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The Exciting Torch Festival of the Yi Nationality

In the regions of the Yi and Bai ethnic groups, there is a popular saying, “The theme of the Spring Festival is eating while the theme of the Torch Festival is playing.”

The Torch Festival begins from the twenty fourth of the sixth lunar month and lasts for three days. On the nights of the festival, holding torches in the hand, people run, play and chase after each other in the villages and fields, and the atmosphere is really exciting.

On the festival nights, all the people in the villages gather together and light up the fires. The firebrands immediately send flames to the sky and the sounds of burning woods, gongs, drums, and people’s cheers fill the whole area. People start to dance around the fire tower they make in the daytime and their torches make the night as bright as the day.

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