Every year since, 24, is a traditional festival --- the Yi people, the Torch Festival.
When night fell, from Shilin to Dieshui, from Guyana to the Long Lake Mountain, and the countless torches of the night sky Ying, Ying people smile, passion for singing and forceful sound of the big three-stringed lute intertwined, cottage immersed in the festive joy ... ...
On the "Torch Festival", circulating the legend of a magical and moving.
In ancient times, in a high mountain, there's castle, the castle, there lived a toast, he generated a pair of mouse eyes, eyebrows, and a broom silver carp mouth, coupled with that sharp protruding chin, a bony face covered with pockmarks, people played a nickname for him --- "Heisha Shen." This "Heisha Shen," evil, hands Pan raises large group of retainers, thugs, brutal domination and exploitation of the Yi people. He was all sorts of pretexts, exactions, a child to his growing family to pay taxes, expel Shan mountains to hunt to pay rent, fish in the river fishing to be close to donate ... ... of different taxes, forcing the people really can not breathe. In order to resist this "Heisha Shen," the cruel rule of the people have held several uprisings, however, difficult to capture of the castle toast strong, and many people were arrested and executed alive.
There is the brightest shepherd, and his name is called Zarqa, came up with a way to circumvent the castle toast. He secretly chained a 99 Walled poor people, decided June 17 onwards, each household of the sheep are kept in stables, the feed point of water a day, do not feed forage, hungry on the seven days and nights. Uprising that people who drive at night made spear, cut a good thin bamboo sticks, grinding good machetes, axes, again tied on the corner of each goat torches, we agreed at the June 24 uprising in the evening. By this evening, when the moon has not yet appeared, Shan Qing woods when the breeze gently blowing, only heard soon as horns sounding number, with regard to the first "torch mother" as the number, this time going separate ways uprising Sagittarius immediately sheep barn door open, lit 10 million tied to a ram's horn on the torch, driving the sheep to "Hei Shashen" attack the castle.
It has long been starving countless sheep, and then through the fire, busily scrambling to grab up the hill to eat leaves and grass. Zarqa, led the uprising of the people, brave rush ahead to the castle, past, drums and Han Shasheng crews are moving to. "Hei Shashen" hastily boarded a castle and saw a sea of fire into hillsides, surrounded the castle from all people, has begun to attack the gates. "Hei Shashen" command retainers, thugs clinging to gates, then he quietly got into the hole, ready to flee. Separate ways at this time the uprising army has been broken castle, flock Entering. People everywhere grateful, but I could not see, "Heisha Shen." Later, Zarqa will housekeeper arrested and interrogated, afraid of death, a large butler bowed knees begging for mercy, and to lead his party to toast Zacca hiding hole of that space.
Zarqa would perhaps housekeeper under the first hole is called "Hei Shashen" surrender. The usual Hujiahuwei great housekeeper actually in panic once they collapsed to the ground, Pabuqilai. Everyone is being looked, suddenly, from the flying out of a dagger hole. Zarqa agile, wielded a machete would be a dagger shot down.
Zarqa and everyone see "Heisha Shen," life and death not come out, they decided to use the torches to burn him. Then gives the order, 10 million torches immediately stacked in a hole around the hill, we saw the flames raging burning more-wang, a moment, the site was burned red red, and that the devils and toast "Heisha Shen," on This being buried in the torch. In order to commemorate the struggle against the tyrannical rule of victory, lunar June 24 scheduled on this day as "Torch Festival."
It has long been starving countless sheep, and then through the fire, busily scrambling to grab up the hill to eat leaves and grass. Zarqa, led the uprising of the people, brave rush ahead to the castle, past, drums and Han Shasheng crews are moving to. "Hei Shashen" hastily boarded a castle and saw a sea of fire into hillsides, surrounded the castle from all people, has begun to attack the gates. "Hei Shashen" command retainers, thugs clinging to gates, then he quietly got into the hole, ready to flee. Separate ways at this time the uprising army has been broken castle, flock Entering. People everywhere grateful, but I could not see, "Heisha Shen." Later, Zarqa will housekeeper arrested and interrogated, afraid of death, a large butler bowed knees begging for mercy, and to lead his party to toast Zacca hiding hole of that space.
Zarqa would perhaps housekeeper under the first hole is called "Hei Shashen" surrender. The usual Hujiahuwei great housekeeper actually in panic once they collapsed to the ground, Pabuqilai. Everyone is being looked, suddenly, from the flying out of a dagger hole. Zarqa agile, wielded a machete would be a dagger shot down.
Zarqa and everyone see "Heisha Shen," life and death not come out, they decided to use the torches to burn him. Then gives the order, 10 million torches immediately stacked in a hole around the hill, we saw the flames raging burning more-wang, a moment, the site was burned red red, and that the devils and toast "Heisha Shen," on This being buried in the torch. In order to commemorate the struggle against the tyrannical rule of victory, lunar June 24 scheduled on this day as "Torch Festival."
