose a plant, and she decided who to marry. In order to marry this beautiful Ayu girl, the elf's younger brother, Abheigui, took peony seedlings first. He knows that peony seedlings are easier to grow than horse cherry blossoms. They will blossom early as long as they are watered every day. As long as the peony blooms, he can get the beautiful Ayu girl himself. My honest brother Awugui took the cherry blossom seedlings left by my brother in no hurry. My brother planted peony seedlings in the front yard and watered them three times a day. By the beginning of February, the peony flowers are in full bloom. A Pei's anxious heart wished that the bulging flowers and bones would open in the blink of an eye. But for some reason, he kept watering it. He looks at it dozens of times a day, but his eyes are full of flowers, and the peony flowers have been closed. In addition, my brother Awugui planted Japanese cherry trees on the hillside where he often grazed cattle. Although there are no watered flowers on the mountain, Japanese cherry trees are very drought-tolerant. By the beginning of February, Japanese cherry trees were also flourishing, and their joints were bulging. On this day, Awugui drove the cattle up the mountain to see if the cherry blossoms were in bloom. He went to the flower tree and saw that the bulging flower bones had not yet blossomed, and he was a little worried. Suddenly, a cow came to the flower tree, sticking out its wet tongue and licking the flower bones. The saliva in the cow's mouth soaked the flower bone flower, and those thirsty flower bone flowers suddenly blossomed into several big and red horse cherry blossoms. Wu Wen finally got her beloved Ayu girl. Cherry blossoms open on the eighth day of the second lunar month. Awugui thought that she married Miss Ayu because the ox helped him, so she picked the cherry blossom and put it in the corner, and gave it the best forage. Later, in order to commemorate the wedding day of the couple, people celebrated the Horse Cherry Blossom Festival on the eighth day of February every year, and everyone got together to dance in tune. Young men and women fall in love and wear horse cherry blossoms for cattle. The Ma Cherry Blossom Festival of the Yi people has been handed down from generation to generation and has been passed down to this day.