Complete Collection of Bai Traditional Festivals

The Bai people have rich and diverse folk entertainment activities. Torch Festival, March Street (Ethnic Festival), Qingming Festival, Zhongyuan Festival, and Winter Solstice are all traditional Bai people's festivals. There are also festivals specially endowed with national characteristics: Raosanling, which lasts for three or four days in the late fourth month of the lunar calendar; Shibao Mountain Song Festival, which is held for three days at Shibao Mountain Shizhong Temple at the end of the seventh month of the lunar calendar; Jianchuan Mulle and Horse Fair, Benzhu Festival, Butterfly Festival, Cibi Lake Song Festival, Haixi Sea Song Festival; Chaoji Festival, held from the first day to the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar in Jizu Mountain, Binchuan; Shuhai Festival, held on the eighth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar in Caitun, Dali; Gegen Festival, held on the fifth day of the first month of the lunar calendar in Dali Santa Temple.

and the Bai people have one or several kinds of food for the occasion in almost every festival. For example, during the Spring Festival, you eat jingling sugar, soaked rice tea and Jiangzhai rice; during the Spring Festival, you eat steamed cakes and rice flour; during the Qingming Festival, you eat cold assorted and "Zhai Yan Xiang"(fried crispy pork); during the Dragon Boat Festival, you eat rice dumplings and realgar wine; During the New Festival, you eat new beans, tender melons and old grains mixed with new rice; during the Torot Festival, you eat sweets and various candies; during the Zhongwu Festival, you eat morels and fish wrapped meat; during the Mid-Autumn Festival, you eat white cakes and drunk cakes; during the Double Ninth Festival, you eat fat sheep; During the Winter Solstice, you eat fried grains and mutton farms.

In addition, the Bai people, like the Han people, celebrate the Spring Festival from the first to the tenth of the first lunar month every year. There is a custom of grabbing new water on the first day. Whoever receives the first spring water of the New Year will definitely be very auspicious in the coming year. From the first day to the fifth day, no metal utensils other than kitchen utensils are allowed, no water is allowed, or no floor is allowed. On the second day of the second day, sacrifices were made to heaven and earth, and on the third day, sacrifices were made to mountains, rivers and grasslands.

When the Nujiang Bai people worshiped their ancestors before dinner on New Year's Eve, outsiders were forbidden to be present. On New Year's Eve, we must get back what we have lent to others, otherwise we will not be able to find money in the coming year and there will be insufficient food. Therefore, if you borrow something from someone else's home, you must return it to someone else before the 30th of the New Year. The seventh day of the Lunar New Year is Women's Day. Women do not cook, carry water, or do any other labor, but play to their heart's content; the ninth day of the Lunar New Year is Men's Day, when men rest. The 15th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is the Ancestral Sacrifice Festival. The Bai people in Yuanjiang County prohibit killing people during the March Festival or Tianzi Temple Fair every year. In the Bai people in Yunlong County, people are not allowed to walk around on July and a half.

Bai Spring Festival is a traditional festival of the Bai people. The Bai people attach great importance to celebrating the Spring Festival, and the festival generally lasts about five days. After finishing their autumn and winter work, the Bai people began to prepare for New Year's goods, sew festive clothes, and make festive food. Bai people who made a living in other places before the Spring Festival must rush home to reunite with their whole family and celebrate the Spring Festival. In the last few days before the New Year, every household of the Bai nationality cleaned and posted couplets and New Year pictures. On the morning of the first day of the first lunar month, everyone was solemn and solemn. On this day, it is forbidden to use knives, scissors, axes and other iron tools. Before the rooster crows, firecrackers, open doors, and carry new water, and firecrackers must be fired when offering sacrifices to Tiandi Hall.

On the first day of the first day, everyone is vegetarian for breakfast. Except for unmarried girls, everyone is not allowed to go out through alleys and pay New Year greetings. Red paper should also be pasted on the heads of livestock. On the second day of the first lunar month, housewives who generally eat salty bait and silk with high craftsmanship also use shredded lean meat to stir-fry pickles, fried shredded eggs, sausage slices, chopped green onion festivals, etc. to make peony flowers. This day's food should be sent to the elders of the family. After breakfast, parents lead their children to pay New Year greetings, and the recipients have to give the younger generation lucky money. From the third day to the fifth day of the first lunar month, people visit relatives and friends to congratulate each other on a happy New Year. Young men and women of the Bai nationality are free to meet to play and hold various recreational activities... Throughout the festival, people must be civilized and polite and must not be vulgar.

Bai people die in Yunnan Province, traditional Bai people festival. It is held every year on the evening of the last day of the twelfth lunar month. The Bai people believe that this evening is the time to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, so the dinner is very sumptuous. It is said that the Kitchen God will return to the world from the sky that night, so every household in the Bai nationality, whether rich or poor, will bring out the best food to pay homage to the Kitchen God, then to the door god, and finally to the ancestors. Fireworks should be set off during sacrifice. At night, the pine wool picked from the mountain was spread under the altar table in front of the ancestors 'memorial tablets in the main house, which means laying felt to show that the ancestors would sit down after arriving home, and a dinner party was served on the table for the ancestors to enjoy. That night, regardless of age, ate in the main room, commonly known as the family portrait. After dinner, the parents led everyone to pay homage to the ancestors in the main room, kneeling and kowtowing, and then the eldest children paid their respects to the living grandparents or parents in turn. Family financial management elders use this to distribute some money to each of the younger generations. After that, my grandparents and their children and grandchildren stayed in the main house to celebrate the New Year. They drank rice tea by the time they arrived and wished that life in the new year would be like flowers and honey, so they returned to their houses to rest.

Bai Chaoshan Festival is a traditional festival of the Bai people and an important Buddhist festival in the Bai people area. Jizu Mountain is a famous Buddhist mountain, as famous as Emei, Wutai, Putuo and Jiuhua. It is said that Jizu Mountain is the place where Sakyamuni's eldest disciple, Venerable Usa, stayed in his clothes and meditated, waiting for Maitreya Buddha to descend to the lower realm. Every year, the Chaoshan Festival is held from the first day to the 15th day of the first lunar month. Although it is early spring, Jizu Mountain is already full of flowers and a strong sense of spring. During the mountains, there was an endless stream of tourists and worshippers, singing, laughing and bustling everywhere. Those who go to the mountains must arrive at each temple to offer incense and fruit to the Buddha statues, and donate merit to the temple owner for temple maintenance. Mountain pilgrims finally go to the peak of Jizu Mountain-Jinding to watch the sunrise. Especially those who watch the sunrise in the early morning of the 15th of the first lunar month are crowded with people. The eyes are thousands of miles away, but seeing the spring and the scenery makes people feel open-minded and uplifting. Bai newlyweds who got married before the Spring Festival also came to the mountains in pairs to make their wishes, seeking a happy life and sweet love.

Bai Qingnu Festival This is a festival for Bai women in Jianchuan, Yunnan. It is one of the traditional festivals of the Bai people. Legend has it that on the 15th day of the first lunar month of one year, a Bai girl named Qing Lady. She was hardworking, kind and beautiful, but she became a poor child bride. She was often abused by her mother-in-law and husband. She couldn't stand the bullying of "beating nine tons in three days" and hung on a swing stand on a white and clear night. Later, she was rescued and returned home by a group of Bai sisters. However, not only did her mother-in-law, her husband, and her sister-in-law not understand her, but instead cursed her maliciously, so Miss Qing was forced to jump into the Haiwei River in Jianchuan and die. This time coincides with the Lantern Festival on the 15th of the first lunar month.

The tragic experience of Miss Qing aroused the indignation and sympathy of the Bai girls, so they made this day their own festival. Every year on this day, the girls make a mock portrait of the young girl and welcome her from Haiwei River to the village square with gongs and drums. Everyone dances and sings around her, telling the young girl's tragic experience and expressing her condolences. "Qing Girl", a folk circulation among the Bai people, is a long Bai narrative poem sung by the girls while dancing. It is very touching after listening to it.

Bai Midu Mizhi Lantern Festival is a traditional festival of the Bai people. It is held on the 15th day of the first lunar month every year. Midu was called Baiya in ancient times and was the birthplace of the ancient Baizi Kingdom. It is a land of fish and rice in the Bai area, and Midu is a hot spot for lanterns. Lantern lanterns have been popular for hundreds of years and are well-known far and wide in Yunnan Province. The Mila area in Midu County is the center of the Midu lanterns. The annual Miliu Lantern Festival is a traditional grand event for collective display of Midu lanterns. On this day of the festival, dozens of lantern classes and clubs from nearby villages gather on the streets of Micha to dance and carnival to compete to display their lantern art. This is the Micha Lantern Festival. The Bai people sang and danced while singing and dancing. Lantern operas included lion dances and dragon dances. There were singing and laughing everywhere. There were beautiful lanterns everywhere. People showed and appreciated the incomparable charm of folk art. There was really a sea of people, singing and dancing like a tide, and everyone was jubilant.

The Bai people's Raosanling, also known as Raoshan Forest and Raomulberry Forest, is a traditional Bai people festival in Yunnan Province, held on the 15th of the first month of the lunar calendar every year. The white language is called "Guanshanglan", which means wandering in the mountains and forests. In fact, it is a spring recreation activity before the busy farming of Bai nationality, and also a ceremony to pray for harvest before planting seedlings. At that time, the Bai people in Dali and Eryuan stopped production and left home to enjoy singing and dancing along the foot of Cangshan Mountain and the shore of Erhai Lake for three days and three nights.

On the first day, the Bai people went around the foot of Cangshan Mountain to Xizhou Shengyuan Temple at the foot of Wutai Peak. On the second day, he arrived at Heai City by Erhai Lake, and on the third day, he arrived at Majiuyi near Dali Three Pagodas along Erhai Lake. The Bai people, who have always been gentle and elegant, have enjoyed their emotions and joy during these three days. It is a veritable "Bai Carnival".

Raosanling has a long history. It began during the Nanzhao period, and was originally a religious activity for the Bai ancestors, Chung-ri Sheshang, but later gradually developed into a celebration activity that entertains gods and people. The duration of Raosanling was originally four days. On the first day, we will enjoy the Chenhuang Temple in the ancient city of Dali. On the second day, we will enjoy the ride from Santa Temple along the foothills of Cangshan Mountain to Xizhou Shengyuan Temple. On the third day, we will enjoy the ride from Shengyuan Temple to Jingui Temple by the seaside. On the fourth day, we will enjoy the ride from Jingui Temple along the Erhai Lake. We will visit the main temple of Majiuyi in the north of Dali City, and then disperse.

Among them, Santa Temple Chongsheng Temple is Dali's Buddhist capital, the main temple where Shengyuan Temple is located is Dali's divine capital, and Jingui Temple is Dali's immortal capital. The Bai people who participated in Raosanling held religious sacrifices in all five temples during the day, especially the most solemn ceremony in Shendu to Duan Zongbang, the "master of the Central Committee". At night, they sing and dance in nearby fields and woods. The number of people participating in the Roundabout Sanling ranged from thousands to tens of thousands.

Bai people generally live in villages, led by two well-dressed Bai male elders, one of whom dresses up as a woman.) They hold willow branches in one hand and Buddha dust or handkerchief in the other. They sing humorous "Willow Song" while walking, while doing exaggerated and witty movements. Some of the teams behind them sang songs and some danced the Overlord Whip, which was enthusiastic and cheerful. At night, love songs are sung to each other between Bai men and women, and the gentle and affectionate singing lasts all night long. There is a poem by our predecessors: "The drum of money is the overlord's whip, and the man pushes and knocks his back and turns. The most important thing is that my sister-in-law sings in white tones, and the sound of her voice is affectionate." It vividly describes the happy scene around Sanling.

With the development of Raosanling to modern times, the content of activities has changed many times. First of all, the number of people participating in Raosanling has developed from the majority of middle-aged and elderly men and women in the past to a national grand event attended by Bai teenagers. The activity content has evolved from analyzing the blessings and resisting disasters from the gods to develop into a folk activity integrating spring outing, Bai singing and dancing, and entertainment; the time has been reduced by one day, minus the activity of visiting Chenghuang Temple on April 22; In addition to playing the overlord whip, singing "Flower and Willow Music" and matching tunes, the Bai people's songs and dances also added many traditional Bai people's song and dance performances, which were diversified in forms, making Raosanling more Bai local and ethnic characteristics. Between the beautiful Cangshan and Erhai in spring, there are waves of people and songs like the sea. The air is filled with the passion of spring. The Bai people around the Sanling is an ancient and youthful festival. It is the Bai people's tribute to spring and is worthy of being the song of life of the Bai people.

Bai Nationality Kudzu Festival The Kudzu Festival on the fifth day of the first lunar month is a traditional festival of the Bai people. Bai people in Dali City and nearby villages have gone out of their homes to visit Chongsheng Temple. Chongsheng Temple is crowded with tourists, with a dazzling array of delicious food and local specialties. Among them, a specialty called "kudzu" sold by the local Bai people is the most popular among tourists. This is why "Gegen Club" got its name. Kudzu is the root of a kind of rattan plant. It contains soybean ketone, starch, isoyellow, kudzu and other ingredients. It has the effect of digestion and stomach strengthening. It is a traditional medicinal material in Dali area. Dali in early spring is already a peach red willow green. The Bai people celebrate the "Kugen Festival" just to go out of their homes and feel the breath of spring between Canger. Therefore, the Gegen Festival is actually a spring festival for the Bai people and a spring festival.

The main festival of the Bai people is the traditional festival of the Bai people in the Erhai area of Yunnan Province. It is held every year on the eighth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. Benzhu is a unique religious belief of the Bai people, and Benzhu Festival is also the most common religious festival in Bai areas. Each Bai village generally has its own owner. Its grandeur is second only to the Spring Festival. The main activity of the main festival is to meet the main owner. Receiving the master is to take the statue of the master from the temple to the village. At that time, the statue of the master with red satin and satin will be invited to the divine sedan chair or divine chariot. The team will be opened by gongs and drums, followed by singers singing Bai tunes. Young men and women in costumes will play the overlord whip, and the elderly women will sing Buddhist scriptures, sing songs and dances all the way, and welcome the statue of the master to the village for worship. The bridegroom in the village who got married at that time rushed forward to lift up his master and ask for his blessing.

The children in the village were laughing and laughing in front of them, pulling the magic cart with colorful ropes and cruising through the village. Every household in the village put up incense tables at the door to welcome the change of driver. When the divine chariot arrived, every household kowtowed and offered. Religious organizations such as the "Lianchi Club" and "Dongjing Club" recited scriptures and prayed for blessings. Folk artists performed "Daben Qu" and other folk arts in the village to entertain the gods. Relatives and relatives from nearby villages came to congratulate them. Every household of the Bai people kills pigs and sheep, sacrifices to their masters, and entertains guests and friends. The entire Bai village is full of laughter, joy, and festive atmosphere. As a traditional religious sacrificial activity, Benzhu Festival is also an important link in the inheritance of Bai traditional culture and a concentrated expression of Bai folk customs.

Bai Cockfight Festival The Cockfight Festival is held on the eighth day of the second month of the lunar calendar. It is a traditional festival of the Bai people. It is said that raising chickens enabled the Bai ancestors to prosper, so the Bai people often say the saying,"Start a business by relying on chickens." On this day of the festival, people in all Bai villages must wear festive costumes, bring their carefully fed cocks, and participate in the competition with high spirits.

Before leaving, the owner would first comb the cock, then wrap a red silk thread around its neck, and hold it to worship the ancestors. In the main room, the owner held the chicken high above his head with both hands and kowtowed in front of the ancestral memorial tablet, hoping that his own chicken would win. "Cockfighting" is not just a kind of entertainment. More importantly, it is a kind of worship of the Bai people for the hard-working spirit of their ancestors. They must work tirelessly to find food and be as brave and tenacious as chickens.

Bai Flower Festival Hua Chao Festival is a unique folk festival for the Bai people in Heqing County, Yunnan Province. It is the most distinctive traditional Bai festival in the region. Held on the 12th of the second month of the lunar calendar every year. Legend has it that this day is the birthday of the Kao. The most solemn event during the festival is "Paying the Flower King". On this day, the Bai people walked through the secluded valley with baskets on their backs, turned over the cliffs, picked up 100 kinds of wild flowers, and then held a song competition at the mountain spring to commemorate the King of Flowers. Every household in Heqing Dam District uses hundreds of flowers to make a "flower mountain". The streets and alleys are full of purple and red, and the flowers are blooming in full bloom, with fragrance. Tourists walk through it and enjoy it.

The festival is a grand gathering of the Nama people, a branch of the Bai nationality, meaning "worship February" and is also a traditional festival of the Bai nationality. It is held annually on February 13 of the lunar calendar. Legend has it that the rally was held in memory of Bai ancestors who died in a war. During the rally, Bai Nama people living on both sides of Lancang River in northwest Yunnan will gather in Gaoshanjing Street in Hexi, Lanping County. On the 13th, all the Bai Nama people in Gaoshanjing mobilized and erected a "planting stick"(Geely stick) at the meeting place, with a woodcut image next to it. On the 14th, the local Bai Nama candidate sent three young adults who were able to sing and dance to perform with different costumes symbolizing different identities, and celebrated the convening of the rally in the form of dancing in the pot village.

The first performer was dressed in a black blanket, a red mask, and held an unknown stick. He took three steps forward and backward during the dance, symbolizing the leaping horse raising the whip, ready to fight to defend the interests of the nation at any time. The second performer was dressed in a black blanket and a black mask. After performing with a nameless stick, he pointed the stick at anyone in the audience at will. Anyone pointed at had to kowtow to him piously to pay tribute to the heroes who died in the war. The third performer dressed as a woman, wearing a duty belt, hanging weapons at his waist, and wearing a black mask behind his head. This shows that there are warriors with leaping horses and whips in front and hard-working and virtuous women behind. Men and women work together, and the Bai people will always be invincible.

From the 15th to the 18th, the Bai people are busy selling local specialties and then happily selecting their favorite new and beautiful fabrics and daily necessities.On the afternoon of the 19th, the Nama people solemnly put down the "planting stick" to announce the end of the annual "Sun Praying Festival".

Bai Nationality Sanyue Street

Sanyue Street is a grand traditional Bai festival. Dali Sanyue Street is the oldest and most influential traditional material exchange event in western China. It was formerly known as "Guanyin City" and is held every year from March 15th to 21st of the lunar calendar. The festival lasts for seven days. Sanyue Street began in the Yonghui Period of the Tang Dynasty. It was originally a Buddhist lecture temple fair, and later gradually developed into a Bai material exchange event. On this day of the festival, men and women of all ethnic groups dressed in national costumes celebrated the national festival with singing and dancing while holding the whip of the overlord and beating the drum of money. At the same time, light shows, flower shows and crossbows, swings, horse racing, dragon boats, singing and dancing and other activities will be held. The ancient March Street has become a grand festival that enhances national unity in our country, gathers national culture, and expands economic and trade exchanges, cooperation and friendly exchanges with foreign countries.

Bai Qingming Festival

Qingming Festival is a traditional festival for the Bai people and a day when the Bai people worship their ancestors. The festival customs are the same as those of the Han nationality. Every year on the Qingming Festival in the third month of the lunar calendar, Bai families prepare rich food and go to their ancestral graves to pay homage. The offerings include sausage, smoked pork liver, ribs, meat, fresh fish, rooster, etc., as well as a variety of fresh vegetables and wine. Generally, people invite some relatives and friends to go with them. When you arrive at the cemetery, you must first plant the broken willow branches in front of the tomb, and then offer offerings in front of the graves of each ancestor. The offerings in front of the graves of the new mourners should be slightly richer. The daughter-in-law and girls of the younger generation cried loudly in front of the new grave to express their nostalgia for the deceased. After the sacrifice, all the Bai people who visited the tomb sat around the cemetery and ate various food until evening.

Bai People's March Festival Bai People's Traditional Festival. It is held every March by the village elders on an auspicious day. March is the farming season, and the Bai people hope that everything will go smoothly from planting to harvesting, so the main activity of the festival is to sacrifice to the crop god.

The traditional Bai festival of the Bai people is held every year in May between the busiest rice planting season and the summer solstice. The fifth month of the lunar calendar is the busiest season for rice planting in Bai areas. The seedling planting fair is not only a recreational activity combined with labor, but also a form of mutual aid organization to help each other and plant each family's seedlings as soon as possible. It is generally composed of villages, and an elderly Bai ethnic minority with high reputation and organizational ability is elected as the "seedling official" to organize and guide planting. A solemn and pleasant "seedling gate opening" ceremony must be held on the first day of planting.

In the early morning, the Bai people carried a dog-toothed "seedling flag" decorated with a "rising bucket", blew a call and beat gongs and drums, and came to the fields. The seedling flag was planted, the fruit wine was placed on, and the Bai people sang the song praying for a good harvest. Then, under the division of labor and command of the seedling officer, the transplanting began. There is a small band composed of four or five people under the Yangzi Banner. The main musical instruments are Huona and equipped with mangong gongs. The music played includes Bai suona tunes such as "Planting Rice Diao","Bees Crossing the River","Big Banding Team", and "Dragon Sky". During this period, there are also eloquent people telling folk stories and singing Bai tunes.

The seedling officer knocked the gong and walked through the seedling planting team frequently to urge planting and check the quality. Amid the laughter, people forget their fatigue and their motivation is doubled. At the end of seedling planting, a ceremony of "closing the seedling gate", also known as "thanking the water", is held, which means offering sacrifices to thank the water god and praying for the water god to bless the harvest. Finally, the "Tian Family Music" event was held. Carrying seedling flags and surrounded by ridiculously dressed seedling officials, the Bai people marched through the village on horseback, followed by a team disguised as fishermen, woodcutters, plowing, reading and other characters and playing the overlord whip. They performed in the village. The entire Bai village was jubilant. Combining labor and entertainment reflects the Bai people's unique understanding and feeling of labor.

Bai Butterfly Festival is a traditional Bai festival in Dali, Yunnan Province. It is held every year on the 15th day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar at Huadian Spring in Dali. Legend has it that it is a folk festival to commemorate the faithful love between Xia Lang and Wen Gu, young Bai men and women. Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a Bai family living beside Huadian Spring at the foot of Yunnong Peak in Cangshan Mountain, Dali. There were three parents and daughters. The daughter was named Wengu. The family made a living by collecting firewood. Wen Gu met and fell in love with Xialang, a young Bai hunter from Yujufeng. Later, King Yu, the hereditary owner of Yu City, admired Wen Gu's beautiful talents, killed Wen Gu's parents, and snatched her into the palace to occupy her as a concubine. Wen Gu refused and was imprisoned in the palace.

Xia Lang risked his life to climb over the wall into the palace late at night to rescue Gu Wen and fled to the edge of the bottomless pool. The thugs of King Yu's family also chased him to the edge of the pool. Xia Lang and Gu Wen had no way to escape and both jumped into the pool. The next day, a pair of colorful butterflies flew out of the pool and perched on the ancient tree of Albiza by the pool. Colorful butterflies flew from all directions to congratulate them, connected end to end, and hung straight from the trees to the pool, forming a spectacle. From then on, people renamed Wudiitan "Butterfly Spring". Because this day is the 15th day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, the Bai people held an annual butterfly festival in memory of the couple.

According to scientific workers, butterfly gatherings are a natural phenomenon in which biological families pass on in nature. Around the 15th day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar every year, it is the season when the ancient trees of Albizia Albiza near the Huadi Spring bloom and release nectar. It is also the time for various butterflies to mate and reproduce their descendants. They fly from all over the world to collect nectar, and male and female mate at the same time. That's why this kind of butterfly gathering appears. The sad legends of the Bai people give Huadi Spring a magical and beautiful color.

Bai People's Summer Festival

Bai folk traditional festivals in Dali, Jianchuan, Eryuan and other places in Yunnan Province. Every year on the beginning of summer in April, the Bai people plant willow branches in front of their homes and around their houses, and also scatter stove ash at the foot of the stone wall. It is said that this can drive away poisonous insects and eliminate disasters. The Bai people in the Shalang area of Xishan District, Kunming City will sacrifice dragons at the Longwang Temple and ponds. During the dragon sacrifice, we killed pigs collectively and each family killed chickens. Only after the sacrifice to the Dragon King could they boil water to irrigate the fields and start planting seedlings.

Bai Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival of the Bai people. There are different accounts among the Bai people about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival. Some people say that it was to commemorate Qu Yuan of the Chu State who died in the river during the Warring States Period, and others say that it comes from the Legend of the White Snake. As soon as the festival comes, every household in the Bai nationality eats rice dumplings and buys realgar medicine. Some families put some in their children's ears, and some put them in soju to drink a few cups. It is mainly to avoid various cold diseases caused by working in the water fields for many years. The Bai people in the Fengyu area of Erhai Lake use cattail grass as an arrow and stick it on the door, and sew a tiger made of colored cloth on the child's hat, in order to exorcise evil and relieve evil. Parents need to wrap five-color threads around their children's wrists. It is said that this is called a life-extending thread and can help children eliminate diseases and extend their years. The Bai people also collect mugwort leaves and tie them into mugwort people to avoid evil spirits.

Bai folklore says that once upon a time, there were two poor people who stayed at their homes. The old lady fell ill, and his son Yaowang was helpless, so he asked the two people for help. They didn't know medical skills, so they came up with a strange method and rubbed the sweat mud on their bodies into small pills for the old lady to take. After dawn, the two people who went out were afraid of something wrong and hurriedly fled. Unexpectedly, the old lady's illness actually recovered. The King of Medicine was about to reward them but did not see the two. So he picked mugwort leaves and tied them into a mugwort and gave them to the hall to show his respect. Because this day was the fifth day of the fifth month, later generations followed the practice of the King of Medicine. Every year, sacrifices were made to the people of the Ai Ye people on this day to pray for the well-being of the whole family.

Bai Rites Festival

Also known as the Plum Festival. Xintun Local Bai Festival, Heqing County, Yunnan Province. It is held on the third day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar every year. According to local Bai legends, the festival commemorates the heroes who helped the people in ancient times. Every year on this day, the Bai people from seven local natural villages wear pornographic costumes and invite relatives and friends from other villages to gather and be guests in the temple in Liushu Village. Wealthy families slaughter pigs and sheep on this day. On this day, dramas will be sung in the temple, and young men and women of the Bai nationality will hold activities to sing songs and choose spouses.

Bai Miao Hui

Traditional folk festivals of the Bai people in Xishan District, Kunming City, Yunnan Province. It is held every year on the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar. There are many Wugu temples built in local Bai villages, some with one temple in one village, and some with one temple in several villages. On this day, the Bai people collectively sacrificed the "Qingmiao Prince" in the Wugu Temple based on villages. At that time, we will collectively kill a pig. After breakfast, representatives of each family went to the designated mountain to plant pine seeds, and then each family was given a five-color green crop banner made of paper by the temple fair and planted it beside their own fields to pray that the young crops would thrive and a bumper harvest that year.

Bai Torch Festival

Fire is the common worship of the Tibetan and Burmese peoples in our country. These ethnic groups are also called "fire nations". The Torch Festival, which developed from the sacrifice of fire, is a common festival for these ethnic groups. The Bai people are also one of the Tibetan-Burmese ethnic groups. Torch Festival is a traditional festival of the Bai people and one of the most important festivals of the year. The Bai Torch Festival is held on the 25th day of June of the lunar calendar every year. Bai men, women and children will gather together to worship their ancestors, and through activities such as worshiping torches, lighting handles, playing torches, and jumping torches, they wish the harvest of the grain and the prosperity of the six animals.

On the eve of the festival, the entire Bai village erected a large torch about 10 meters high. The torch is made of pine trees, tied with wheat straw and pine branches, and a flag is placed at the top. The flagpole uses a bamboo pole in series and three bamboo strips to form a lifting bucket, which means a continuous promotion of three levels. Small paper flags with calligraphy and paintings such as "The country is peaceful and the people are safe" and "Good weather and rain" are placed around each rising bucket; torches, pears, crabapple fruits, fireworks, lamps and five-colored flags are hung below the rising bucket. At noon on the Torch Festival, go to the ancestral tomb to sweep the tomb and pay homage. Bai housewives also go to the fields to pay homage to the land gods. Before the sun sets, Bai families finish their dinner early and help the old and young go out to watch the torches and horse racing. There are adults and children racing. Only after running three times around the torch can you gallop into the distance. Those who don't race horses go door to door to admire the torches in front of each house to see whose torches are exquisite and beautiful.

Before the big torches in the village were lit, the young daughters-in-law held umbrellas and carried newborn babies on their backs to turn around three times under the torches to show that they could dispel evil spirits and be blessed. When night fell, the old man in the village took the lead in offering sacrifices and kowtowed to the big torch. Several brave and vigorous young men climbed the tall torches one by one, and carried the small torches one by one to light the big torches. In an instant, flames soared into the sky, and drums and music sang together. The Bai people surrounded the torches, singing and dancing, and the melodious Bai tune echoed in the night sky. When the bamboo pole hanging the bucket on the torch was burned, the bucket flew down into the sky, and people fought for it. Those who grabbed the bucket were regarded as a blessed person and were congratulated by everyone.

The climax of the Torch Festival is playing torches. Bai young men, women and children all held torches and waved them back and forth in the night. There is rosin in the satchel. Whenever you see someone, you grab a handful of rosin and sprinkle it on the torch. There was only a "boom" sound, and the flames soared towards each other. The Bai people called it "a salute." People believe that flames can burn off bad luck and bring good luck and joy to people. Then, young people came to the fields in groups with small torches and sprinkled rosin powder on the torches to illuminate the ears of the rice. The intention was to eliminate diseases and pests and pray for a bumper harvest of the rice. Around midnight, the torches were piled into piles of bearded fires, and young men and women crossed back and forth from the dancing fire two or three times one after another, praying that the Fire God would cure disasters and eliminate evil spirits, so that everyone would be free from all diseases. Finally, the young men and women sang differently until late into the night.

The source of the Torch Festival is undoubtedly related to the fire worship of the Bai ancestors, but in its subsequent spread, the Bai people gave it new meaning. The Torch Festival is a carnival for the Bai people. During the Torch Festival at night, thousands of torches swim among the mountains, creating a beautiful scene in the world where "thousands of lotus flowers bloom in the sea, and a star in the sky descends on the earth", which makes people intoxicated.

Bai Shibao Mountain Song Festival On the last day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year, Bai people from Jianchuan, Lanping, Eryuan, Heqing, Dali, Lijiang and other places come in droves to Jianchuan Shibao Mountain to celebrate the Shibao Mountain Song Festival. The Shibao Mountain Song Festival is a traditional festival of the Bai people and the most romantic festival activity. Thousands of Bai men and women use songs here to meet friends, express their aspirations, and use beautiful Bai tunes to praise life, express emotions, and find the right person. During the fire season in July, this place has merged into a sea of songs and a world of songs. During the concert, men and women dressed in Bai costumes gathered next to Baoxiang Temple in Shibao Mountain, playing three strings and improvising Bai folk songs.

Most of the content of the song is about the love between men and women. Sometimes the tune is deep and long, telling the firmness of love; sometimes it is lively and cheerful, pouring out the joy of seeing the person you love; sometimes it is gentle and lingering, like a heart song of love; sometimes it is high and passionate, it is the oath of love. Even a melancholy tone will make people feel the depth of love. The beautiful melody allows people to experience the incomparable charm of Bai folk song art. At the grand concert, singing during the day was not enough. When night fell, the Bai people lit bonfires again. There were groups here and teams there, and they continued to sing in pairs. Some sang duet for several days and nights, but they were still interested in it, so they agreed to sing again in the coming year.

Young men and women of the Bai nationality often meet and get to know each other at song festivals, and commit to life privately. Even if they can't end up getting married, a couple will meet and sing together every year at future concerts until they die. As a Bai love song sings: "The mountains of gold and silver will be eaten up, only the affection will be remembered." The older brother is deeply in love and the younger sister has a long-term intention, so they help each other with crutches. Love is so good that your hair is white, love is so good that your teeth are shining. A hundred people are constantly in love in life, and we use crutches to help each other." Love is the eternal theme of human singing. The Shibaoshan Song Festival is itself a poem of love with a long lasting charm of the Bai people.

Bai people around the sea

Also known as the "Shuhai Festival", a traditional festival of the Bai people. The Bai people along the Erhai Lake have the custom of boating every year. From the 23rd of the seventh month to the 23rd of August in the lunar calendar, it lasts for a month. During this month, village activities were very lively. Among them, the largest is the Caicun Fun Fair on the 8th of August. On this day, many surrounding villages gathered flower boats on the sea near Caicun to compete. The ships stretched for more than ten miles, and tens of thousands of people watched. Playing the sea is also known as the "corpse fishing party". Legend has it that it was to retrieve the body of Duan Chicheng, the hero who killed the python, because he was buried in the Erhai Lake while removing the python. There is also a Bai nationality legend who salvaged the body of Mrs. Bo Jie.

Bai Yu Tan Fair, also known as "August 15th Street", is one of the traditional festivals of the Bai people. Every year on the 15th of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, Bai people from Dali and Eryuan go to Eryuan Shaping, the northernmost tip of Cangshan and Erhai, to catch a fishing pool. The Yutan Fair is an autumn material exchange meeting in Dali, which lasts for 7 to 8 days. In addition to trading farm tools, fishing gear and large livestock during the meeting, the purchase of dowry was also the main content of the Yutan Fair.

Weddings of the local Bai people are generally concentrated in the twelfth lunar month, while betrothal takes place before the eighth month of the lunar calendar. According to local Bai custom, the man must first pay part of the betrothal gift to the woman after getting engaged. Therefore, people bought betrothal gifts at the Yutan Fair, such as cabinets, jade bracelets, clothing, embroidery, etc. Over time, dowry trading became the main content of the Yutan Fair, which was also known as the "Dowry Fair".

According to Bai legend, Guanyin Bodhisattva hoped that people would trade fishing gear here to trap fish essence that harmed the people. Over time, it developed into a Yutan Fair. Now, the Bai Yutan Fair has developed into a regional material trading market in Dali, second only to Sanyue Street. Because it coincides with the Mid-Autumn Festival Reunion and mainly focuses on dowry, the Yutan Festival is filled with the romance and warmth of "the full moon makes people more round" and is a microcosm of the happy life of the Bai people.

Bai Fruit Festival

The Fruit Festival is a traditional festival of the Bai people in Xindeng Village, Heqing, Dali. Held on the 16th of the eighth month of the lunar calendar. Legend has it that in ancient times, on the 16th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the fairy goddess of flowers from the sky descended to this place and taught people to cultivate fruit trees and began to eat various fruits. In order to commemorate Baihua Fairy, the Bai people designated August 16th as the Fruit Festival. Since then, on this day every year, every household of the Bai nationality holds a banquet to entertain guests. People hold mooncakes, blow calls, sing folk songs, go to the orchard to offer sacrifices to the Baihua Fairy, and entertain themselves in the orchard until evening. They don't go home.

Bai Mid-Autumn Festival

Bai traditional festival, festival day, bai families are equipped with fruit cakes, the month rose dongshan, they set a table worship heaven and earth, kowtow to the moon. Then invite relatives and friends to taste mooncakes and watch the moonlight at home. That night, we will also give mooncakes to relatives and friends. In addition to mooncakes, holiday food also includes fresh fruits, corn, soybean horns, etc. to show that the grains are ripe and celebrate a bumper harvest.

Housewives of Bai families often make mooncakes themselves. Places such as Douli, Xizhou, Fengyu, and Qiaohou regard mooncakes as a test of women's cooking skills. Bai people near Kunming eat Baizhao noodles at night. On the evening of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Bai people in Heqing County will also hold river lantern floating activities. People use specially made paper lamps of various shapes, light candles or lights inside, and float them along the river. Let's see whose lamp floats far away and is not easy to extinguish. Some also place various colorful lights on both sides of the river and dance dragon lanterns, lion lanterns, white crane lanterns, etc. By then, the lights on both sides of the Taiwan Strait will be brightly lit and it will be beautiful. Young men and women also participate in dragon boat rowing, singing and other recreational activities.

Bai Nationality Double Ninth Festival

Double Ninth Festival is a traditional festival for the Bai people. Every year on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, Bai families with wealthy families and three generations of families will kill a fat sheep and stew the whole sheep soup and drink it with the family. Also prepare chestnuts, walnuts and wine. Families living in poverty should also try to eat sheep's heads and hooves. The Bai people have a folk song like this: September 9th, chestnuts, walnuts and soju. I ate sheep's head and sheep's hoof and whole sheep soup, and also ate boiled chestnuts and walnuts. The Bai people in the dam area of Heqing County have to bring fruits to Luofeng Mountain on this day to occupy the cloudy and sunny weather. On the top of Luofeng Mountain, there is a large stone with a radius of hundreds of meters. It is known as the Yin and Yang Stone. The Bai people first sang and danced under the stone, praising the Yinying Stone. When the sun sets, people knock a piece from the yin and yang stone and take it home to test the weather.

Bai Nationality Winter Solstice Festival

Bai Festival in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. Every year on the winter solstice in November of the lunar calendar, every household of the Bai nationality is lively. There is a saying in the Bai people: Winter is young. The Bai people believed that according to the Bai people's calendar in ancient China, a year had ten months, and November was the beginning of the second year, so it was the winter year. On this day, people kill pigs and sheep, especially for wealthy Bai families. The Bai people in the Zhoucheng area invite relatives and friends to their homes on this day. Because this season is a period of slack farming and grain production, Bai youth choose to choose the winter solstice to discuss engagement. On this day, all Bai villages were immersed in a festive atmosphere.

Bai Bird Sacrifice Festival

The Bird Sacrifice Festival is a traditional festival for the Bai people in Heqing County, Yunnan Province. Held every year during Qingming Festival and Winter Solstice. It comes from an ancient legend: Long ago, there was a Bai woman in Huangyuping Village, Heqing, who gave birth to 12 daughters and 24 sons. Her 12 daughters were married to the leaders of 12 tribes in the West Mountain. The kind mother was afraid that her married daughters would not farm the fields well, so she assigned one of her sons to urge them to do farming every other day. Later, the 24 sons became 24 species of migratory birds. They have never forgotten their responsibilities for thousands of years, calling on people to burn wasteland, plow the land, sow seeds, weed, irrigate, topdressing, and harvest. Later, people designated the different times of their appearance as the 24 solar terms. Because migratory birds have made great contributions to the Bai people, they love and protect birds very much, and regularly celebrate them. Over time, today's Bird Sacrifice Festival was formed.

During the festival, the Bai people bring a lot of bird food, such as corn flowers, burial seed flowers, pine seed kernels, acorns, shredded potatoes, etc.; in addition, they also catch various insects and come to Huangyuping. When the Bai people gradually gathered together, a well-known old singer was publicly recommended to collect all the bird food. The old singer first sprinkled a handful of bird food into the air, then lit up his deep voice and sang the unique Bai folk song "Ha Zhiyi" in Xishan District. Others sang and danced, while throwing various foods into the flowers and trees, or on the green lawn. After the people dispersed, the birds could enjoy the food on the fields to their fullest.