This party is raging in Liangshan and burning torches illuminate the fertile soil, full of temptation and passion.
Temptation comes from the rich ethnic culture, and passion from the tens of thousands of burning torches.
"Fire is the soul; fire, life; fire, totem worship!" This is the understanding of fire, people in Liangshan.
With the fire world, humans continue to reproduce the development and prosperous. In the eyes of the Yi people's attachment to the fire, developed into a cult to form a fire festival - Yi Torch Festival.
Every year since about June 24, is the Torch Festival of Yi people over time. Out of the cottage, please choose the day that respected elders, ancestors of the selected sites by the number set to hold the masses. Date Selection on the dragon at the best lamb, the tiger followed on Race Day. Festival for very sophisticated, like a carnival and Christmas Westerners share of piety. Preparation focuses on the girl's dress and jewelry on; lad bull and horse in the competition to prepare, but also practice wrestling skills, aimed at Hidetake first place, a style show; children are adopted Artemisia mountain bar, rolled Heaven insects torch; Old people are most busy, wine brewing, grinding buckwheat noodles, choose fat sheep, pick cock, preparing delicious food for the holidays ... ...
Torch Festival usually lasts 3 days.
The first day, families cleaning the house, cleaning cooking utensils, sheep chickens sumptuous holiday dinner organized. In the evening, the family around the fireplace, wine tasting food, a toast to celebrate. May the treetops, people out of the house, lit the torch in the hands, to the wilderness, to the hills, singing -
Le duo Netherlands, Netherlands Le flower!
The insects eat the crops burned,
Pork, beef Yangma blast burn,
Burned typhoid and malaria ... ...
Voice bursts, the vast sea. Fire dance in the mountains, the fire in the water laughing. Fire in the middle of the ocean, the fire of the world, people feel the mountain on fire, water, burning, burning emotion, passion burning!
Like the poem says: "Red Cloud Prix at just Hanshan, mixed race dealings torch out, ten thousand lotus flower mirage, earth day falling stars."
The next day, is the climax of the festival. Morning, the men and women dressed in festive costumes flock from all sides poured Torch venue. On this day, the most handsome young man, beautiful girl, "young man as strong as mountains, the backbone of hardware than the Mountains; girls on water, the mind net than water." On this day, the most exciting things to watch for is the bull, fighting sheep, cock fighting, as well as horse racing, beauty contest, wrestling and so on. This day is the most mysterious Elder brother's love, Mei's situation.
Sunset reflected in the earth that day, the attending young men and women of various cultural and sports competitions, the umbrella name of butter, in pairs, gently singing love songs, long mouth moved a string, to the mountains, to the riverside. Mouth string is falling in love is a good helper, young men and women from the bottom of the voice of Ding Dong, deep down, the performance varies. No intention of those string sounds like mountain road, winding, bumpy poor; interested, string sounds, such as streams, clouds like water, gently touching.
String sound of love, the mountain drunk, the water drunk, drunk people.
Pairs of men and women interested in to the forest, open umbrella butter, cover the Rays, covered the moon. Man is offering on the woman in front of fruit and sugar and took out a handkerchief to the woman wearing flowers; woman let the men out Homebrew drink wine, wine is not drunk, drunk people, both fall into the honey in the ... ...
On the third day, all kinds of competitions to continue. That night, the lighted torch in each household pray Yuan Ba fat cattle and sheep, domestic animals thrive. Subsequently, the burnt torches Quanzhai focus stacked in the entrance to the village cattle and sheep out of the street, lit raging bonfire, put next to nine stone, grass and nine, a symbol of countless cattle and sheep to salt, to close endless mountains of crops.
With the historical evolution and social change, the Torch Festival in content and form have undergone profound changes. Today, the Torch Festival of Yi Yi has been formed as a blend of folk sports, folk culture and folk customs as one of the grand festival, increased visibility has been known for Sichuan, renowned at home and abroad.
American Ethnologist Morgan said: "With fire, man started his own childhood."
Yi is a national advocate of fire, fire is the soul of the Yi people faithful.
Ascension is the hometown of the torch flame, burning passion.
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One million torches burning passion
"Oriental Carnival Night, Legends of the Torch Festival" as the theme of the Sixth China International Torch Festival of Yi will be held August 4 in Xichang, Liangshan prefecture where the opening. Be regarded as "Oriental Carnival" and "Ge Sha La" torch carnival night at 8 pm on the same day by the one million torches.
The main venue for festivals, at 9:00 on August 4 in the opening ceremony, is to preserve and carry forward the theme of Yi culture, according to "tradition, breakthroughs, shocked, touched," the idea to a large square interactive way real folk song, concentrated expression of the charm of culture, to express the theme of mood, the actors posed by the more than 3000 people. Opened from the original culture in the International Torch Festival of Yi of China this prelude.
After the opening ceremony, held at 10:30, "Liangshan colorful" Carnival Parade Float Showcase. The festival activities to enhance the sense of form, the public interaction as the goal, the Opening Ceremony of team organization, beauty team, team apparel, and other performing arts team performances, together with the nation's 20 float parade constitute 20 to sing and dance, costumes, interactive The performances in the form, in accordance with the designated parade route performances, in order to create a strong festive atmosphere.
8 pm "Ge Sha La" torch to warm carnival night carnival, the release of passion as the goal, in the south of Xichang city's main streets and other designated areas, leading the majority of guests and tourists and people of all nationalities to join the Liangshan, the torch will be one million lit torches from the fire formed 30 miles dragon to fire up the body dancing, playing the way the torch parade carnival activities. Carnival activities of the basic end of the discharge of aerial fireworks, colorful fireworks and revelry of the crowd each other, to a grand scene, rave scene, a warm atmosphere, the Torch Festival activities to a climax.
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Yi Song and Dance national cultural treasure
In many brothers in the nation's musical culture, folk and instrumental music are generally not singing, dancing as universal, instrumental music is always attached to sing or dance, but in the Liangshan Yi's musical culture, the instrumental art is especially important position; it is absolutely not is dependent on the status of singing and dancing. Instead they sometimes live singing and dancing with the position in the play to the climax, the mood music and rhythm down, add some rap or dance movements to express a rendering music itself, the music is more perfect.
Found in the Yi area almost no sounds of the village. Apart from people in the labor or grazing in the mountains, love to get together in twos and threes antiphonal singing, playing and entertain; during celebrations, funerals, worship activities are hired well-known singers, musicians to add to the fun, adding to the festive atmosphere. "Mouth string will speak, yueqin sing", which is instrumental art of Yi people in a vivid metaphor for the expression of thoughts and feelings and images depicted. Yi Torch Festival is a festival of love can be said that Yi's "Valentine's Day."
Torch Festival period, the young men and women falling in love, find love among the best opportunities. Yi young men and women start falling in love, not by words, not by words, but by blowing, pulling, playing, singing, courtship to his sweetheart, young men and women playing on the outs, echoed each other it is truly moving. Interested parties, open string, such as water gurgling brook, gently touching, happy tunes, to show the joy of their hearts infinite; no intention of those string sounds like mountain, bending block, rough poor, disappointing tune, seek self-comforting. Such a great variety of melodies, Yijia young men and women, one can take the hint, and foreigners are unfamiliar with, and now also through the International Torch Festival, to show the world, let the world participate in and enjoy.
In the long process of historical development, Yi folk songs, forming a place to live in a different song to sing different kinds. In accordance with its social function and the application can be broadly grouped into narrative songs, custom songs, folk songs, love songs, play songs and other types of entertainment, such as: Torch when singing "Le Duo Charge" is a narrative song. Torch Festival of the months in order to support village here or at home for the team of women who elected singing "Le Duo charge" of the sisters, lead singer of the content of deliberations, repeatedly singing training. To the Torch Festival, the women with their holiday best, insisted on holding hands Pholiota adiposa gold, under the leadership of people in singing, dancing in a circle, enjoy a good lead singer to express the yearning chorus, singing the Torch Festival, singing his hometown, singing life.
Yi music culture, with China's National Art, with its unique style, rich reserves becomes more important. Since reform and opening, the party and the government to inherit and carry forward the excellent national culture and art very seriously. Yi held many mass folk music, folk show competition, to promote the Yi folk music, folk arts to flourish. International Torch Festival of Yi Nationality in China this year during the instrumental music will be held in China, and Yi Yi folk songs contest.
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Culture University Yi beauty
Yi Torch Festival "beauty contest" has a long history during which people carry out the "beauty contest", wrestling, climbing pole, dance performances, bullfights, horse racing, sports activities such as playing a torch. For generations, Yi beauty, the pursuit of beauty, "beauty" has long been the traditional Torch Festival of the Yi of the most important and most distinctive event.
Yi has been going on for thousands of traditional folk, "beauty" campaign is very strict, Yijia beautiful girl dressed up, holding Pholiota adiposa, around the fire on the lawn with a slow dance show "Le Duo charge", the judges village where the elderly are respected. They both critical and natural selection, we must look at the girl's body looks, but also to look at their dress; depend on their parents, elders, filial piety towards normal heart; more importantly, they are usually based on the moral character and reputation for hard work to judge.
Previous Liangshan Yi Torch Festival "beauty" campaign has retained a unique style of the original ecosystem, while inheriting the traditional basis of the development of a breakthrough, to be innovative, it shows all over the dress Yi District, features colorful, variety like clothing exhibition, refreshing.
In order to give Yi Torch Festival "beauty contest" new meaning and cultural flavor of the times, so this activity have both traditional times, this year's International Torch Festival of Yi Nationality in China "beauty contest" activities, in order to mobilize the audience participation, set up special Audience Award of the most beautiful, so guests from all directions but also in court to show their own style. At the same time, not only expert judges selected beauty, male beauty, the audience have the opportunity to vote for, so flowers became the spokesman for the audience to select their favorite beauty and handsome.
Beauty Selection criteria: talented, handsome, tall and uniform, dignified deportment, temperament elegant, gorgeous costumes. Selection standards for male beauty: talented, handsome, handsome, physical fitness, instrumentation and generous, full of vitality. Competition Procedure: Heat the inside and outside the province of states, city, county, carried out semi-finals and finals in Xichang. Awards: Organization Award, Team Award, Performance Award, apparel Award, handsome prize, the prize of beauty.
Yi Torch Festival "beauty contest" has been the formation of a set of talent, dance, costumes as an integrated art exhibition, its unique expression and style, by domestic and foreign audiences.
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Colorful ethnic costumes
Colorful ethnic costumes, sophisticated technology, its design inspiration from nature and daily life, such as: day, month, stars, clouds, rainbow, waves, comb, claw, bovine, crab legs, pumpkin seeds, mosaic, fern RB leaves, Huolian, hoop, rope and flowers. Chart pattern rich in simple colors.
Yi men and women are earrings to pendants, women wearing ears, men wear ear. Earrings species diversity, beautifully produced. Qi collar women in the ear collar decorated with a variety of flowers, licensing, it is particularly dignified. Hi Yi women wearing bracelets, bracelets with gold, silver, copper and wood made of hi Yi men and women are wearing rings, and more for the gold, silver. Yi men gird Broadband, Messenger hero with left shoulder, chest decorated with ivory, musk, wild boar teeth, claws, tigers and so on. To avoid the fierce evil. Triangle Women's waist pack, hanging on the right waist, practical and beautiful, often decorated with a variety of needle chest, mouth, and the evil of Swertia string, musk and other items.
Liangshan Yi Ethnic simple, elegant, colorful, is the most representative ethnic costumes. The style, color, pattern dress not only reflect the person's sex, age, marital status, and differences in clothing, wear three different dialect areas have become a symbol of Liangshan. Yi, "according to Connaught" dialect, mainly in the eastern part of the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, about Yi 20% of the total population, the standard male and five feet six inches wide trousers, if the skirt if the pants. "The land" Dialect man trousers go the other extreme, four inches wide trousers, exactly like breeches. The range between the size of trousers, commonly known in the trousers of the "holy rolling" dialect, the man about two feet five inches standard trousers, "St. Jive" dialect of Yi population accounts for 50% of the population. Life of the region were fitted clothing, dress, work clothes, wedding services, funeral services, religious services, and samurai clothing.
Yi costume is the substance: it warm in the cold, travel wild places, horse riding expeditions, physical health, have played an important functional role. Yi costume is the spirit: the beauty of it is that it reached a high aesthetic requirements. Moon and stars, mountains and vegetation, animals, flowers, taken from nature, giving back to ethnic costumes, abstract refined, sublime. Yi costume is the development of: the intelligence of the Yi women continue to capture their new understanding of color, style, fabric texture, lace patterns and so enrich their own creation, make a colorful and gorgeous, Yi costume contests show the world before our eyes.
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Long-standing culture of the Yi People
Yi has a long history and ancient culture, culture and popular culture Bimo two different and mutually influence each other, each other type of culture constitute the main body of Yi traditional culture. Meigu is an ancient and mysterious place, due to historical and geographical reasons, the impact of foreign culture it is very weak, so to maintain the integrity of today's traditional Yi culture, especially religious culture Yi - Bimo culture. According to incomplete statistics, written and circulated in the oral tradition of folk Bimo book up to 14 million volumes, including economic, political, literary, art, astronomy, meteorology, medicine, plant and other major categories. Bimo the protection of culture in the degree of completeness here is unmatched by other Yi district. Therefore, the U.S. Regardless of Chinese and foreign scholars as "Bimo the town."
Yi Bimo is a transliteration of "Bi" means chanting a curse, "Mount" means to have knowledge of the elders. Social structure in ancient hereby Yi, Mo, Bi, Georgia, Zhuo in Bimo is the third level. Bimo not specifically in charge of instruments, conducting a religious person, but also teachers, army, division, physicians and judges. Bimo hereditary class system of strict and limited to men, they created the Yi language, writing, collecting Yi classic, familiar with the Yi history, astronomy, geography, they are the traditional Yi intellectuals, is the main disseminators of Yi culture, impact on the overall culture of the Yi system. In 1980 the State Council approved the specifications used by Yi, the Yi language in education, science, culture and other fields has played an important role.
Liangshan Yi area is located in the U.S. Regardless of the hinterland areas, the Yi population accounts for 98% of the total population of the county, Liangshan bimo is the largest and most concentrated in a region. According to historical records, the history of the Yi have been three well-known cultural heroes Asula you, Agnes, said the Lord, Aker Russian partners, with their three representatives of the formation of three major human Bimo genre, and its descendants are concentrated in the United States regardless Only some of Ake a direct descendant of the Russian partners to move Ebian County. Regardless of why the United States the highest level of cultural knowledge Bimo, the "source in the United States regardless Bimo Huangmao Terrier," said.
Regardless of instruments used in the United States the most comprehensive Bimo have Qiantong, bell God, God fan, the book, God sign, wild boar teeth necklace, string bag, drums, bamboo ring for more than 10 species. Meigu 1996 first established the National Center for Cultural Studies Bimo in early 2002, the U.S. Regardless of the county concentrate human and material resources of the county 36 towns, 291 villages and by the existing membership Bimo conducted a survey of collection. The results showed that: the county has Bimo 8680 people, 322 species. Source: Sichuan Daily
