What festivals are there in Yunnan?

What are the traditional festivals and customs in Yunnan? Let's take a look at Bian Xiao's sharing today!

1, Tiger Festival

Time: the eighth day of the first lunar month to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month

Venue: Shuangbai County

Introduction: In Shuangbai County, the Yi people of Maitianchong generation celebrate Tiger Festival from the eighth day of the first lunar month to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, which is called "Rome" in Yi language. On that day, after the adult men in the village worshipped the landlord at the back of the village, eight people were selected by the wizard. These eight people put on blankets with tiger stripes, painted tiger stripes on their faces, feet and hands, dressed as tigers, and danced various dances imitating production, life and reproduction under the guidance of Hei Hu, and went to the village to exorcise ghosts and spirits for families. In Yi language, they are called "Roman Naibang".

2. Jin Dian Temple Fair

Time: the ninth day of the first lunar month

Venue: Jin Dian Park.

Introduction: The traditional Jin Dian Temple Fair was held in Jin Dian Park. From the eighth day of the first month to the tenth day of the first month, Ming Fengshan is full of pilgrims. Snacks in Kunming, such as Erguotou, canned rice noodles, claw powder, rose rice and shrimp, are all over the mountain from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, and there are also various specialties, which are similar to temple fairs around the world and very lively. At that time, there will be all kinds of famous local products and flavor foods in the market, the garden will be full of flowers, and there will be various entertainment activities and large-scale mass cultural performances in the park.

3. This month 15.

Time: the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Venue: Dayan Ancient City, Lijiang

Introduction: Naxi people also call it "Milla", which means that husband and wife go to buy household appliances. On this day, businessmen from four directions, eight towns, and even Baoshan, Dali, and Tibet all brought local products to the meeting for trading. It is one of the most distinctive festivals in Lijiang. Festival activities include material transactions, flower exhibitions and religious and folk activities.

4. Yi Hunting Festival

Time: February 1 day to February 3.

Venue: Jiuxiang

Introduction: The Yi people's God Hunting Festival is held in Jiuxiang area. During the festival, the Yi people will also hold various folk activities, such as big three-stringed dance, Qin Yue dance, overlord whip and so on, as well as duet love songs, bullfighting and other competitions.

5. Flower Arrangement Festival

Time: the eighth day of the second lunar month

Venue: Huashan, Dayao County

Introduction: On the eighth day of the second lunar month, Huashan Mountain in Dayao County at an altitude of 3,600 meters is full of mountain flowers. The local Yi people pick all kinds of flowers and make colorful archways and flower sheds, symbolizing good luck. Arrange flowers in the fields in front of and behind the house, on cattle and sheep, and pray for a bumper harvest of grains and the prosperity of six livestock; People also arrange flowers for each other and place their blessings on happiness and well-being. Among the flowers under the forest, men, women and children and Lusheng form a circle to "sing", and young couples are singing and laughing. There are many stories about the origin of the Flower Arrangement Festival, and the most widely circulated is the legend of Miyi Road. According to legend, Miyilu is a smart and beautiful Yi girl. In order to protect her sister from bullying, she made false promises and drank Ma Yinghua's poisoned wine with the bully at the wedding, sacrificing herself and bringing harm to the people. Therefore, every year when flowers bloom in Ma Yinghua, the Yi people in Huashan will hold a grand flower arranging festival to commemorate the beautiful and kind Miyi Road.

6.8 February

Time: the eighth day of the second lunar month

Venue: Baishuitai

Introduction: The eighth day of the second lunar month is the most lively festival for Naxi people, especially in Baidi Township on March 8th. During the festival, thousands of participants came from all directions, as well as Tibetans, Yi, Hui and other ethnic minorities. The activity place is mainly in the scenic Baishuitai. People kill chickens to worship heaven first, and then perform song and dance performances, which are very lively.

7. Ma Yinghua Festival

Time: the eighth day of the second lunar month

Venue: Zixi Mountain, Chuxiong Prefecture

Introduction: Ma Yinghua Festival is an important national festival in Zixi Mountain, Chuxiong Prefecture. The local Yi people think that Ma Yinghua symbolizes many children and many blessings, so picking is not allowed. Whenever festivals come, the Yi people nearby will gather in Zixi Mountain, Bandeng Mountain and other places to hold activities such as offering sacrifices to flower gods and ancestors.

8. March 3rd

Time: the third day of the third lunar month

Venue: Kunming

Introduction: March 3rd is a festival for Kunming people to have a spring outing, enjoy flowers and go for an outing. During the festival, various parks and scenic spots have different mass activities. Xishan Forest Park and Jin Dian Park are particularly lively.

9. Dongba Club

Time: the fifth day of the third lunar month

Venue: Yushuizhai, Lijiang

Introduction: Dongba, where Naxi people live together, gathers in Yushui Village, Lijiang, where the annual Dongba Fair is held. The scene is grand. On this day, Dongba people came to Dongshiluo Temple in Yushui Village early. Light incense burners, burn incense, worship God and ancestors, worship Dong Ba Zu Dong Ba Shiluo, recite scriptures and do things.

10, Clothing Festival

Time: March 28th of the lunar calendar.

Venue: Yi District

Introduction: Dayao Yi People's Clothing Festival, also called Clothing Festival, is held every year on March 28th of the lunar calendar. During the festival, local Yi girls wore several sets of flowered clothes and gathered on the dance floor in Santai District, forming a circle, sprinkling pine wool and dancing arm in arm with the accompaniment of Qin Yue and Suona, young people. Dance for a while, quit the dance floor, put on a new suit, and dance again to test the girl's dexterity, wealth and beauty. Sightseeing at the Yi costume festival is a feast for the eyes. On the field, colorful clothes dazzle you. Yi women not only embroider hats, clothes and waists, but also embroider various patterns on shoulder bags and insoles. And everyone's craft, composition and color are different, each with its own merits. Wind and rain, thunder and lightning, stars day and night, mountains and rivers, wood, stones, flowers, birds and animals, all kinds of figures can be embroidered. Its composition is complex and simple, its image is exaggerated and distorted, and its tone contrast is amazing.

1 1, horse racing festival

Time: the fifth day of the fifth lunar month

Venue: Wufeng Mountain Racecourse

Introduction: Shangri-La Horse Racing Festival has a long history. It is the most grand traditional folk festival for people of all ethnic groups in Shangri-La County, and it is also a grand gathering of Tibetan people in spring. Now the horse racing festival has developed into a grand exchange activity of national sports competitions and folk cultural activities. Horse racing festival is usually held around the Dragon Boat Festival in the lunar calendar and usually lasts for 3 days. During the Horse Racing Festival, in addition to traditional equestrian events and performances, there are also rare activities such as yak racing and cow pulling. The contestants are not only local herders in Shangri-La, but also horse teams in neighboring areas such as Mangkang, Xiangcheng, Daocheng, Litang, Batang and Derong. During the festival, local residents travel with their families, set up tents, have picnics and entertain guests at the foot of the mountain. At the beginning of the Jockey Club, people gathered on the spacious lawn to watch the wonderful performances of riders from all over the world. Horse racing includes speed, footwork, riding with guns and flags, and horse racing to pick up things.

12, Shangri-La Heizai Festival

Time: from the seventh day of May to the ninth day of May in the lunar calendar.

Location: Deqin County

Introduction: Shangri-La Black Son Festival is a fixed festival in Deqin County, which is held once a year. During the festival, the township will send a folk art performance team to Deqin County to participate in folk art and costume performances. The content includes Heizi, Reba and folk dances, toasts, blessing songs and folk songs. To show folk customs and promote national culture. Deqin County, adjacent to Shangri-La, belongs to Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and is known as the "hometown of black boys". The Tibetan people living here are known as "dancing when they walk, singing when they talk". Black boy has been circulating in Deqin for more than 700 years. Every Buddhist activity day and festival night, people will sing and dance around the bonfire, accompanied by the melody of Black Boy. Black boy is also called Tibetan Lake, and the Tibetan language is Binyong. The timbre is bright and generous, with a rugged plateau style. Black boy is a necessary musical instrument for Tibetan men, and almost everyone has it. In addition to accompaniment and ensemble, you can also solo. String dance can be danced by both men and women, and the dance is flexible and graceful.

13, Huashan Festival

Time: the sixth day of the sixth lunar month.

Location: Northeast and South Yunnan

Introduction: The Miao people in northeastern Yunnan and southern Yunnan celebrate the "Huashan Festival" on June 6 of the lunar calendar every year. On June 6th every year, Miao people put on festive costumes, plant a flower tree on the high mountain, and hold duets, lusheng dances, bullfights, lion dances, flower pole climbing and other activities. Among them, the most striking thing is the flower climbing pole. Whoever climbs high will be given a pig's head and a good wine prize Lion dance is also one of the important activities of the festival. If the lion jumps well and climbs high, there will also be wine and pig's head rewards. During the festival, there will also be bullfighting activities. By then, bullfighting enthusiasts will bring tall and powerful bulls from all over the world, and it is difficult for them to estimate the outcome when driving. The winner was led to the flower pole by the owner, circled around the flower pole, and hung red.

14, Yi Torch Festival

Time: June 24 to June 26 of the lunar calendar

Location: Shilin, Chuxiong and Dali

Introduction: June Torch Festival is a traditional festival of Yi, Bai, Naxi, Hani, Lahu and Pumi nationalities. This festival lasts from June 24 to June 26 of the lunar calendar, ranging from one day to three days. The content of festival activities should vary from country to country, but the ignition handle is no exception. On June 24th of the lunar calendar, bucket handle, the Big Dipper, pointed out that all ethnic groups in the Yi language branch should celebrate the Torch Festival, also known as Chinese Valentine's Day. There is a saying that "the New Year's Eve stars return to the sky", which is equivalent to the Chinese New Year in the Yi calendar. The main activity of Torch Festival is in the evening. People either light torches to pray for the New Year, remove filth and seek good luck, or light bonfires and hold grand song and dance entertainment activities. During the Torch Festival, traditional wrestling, bullfighting and horse racing will be held.

15, Naxi Torch Festival

Time: June 25 to June 27 of the lunar calendar

Venue: Dayan Ancient City, Lijiang

Introduction: Dayan ancient city in Lijiang is the most lively torch festival of Naxi nationality. According to ancient regulations, Naxi people had to light torches for three days in a row. Every day, a pillar-like fire is lit in front of the door, and the young people in the stockade walk on the ridges and mountain roads with thin and long torches, singing until late at night. The brighter the torch burns, the more auspicious it will be and the happier people will be.

16, Lijiang July meeting

Time: July of the lunar calendar

Venue: Lijiang

Introduction: Lijiang July Festival is another important festival of Naxi nationality, which lasts about ten days. Because it mainly deals in large livestock such as cattle and horses, it is also called "July Jockey Club". The July meeting has a long history and is well known. During the festival, Naxi people brought livestock, agricultural and sideline products and various Chinese herbal medicines to Dayan ancient city for market. Going to meetings, watching exhibitions and performances, the flow of people from the street to the venue for three kilometers has never stopped. At sunset and dusk, the lights are on, and Sifang Street, Xinjie Street and Square are full of people.

17, Dunbar Festival

Time: the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month.

Location: Tibetan area

Introduction: Dunbar Festival is one of the most distinctive traditional festivals of Nilu Tibetans, and it is also a productive traditional festival in Tibetan agricultural areas. At that time, men, women and children will put on festive costumes, hold collective rituals of offering sacrifices to mountain gods, immortal caves and enlightenment, eliminate disasters and exorcise evil spirits, and pray for the prosperity of the five grains and six livestock. In addition, horse racing, target shooting, bullfighting, pot dancing and other recreational activities are also held.

18, Yao Festival

Time: October 16th of the lunar calendar.

Location: Yao area

Introduction: Wang Pan Festival is a grand festival for Yao people, which falls on October 16th of the lunar calendar (Wang Pan's birthday). During the festival, people kill chickens and pigs, drink old wine, sing king songs and dance king dances, and sing and dance all night. This festival originated from an old legend. In ancient times, Wang Ping fought with Gao Wang, who got a large reward and promised to marry Yincui gorge, encouraging people to assassinate Gao Wang. Pan Hu went out and killed Gao Wang. On the marriage between Yincui gorge and Pan Hu and their titles in Wang Pan. He gave birth to six men and six women with Yincui gorge, handed down the twelve surnames of Yao, and worshipped them as ancestors.

19, my past festival

Time: the sixth or seventh or eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.

Venue: ninglang county, Lijiang

Introduction: Pumi nationality is one of the ethnic groups living in ninglang county, Lijiang. My past festival was a grand traditional festival of Pumi nationality. "I" means year, "past" means new, and "my past" means New Year. My past festivals were usually on the sixth day of the twelfth lunar month or the eighth day of the seventh lunar month. Generally speaking, my last festival usually takes 9 days. Today, most Pumi areas still attach great importance to this festival, and some Pumi areas celebrate New Year's Eve with the Han nationality on the 30th of the twelfth lunar month.

20. Gedong Festival

Time: Tibetan calendar1February 26th to1February 29th.

Venue: Shangri-La

Introduction: Gedong Festival, which means nine kinds of food are cooked together, is a religious activity specially organized by Tibetan Buddhist temples to jump ghosts and exorcise them. The time of Gedong Festival varies from temple to temple. Tibetan calendar of Gedansong Zanlin Temple in Shangri-La 12 February 26th-29th. On the 26th, it was a rehearsal for jumping. Will be held in the temple, 27, 28 for chanting ceremony; The 29th is a mask dance, with various masks, including horses, deer, monkeys, yaks, dogs, crows, pigs and tigers. Dance with suona, drums, postscript and other instrumental music, the atmosphere is very mysterious, lasting 1 day.

2 1, Bai people around Sanling

Time: April 23rd to April 25th in the annual summer calendar.

Location: Dali, Eryuan, Binchuan, Weishan and other places

Introduction: Around the Three Tombs is the largest traditional song and dance festival of the Bai people in Dali, and it is also the carnival of the Bai people. At that time, the Bai people in Dali, Eryuan, Binchuan and Weishan, regardless of gender, age and age, will come to Cangshan Erhai in droves from all directions, singing and dancing, and marching all night to pray. In Dali, there is a saying called "Around the Three Souls": three days to travel north, four days to travel south, and five days to go home.

22. Haniga Tangpa Festival

Time: 65438+ 10 month per year

Location: Hani area

Introduction: Gatumba Festival is the Hani New Year, which is held from 2nd to 4th every year 1 month. During the festival, men, regardless of age, have to make a gyro, and everyone goes to the open space to play gyro competitions.

23. Jinuo Kote Festival

Time: every February

Venue: Keno Shanzhai

Introduction: Kote Festival is the New Year of Jino people. Every year from February 6th to 8th, Jinuo shanzhai will hold a grand party, with men beating gongs and drums and running cows, and women singing and dancing. At this time, guests who come to Keno Shanzhai will be warmly received. The legend of Tezok is very interesting. According to legend, in ancient times, there was a big flood on the ground. A couple put their children in a big wooden drum, leaving a knife and a bronze bell for them to drift with the water and let them beat the drum every day. As long as the drum rings, it means that the water has receded and they can cut the drum skin with a knife. The wooden drum floated for seven days and seven nights. When drifting to Mount Keno, the flood receded. Brother and sister played drums, got married on Mount Jinuo and became the ancestors of Jinuo people. The annual Kurt Festival is to commemorate them.

24. Dai Water-splashing Festival

Time: April every year

Location: Dai area

Introduction: The Dai New Year, also known as the Water Splashing Festival, is the biggest festival of the Dai people in a year, which lasts for three days from April 13 to 15 in the Gregorian calendar. At that time, people will go to the Buddhist temple to bathe the Buddha first, and then splash water on each other to express sincere wishes and wash away the troubles and pains of the past year.

25. Kunming International Cultural Tourism Festival

Time: May every year.

Venue: Kunming

Introduction: Kunming International Cultural Tourism Festival is held during May Day every year, generally lasting for 5 days, while Kunming Carnival lasts for 3 days. At the carnival, the costumes of ethnic songs and dances and the large-scale float parade made Kunming, the spring city, a veritable "carnival sea". During the tourism festival, the main activities include the opening ceremony and float parade, night float parade, folk song and dance performance in the square, water splashing carnival in Xisita Square, Yunnan famous snacks, ethnic snacks long street banquet and so on. These activities are mostly held in various squares, parks, pedestrian streets and scenic spots in the city, such as Dongfeng Square, Taoyuan Square, Nanping Pedestrian Street Square, World Horticultural Exposition Park Gate Square, Cuihu North Gate Square, Guandu Square, Biji Square, Jinbi Square, Shilin, Jiuxiang, Yunnan Ethnic Village and Dongsi Street.

26. Dai people's festivals of harvest and opening.

Time: July every year 10.

Location: Dai area

Introduction: The mid-July of Gregorian calendar (September 15 of the Dai calendar) is the Dai people's closed day. On that day, men, women and children in all villages will go to the Buddhist temple to pray. Within three months from now to the opening day, young men and women can fall in love, but they can't get married or go out. Eid al-Fitr in the solar calendar1mid-October (Dai calendar1February 15) symbolizes that the rainy season has ended for three months. From now on, young men and women can start free love and hold weddings. There will be a big party on the festival day. At this time, the rice harvest is finished, so it is also a festival to celebrate the harvest.

27. Luoping International Rape Flower Cultural Tourism Festival

Time: February-April every year

Venue: Luoping County, Qujing City, Yunnan Province

Introduction: China Yunnan Luoping International Rape Flower Cultural Tourism Festival is held in Luoping County, Qujing City, Yunnan Province, and lasts for two and a half months from February to mid-April every year. China Yunnan Luoping International Rape Flower Cultural Tourism Festival presents not only beautiful natural scenery, rich ethnic customs, but also colorful theme tourism activities to domestic and foreign tourists.