Yi festival: a traditional festival of flower arranging festival.

Brief introduction of flower arranging festival

On February 8 of the lunar calendar, people pick flowers of various colors and weave them into colorful archways and flower sheds, symbolizing good luck; Arrange flowers in the fields in front of the house and on cattle and sheep to pray for beauty; People also arrange flowers for each other and place their blessings on happiness and well-being. Among the flowers under the forest, men, women and children and Lusheng form a circle to "sing", and young couples are singing and laughing. There are many stories about the origin of the Flower Arrangement Festival, and the most widely circulated is the legend of Miyi Road. According to legend, Miyilu is a smart and beautiful Yi girl. In order to protect her sisters from the bully * * and make false promises, she drank the poisoned wine of Ma Yinghua with the bully * * at the wedding, sacrificing herself and harming others. Therefore, every year in bloom, Ma Yinghua, the Yi people hold a grand flower arranging festival to commemorate the beautiful and kind Miyilu.

Yi flower arranging festival

The Flower Arrangement Festival is a very distinctive traditional festival of the Yi people, especially in the epiphyllum mountain area of Dayao County, Yunnan Province. Every year on the eighth day of the second lunar month, the local Yi people collect cherry blossoms and other flowers from the mountains and insert them on doors, farm tools and some sacred places. People wearing holiday costumes gathered in Tan Hua, singing and dancing, holding flower festivals, inserting Ma Yinghua into each other, expressing good wishes and praying for a happy birthday.

On this day of the festival, people are dressed in costumes, beaming, carrying bamboo rafts and picking flowers on the mountain. I saw people all over the mountain and songs all over the ridge. People put the picked flowers around the doors, windows and houses. Set up colorful sheds on some main passages of the hut, which are also full of flowers. The whole Yi village is like a world of flowers. On this day, people will put Ma Yinghua on the cow's head, wash the cow's mouth with salt water, and then drive the cow up the mountain, dancing and singing with the cow under the Ma Yinghua tree, which is very enjoyable. People gathered here all hold flowers on their heads and congratulate each other by arranging flowers, so that in the new year, people and animals will be prosperous, crops will be abundant and life will be beautiful.

On the day of flower arranging festival, every household will kill chickens and sheep, cook glutinous rice, make buckwheat cakes and dip them in honey. Each family invited guests to drink to renew friendship. At night, bonfires were lit in villages and hillsides, and people began to dance and sing with the cheerful reeds. Young men and women sang and danced around the bonfire hand in hand, while elderly people squatted by the fireplace under the big tree, smoking spicy cigarettes, drinking corn wine and eating delicious instant-boiled mutton, talking about ancient and modern times and expressing the joy of the festival.

Flower arranging festival is also a love story for young people. On this day, many lovers take flower arrangement as their wedding ceremony. The young man put the bright camellias on the girl's Baotou, and the girl put Ma Yinghua on the lusheng blown by the young man to express sincere love to each other. They sang while arranging flowers, singing and answering, and a song did not fall, and a song rose again, floating in the flower forest, full of poetry and painting.

Legend of Flower Arrangement Festival

The eighth day of the second lunar month is an annual traditional festival of the Yi people in Tanhuashan District.

Legend has it that a long time ago, there was a girl named Miyilu on Tan Huashan. She is as beautiful as a flower. She can embroider, and the embroidered flowers can attract butterflies to fly; She loves singing, and singing can attract all the birds in the forest to look around; She can plow, weave hemp and herd sheep.

One day, on the hillside where she was herding sheep, while knitting hemp, she sang a moving song of herding sheep. The beautiful song floated across the ravine, deeply touching the heart of the young man who was hunting in the distant mountains and making him forget to hunt. Following the song, I climbed over countless hills and girls, crossed countless deep valleys and streams, approached Miyi Road, and sang with her in a snow-white flower on the hillside. The song conveyed the wish and also booked their lives.

At that time, Tan Hua had an extremely cunning and ferocious local official. He built a "fairy garden" on the top of the mountain. Deceive the Yi people: "I asked the fairy to come down to earth and teach people to weave and embroider in Tianxian Garden. Every village should send the most beautiful girl to serve the fairy. " In fact, the girls who were arrested were trampled by local officials at will. When Mi Lu Yi was dating Chao Lieruo, the local official sent someone to say, "Mi Lu Yi has been selected in Tianxian Garden, and it must be delivered within three days, otherwise it will kill * * * and burn the stockade." Miyilu's grandmother cried her eyes out and wanted to jump off a cliff to commit suicide. The villagers are going to hide in the dense forest. Miyi Road will never embarrass the villagers, nor will it suffer. In order to save the suffering villagers and sisters, she picked a poisonous white horse cherry blossom, put a handkerchief on her head, climbed to the top of the mountain resolutely, deceived her family and broke into the "Fairy Garden" alone. Local officials have never seen such a beautiful girl, nor have they ever encountered such a refreshing thing. Her mouth watered with joy, and even her bones were crisp. Immediately, the servant brought wine, ready to drink with Miyi Road. Mi Lu Yi faced the fierce local officials with a straight face. She picked the white horse cherry blossoms from her head and soaked them in wine. She held them in front of local officials and said, "May you and I love each other forever. Let's drink this bowl of concentric wine together." . After that, he took two sips, then handed them to local officials, who were already drunk, picked up the wine bowl and gulped it down. Suddenly, I felt very dizzy and fell to the ground.

When Chao Lieruo came back from hunting, he learned that Mi had entered the "Fairy Garden" all the way. He was burning with anger. Don't use a sharp knife, bow and arrow, and tell Mi to run all the way to the "Fairy Garden", scaring local officials and servants to flee desperately. If Chaolie had found Miyi Road, she would have closed her beautiful eyes. He was heartbroken. He picked up Miyi Road and walked out of the "Fairy Garden". As he walked, he cried and shouted, telling people in his heart that they had traveled all over Qian Shan, Tan Hua, crying dry and dripping blood, and dyed the cherry blossoms all over the mountains and plains red. Since then, Tan Huashan has blossomed bright red horse cherry blossoms.

Yi people, in order to remember this girl who devoted herself to eliminating disasters, every day on the eighth day of the second month of the lunar calendar, they should pick the cherry blossoms and stick them on the doors, tie them to the horns of cattle and sheep, and pin them on farm tools; Regard Ma Ying as a symbol of good luck and happiness. On this day, people put on colorful clothes, put flowers in their heads and bring delicious food to the top of the mountain for reunion. Invite friends and relatives, raise a glass to entertain guests, and wish good luck and happiness. Unmarried young men and women, singing and dancing around the bonfire, choose their lovers and send flowers to each other as a promise gift.

This traditional festival has been handed down from generation to generation and continues to this day.

The local * * * organizes a certain scale of flower gods, duets, jumping and bonfire parties and agricultural products fairs every year. There will always be a large number of tourists coming here, who are attracted by the charming natural scenery and rich ethnic customs here.

Brown Flower Arrangement Festival

The Bulang Flower Arrangement Festival, that is, the Water Splashing Festival, is on 10 day after the Tomb-Sweeping Day of the lunar calendar. Before the festival, families killed pigs and fried "roasted clams". On the festival day, after breakfast, all the young men and women in the village put on new clothes, knocked on bee barrels and drums, and lined up to the river. The girls filled the bowls with sand, piled them in the open space in front of the Buddhist temple and inserted flowers. The whole village, old and young, danced around the sand, followed by elephant foot drums and bee barrels. After running a few laps, the drum team guided them to dance in various passages in the village. The celebration lasted five to seven days. During the flower arranging festival, there is also a "Buddha washing" activity. The closing and opening festivals are the same as Dai festivals. During the Spring Festival, the time is the same as that of the Han nationality, and the production is stopped and the top is placed. During the festival, make rich food and delicious food.