Countdown to minority festivals

Torch Festival is a traditional festival of Yi, Bai, Naxi, Jinuo, Lahu and other ethnic groups. It has profound folk cultural connotation and is known as the "Oriental Carnival". Different nationalities hold the Torch Festival at different times, mostly on the 24th of June in the lunar calendar. The main activities are bullfighting, sheep fighting, cock fighting, horse racing, wrestling, singing and dancing performances, beauty contests, etc. In the new era, the Torch Festival has been endowed with new folk functions and new forms.

Tianyi Festival, a traditional folk festival in Shandong, is held on the first day of the eighth lunar month every year. On that day, Shandong folk also had the custom of day moxibustion. In the early days, dew and cinnabar were used, and later dew was used to grind ink, and children's forehead or chest and abdomen were touched, mostly in northern Shandong and Jiaodong areas.

The Water Splashing Festival is a New Year's festival for the Dai, Achang, Bulang, Wa, De'ang and other ethnic minorities in China and some ethnic groups in the Indochina Peninsula. It is the most grand traditional festival of the Dai people in a year. The festival of the Dai people in China falls in June and July of the Dai calendar (about ten days after the Qingming Festival). It is now fixed on April 13-15 of the Gregorian calendar. During the festival, people splashed water to bless each other, and held activities such as worshipping Buddha, racing dragon boats, raising high and lighting Kongming lanterns. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, new contents have been added, such as parades, art shows, film parties, exhibitions and material exchanges. Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and other countries celebrate this festival in the middle of April every year.