What are the traditional customs during Torch Festival?
As one of the more important festivals among ethnic minorities, the Torch Festival has a profound folk cultural connotation and is known as the "Carnival of the East". So, let's take a look at the traditional customs of this carnival. The sixth month of the lunar calendar is approaching quietly, and the flowers, plants and trees are all smiling to welcome the arrival of summer. The Fortune Teller website will help you understand the days of the sixth lunar month in 2018!What to do during Torch Festival and what are the customsThere are a total of three days for the Torch Festival to hold some festival celebration activities: 1. On the morning of the first day, men gather by the river to kill pigs, cattle and sheep and divide the meat; women are busy at home cooking buckwheat buns, grinding tsampa noodles, and preparing cooked food for the next two days. There is also an important content on this day, that is, every family must kill a chicken, check the chicken's tongue, chicken gall, and chicken thigh to predict the good and bad luck of the coming year, and roast the chicken to offer sacrifice to the ancestors, praying for family safety and prosperity of livestock. 2. The next day, people from all over the country dressed in festive costumes and flocked to the torch field surrounded by green mountains from the mountain villages within a radius of dozens or even hundreds of miles. The activities on this day are very exciting. The traditional events include bullfighting, horse racing, sheep fighting, wrestling, cockfighting, pole climbing, sheep snatching, shooting, singing competition, beauty pageant, clothing competition, eagle catching chickens, "Ji Lehe" dance, torch playing, and flirting. The activities are full of primitive interest and local flavor. 3. On the third day, continue the unfinished activities of the previous day. The sun illuminated the sky red. He Pu led the victorious cow, Ai held the undefeated rooster, the young men surrounded the "torch beauties", and Amimi followed the wrestling heroes back to the village, lighting torches made of wormwood branches or thin bamboos to hold the sacred "fire-sending" ceremony. After the fire is sent away, it marks the end of the Torch Festival and the three-day carnival comes to an end.What is the significance of the Torch Festival?We can see different levels of historical accumulation from the formation and evolution of the Torch Festival legend, which is synchronized with the long-term development of this festival among the ethnic groups in the southwest. The legend of the Torch Festival has been constantly evolving during its long spread, and even affected the customs of some areas, making the original, "sacrificial" Torch Festival also have the derivative meaning of "commemorative festival". For example, the legend of Heqing attributes the fact that women dyed their nails red with Impatiens on June 19th to Lady Cishan, saying that it was a commemoration of Lady Cishan who dug her husband's body until her nails were bleeding or burned red. |
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