Bai nationality: Nanzhao king burned the Song Ming Building, and his charitable wife was loyal to the country.
There were six tribes in Yunnan in the early Tang Dynasty, which were called "six imperial edicts". The southernmost tribe Meng Shezhao is also called Nanzhao. Nanzhao became more and more powerful. One day, Pelugo, the king of Nanzhao, invited five other leaders to get together. Mrs. Chariti, the wife of Deng Ruozhao, the tour leader, thought that Pelog had ulterior motives and tried to persuade her husband not to go. But the husband wouldn't listen. When she left, Mrs. Charity put an iron ring on her husband's arm with tears in her eyes to protect herself.
Since then, Pirog did burn down the Song Ming Building where the leaders gathered, and all the leaders of the five imperial edicts were spared. Facing the ashes of Song Minglou, Mrs Charity wept bitterly. She threw herself into the ashes and took out the iron ring worn by her husband before recognizing his body and taking it home. Later, Pilog heard about this clever and virtuous charity lady and wanted to marry her. However, how can this kind lady be willing to remarry? After burying her husband, she closed the city and followed her dead husband, leaving only this touching story.
After that, the Bai people in Yunnan celebrated the Torch Festival to commemorate the "Burning Song Ming Pagoda" and the historical story of the brave and clever charity lady.
Yi people: Warriors wrestle with demons, lighting more fires to burn insects.
According to legend, in ancient times, a demon named Stanley destroyed people's happy life on earth. After people found out, they came forward to ask questions. Ten vigorously asked someone to wrestle with him arrogantly, and also overturned a strong cow in a demonstration (the first thing on the Torch Festival was bullfighting). His provocative behavior angered a Yi hero named Bao Cong. He walked out of the crowd and wrestled with the top ten for three days and three nights, still tied. So people played three strings, played piccolo, clapped their hands and stamped their feet to cheer for Bao Cong, and finally defeated the top ten countries. The devil got angry and released locusts and other pests to spoil the crops that people worked so hard to grow. So people gathered again, lit torches to burn pests, and finally burned all the pests to death. This day happens to be June 24th. Later, in order to commemorate this victory, people slaughtered cattle and sheep every day and held various activities of the Torch Festival, which reflected the struggle spirit of the Yi people who were not afraid of violence and pursued a happy life.
Yi people: killing taxes angered the gods, lighting a fire to fight pests.
Long ago, heaven and earth were interlinked. One year, the god Stiguge sent Sigaby to collect taxes on earth. Due to the famine in the world, people couldn't afford the rent, so a strongman who could eat copper and iron, Rabbah of Russia, killed the tax collector Sylvia Abby. The gods were furious. The first flood tried to drown people on the ground, but the flood was defeated. The gods released all kinds of pests into the world to eat people's crops. Russian Rabbah and everyone gathered around the fireplace to discuss ways to control pests. Unexpectedly, a bug fell into the fireplace and was quickly burned to death. As a result, the Russian Laba organization set everyone on fire, finally defeated the pests and achieved a bumper harvest. Over time, the Yi Torch Festival was formed.
Naxi people: the gods envy people and fall into the fire, and torches are mixed to avoid great disasters.
Naxi people