It is said that a young girl jumped into the sea on the 15th day of the first month, so this day becomes "Girls' Day" every year. At that time, the girls in the village will get together and choose the most beautiful, intelligent, personal and vocal girl in the village to play the role of green girl. Some villages use idols with paper paste and colorful paintings to represent young girls. When the sun went down, the women in the village surrounded by "green girls" entered the village from the river, holding hands all the way, singing and dancing while stepping on the beat, and crossing the street until they reached the village square. Then I sang a long poem around the "Young Girl" and told her painful experience as a sign of mourning, until the moon set on the western hills.
butterfly spring
There are many beautiful legends about the origin of butterfly spring among the Bai people. Butterfly spring, formerly known as bottomless pool, is home to a vicious python in Mount Moshan, the God of Yunnong Peak behind the pool. It can suddenly become a tiger, and suddenly become a human form. It often goes down the mountain to devour people and animals and promiscuous women, and the people are miserable. One day, a hero hunter named Du Chaoxuan came here and learned that the python was endangering the villagers, so he sneaked into the mountain alone and shot the python with an arrow. After the python escaped, the next day, Du Chaoxuan followed it again, and met two girls washing bloodstained clothes at Xiayi Xikou. They were the girls who were tricked into the cave by the python into beautiful teenagers for their lewdness, and the bloodstained clothes were changed by the python skin of Zhongjian.
March Street
March Street in Dali is known as "one street in a thousand years, and one street in a thousand years." This is not only based on folklore, but also has solid historical records:
In terms of folk customs and myths and legends, March Street originated from Guanyin Temple Fair. According to legend, the land of Canger in Dali was originally occupied by a demon named Luo Cha. He eats people's eyes for a living Master Guanyin came to Dali and skillfully used magic to subdue Luo Cha. In order to prevent Luo Cha from making a comeback, 1, people gather in front of Cangshan Shrine (that is, the street that has remained unchanged to this day) every year on March 15th. In order not to let the people delay their livelihood and let them do some business at the same time, Master Guanyin has formed an annual grand market, and even March Street has always been called Guanyin City.
Torch Festival
About the reason of Torch Festival, Bai people think it is mainly to commemorate Mrs. Bai Jie. Legend has it that more than 1,3 years ago, Piluoge, the king of Nanzhao, designed to burn the Song Ming Tower in the name of ancestor worship and burn the owners of the five imperial edicts in order to annex other five imperial edicts (small kingdoms) in Erhai area. Among them, Bai Jie, the wife of Deng Huang, was far-sighted, had predicted the unexpected in advance, and was faithful afterwards. In order to dig her husband's bones, all her fingers dug out blood. Therefore, young women of Bai nationality should dye their nails to commemorate the Torch Festival. In some areas, on the Torch Festival, the boys will also hold horse racing activities, and the Haidong area will also hold boat races, all to commemorate Mrs. Bai Jie's tenacious fighting spirit.
Shi Baoshan Song Festival in Jianchuan
There are many magical and beautiful legends about the origin of the Song Festival. It is said that the boulder shaped like a stone bell in Shi Baoshan was originally a golden bell. Whenever the golden bell rings, the Shaxi dam at the foot of the mountain is in good weather. Later, a dragon with nine evil heads spouted flames, turned the golden bell into a stone bell, and practiced demon at any time, which often brought drought and insect disaster to the dam. In Shaxi, a couple named A shi bo and A Gui Niu were inspired by our Lord's deity. Knowing that singing can break the evil dragon magic, they invited ten sisters and ten sisters to go up the mountain to sing songs every day, and finally defeated the evil dragon. Shi bo and A Gui were also killed in the fight with the dragon. In order to commemorate the couple, people go to the mountains to sing songs every year, which has become a song meeting handed down from generation to generation.