Brief introduction of Bai nationality

Bai nationality is the largest minority in China, mainly distributed in Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan and other provinces. According to the literature, the Bai nationality is a nationality with a high degree of living, with three branches of Jia Min, Lemo and Nama, which are deeply influenced by China culture.

The ancestors of the Bai nationality are a combination of native Kunming people, Heman people around Erhai Lake, Miao and Qiang people in the south of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and some ethnic groups such as Bo, Yi, Bo, Ailao, Yunnan and Han.

Bai people are mainly distributed in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. Dali is the ethnic origin, ancestral home and main settlement of the Bai people, and about 80% of the Bai people in China live here. In addition, Kunming, Lijiang, Nujiang, Diqing, Baoshan, Yuxi, Chuxiong, Wenshan, Lincang and other cities in Yunnan have Bai ethnic groups.

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Bai nationality festival

March Street 1

March Street is also called "Guanyin City" and "Guanyin Street"; "Sacrificing Guanyin Street" is a grand traditional festival of the Bai people, and it is also a grand gathering for the exchange of traditional materials and cultural activities of the Bai people. It is popular in Dali, Yunnan and other places.

March Street is held at the foot of Diancang Mountain in western Dali from March 15 to 2 1 Sunday every year. At first, it was full of religious activities, and later it gradually turned into a grand material exchange meeting. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, businessmen from Sichuan, Tibet and Jiangnan provinces came here to do business. It is not only a place for communication, but also a garden for performing various dances, horse races and competitions.

2. Torch Festival

Torch Festival is an ancient traditional festival of Yi, Bai, Naxi, Jinuo, Lahu and other ethnic groups, which has profound folk culture connotation and is called "Carnival of the East".

Different ethnic groups hold Torch Festivals at different times, mostly on June 24th of the lunar calendar. The main activities are bullfighting, goat shooting, cockfighting, horse racing, wrestling, song and dance performances, beauty contests and so on. In the new era, the Torch Festival has been endowed with new folk functions and produced new forms.

3, around the three spirits

The "Three Tombs" is a traditional festival in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province and one of the national intangible cultural heritages. It is a grand traditional festival for the Bai people in Dali, and it is also a life-rich Bai people's song and dance.

The phenomenon of Bai people surrounding the Three Tombs originated in Nanzhao period in Tang Dynasty, and it was also recorded in Yang Qiong's Notes on Central Yunnan in Qing Dynasty. "Around the Three Souls" is a competition for the Bai people to entertain themselves in their leisure time, which is spread in the Bai villages around Cangshan Erhai Lake in Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. This is a grand gathering of the local Bai people for a spring outing before the busy farming season.

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