Traditionally, the Yi people are no more than Han people.
Because the Yi people have their own calendar. And the calendar of the Yi nationality looks more scientific, especially for the Chinese nation, as for the reason, you can understand it when you look at me.
The Yi calendar is 10 months a year, with 36 days per month. There is no big or small month. In this way, there are 360 days in a year. But in fact, the Earth orbits the Sun in a little over 365 days. Therefore, the extra 5 days of the Yi calendar are used for the New Year. That's not enough, there will be a little more time every year, so every three years there is a setting equivalent to a leap month. That is, at that time, the time for the New Year is 6 days.
Therefore, the time of the Yi New Year is not counted in the year, that is, the real leisure time, which is the blank period between the two years, or the buffer period, and the transition period. It is a time to celebrate the New Year with peace of mind. 360 days a year is a working day, and the remaining 5 days are New Year's Day, for the most important festival of the Chinese nation, this period of time does not need to be included in the schedule, of course, it is the most scientific.
Although the Yi people have 5 or 6 days for the New Year, in fact only three days. That is, the first three days. The next two days can be seen as the preparation period for the new year. The first day of the Chinese New Year is "Kushi", the second day is "Dobo", and the third day is "Boki".
The main activities on the first day are to kill New Year's pigs, sacrifice ancestors and eat New Year's dinner. After the meat and rice are cooked, the ancestors are sacrificed as usual, and then the whole family sits around the fire and eats the New Year's dinner happily. During the Chinese New Year, a lot of wine is drunk, which is a major feature of the Yi people. Eat the meat.
The next morning, the girls and the boys got up and quietly carried their buckets to the river and the springs to carry water, or to "steal" some vegetables and round roots from other people's fields. On the way, if they meet each other or hear a sound, they pretend not to see or hear. According to the folk saying, on the second day of the New Year, water and vegetables are quietly "stolen" into the house, which means that there will be a continuous source of wealth in the future.
Day 3: This is the day when it is time to send the ancestors back. The ancestors were sent away, and only then did people look forward to the year ahead. However, the calculation of the Yi year and the common lunar calendar of the Han nationality is not the same. Therefore, the time of the Yi New Year is different from that of the Han people. The Yi New Year falls on the last few days of October every year. Under normal circumstances, the conversion to the lunar calendar also happens to be in October, so when the Yi people celebrate the New Year, the Han people have not yet started the New Year.
The Yi and Han ethnic groups have had contacts since ancient times. In areas where the two ethnic groups live together, the cultural influence of each other is also very great. In these areas, when the Yi people celebrate the New Year, the Han people will also go to pay New Year's greetings, and the Yi people will also come to pay New Year's greetings when the Han people celebrate the New Year. But the Yi people generally do not live the year of the Han people, and the Han people do not live the year of the Yi people.
However, with the emergence of cultural blending in recent years, especially some Yi people who enter the city, they will also celebrate the Han Spring Festival. In this way, they will have to spend two years a year and enjoy two annual leaves.
Therefore, the conclusion is that traditionally, the Yi people are not the Han Spring Festival, but with the deepening of ethnic integration, there is a trend that the Yi people also celebrate the Han Spring Festival.