The "Broad Season" is the most grand traditional festival of the Lisu people, and this period is also the season of wild cherry blossoms. Let's go to the Nu River together.
The most famous folk custom during the "Broad Season" is to catch the "bath pond". During this time, the Lisu masses took a leisurely bath in the steaming hot spring water, and there were bursts of laughter and happiness from time to time.
The inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of Yunnan Province, Wu Bosan: "During the Lisu season, every household does not work and is idle for the festival, and each bath takes more than ten days, and after bathing, headaches, colds, rheumatism, and arthritis are better." ”
The Nujiang Lisu people live a "wide time" life, which is determined by "wild cherry blossoms". Since the blooming time of wild cherry blossoms varies from place to place, the time of passing through the "broad hour" in each Lisu village is not the same, but it is basically set between the fifth day of the first month of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar and the tenth day of the first month of the following year, about one month before and after. Through more than 20 years of construction, the Kuoshi Festival has become the largest ethnic festival in Nujiang Prefecture, and in August 2009, it was included in the list of the second batch of representative intangible cultural heritage projects at the provincial level in Yunnan Province. In May 2021, the "Broad Season" was included in the fifth batch of national intangible cultural heritage projects.