The 2025 Torch Festival Gala

The 2025 Torch Festival Gala was staged July 17 in Ninglang Yi autonomous county, northwest Yunnan's Lijiang city, for the forthcoming occasion.

Blending tradition into modernity and ethnic charm into artistic appeal, the gala presented a cultural feast to Yunnan ethnic folks and visitors from afar.

 

Dancers perform at the 2025 Torch Festival Gala.

Actors show Yi costumes at the 2025 Torch Festival Gala. 

As the most solemn and grand traditional festival of the Yi people, the Torch Festival embodies their reverence for fire and their aspirations for a better life.

Falling on the 24th day of the sixth lunar month on traditional Chinese calendar (July 18 this year), the festival is celebrated in diverse Yunnan localities, like Kunming, Chuxiong, Zhaotong and more.

 

A singer performs at the 2025 Torch Festival Gala. 

 

Audiences at the 2025 Torch Festival Gala

Audiences at the 2025 Torch Festival Gala

Sources: Yunnan Daily; Trans-editing by Wang Shixue