Festivals of Chinese Ethnic Groups·Yi: The Torch Festival

by Yan Xiangjun, Chen Anmin

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This book mainly introduces the origin of the Yi ethnic group's Torch Festival. It tells the story of a Yi youth Heitilaba fighting a decisive battle with the son of a god for his sweetheart. In the duel, the son of the god Sireabi was defeated and died. In order to punish the world, the god threw locusts on the world to eat crops. In order to save the crops, Heitilaba led the people to burn the locusts with torches, and finally fell to the ground and turned into a big mountain. In order to commemorate him, June 24th, when he turned into a mountain, was designated as the Torch Festival.

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Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher Hunan Juvenile & Children's Publishing House
  • Publication Date December 2020
  • Orginal LanguageChinese simplified, English
  • ISBN/Identifier 9787556255399
  • Publication Country or regionChina
  • FormatPaperback
  • Primary Price 22.80 CNY
  • Pages40
  • ReadershipChildren
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Original Language Title中国民族节日风俗故事画库:彝族•镶灾祈福火把节
  • Original Language Authors颜湘君/文,陈安民/绘
  • Dimensions235×250 mm
  • SeriesFestivals of Chinese Ethnic Groups
  • Series Part10

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