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The origin of Torch Festival is the origin and origin of 1 Torch Festival.
1, the legend of the origin of Torch Festival
People in China are always curious about legends, because every legend seems to be endowed with the shadow of legend, which is magical and as fascinating as Feng Shui. Different nationalities have different legends of Torch Festival.
According to the legend of Naxi nationality, the son of God, Old Apu, was jealous of the happy life on earth and sent someone to burn the earth to ashes. Then God was moved by the feelings of others, so he told people about God's evil deeds and taught them that lighting a torch at home on June 25 every year could avoid disaster, so the Torch Festival was born.
2. Records of the origin of Torch Festival
In fact, there are special historical materials in history that record the Torch Festival. At that time, Torch Festival was called a beautiful and poetic festival and a very romantic festival.
In the Five Dynasties, an anonymous surname of Shu wrote the book "Dan in Bian Shi Town, Yuxi", which recorded that December 16th was Chinese Valentine's Day in Nanzhao, Tang Dynasty. It was a day trip to shelter from the rain and ordered officials to compose poems, and the whole of Chinese Valentine's Day was our Torch Festival now. Later, in the Luquan County Records, it was recorded that "June 24th was the Torch Festival, also known as Chinese Valentine's Day", and the Torch Festival was pointed out.
The origin of Torch Festival is the formation and variation of the legend of Torch Festival.
The formation of torch festival customs and legends,
It is related to the primitive worship of the Yi people of the same ethnic origin, especially the belief in fire. In the Torch Festival of the Yi people in Southwest China, the folk functions of fumigating fields with fire, eliminating diseases and disasters, killing insects and protecting seedlings, urging seedlings to germinate, praying for a bumper harvest, and inviting the light to welcome Fu Rui are still maintained. The folk psychology and belief in this period are to seek good fortune and avoid evil. The legend of Torch Festival of Liangshan Yi nationality reflects the worship of fire, a supernatural force with mysterious factors, in primitive society, and still embodies the original ecological folk genes of torch festival customs and legends. It belongs to the early form of torch festival custom, and its cultural core is fire worship, which is in the same strain as the cultural tradition of Yi people worshiping fire in the border strong system.
There are many variations in the legend of Torch Festival.
Although the sources are different, they are all similar. The text structure is constructed according to the narrative procedure of struggle between man and God → man conquers God → God retaliates → man conquers God again → celebrates victory and bumper harvest. These different texts all have strong humanistic spirit, and they all end in declaring the victory of man and the failure of God, which is different from the narrative mode dominated by God in mythology. With the development of society, the change of history, the shift of the core problem of human existence (from nature to society) and the intensification of class social conflicts, the legend of Torch Festival is closely intertwined with the vast and complicated social life of all ethnic groups, and then becomes an oral narrative way to express ethnic contradictions and class contradictions. This kind of legend is a secondary torch festival custom legend with the theme of praising ancestors and heroes.