Is the Yi Breast Touching Festival real? Why is it so popular online?

The world is so big and full of wonders. The Yi Nationality Breast Touching Festival is the most unique festival of China's ethnic minorities. There is a little legend about the origin of this "Breast Touching Festival". It is said that during the Sui Dynasty, many men died on the battlefield without even touching women. These men who died in vain became ghosts wandering around. They cannot satisfy their sexual desires in life, but after death they want to find a woman to be their wife in the underworld.

But these ghosts have a strong "perfect virgin" complex. They don't want women whose breasts have been touched, and they are even less interested in women who have been touched by many men. Therefore, if girls do not want to be "ghost girls" in the underworld, they must sacrifice their breasts during the three days of Ghost Festival to seek peace.

Many local men are used to it, and they have probably touched countless breasts now. There are also many tourists coming here to celebrate this festival. However, one detail reveals the secret. As a reminder, during the three days of the "Breast Touching Festival", women's tops will only cover one breast, and the other breast that is not covered can be touched by anyone participating in the festival. As for the other breast that was covered, it was reserved for her future husband.

It is said that the "Milk Touching Festival" is a celebration of the traditional culture of the local Yi people. The annual "Ghost Festival" falls on the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth days of the seventh lunar month. Whenever you show up, you must abide by the rules of the Breast Touching Festival. Men are happy to touch it, and women are happy to be touched. After the news broke, the local government refuted the rumor, saying that there was no so-called breast touching festival, and the Internet claimed that it had fabricated facts and distorted customs.

The Ghost Festival originated from Ailao Mountain. In the minority areas of Yunnan, the 14th, 15th and 16th of the seventh lunar month are the days to send ghosts away, also called ghost festivals, so there are various mysterious festivals. The "Breast Touching Festival" in Wojia Yi Township, Shuangbai County in the early Wei Dynasty is one of them. In the past few days, people from Shuangbai in Simao, neighboring Xinping, Jingdong and other places, especially young men and women, have flocked to the town to drive away the ghost festival.

The Ghost Festival in Wojia, Shuangxian County is also known as the "Breast Touching Festival". It is said that local unmarried men and women will go out to the market to find partners on this day. Once they meet an elephant, they will hold hands and go into the pine forest on the hillside. And more people, including foreign tourists, can touch the girl's breasts if they meet a girl they like on the street. On this day, the girl who was touched will not be angry.

On the ghost street, young men and women chased and played, played piano, danced and caroused, turning the town upside down. For girls you know or don’t know, boys can go up and touch their breasts without restraint. The girls were evasive on the surface, but they didn't mean to blame. Boys are lucky when their breasts are touched, and girls are lucky when their breasts are touched.

It is widely rumored on the Internet that there is no such thing as a "Breast Touching Festival" in Ejina Town. According to relevant investigations, in order to fabricate facts and distort folk customs, the local government spread rumors that there is no such thing as a "Breast Touching Festival" and that applying for a heritage is even more nonsense. The emergence of the so-called "Breast Touching Festival" has been completely distorted by some scholars. There are now rumors that there is a "Breast Touching Festival" in Ejina Town. It is simply nonsense to say that the "Breast Touching Festival" requires an application for inheritance.

The "Breast Touching Festival" rumored ghost festival is really nonsense. The Yi people use a ten-month calendar. There is no Ghost Festival in the traditional festivals of the Yi people. It is extremely forbidden for the Yi people to mention ghosts. The so-called Ghost Festival is a Han custom. The religious folk customs of the Yi people have a strong primitive religious flavor. They worship many gods, mainly the worship of nature and ancestor worship. At the same time, the Yi people are a nation with a strong sense of family hierarchy and will not allow such bad customs to spread.

The spread of the "Breast Touching Festival" may be tourism planning. Is there really a "breast touching festival"? According to folklore, breast touching may have occurred in Ejina Town in an era when entertainment was scarce. However, with the enrichment of local cultural life, the "breast touching" activities of young men and women are almost invisible.< /p>

Why

It turns out that this "Breast Touching Festival" is not as low-level as some people think, but a long-term accumulation of the local traditional culture of the Yi people, a unique and unique thing related to ghost culture. A cultural phenomenon, it is a festival that local Yi men and women welcome and actively participate in. It is a well-known traditional traditional festival in the local area.