Festival Of Costume -- "Living Fossil" Of Traditional Culture Of Yi Nationality

In the 15th day of the first month of the Chinese lunar calendar each year, the Yi people living in Yongren Prefecture and nearby areas are gathered to celebrate the festival.

Competition Festival, as the name suggests, is

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The days of big games.

This is a festival that fully demonstrates the wisdom, diligence and ability of the Yi people, and is also a day to love beauty.

The Yongren Yi Ju Race Festival has been more than 1300 years ago. It is known as the source of competition, the world's earliest village "T" stage.

Colorful costumes

On the day of the festival, from the six or seven year old girl to the seven and eighty year old women, they put on their favorite and most beautiful embroidered clothes. They came in droves to participate in the grand happy festival, showing their ingenious skills and intelligence and learning from other people's experience.

They appreciate each other's exchanges, who has the most beautiful costumes and whose skills are the highest.

Yi girls show their clothes on this day.

Beauty.

Early in the morning, the girls wore clothes and embroidered clothes that were carefully embroidered for a year. They were as beautiful as the cherry blossoms on the hillside, playing and fighting all the way, coming from all sides of the mountain path to the "race field".

Three and a half of the Yi youth also play the gourd Sheng to come to the stadium to find the people.

Father and mother have come. They are concerned about their children's life.

The brothers of other nationalities also came to see the clever clothes of Yi girls.

 

Competition Festival

In addition to the beauty of the costumes and display costumes, the race arena is a good place for the Yi youth to express their love and love.

During the day, old, middle, young, and young women jump, first of all, several elderly people must take the lead in a few turns. Slowly, other people can take part in it. Many young girls display themselves in a number of gorgeous costumes one day, and all the men around the jumping court can only be spectators and referees.

At this time, some young men will observe carefully every girl playing in the jumping field, watch the match girl, see who's dexterous, who embroiders beautifully, who can become his own favorite person.

In the evening, it is the time for these unmarried young men and women. How many lovers are masked to tell the old days? It is simply an masked ball of the Yi nationality.

Young men and women meet in bright moonlight, or at the edge of the spring, or whisper in the trees. The girls blow the leaves and the chords, and the boys play the bamboo flute and the gourd Sheng.

It is the so-called "race to the sunset".

Apart from the competition, the Yi Race Festival also held national sports competitions such as shooting crossbow, stilt walking, top shoulder and pulling vine.

The time for young men to show their strength and wisdom is also an important moment for the Yi girls to choose the right people.

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young boys and girls

Yi women are good at embroidery, wind and rain, thunder and lightning, sun and moon, mountains and woods, flowers, birds and animals.

They are not only in

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Embroidered on the waist, and in the satchel,

All kinds of patterns are embroidered on the insoles and insoles.

Simple composition, exaggerated image, strong color and colorful colors make people pleasing to the eye.

You can't see your eyes full of colorful costumes on the field.

From the beginning, there was the nature of competition. This is the earliest fashion show.

The difference is that Yi girls are both fashion designers and producers and fashion models.

At noon, the teams of all age groups held hands in the accompaniment of Hulu Sheng, San Xian, erhu and so on. One team went on the stage in succession. The old people, the girls, the children danced with the melodious melody, and jumped the traditional Yi nationality's "three stomping feet" to show their own embroidery and sewing costumes with graceful dance.

Looking carefully, everyone's clothing is unique.

Composition and color are different.

The composition of the picture is simple, real, exaggerated, distorted, and contrasting.

Here, the world is like a kaleidoscope of beautiful posture.

Beautiful and unusual dress beauty, bright and not gorgeous color beauty, exudes endless charm.

There are no judges and referees, nor judges.

Who is the most ingenious, who is the most beautiful and beautiful, probably only lovers themselves.

The festival is a festival comparing with the beauty of Sai Chi. The wisdom and ingenuity of the Yi women are fully embodied and displayed here.

They embroidered their longing for beauty, their love for beauty and their experience of beauty with a colorful silk thread.

"Jumping feet" is another important activity of the festival.

People were hand in hand in a circle, singing and dancing with the melody of Hu Xian.

Melody and dance moves from weak to strong, from slow to fast.

When the dance comes to the climax, the pace is more uniform and the atmosphere is lively and lively.

In the evening, the moon just came out of the water like silver, white and white, and the night sky was spotlessly spotless, with layers of peaks floating on snow white clouds.

There was a pile of bonfires in the open space. The little girl was holding hands, accompanied by Hu Xian's beautiful melody and excellent.

 

The back of mother and child

Elegant music, cheerful dance until dawn.

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Yongren Zhi Ju Festival comes from a beautiful, magical and tempting legend.

It is said that a long time ago, Chao Li and Chao la la came from the moon to the old hinterland of Zhe, and found that the mountains were green, the water was beautiful and the soil was rich.

Then he said with emotion, "if you plant millet here, you will have a bumper harvest every year, and you can't eat it."

When they bent down and tried to drink the sweet spring water, three grains of grain rolled out of the quiver.

The brothers could not take care of the water and hurriedly picked up the seeds and scattered them into a mud pond. They wished to say, "if this is where the villagers can live, then I hope that the three grains can grow into three large clusters, with a long head and a long tail."

Not long after that, the brothers returned to the carpet with their bow and arrow, and picked up the sickle to return to the thin mud and carefully manage them.

Sure enough, the three seeds were made into three clusters, and the golden ears were thick and long.

The two brothers rushed home from the bumper harvest, and the news spread all over the villages. Many of the townsfolk were moved to Zhi Ju with their brothers, and a large area of land was reclaimed and planted in the fields. Buckwheat, wheat, beans and hemp were planted in the fields.

By the autumn of autumn, every household in Yi village had a good harvest.

Chao Li Ruo and Chao La Rao brothers have great contributions to the development of Zheng Ju. The elders of the tribe want to give them the right choice. When they ask for a girl who likes the two brothers, if they say that the girl is ingenious and clever, they will make a home with a girl. When Chao Rao says that he loves the landscape trees and flowers, she can embroider the landscape trees and flowers on her clothes.

The patriarch announced to the village the conditions of choosing the wife of Chao Li and Chao La Ruo, and stipulated that the village girl would wear a dress competition in the peak of the village next year, in the woods and under the green shed in the first month of next year, so that the fifteen brothers could choose the object.

Thus, the girls in the village were busy with their leisure time: hair, spinning, dyeing, cutting, sewing and embroidery -- the fifteen of the month finally came.

Early in the morning, the girls wore clothes embroidered with their own hands. They rushed to the stadium, and the brothers in Chao Ruo and Chao Rao looked carefully at all the clothes the girls wore on, and chose their own favorite ones.

In order to inherit beautiful, magical and tempting legends, the Yi family has to wear their new clothes embroidered by hand embroidery every year in the 15th day of the first month of the Chinese lunar calendar to gather and compete, sing and dance in order to find the right people.

In this way, the traditional Race Festival of Yi people was formed from generation to generation.

In 1987, Mark Bender, an American cultural and educational expert, traveled far and wide to participate in the competition Festival. He returned home and wrote "pig shot - the bronze tiger gun".

The festival is hosted by the handover ceremony and related sacrificial activities that symbolize the power of "gang head". It is presided over by "gang leaders" who are composed of three powers including religion, military affairs and politics. A large number of ceremonies, national beliefs and cultural creations of primitive farming ceremonies are preserved in the activities of competition.

The Yi Race Festival not only reflects the organization of the primitive tribes, but also covers the art of almost all kinds of songs such as song, dance, music and embroidery of the Yi people. It is a great performance of sacrificial culture, dress culture, wedding custom culture, song and dance culture and Ancient Salt Road culture.

Yi embroidery is full of flowers, bold and exaggerated in color, exquisite in composition, flexible in stitches, fine in stitches, unique in techniques and different in styles. Every stitch is art, and flowers and flowers are national symbols.

In the long term development process, its singing and dancing art has not only formed its own unique fixed mode, but also made its skills continuously developed and improved through activities itself.

Because of its important influence in the folk culture life, it has become an important stage for the arts and crafts of the Yi nationality folk song and dance music arts and crafts.

It has immeasurable value in the study of Yi nationality's traditional music, dance, rap, embroidery and other artistic development history.

The Yi Festival is a typical "Yi card" of the Yi people, a "living fossil" of the traditional culture of the Yi nationality.

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With the historical vicissitudes of the world, it has been more than 600 years since it was written.

With the opening of the Shiyan salt well to the ancient salt road in Sichuan and the blending of the Shu culture and the Yi culture, there are many new contents in the traditional sacrificial activities on this ancient salt road. It contains the culture of sacrifice, gang head, marriage (reproduction), Ancient Salt Road, dress, song, dance, music, etc., which combines the dance competition, clothing display, national sports competition, trade and material exchange, and forms a unique cultural landscape of the Yi nationality.

There is a popular saying in the area of Zhi Ju: "when the gourd Sheng rings, the feet itch."

In today's competition, there are seventy or eighty year old granny and one or two year old children who are just walking. Everyone is dancing to show their beauty.

Tens of thousands of participants, tens of thousands of onlookers, large scale, the atmosphere is bustling.

The clothes of the Yi people are mainly red, wearing a cocktail hat and a full set of trousers.

Flowers and trees, blue sky and white clouds, embroidery needles, fine lines, dense lines, looking at it is simply the world of flowers, flowers of the sea.

In order to promote the national traditional culture and enhance the popularity of Yongren Yi Race Festival, every year, the Yongren Yi Festival Competition includes Yi costume competition, national folk sports competition, torch carnival night, mountain song, Yi culture heritage, bemo performance, rush mountain street and so on.

Yongren county has been making positive efforts to declare the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage for the "Yi nationality competition Festival".

Yongren Zhi Ju Festival, the country's largest "T" stage, has unveiled the mysterious veil. It has entered the modern life with its unique charm, showing the bright brilliance of the Yi ethnic costumes.