Abstract:

There are great differences in the records of the Dali Naxi Torch Festival in different documents. In order to find out the truth， this paper takes Shicaijiang Village in Dali Bai Autonomous prefecture， the only Naxi village as field point combined with literature and field investigation. It is found that the torch festival in the Village is quite different from the Naxi torch festival in Lijiang area. The picnic and sacrificial activity of "Chuang Mei Sheng En" in the Shicaijiang Village is another cultural form of Naxi Torch Festival culture. The Torch Festival in the Village has preserved the cultural remains of the ancestors of Naxi in the Ming Dynasty who had a picnic in the mountains to celebrate the Torch Festival.

Key words:  , cultural form； , Torch Festival；Naxi；case study