Torch Festival Which national festival is Torch Festival?

Which country is the Torch Festival? Torch Festival is a traditional festival for some ethnic minorities in southwest China, such as Yi, Bai, Lisu, Wa, Bulang, Naxi, Lahu and Pumi. The Torch Festival of all ethnic groups originates from the worship of fire. Different ethnic groups hold Torch Festival at different times: Yi, Naxi and Jinuo hold Torch Festival on June 24th, Guizhou Yi mostly hold Torch Festival on June 6th, Bai on June 25th and Lahu on June 20th. The festival lasts for two to three days. The way and content of the celebration are similar. The origin and legend of Torch Festival There are various legends and stories among the people, and different nationalities have different opinions. The real reason remains to be studied. Among many legends, excerpts are recognized. 1, Yi Torch Festival Legend Long ago, there was a Hercules named Sliabi in the sky and a Hercules named assiba on the ground, both of whom had the strength to pull out mountains. One day, Sri Abi wanted to wrestle with Attila, but Attila had to go out in a hurry. When he left, he asked his mother to entertain Sri Abi with a plate of discus. Sri Abi thought that Attila Ba must have great strength after eating discus, so she left quickly. After Atila Ba came back, she heard from her mother that Sri Abi had just left, so she ran after him and tried to wrestle with him. As a result, Sri Abi was killed When God Entiguez knew this, he flew into a rage and sent a large number of locusts and moths to eat the crops on the ground. On the night of June 24th in the lunar calendar, Attila cut down many pine branches and wild Artemisia branches, tied them into torches, led people to light them and burned insects in the fields. Since then, the Yi people have designated this day as the Torch Festival. 2. The legendary Torch Festival of Samei branch of Yi nationality is the largest traditional festival of Yi nationality in Liangshan, Sichuan. At that time, every family drank, ate meat and killed animals to worship their ancestors. People put on new clothes and carry out cultural and sports activities with national characteristics. Men take part in bullfighting, herding sheep, raising chickens, horse racing and wrestling. Women sing, play strings and play Qin Yue. Swim the flashlight around the house at night; On the third night, they walked around Shan Ye in droves with torches, and then they gathered in one place to light bonfires, burn torches, drink, sing and dance until dawn. Diao Na, the slave owner of the Axi branch of Yi nationality, put many poor brothers in prison. Poor Jane tied a torch to his horn, rushed to Diao Na's mansion, burned the slave owners and burned the rope in the poor man's hand. To commemorate this victory, people marched with torches and followed the custom. 4. Naxi God Old Apu, jealous of the happy life on earth, sent an old god to the earth and asked him to burn the world into a sea of fire. God will come to this world and see a man carrying a big child, but the child is leading him. He felt strange. After careful questioning, I realized that the child he was pregnant with was a nephew and the child he brought was a son. Because his elder sister-in-law is dead, this man thinks he should take good care of his nephew. God will be deeply moved by the virtue of human beings, thinking that people are so kind that they can't bear to hurt them, so he told that person that God burned the world and asked him to tell people to light torches at the door in advance on June 25 to avoid disaster. So thousands of families lit torches that night, and the gods thought that people had been buried in the fire, so they fell into a deep sleep and never woke up. Later, Naxi people designated this day as Torch Festival. 5. Among the legends of the Torch Festival of Bai and Yi people, there are also the legends of famous Anan, Mrs. Bai Jie and Mrs. Charity. The plot of the story is generally consistent with the legends of female characters "Man An" and "Burning Song Ming Pagoda", which is the result of the cross evolution of the legend of characters and the legend of Torch Festival. 6. There were six tribes in Yunnan in the early Tang Dynasty, which were called "six imperial edicts". The southernmost tribe Meng Shezhao is also called Nanzhao. Nanzhao became more and more powerful. One day, Pelugo, the king of Nanzhao, invited five other leaders to get together. Mrs. Chariti, the wife of Deng Ruozhao, the tour leader, thought that Pelog had ulterior motives and tried to persuade her husband not to go. But the husband wouldn't listen. When she left, Mrs. Charity put an iron ring on her husband's arm with tears in her eyes to protect herself. Since then, Pirog did burn down the Song Ming Building where the leaders gathered, and all the leaders of the five imperial edicts were spared. Facing the ashes of Song Minglou, Mrs Charity wept bitterly. She threw herself into the ashes and took out the iron ring worn by her husband before recognizing his body and taking it home. Later, Pilog heard about this clever and virtuous charity lady and wanted to marry her. However, how can this kind lady be willing to remarry? After burying her husband, she closed the city and followed her dead husband, leaving only this touching story. After that, the Bai people in Yunnan celebrated the Torch Festival to commemorate the "Burning Song Ming Pagoda" and the historical story of the brave and clever charity lady. According to legend, in ancient times, a demon named Stanley destroyed people's happy life on earth. After people found out, they came forward to ask questions. Ten vigorously and arbitrarily invited people to wrestle with him and overturned a strong cow in a demonstration. His provocative behavior angered a Yi hero named Bao Cong. He walked out of the crowd and wrestled with the top ten for three days and three nights, still tied. So people played three strings, played piccolo, clapped their hands and stamped their feet to cheer for Bao Cong, and finally defeated the top ten countries. The devil got angry and released locusts and other pests to spoil the crops that people worked so hard to grow. So people gathered again, lit torches to burn pests, and finally burned all the pests to death. This day happens to be June 24th. Later, in order to commemorate this victory, people slaughtered cattle and sheep every day and held various activities of the Torch Festival, which reflected the struggle spirit of the Yi people who were not afraid of violence and pursued a happy life. 8. The Yi people in Mile County believe that the Torch Festival originated from a slave riot. These slaves tied torches to their horns, rushed into the slave owners' homes, burned the slave owners and set them free. 9. Long ago, heaven and earth were interlinked. One year, the god Stiguge sent Sigaby to collect taxes on earth. Due to the famine in the world, people couldn't afford the rent, so a strongman who could eat copper and iron, Rabbah of Russia, killed the tax collector Sylvia Abby. The gods were furious. The first flood tried to drown people on the ground, but the flood was defeated. The gods released all kinds of pests into the world to eat people's crops. Russian Rabbah and everyone gathered around the fireplace to discuss ways to control pests. Unexpectedly, a bug fell into the fireplace and was quickly burned to death. As a result, the Russian Laba organization set everyone on fire, finally defeated the pests and achieved a bumper harvest. Over time, the Yi Torch Festival was formed. 10, Guo Shizhong, deputy commander-in-chief of the Han Dynasty, killed Ma Nana, the chief of Dali, and found that Mrs. Anan, the chief's wife, was beautiful and wanted to marry her. Mrs. Anan pretended to agree, but put forward three conditions for paying homage to her dead husband. But when offering sacrifices to her husband, Anan set fire to the mourning hall and jumped into the blazing fire to set himself on fire. An An's loyalty and courage have won people's admiration and admiration. Since then, on the day of Anan's suicide every year, Bai compatriots will light torches and travel around villages to commemorate them. In 1 1 and Dali, there is a legend about Princess An: "In the Han and Yuan Dynasties, Yu Ye's wife An was the wife of Chief Manana. That was killed by a general in the Han Dynasty, and she wanted her wife to travel south. She can promise you three things: first, make a curtain to sacrifice her dead husband; Burn her husband's clothes and put on new clothes; Let everyone know that I got married with ceremony. Loyal as he said. Tomorrow people will get together, and Zhang Song will set fire to her husband. When the Nanzang Dao comes out, once it is blazing, it will burn her husband's clothes, that is, it will lead the knife to break his neck and fall into the fire. On June 25th, the people of China mourned it. Every year, they hung it with a Japanese torch and called it Chinese Valentine's Day. 12. There lived a good man and a wicked man on Lahu Mountain. The wicked only eat human eyes. On June 24, the good man wrapped the goat horn with beeswax, lit the beeswax and told the goat to find the wicked. Seeing the sparks, the wicked thought that people would hit him with muskets, so they quickly hid in the hole and blocked the hole with stones. As a result, he was drowned by the water flowing out of the hole. From then on, people no longer worry about evil people eating their eyes, so they can engage in production safely. Therefore, the Lahu people designated this day as the Torch Festival. 13. There is a beautiful and capable girl in the Yi family in Wu Luo, a branch of Yi nationality, who has been in love with Yi boy for a long time. However, men from the nearby 12 tribe came to propose marriage one after another, and one of them said cruelly that if he didn't agree, he would bloodbath the cottage and make the whole village suffer. The girl was helpless and promised a blind date on June 24. The blind date came, and the girl put on a white dress, a short black coat, a flower apron on her chest and lit a fire. The head of the twelfth department has also arrived. The girl took a deep look at Aaron and then jumped into the fire. Aaron and several boys tried to catch her, but they just pulled off her skirt. People came from all directions, but she died of double suicide. In memory of her, 12 boys lifted Daniel up and pushed each other in order to knock him down and win. Then kill cattle, drink, sing and dance. Later, the Yi people designated June 24th as the Torch Festival, and the skirt that Aaron tore off became the waist of the Yi women, and the smoke that burned the girl became the morning fog of the cottage. It is said that in the early morning when magpies are singing, a girl can be seen faintly in the distance in Yi Shan, so people call her a magpie girl. 14, the Sani branch of the Yi nationality is a good god Avanti, who steals the heaven to sow grain and makes the happy life on earth transcend the sky. The gods were furious and sent Hercules to vent their anger on earth. Appen hated Hercules for bullying, and wrestled with him, throwing Hercules to the ground and pressing out a hole. Later, the rain turned the pit into a long blue lake. In order to commemorate this human hero, people hold bullfighting, wrestling, slaughtering sheep, burning torches and other activities on June 24 of the lunar calendar to show their mourning.