Flower festival, talk about the sad legends

Yi is the ethnic group formed by the integration of the ancient Qiang people in the process of long-term development with the native tribes of southwest China. Ethnic ancestors in the long-term formation and development, the scope of activities have been in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou Province, the heartland of three provinces and Guangxi, the core of the three provinces should be adjacent to the vast areas.

Flower Arranging festival, also known as Ma Changhua Festival, is the Chuxiongzhou Yi's traditional festival to Dayao County Tan Huashan Flower Arranging festival is the most solemn and lively.

On the February 8 of the Lunar New Year, people pick up colorful flowers and weave them into the arches and flower sheds of flowers, which symbolize good luck, and flower arranging in the fields and cattle and goats in front of the house. Under the trees, men, women and young people and the "Play song" In the Circle, youth lovers are the next to each other and song, laughter. The origin of Flower Arranging festival is many, the most widely circulated is the legend of the Mi Lu.

It is rumored that Iru is a clever and beautiful Yi Girl, in order to protect the sisters from bullying, false body Xu, at the wedding with a bully with a Ma Changhua poisoned wine, sacrifice themselves, cockroach. To this end, each year delavayi flowers bloom, the Yi will hold a grand Flower arranging festival, to commemorate the beautiful and good Mia.