Miao New Year is the grandest traditional festival of the Miao people, prevalent in Guizhou Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture and Guangxi Rongshui Miao Autonomous County, where the Miao people live. The date of the Miao New Year varies from region to region, but it is generally held after the grain is harvested into the barn.
Customs of Miao New Year
In the first few days of the Miao New Year, every family has to clean their houses and actively prepare for the New Year's goods, such as: playing glutinous rice, brewing rice wine, making tofu, bean sprouts, and generally killing pigs, cows, and goats, and so on. Hmong New Year meal, pay attention to the "seven colors are ready", "five flavors", and the best glutinous rice to play "New Year Po" and feast with each other gifts. The rich family, but also do sausage and blood tofu, sewing for the family to make new clothes and so on.
On the evening of the 30th day of the Miao New Year, the whole family will eat the New Year's dinner at home, and keep watch until midnight, when they will open the door and set off firecrackers to welcome the dragon into their home. At first light, the elders of each family lead the ancestor worship at home. After breakfast, young and middle-aged men go to their neighbors' homes to pay their respects, known as "to yang" in Hmong, to wish them a happy new year.
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Leishan Miao New Year activities
In the first two days of the New Year, there are a number of taboos in the family, such as: not to go out to pick up water, not to go up to the mountains to chop wood, cut grass; not to sweep the floor; women do not do sewing; in some areas, women do not cook, replaced by men; men do not go out to pick up dung, and so on. Miao village of men and women married, generally selected during the passing of the Hmong New Year.
From the fourth day. Some older men and women also have to pick wine, meat, glutinous rice and so on to visit friends and relatives, or busy at home to receive guests; some young men and women or in their respective villages to blow the sheng dance, or jumping copper drum dance, bullfighting; or young men to other villages to travel to the square field "travel to the square", men and women Ding each other song, pouring out their feelings of love and adoration.
Mongolian activities
Mongolian festivals include Lusheng dance, jumping field, jumping year, jumping moon, bullfighting, horse racing, stamping on the flower mountain, etc., which usually lasts for about 9 days before the end of the festival.
The Hmong New Year is celebrated on the 9th, 10th or 11th day of the 9th, 10th or 11th month of the lunar calendar every year, on either the Tatsu (Dragon) Day or the Mao (Rabbit) Day or the Chou (Ox) Day
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