Tips for Liangshan Torch Festival

Torch Festival is the biggest traditional festival of Yi people in Liangshan, Sichuan. At that time, every family drank, ate tuotuo meat and killed animals to worship their ancestors. People put on new clothes and carry out cultural and sports activities with national characteristics. Men take part in bullfighting, herding sheep, raising chickens, horse racing and wrestling. Women sing, play strings and play Qin Yue. Swim the flashlight around the house at night; On the third night, they traveled around Shan Ye in groups with torches, and then they gathered in one place to light bonfires, burn torches, drink, sing and dance until the end of the morning.

Liangshan Yi Torch Festival is held once a year. The main venue is generally located in Puge County or Butuo County, and there is a sub-venue in Xichang City, the capital of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture. The beauties selected in its beauty pageant are generally from meigu county. The traditional time of Torch Festival is June 24th of the lunar calendar every year, but it is normal around this time because of different places. You can take turns shooting torch festivals all over the country. The general rule of the Torch Festival in Butuo and Puge counties is that from July 16 to 23rd in Gregorian calendar, Yimeng Town and Tuojue Town pass first, and the county town passes last. Puge County is from August 6th to14th in Gregorian calendar, with Xiluo Town and Luojishan Town in front and the county seat behind.

1, bullfighting is thrilling, but it is not advisable to take photos at close range to avoid accidents.

2. Liangshan has strong ultraviolet rays and is easy to burn the skin. It is best to wear long-sleeved shirts, sun hats or sunscreen on your face and arms.

Take an umbrella or a rain cover to protect the camera.

4. Pay special attention to the equipment and tighten the zipper of the camera bag, otherwise it will give the shoplifter an opportunity, and the author will have a profound lesson.

5, Torch Festival activities are colorful, all kinds of costumes and silver ornaments are colorful, exquisite workmanship, making people beautiful. So bringing more films is the best policy. Liangshan Yi people's diet culture contains the historical, social, economic and cultural connotations of the whole Yi people. Special dishes include meat, chicken with sauerkraut, steamed buns with horseshoe noodles, potatoes and sauerkraut, etc. , its special production technology and diet method are favored by people. In addition to the above traditional dishes, most of them are Sichuan cuisine-spicy. In order to prevent acclimatization, it is necessary to bring norfloxacin, berberine antidiarrheal drugs or eat garlic for disinfection.

Torch Festival lasts for three days from 10 in the morning to 4 pm. Movie friends might as well buy some dry food and mineral water for lunch to satisfy their hunger. In the prime time in the morning and evening, women can be photographed and dressed up. The corn wine, wild oat wine and terrier wine in Liangshan are all made by collecting alpine natural medicinal materials and preparing distiller's yeast, which is full of fragrance. Yi people take wine as their first food, and have the custom of "no banquet without wine", forming a unique wine culture. In the face of good songs and good wine, movie friends must not drink too much, otherwise they will lose their good works because of the delicious pictures.

Accommodation tips:

There are hotels in Butuo and Puge counties. The county party committee and government have guest houses and private hotels. Accommodation is tight during the Torch Festival, so you can contact in advance. Accommodation ranges from 30 yuan to 280 yuan. There are also guest houses and hotels in towns and villages, but the prices are low and the sanitary conditions are not as good as those in county towns.