The Kuoshi Festival of the Lisu people is the most solemn traditional festival of the Lisu people. However, the festival dates vary from place to place. The Kuoshi Festival in many Lisu settlements such as Yunnan Province is held half a month from December 20th of the Gregorian calendar, while the Kuoshi Festival of the Lisu people in Dechang County, Sichuan Province, due to its closed environment and little influence from the outside world, still retains the time from the first to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. The festival date is unified with the Spring Festival of the Han people, and the customs are extremely traditional. [Era of Origin] The tribe lived in the area and was controlled by the local chieftains Zhang and Ji. During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, the Lisu people could not bear the oppression of the soldiers and the chieftains and fled, and scattered in the Jinsha River and Yalong River basins at the junction of Sichuan and Yunnan. During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the Naxi prefect Mu of Lijiang and the neighboring Tibetan serf owners competed for territory in the Weixi area, and a large-scale armed fight broke out. The Lisu people in the area of Wole (now the suburbs of Panzhihua City) were recruited to fight in the Shigu area for many years, and later went to Weixi, Huaping and other places. During the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, the Lisu, Naxi and other ethnic groups living in Weixi, together with the oppression and exploitation of the Kangpu Tusi, were brutally suppressed by the Qing Dynasty, and some people fled to live in the Miyi Lisu Bay area. The two Yongbei uprisings in the sixth year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty (1826 AD) and the twentieth year of Guangxu (1894) caused the Lisu people to migrate for a long time, and eventually formed a "large dispersion and small concentration" living layout. [Distribution area] Dechang County is located in the southwest of Sichuan Province and the south-central part of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture. The main location of the Dechang Lisu Kuoshijie is Jinsha Township and Nanshan Township in Dechang County and their surrounding areas. Jinsha Township and Nanshan Township are about 30 kilometers away from Dechang County. The geographical coordinates are: 27 degrees 4 minutes and 27 degrees 34 minutes north latitude, 101 degrees 53 minutes and 102 degrees 28 minutes east longitude. It is connected to Huili and Miyi counties in the south. Dechang Lisu Kuoshi Festival is mainly distributed in Jinsha Township and Nanshan Township, Dechang County, Sichuan Province. There are also sporadic distributions in small Lisu villages such as Tuanjie Village, Badong Township, Xinyu Village, Kuanyu Township, and Shaba Village, Leyue Township in Han District. [Basic Content] Lisu Kuoshi Festival is a traditional festival of the Lisu people. "Kuoshi Festival" is a transliteration of the Lisu language, which means New Year's Song and Dance Festival, New Year's Festival or Spring Festival. However, the festival dates vary from place to place. The Kuoshi Festival in many Lisu settlements such as Huaping County in Yunnan Province is held half a month from December 20th of the Gregorian calendar, while the Kuoshi Festival of the Lisu people in Dechang County in Sichuan Province is still held from the first to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month due to its closedness and little influence from the outside world. The festival date is unified with the Spring Festival of the Han people, and the customs are extremely traditional. After the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, each household generally starts to sweep the dust according to the calculated auspicious day, cut a few branches and leaves of trees, and sweep the house inside and outside. The dams around the houses and the corn buildings must sweep the garbage into piles in the afternoon of the 29th. Early in the morning of the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month, every village and every household is filled with smoke, and people are burning the dust accumulation. It is said that the smoke at this time will blind the eyes of eagles, so that the chickens in the house will not be attacked by eagles in the new year. Clothes must be washed before the festival, so in the twelfth lunar month, the ditches and streams beside the village are full of Lijia women washing clothes. They step on their clothes with their feet, and they seem to be dancing while washing clothes. Their feet dance rhythmically, and colorful clothes are hung on the wooden fences, branches, and stones next to them. This is a beautiful scenery. On New Year's Eve, clothes cannot be hung in front of or behind the house, which means that the chickens will not be caught by eagles in the new year, and people will not get sick all year round. Not washing clothes is considered unlucky. Children go to the hillside to pick pine needles before New Year's Eve. They must choose yellow-green pine needles that grow well. The better the pine needles, the better the crops will be in the coming year. The sacrificial activities on New Year's Eve are extremely complicated. During the day, you have to go up the mountain to find a tree and kill a rooster under the tree to offer sacrifice to the gods. If you are far away from home, you usually have to cook the chicken under the tree and carry it back for the whole family to eat during the reunion. The pig's head is used for sacrifice before the meal, and the pig's head is stewed after the meal. After that, they paste specially made red paper with holes for offering sacrifices. After offering sacrifices to the gods of heaven and earth, the gods of the house, the elderly, the gods of the door, the gods of the kitchen, the sheepfold, the corn house, the beehive, and the firewood pile, they clean up the house and outside, especially straighten the tangled ropes, which means to avoid encountering snakes in the new year. After preparing pine torches, pine needles, and water at night, people can visit each other and chat and play. On the morning of the first day of the new year, adults quietly get up before dawn without disturbing others. First, pine needles are sprinkled on the roof, then glutinous rice cakes are baked, and glutinous rice cakes are placed on the spirit tablets of the elderly. Then, guns are fired and firecrackers are set off to welcome the deceased elderly home, and incense and paper are burned outside the house to offer sacrifices to the lonely elderly in the tribe who died. The Lisu people are a hunting nation and respect hunting dogs (they call them "mountain chasing dogs"). They must feed the hunting dogs before meals, and put glutinous rice cakes, meat, and rice when feeding them. Seeing what the hunting dogs eat means that the owner's family will have an abundance of this thing in the new year and will not be able to finish it. After that, people start to eat using the pine needles on the ground as a table. The elders have to eat first. They have to add three servings before they can take a bath. It is said that if they do not, they will get wet in the rain. This day is the most lively in the Lisu village. Women have a hair combing competition in the morning, followed by a weaving competition; men have a mountain hunting competition. Due to the implementation of laws and regulations to protect wild animals, mountain hunting competitions are no longer held today, but men still have to hold target shooting competitions; children enjoy shooting slingshots and playing games. Early in the morning of the second day of the first lunar month, people carrying baskets can be seen everywhere in the village. They carry glutinous rice cakes, bacon, etc. to pay New Year's greetings. The main objects of New Year's greetings are the woman's parents and Dongba masters. From the second to the sixth day of the first lunar month, the Lisu people visit relatives and friends. Embroidery, weaving, and dancing are also important activities during this period. On the sixth day of the first lunar month, people wash clothes and look for firewood during the day, and roast pig's feet and worship their ancestors at night. The seventh day of the first lunar month is also very lively, and the activities carried out are basically similar to those of the first day of the first lunar month. However, before the sun comes out on this day, a farewell activity is held, and production tools such as hoes and knives must be sacrificed, and they can only be used after the sacrifice. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the pig collar is sacrificed, the family god Dadi is sacrificed, etc., and the Kuoshi Festival ends. [Basic characteristics] 1. The customs are extremely traditional. Sweeping the dust, offering sacrifices, feeding hunting dogs, washing clothes, sending off gods, and paying New Year's greetings are very particular. For example, the sacrificial activities on New Year's Eve are extremely complicated. During the day, you have to go up the mountain to find a tree and kill a rooster under the tree to offer sacrifice to the gods. If you are far away from home, you usually have to cook the chicken under the tree and carry it back for the whole family to eat during the reunion. On the morning of the first day of the first lunar month, adults quietly get up before dawn without disturbing others. First, pine needles are sprinkled on the roof, then glutinous rice cakes are baked, and glutinous rice cakes are placed on the old man's spirit tablet. Then guns are fired and firecrackers are set off to welcome the deceased old man home, and incense and paper are burned outside the house to offer sacrifices to the lonely old man in the clan who died. 2. Diversified entertainment. The first day of the new year is the most lively in the Li village. Women hold a hair combing competition in the morning, followed by a weaving competition, and a collective bonfire dance in the evening; men have a mountain hunting competition. Due to the implementation of laws and regulations on the protection of wild animals, there is no mountain hunting competition today, but men still have to hold target shooting competitions; children enjoy shooting slingshots and playing games. In addition, embroidery, weaving, and dancing are also important contents during the Kuoshi Festival. The Lisu people in Dechang have a strong ethnic customs and have become a beautiful landscape among the many ethnic groups in southwestern Sichuan. [Basic Value] The Lisu people have a rich and colorful culture, art, and customs, which contain the unique spiritual values, thinking methods, imagination, and cultural awareness of the Lisu people. While fully reflecting the aesthetic emotions of the Lisu people and increasing mutual exchanges, they have a positive impact on enhancing social cohesion, promoting national unity, and cultural exchanges. Protecting and making good use of the rich and colorful culture of the Lisu people is of great and far-reaching significance for inheriting and carrying forward the excellent cultural traditions of the nation, enhancing national unity, strengthening national self-confidence and cohesion, and promoting the development of our county's tourism industry and the construction of socialist spiritual civilization.