What are the traditional festivals of Bai nationality?

Bai nationality is one of the ethnic minorities in China, mainly distributed in Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan and other regions. They have their own national language and distinctive traditional festivals. Torch Festival is an ancient traditional festival, and a grand banquet is held every year. Traditional festivals of Bai nationality include March Street and Torch Festival. March Street, also known as Guanyin City, is the biggest festival for Bai people. The annual summer calendar is held from March 15 to 20 at the foot of Diancang Mountain in western Dali. At first, it was full of religious activities, and later it gradually turned into a grand material exchange meeting. After the founding of New China, March Street has developed into an annual material exchange and national sports literature and art conference. Let's talk about the traditional festivals of Bai people.

Traditional Bai festivals:

Torch Festival: Torch Festival is called Fuwangwu in white language, and it is held every year on June 25th in the summer calendar. This is a traditional festival of the Bai people. On the festival day, men, women and children get together to worship their ancestors. Through activities such as torch worship, lighting, lighting torches and jumping torches, I wish crops a bumper harvest and six animals a prosperous life.

Around the Three Souls: Every year in late April of the lunar calendar, the Bai people hold three or four days of activities around the Three Souls. During the festival, thousands of men, women and children dressed in national costumes, played musical instruments, sang and danced, and gathered in Shengyuan Temple, the capital of God, for sacrificial ceremonies and various cultural activities.

Sea play: It usually lasts for three to five days, starting from July 23rd of the lunar calendar. Due to the different legends of origin, the time of playing the sea meeting has always been different, generally ranging from three to five days. Deng Chuan, Shangguan and Xizhou began to visit the sea on July 23rd, and Dali and Shimonoseki began to visit the sea on the eighth day of August, with similar contents.

Tree Flower Festival: On February 15th and 15th of the lunar calendar, Bai Peasant Association, also known as Bai Tree Flower Festival. Before and after the Tree Flower Festival, Bai villagers always plant several bee trees and several irises in front of and behind their houses to express their nostalgia for their ancestors. Sanyingbazi has a good reputation as a flower dam, which is inseparable from the legend and custom of Tree Flower Festival to some extent.

Butterfly Club: April 15th of the lunar calendar every year. Legend has it that it is a folk festival of loyal love between Xia Lang and Wengu, young men and women of Bai nationality.