The Festival celebration of Dali

>>The Torch Stanza of Bai Nationality in Dali
The Torch Stanza is Chinese traditional race festival that many national minorities all lead in southwest of China, the time is generally from 24th to 26th of June of the lunar calendar, Bai Nationality and Yi Nationality lead the most solemn and impressive and earnest. The Bai Nationality in the region of Dali leads June 24th, the Yi Nationality in the region of Dali leads June 25th. In this day of festival, the Jiaoshia of each village hold a big torch, put on to write to" produce good" up," the country and people are peace"," the breeze adjusts and rain agreeable" etc. the size of the good luck language rises the baskets and the many colors flags, pin up the fruits, such as torch pear and premium...etc. and the steamed stuffed bun plain wheat rolls. Before get dark, each family supports the old and carries young to round the big torch, begging the peace.
According to the historical records, the torch stanza belongs to the fire adoration, the torch stanza was called" the new fire stanza" in the past, because the fire is the symbol of bright, represent the ideal and hopes. It should be in the period of the ancient tribe firstly, the ancient people took to material for new fire, re- started a fire, the purpose was for driving out the old and bring in the new and letting fire put out never.

>>The Visiting Mountain Meeting in the Chicken Foot Mountain
The Chicken Foot Mountain is the famous mountain of Buddhism, from 1st to 15th of January of Chinese calendar every year is the Visiting Mountain Meeting. While the people of each nationality all go to the Chao Mountain, beg the country and people are peaceful and enjoy the landscape of the Chicken Foot Mountain, people should reach every temple, in the period of visiting the mountain, there are so many visitors and believers, the songs and jokes are everywhere, it is very noisy, people all go to the Jin Top of Chicken Foot Mountain to watch the sunrise, particularly in the morning of January 15th of Chinese calendar, there are more people to watch the sunrise.

>>The Visiting Mountain Meeting in the Weibao Mountain
The time of the Visiting Mountain Meeting in the Weibao Mountain is from 1st to 15th of February of Chinese calendar every year. While the people of each nationality in the neighboring area wear own race clothing, keeping in mind the pleased mood to the Visiting Mountain Meeting in the Weibao Mountain to attend the meeting. The civil hole of Wei Mountain gives ancient and grace musical performance in each palace, increasing the charming color to the famous mountain and ancient temple. The song meeting of Weibao Mountain is from 13th to 14th of February of Chinese calendar. The address is the Dage Field of Weibao Mountain. The people of Yi Nationality in near villages wear the gorgeous race clothing, take the musical instruments such as Gusheng etc., gather in the Dage Field, round the circles, hold the singing activity, they sing the love and the happy life. The people of Yi Nationality worship the ancestors in Xunshan Palace and hold the singing activity for celebrating Xinuluo from 14th to 15th of January of Chinese calendar every year.

>>The song meeting in Shibao Mountain
In last three days in July of Chinese calendar every year, dozens of thousand people of Bai Nationality in Jianchuan and near Yunlong, Eryuan, Lanping, Heqing, Lijiang etc. gather together without booking in the countryside of Shizhong Temple, Baoxiang Temple, Haiyun Temple and Jinting Temple in Baoshi Mountain in Jianchuan. At the front of solemn idols in peaceful temple, they sing the madrigal of Bai Nationality, the main form is to sing.
It lasts several hours for short and several days and nights for long. The parable of their lyrics is deep, the language of expression is sharp, and the poetry is heavy and full of wit and humors. Test the behavior of the other party towards arriving the underground, from time immemorial to arrive nowadays from the sky, test the farm work knowledge, test the current news policy; Test to the attitude etc. of the love, also test the wisdom and ability, memory of a singer, to the speed of the song, until the other party answer does not come up. This kind of to song meeting, not only want the other party thought concentrate, audience but also all hold the heart quiet interest, small and soft tasty, sometimes will discard to forget the food unexpectedly. Some young and single men and women's singer, pass to the song, still became the life-long companion.

>>The civil strange skill--Raosanling
Raosanling which is the traditional civil grand occasion of people of Bai Nationality in Dali is from 23rd to 25th of February of Chinese calendar every year. In this days, people of Bai Nationality in countries near Dali dress up to attend. Sanling is the capital of Buddha which is Chongsheng Temple, the capital of deity which is Shengyuan Temple and the capital of celestial being which is Jinkui Temple. Raosanling means visiting the three temples.
The crowds who attend the Raosanling gather and set out to arrive at the Shengyuan Temple in Qingdong Village to live in the first day, arrive at the Xizhou to live in the second day, arrive at the Hejun Village to live in the third day, arrive at the Majiuyi to dismiss in the fourth day, go from the foot of Ji Mountain to the side of Eel Lake. There are mountain, water and woods in your journey, the route and the locations of living all choose very fitting.
The procession of Raosanling of Bai Nationality is very sublime. In the daytime, crowds who attend the Raosanling all constitute some small groups freely, being constituted long and long two boulevard processions by some small groups again.
In the evening, the crowds who attend the Raosanling light the fire to burn the tea and cook rice in camp in countryside and forests of neighborhood. After meal, the old men drink the tea simultaneously and play simultaneously loudly three-stringed, sing Daben Song with characteristics of Bai Nationality. The youth men and women then invite up their friends, arrive at the deep place of forest to talk the feeling love until early dawn.
When Raosanling, the melody and lyric are made impromptu. See what sing what, the other people how to ask then how answer. But there also are some melody which must be sang, such as Chumen melody, Hualiu melody, Chaoshan melody, Dyihua, Tanwugeng etc. The contents are abundant and colorful.

>>The race grand occasion--the March Street
The March Street lasts about a week and start on 15th of March of Chinese calendar, it is not only the supplies exchanges grand occasion of the people of Bai Nationality, but also is a festival of celebrating reunion of people of Bai Nationality once a year. The March Street is held on time in Dongluan in Changshan and the west of Dali City. In this period, the businessmen gather and the goods accumulate, the people of each nationality all take the best handicraft products and the local special products to sell in the March Street, take the best literature program to present in the March Street, pick the best to ride to attend the horse-racing.
The history of March Street in Dali is long, it is said that it has already for more than 1000 years. March Street was the temple fair of teaching the sutra by Buddhism in the past, later, because Dali was the strategic area of Dali and India, along with the demand of the social and economic development, turn into gradually the trade market and the festival grand occasions with the strong race color. And it had the scale of equal grand view in the past.
Up to now, the prosperity of March Street grand occasion is prosperous to have already canned compare in former days not, its movable contents are more abundant and colorful. There are more than 20 provinces, cities, autonomous regions and foreign friends of several ten nations to attend this grand occasion, the population is over a million in the session, the total amount of trade is near ten million, the big animals are more than ten thousand, the species of the medicine material appear on market up to thousand. There are not only state-run companies, collective, individual business, business enterprise of each city and country in Dali State but also state-owned company units of region inside and outside of the province to attend the supplies exchanges. The visitors who attend the meeting and sightseeing of outside and inside the province are also too much.
March Street is divided into five districts: the general merchandise market, animal market, medicine material market, race court and comprehensive market in the city. The general merchandise market is constitute by more than ten long streets, stores are one by one; The animal market is in the west of the general merchandise market, there is a habit in Dali which is: You feed the animals, if you donĄŻt sell them, you need to take them to March Street to ask the price, so there are so many old farmers, the old farmers who sell and buy the animals are many too. The race court is in the northern side of March Street, house-racing also is the most attractive activity. In the time, the strong riders of Bai Nationality, Yi Nationality, Tibetan, Hui Nationality, Miao Nationality etc. in the west of Yunnan gather, treating only a the order, the horses run away, it is very sublime. The local people who attend the meeting in March Street all like to go around the Chinese medicine material market which sends various of flavor of Chinese medicine and buy several Chinese medicine to get ready for using in the four seasons. The stands in the medicine material market increase and do not reduce in the recent years. In addition to the street field at the foot of mountain, the Gucheng in Dali also is noisy uncommon. There are each race literature performance and the athletics activities in the cultural building and stadium. The Huashantai drew on a few audiences, there are several thousand families who grow flowers, there are famous flowers and grass put at the front of each house to be enjoyed and bought for people. The stands and stores are no less than in the March Street. At night, the lights put together, various folk song sings on stage towards sing, the Daben Song is sang for all night till dawn. The March Street in Dali likes the Nadamu of Mongol, Wangguo Festival of Tibetan, and the splash water stanza of Dai Nationality, is really a race carnival that is filled with the intense emotion.