火把节与"火把节文化圈"的形成

火把节起源于汉藏语系藏缅语族先民祭祀火神的“火节”，通过民族的迁徙与分化、民族间的经济文化交流、历史战争等因素，逐步扩展成我国西南地区诸多民族的一个共同的综合性节日；火把节也由一种单一的文化现象，逐渐演变成为了一定地域的共同文化节日，这正是各民族长期相融、相互影响的结果。

Torch Festival and Formation of "Cultural Circle of Torch Festival"

The torch festival originated from the fire festival in which the ancestral people of Tibetan-Burman group in Sino-Tibetan language family offered sacrifices to the fire god. It gradually developed as a common comprehensive festival for many ethnic groups in southwestern region of China through ethnic migration and division, economic and cultural exchanges among ethnic groups and wars in the history. It also evolved from a single cultural phenomenon to a common cultural festival of a certain area.