Yi Nationality-Flower Face Festival

Yi Nationality · Flower Face Festival

The Flower Face Festival, held on July 18 every year, is the most solemn traditional festival for the Yi people in Qiubei. It was named after the ancient people used pot smoke to smear the face and exorcise evil. After development, the "Flower Face Festival" has become a carnival activity for contemporary Yi youth to choose their right person by wiping their face. At this time of the year, young men and women in the Yi village chase each other, holding the ashes of the stove in their hands, smearing each other's faces, and the darker they are, the deeper their affection. If you are not willing to associate with the other party, you will try to escape and not let the other party smear the soot on your body to refuse the other party's courtship.

The opening ceremony of the 2009 Flower Face Festival created the Guinness World Record of "Thousands of People Jumping Strings, Ten Thousand People Wiping Flower Face"