"Cham" is a creation epic recorded in the old Yi language and widely circulated in the Yi area of Shuangbai Ailao Mountain, known as the "genus" of the Yi people. The "Cham" prayer scripture is the Yi people's unique way of expressing their understanding of human beings and society in the long historical process. "Cham" is a Yi transliteration, meaning "the origin of all things".
The Bimo culture in "Cham" is extensive and profound. Bimo culture contains the rich contents of the Yi nationality's philosophy, astronomy, calendar, geographical features, social history, literature and art, customs and etiquette, education, ethics, medicine and health, etc. A special kind of special Yi nationality Native religious culture. One of the distinctive features of Bimo culture is to interpret the origin of all things and the relationship between man and nature. In the spirit of Bimo culture, one of the contents that can best reflect the wisdom of the ancestors of the Yi people is the idea of the same origin of characters, the unity of man and nature, and that everything is born and destroyed.
The folk dance "Tiger Sheng" is a dance performed every year by the Luoluo branch of the Yi nationality in Fayu Town, Shuangbai County in traditional festivals. dance. The Yi people regard tigers as their ancestors, and they believe that all things in the world are created by tigers. The primitive dance form of "Tiger Sheng" is simple, magical and original. It has been designated by domestic and foreign experts and scholars as the "preservation" of the ancient Nuo ritual of the Yi nationality (an ancient Nuo ritual ceremony with the main purpose of exorcising ghosts and warding off epidemics) and China's The "living fossil" of the tiger culture of the Yi nationality. Tiger Sheng has been included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage protection list.
In addition, there are Yi Sixian playing and singing "New Street Girl", folk stunt "Yi People Sacrifice Fire", folk dance "Da Gongsheng", Yi Sanxian playing and singing "Ai Lao Da Song", and was included in Chuxiong in October 2019 The folk dance "Flower Drum" in the State Intangible Cultural Heritage Project List and other performances.