On the evening of July 18, 2025, the opening ceremony of the 2025 Torch Carnival and Summer Tourism Season in Bijie City, with the theme of "Natural Coolness, Bi Ran Hi", was grandly held at the Asili Xi Er Tai Po Scenic Area in Hezhang County, Bijie City, Guizhou Province. More than 60000 tourists from all over the country and local ethnic groups dressed in festive costumes and immersed themselves in a summer feast that integrates ethnic culture and modern passion. Torch Festival is a traditional festival of the Yi ethnic group, with profound folk cultural connotations. It conveys the passionate and unrestrained attitude towards life and the simple and melancholic concept of life of the Yi people, and is known as the "Oriental Carnival". (New Society)