Date (Lunar Year Calendar) |
Place |
Name of Festivals |
Activities |
Minority |
1st of New Year |
Deqen |
Tibetan New Year |
Eliminating the old days and greeting the new year, dancing and singing. |
Tibetan
|
1st of New Year |
Mojiang |
Zhalizuo Festival |
Festivals of honoring ancestry, playing on the swing, banquet. |
Hani |
1st to 15th of New Year |
Lancang |
Kuoshijie Festival |
Receiving new water, Lusheng dance |
Lahu |
3rd to 7th of New Year |
Pingbian Yongshen |
Flower Mountain Festival |
Singing in antiphonal style, dancing, climbing the flower pole. |
Miao |
The first month of New Year |
Xishuang banna |
New Year |
Playing wooden drum, dancing, walking on stilts Jinuo |
Jinuo |
The first ten days of New Year |
Liuku, Nujiang |
Bath and Singing Festival |
Singing contest, hot spring bath in the open air. |
Lisu |
The 15th of New Year |
Ruili, Longchuan |
Munao Festival |
Great scale " Wenbeng " dance. |
Jingpo |
The 15th of New Year |
Lijiang |
Bangbang Holiday |
Horse racing, farming fair. |
Naxi |
Spring Festival |
Xishuang banna |
Gatangpa Festival |
Touring around the mountains, whipping a top. |
Aini |
The 8th of the second month |
Dayao, Shuangjiang |
Pinning Flowers Festival |
picking flowers and dance. |
Yi |
he 8th of February |
Lijiang |
Sanduo Festival |
Horse racing, picnic. dance " Ali-li ". |
Naxi |
The 8th of February |
Nujiang, Baoshan |
Sword Pole Festival |
Climbing knife pole, dancing and songs. |
Lisu |
The 8th of February |
Stone Forest |
Mizhi Festival |
Festival of honoring the Dragon Tree, picnic. |
Yi |
The 8th of February |
Jinggu |
Dragon Festival |
Lushen Dance. |
Yi |
The first cow day of February |
Simao |
solemn ceremonial thanksgiving sacrifice offered to mothers |
festivals of honoring mothers. |
Hani |
March |
Fuming |
Longduanjie Festival |
Singing in antiphonal style, trading fair. |
Zhuang |
Before ploughing of March |
Xishuang banna |
solemn ceremonial thanksgiving sacrifice offered to Dragon |
Drum dance, bamboo stick dance, whipping a top. |
Jinuo |
The 15th to 20th of March |
Dali |
March Fair |
Horse racing, dragon boat contest, trading fair. |
Bai
|
The 28th to 30th of March |
Mouding |
March market |
County fair, dancing and singing. |
Yi |
The 8th of April |
Louping, Fuyuan |
Niuwang Day |
Having Niuwang Cake, distributing food to cows. |
Buyi |
The 8th of April |
Fuming |
Tiaogong Holiday |
Blowing Lusheng, wearing old clothes, dance and songs. |
Yi |
The 23rd to 25th of April |
Dali |
Raoshanling |
Festivals of honoring ancestry, Bawang Whip Dance. |
Bai |
The middle ten day of April in Solar calendar |
Jinggu |
Picking Flowers Day |
Picking flowers for Buddha. |
Dai |
The middle ten day of April in Solar calendar |
Xishuang banna, Dehong |
Water Splashing Festival |
Water splashing, dragon boat contest, placing high. |
Dai, De'ang |
The fifth of May |
Ninglang |
Zhuanshan Festival |
Walking around mountain in a circle, dance and songs. |
Pumi
|
The fifth of May |
Deqen |
The Horse Racing on the Duanwu Festival |
Horse racing, picnic, Tibetan dance. |
Tibetan |
May |
Honghe |
Kuzhazha |
Singing in antiphonal style, and so on. |
Hani
|
The 29th of May |
Wenshan, Honghe |
Zuniang |
Playing drums, sing in antiphonal style, Yao dance. |
Yao |
June |
Xishuang banna |
Yekuzha |
Dining together, having a swing. |
Aini
|
The 24th of June |
Stone Forest, Chuxiong. Dali |
Torchlight Festival |
Torchlight, campfire, wrestling, bullfighting. |
Yi and Bai |
The middle ten days of July |
Lijiang |
July Fair |
Singing in antiphonal style, livestock fair. |
Naxi
|
End of July and beginning of August |
Lancang |
Newly harvested rive Festival |
Killing pig and chicken for banquet. |
Lahu |
September |
Fuyuan |
Duanjie |
Playing copper drums, the festival of honoring the ancestry, dance and songs. |
Shui |
15th of September |
Dehong |
Fair Street |
Dancing dragon, white elephant, elephant feet dance. |
Achang |
October |
Simao, Honghe |
October Year ("Amatu " Festival ) |
Festivals of honoring the ancestry, street banquet. |
Hani |
15th of October |
Lancang |
Calabash Festival |
Lusheng dance, trading fair. |
Lahu |
16th of October |
Fuming |
Panwang Day |
Sing Panwang song, long drum dance. |
Yao |
1st of October in Muslim Calendar |
Kunming and other place |
Ideal Festival |
Religious service, expounding the texts of Buddhism. |
Muslim |
Jan. 10 to 12 of solar calendar |
Dulongjiang River of Gongshan |
Kaquewa |
Piercing a bull, honoring heaven, inviting to dinner . |
Dulong |
The twelfth month |
Ximeng, Cangyuan |
Festival of Pulling the wooden drum |
Pulling the wooden drum, piercing a bull, Wa people dance. |
Wa |
The twelfth month of the Muslim calendar |
Kunming and other places |
Corban Festival Mass greetings, killing bull or goats. |
Hui ( Muslim) |
Muslim |
December 20 to 23 of solar calendar |
Liuku, Nujiang |
Kuoshijie Festival |
Recreation and sports activities. |
Lisu |
