{"id":6578,"date":"2019-11-19T11:32:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T11:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/the-legend-of-torch-festival\/"},"modified":"2019-11-19T11:32:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T11:32:29","slug":"the-legend-of-torch-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/the-legend-of-torch-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legend of Torch Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"padding:4px;\"><span>  <\/p>\n<p>Torch Festival is an im<em><\/em>portant and long-standing  traditio<em><\/em>nal festival of Yi, Bai, Naxi, Jino and Lahu nationalities. It&#8217;s  famed home and abroad as a festival of profound folk cultural  connotation, and is called an &quot;Eastern Carnival&quot;. The Torch Festival is  celebrated on a different day by different nationalities, which is  usually on the 24th of the sixth lunar mo<em><\/em>nth of each year featuring the  major activities of bullfight, sheep-fight, cockfight, horse race,  wrestling, singing and dancing performance and beauty contest. What&#8217;s  more, different place features varied versions of the legend of the  Torch Festival, which is also a huge treasure in our folk custom.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, the formation of festival-related customs and legends  has something to do with the original worship of Yi branch natio<em><\/em>nalities  of the same ethnic origin, or a more direct relatio<em><\/em>nship with the  worship in fire, that is, to pray for a good new year in front of the  sacred fire, and to divine farm work with fire color and farming results  of a year with the brightness of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, there are many versions of the Torch Festival legend, which  are largely identical despite of different origins. With strong sense  of humanism, those varied versions end unexceptio<em><\/em>nally with the victory  of human beings and the failure of gods. This varies greatly from the  narrative mode in fables, in which gods are forever the unbeatable  characters stro<em><\/em>nger than human beings.<\/p>\n<p>Thirdly, the penetration of traditio<em><\/em>nal moral ideas into legends of  the Torch Festival custom afterwards has been reflected in the  integration of legends a<em><\/em>bout female characters and those a<em><\/em>bout the  festival, so as to put stress on chastity and virtue.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, from the formation and evolvement of legends a<em><\/em>bout the Torch  Festival we could find different levels of historical accumulation,  which is synchro<em><\/em>nous with the long-term development of the festival in  southwestern nationalities. Legend a<em><\/em>bout the festival has been  co<em><\/em>nstantly evolved as it was passed down from generation to generation,  which has even influenced the festival custom in some regions, while  adding the derivative meaning of &quot;commemorative festival&quot; to the  original and &quot;sacrificial&quot; Torch Festival.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-2044108380\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Torch Festival is an important and long-standing  traditional festival of Yi, Bai, Naxi, Jino and Lahu nationalities. It&#8217;s  famed home and abroad as a festival of profound folk cultural  connotation, and is called an &quot;Eastern Carnival&quot;. The Torch Festival is  celebrated on a different day by different nationalities, which is  usually on the 24th of the sixth lunar month of each year featuring the  major activities of bullfight, sheep-fight, cockfight, horse race,  wrestling, singing and dancing performance and beauty contest. What&#8217;s  more, different place features varied versions of the legend of the  Torch Festival, which is also a huge treasure in our folk custom.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2838],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-folktales"],"views":178,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}