The harvest year is one of the most solemn traditional festivals of Lisu nationality, which is equivalent to the New Year of Han nationality. Before the festival, people will slaughter pigs and sheep and brew water wine. On the day of the festival, people will dress up and hold activities such as shooting crossbows, dancing and singing.
Every harvest festival, Lisu men, women and children will gather in the village square, with a high fever and a blazing bonfire. Old people will play pipa and Qin Yue, while young men and women will dance in groups in a circle, drinking while dancing, singing and dancing.
Knife and pole festival is a festival formed by Lisu people to commemorate Wang Ji, the minister of war who observed the sufferings of border people in Ming Dynasty. On this day, people will dress up and gather in the venue of the Knife and Pole Festival to watch the activities of going up the mountain and going down the sea of fire.
Lisu people belong to the South Asian type of Mongolian race, and their national language belongs to the Yi branch of Tibeto-Burman language family of Sino-Tibetan language family. Their writing is divided into old and new Lisu languages, and they generally believe in primitive religions.
Lisu nationality originated from ancient frontier ethnic groups and has a certain relationship with Yi nationality. They are mainly distributed in Nujiang River and Enmeikaijiang River (a tributary of Irrawaddy River), that is, the border areas of Yunnan, China, Tibet and Kachin, Myanmar, and the rest are scattered in other parts of Yunnan, China, northeastern India, and the border areas of Thailand and Myanmar.