Dali Festivals and Events


The Festival celebration of Dali

The names of festivals

The ground

Time

Main movable contents

Lead the January of Chinese calendar(Chinese New Year)

The cities and countries of whole state

From 1st to 7th of the January of Chinese calendar

Each races all have the civil literature activity to play happily for half of a month

Visit the Chicken Mountain

The Chicken Foot Mountain of Yichuan

The January of Chinese calendar

The crowds of each race sing and go to worship Buddha on the Chicken Foot Mountain

Gegen Meeting

Sanwenbi Village of Dali City

The January of Chinese calendar

Taste the tastes of Gegen, enjoy the civil art perform of Bai Nationality

The decorative lantern meeting

Mizhi of Midu

15th of the January of Chinese calendar

Have the decorative lantern song and dance grand occasion of the special features of Midu

Dage Meeting

Nanjian, Weishan and Xiangyun

8th of February of Chinese calendar

The crowds of each race sing and go to worship Buddha on the Chicken Foot Mountain

Guanyin Meeting

Guanyin Pond of Dali City

19th of February of Chinese calendar

The meeting of the good believers who believe Buddha worship Guanyin

The Race Stanza in March street of Dali

the west of Gucheng in Dali

15th to 21st of the March of Chinese calendar

The Chinese and Foreign businessmen arrive here to trade the medicine materials, animals, race handicraft products, general merchandise etc. There also are the civil art activities of each race.

The Butterfly Meeting

The Butterfly Spring in Dali

15th of April of Chinese calendar

Many of butterflies gather, the youth men and women of Bai Nationality dress up and sing

Raosanling

Dali City

24th to 25th of the March of Chinese calendar

All the people dress up and row growth brigade, song and dance for three days and three nights, it is called the carnival of Bai Nationality

Zhaiyang Meting

Dali and Eryuan

The season of planting rice

Accompany with farm work activity of planting rice to carry on the beating and singing activity in the field

The Torch Stanza

Each county of whole state

24th and 25th of June of Chinese calendar

The celebration activity of each village has a big torch and each people buy a small torch

The song meeting in Shibao Mountain

Shibao Mountain in Jianchuan

The last three days in July of Chinese calendar

The song grand occasion of Bai Nationality of 8 countries in 3 states which are Dali, Nujiang and Lijiang

The General Temple Fair

Xiaguan in Dali City

15th of August of Chinese calendar

There are some activities such as singing the country dramas, folk songs, top the knife pole etc. in the temple fair.

The Benzhu Festival of Bai Nationality

The village of gathering to reside of Bai Nationality

The four seasons of every year

the temple fairs of different time in each village, the folks activities such as singing on stage, playing music etc.

  • Raosanling Festival in Dali 04/25 21:34

    “Raosanling”, one of the biggest religionary festivals of Bai minority in Dali City, has over 1000 years’ history. Every 23 to 25 of April in Chinese lunar calendar, before the farming season, the local people dress the most colorful traditional costumes, come to the street together as a group.
  • Shibao Mountain Song Contest in Dali 04/25 21:15

    Shibao Mountain is 25 kilometers southwest of the Jianchuan county seat,It is known for the grottoes of Nanzhao and Dali states.At present ,there are 16 grottoes housing 139 unique stone statues,including religious figures ,the royl family of Nanzhao State,and the Persians .The danxia landform that spreads all over the mountain adds an excellent touch to the scenery.
  • Weibao Mountain Pilgrimage and Singing Festival 04/25 20:27

    Weibao Mountain Pilgrimage and Singing Festival is from 1st to 15th of February of Chinese calendar every year. While the people of each nationality in the neighboring area wear own race clothing, keeping in mind the pleased mood to the Visiting Mountain Meeting in the Weibao Mountain to attend the meeting. The civil hole of Wei Mountain gives ancient and grace musical performance in each palace, increasing the charming color to the famous mountain and ancient temple.
  • Jizu Mountain Pilgrimage Festival in Dali 04/25 19:17

    Jizu Mountain is located in northwest corner of Binchuan County, on the east of Dali and Eryuan, on the south of Heqing. It extends 7km from east to west, 6km from south to north and covers an area o
  • March Street Fair of Bai Ethnic Group in Dali 04/25 18:39

    The March Street Fair (Sanyuejie in Chinese) lasts about a week and start on 15th of March of Chinese calendar, it is not only the supplies exchanges grand occasion of the people of Bai Nationality, but also is a festival of celebrating reunion of people of Bai Nationality once a year. The March Street is held on time in Dongluan in Changshan and the west of Dali City.
  • The Torch Festival of Bai Ethnic Group,Dali 04/25 18:14

    The Torch Stanza is Chinese traditional race festival that many national minorities all lead in southwest of China, the time is generally from 24th to 26th of June of the lunar calendar, Bai National
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