Li Langcheng, the leader of the Yi fallen foot in Xiaotanglang Village, Maojie Town, Wuding County, is an authentic white Yi peasant artist. He is proficient in Yi song and dance and specializes in various musical instruments. On the fifteenth day of the first month of 2022, at his invitation, we met a different kind of White Yi Lantern Festival.
A different kind of White Yi Lantern Festival
Lang Cheng said: "We are not there, the festival is not open." Before arriving at Tanglang Village, the Fire Enthusiasm of the Yi Family had already arrived first.
There are different villages in Yulang Village and Ōyo-Yuro Village. It is a typical White Yi village. Close to the Beijing-Kunming Expressway, the four seasons are like spring, the production is abundant, after poverty alleviation, Yi villagers have embarked on the road to prosperity, and the days are booming. Due to the strict prevention and control of the epidemic, people cannot gather, but Li Langcheng said that we are the Bai Yi ethnic group, the rituals of life cannot be less, and the happy mood should be expressed.
Sure enough, there were not many people, sparsely in the woods, but they were all smiling and dressed in eye-catching clothes. They stood or sat, and the Yi mountain songs rose and fell, and their faces were filled with happiness, satisfaction, and pride.
With the sound of firecrackers and drums, the traditional ritual sacrifice begins. Li Langcheng hung up the horn wine utensils, played the flute trumpet to lead the main sacrifice team, and the villagers carried the plough, carried the basket, held the chicken, sang the ancient sacrifice song, prayed for the wind and rain to be smooth, the people's well-being, and thanked the new era for allowing the Yi people to live a happy and beautiful life.
The toast wine of the alpine flowing water made us feel the enthusiasm of the Yi family, the elegant and simple Yi dance let us appreciate the rough and heroic bosom of the Yi family, and one after another beautiful original ecological mountain songs let us revel in the mountains.
Bless Tanglang Village, bless the children of the Yi people, the Year of the Tiger is smooth, the grain is abundant, the days are booming, everything is good, and happiness is long.
Yunnan network correspondent Zhang Bin Yang Qiyan photo report