Also known as "Around the Three Forests", it began in Nanzhao and was originally a ritual of ancient religious sacrifices. Later, it gradually evolved into a national event for Bai people's culture, sports, entertainment and outing activities. Every year from April 23rd to 25th of the lunar calendar, Bai people around Erhai Lake wear red, green and gather red, and come to participate in activities, or hang a colored silk, gourd, mosquito broom, fan and towel, with one leading the singing and one clapping. Visiting Sandu along the road is "around the three souls". Three spirits refer to the three capitals of Buddha, God and Fairy.

Yi people tap songs

Playing songs, also known as stepping songs, is popular in Weishan, Nanjian and Yangbi counties. Generally, it can be divided into animal dances that simulate animal postures. As well as two kinds of interesting dances to express emotions, songs should be played at weddings, funerals and national festivals. The dance steps are mainly under the feet, such as stepping, squatting, stamping, lifting, kicking and jumping. You can dance and sing, compose words at will, and add fixed lyrics. Harmony, chic, intense, passionate, passionate. The music played by Hulusheng and Zhudi are two parts, which are combined with the music played by people to form three parts of the music, and the music effect is very strong. This special harmony is rare in other songs.

At the same time, Sanri Street, Torch Festival, Butterfly Festival, Flower Festival, Shi Baoshan Song Festival, Water Splashing Festival, Flower Boat Race, Yaohai Festival, Yutan Festival, Chrysanthemum Festival and Pearl Festival are also famous folk customs in Yunnan.

Bai ethnic customs

Most of the Bai men in Dali wear white double-breasted shirts, black lace collars, white or blue fat pants, white bun around their heads and embroidered satchels on their shoulders. Bai women wear white shirts, bright red, blue or light blue collars, gray-blue and green trousers with embroidered edges and trousers corners, embroidered shoes on their feet and embroidered short aprons embroidered with flowers and birds around their waists.

Bai wedding is lively and complicated, which usually takes three days. The wedding day is called "happy event", the first day is called "stepping on the shed" and the second day is called "individual guest". Among them, the first two days are more distinctive. On the night of "stepping on the shed", there will be a "bench play" at the men's house.

Dali Bai folk houses have unique local style and national characteristics. Bai folk houses are mostly closed buildings, and the courtyard wall opposite the main house is usually built as a zhaobi, with a well-proportioned and beautiful appearance. In addition to its exquisite shape, zhaobi also pays great attention to decoration, making zhaobi more elegant and beautiful.

Mosuo style

Mosuo people, called Mosha in ancient times, are one of the indigenous peoples in Ninglang, and their ethnic origin belongs to the ancient nomadic people "Yak Qiang" in China. Due to the special social and geographical environment, Yongning Mosuo people have always maintained unique and magical customs and etiquette. The legendary family and marriage form of Mosuo people along Lugu Lake has become the most mysterious and attractive matriarchal cultural spectacle in this ancient land of the East, forming a confusing and unreachable dream. Pumi and Mosuo children will have a rite of passage when they reach the age of 13.

Lingzhi Mosuo people still retain the marriage form of human matriarchal clan. There are two popular forms of Axia marriage among Mosuo people, namely Axia heterogamy and Axia cohabitation. Mosuo people worship nature, believe in gods, believe in everything in the world, and the quotations are mainly gods, so for a long time, different forms of sacrifice have gradually formed.

The Spring Festival of Mosuo people is divided into big year and small year. Every year 1 1 month 12 is the Lunar New Year. The village drinks and eats meat, dances and revels, and the herdsmen give preferential treatment. The whole family will give the herdsmen gifts such as pork bellies, sausages, eggs and Baba. They also tie red cloth on the tails of livestock to show the New Year. Grazing people go to the mountains for picnics, offering sacrifices to the mountain gods, and praying that the mountain gods will bless the lush aquatic plants and prosperous livestock in the coming year. December 30th of the lunar calendar is New Year's Day. Two pine trees should be planted in front of the main house in the yard, and pine branches and colored prayer flags should be inserted on the roof. On the dining table, cooked pig heads are offered for ancestor worship, and activities such as wrestling, swinging, singing folk songs and dancing with the gods are held first, and young people should also participate.

Their traditional festival is Zhuanshan Festival. Every year on the 25th day of the seventh lunar month, Mosuo people by the lake will dress up and go to "Goddess Ge Mountain" to worship.

Worship of God

Worship of the Lord is a unique and universal religious belief of the Bai people. "Lord" is the Lord of territory, that is, the patron saint of a village or a certain area.

Bai people's belief in the Lord has a long history. Every year, every village regularly holds a grand festival to worship God, which is one of the main religious activities in the village. It is said that this day is the birthday of the Lord, and the time of sacrifice varies from place to place. The gods worshipped in different places are also different. There are gods worshipped by nature, heroes worshipped as gods, rulers and relatives of Nanzhao and Dali, and generals of Nanzhao.

Folk marriage custom