When is the Torch Festival held in the lunar calendar every year? What are the legends?
Many people may not know about the Torch Festival because it is a festival of some ethnic minorities in my country. Han people do not celebrate this festival, and it is not a legal holiday. Therefore, basically most Han people do not know much about this festival. Therefore, the editor will give you some information. Want to know more about the dates and auspicious and unlucky days in the sixth lunar month of 2018? The fortune teller website introduces you every day of the sixth lunar month in 2018. When is the Torch Festival held in the lunar calendar every year? The 24th day of the sixth lunar month. The Torch Festival is an ancient traditional festival of some ethnic groups such as the Yi, Bai, and Naxi. It has greatly promoted the development of culture and has very deep folk cultural connotations. It is called the "Carnival of the East." Different ethnic groups hold the Torch Festival at different times. However, because the Yi people celebrate this festival most grandly and it is the most representative, the current time is also mainly for the Yi people, mostly on June 24th of the lunar calendar. The main activities during the Torch Festival include bullfighting, sheep fighting, cockfighting, horse racing, wrestling, singing and dancing performances, and beauty pageants. In the new era, the Torch Festival has been endowed with new folk functions and has taken on new forms. In a few days, the Yi ethnic group’s annual Torch Festival will be here. If you have the chance, you can go and experience it.What are the legends about Torch Festival?Some ethnic minority peoples have different sources for the legends of the Torch Festival. Let us take a brief look at them: The Yi nationality said that the heavenly strongman Sireabi and the earthly strongman Atiraba were both outstanding strongmen. Sireabi challenged Atiraba to a competition and was thrown to death, which angered the god Endiguzi, who sent a large number of locusts to eat the crops on earth. In order to protect his crops, Altiraba cut many branches, lit them, and went to the fields to burn the locusts, thus protecting the crops. So people designated this day as the Torch Festival, which happened to be the 24th day of the sixth lunar month. During the early Tang Dynasty, the Nanzhao King Piloge invited the leaders of the other five Zhaos to a gathering and burned them to death in Songming Tower. After the leader Deng Xianzhao was burned to death, his wife was heartbroken. She rejected the proposal of the most powerful Pi Luoge and committed suicide in the city. Therefore, in order to commemorate the historical story of "Burning Songming Tower" and the brave and wise Lady Charity, the people of Yunnan designated this day as the Torch Festival, which happens to be June 24th. Lao Apu, the son of the god of the Naxi ethnic group, was jealous of the happy life on earth, so he sent an old god to the human world and asked him to burn the world into a sea of fire. Unexpectedly, God was moved by the true love of the people, so he spread the news that he was going to burn the world, and told everyone to light torches at the door on that night to avoid disaster. In this way, it was preserved on earth, and later people designated this day as Torch Festival in order to commemorate this old heavenly general. |
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