Abstract: The consciousness of community for the Chinese nation is formed in the long process of multi-ethnic exchange, communication and integration that is best demonstrated, in visual and centralized manner, in the festival culture–the culmination of the historical sentiments, values, ethics and behavioral modes of a people. Thus certain forms and norms develop to help the people identify themselves in strong psychological and spiritual bonds. To construct the festival culture pedigree of peoples of Yunnan is to construct an identity framework, so as to forge a strong consciousness of community for the Chinese nation. To do so, it is necessary to, from the perspective of cultural identity, identify the related elements between their festival culture and the Chinese culture in general and bridge their sense of identity with the latter, so as to provide important cultural resources and native cases for constructing their cultural identity with the national identity to eventually forge a strong consciousness of community for the Chinese nation.

Key words: consciousness of community for the Chinese nation, minority ethnic group of Yunnan Province, festival culture, pedigree