Hunan many places have the custom of the New Year, only the specific time and the degree of grandeur is different. Small year is the "New Year" opening ceremony, from this day onwards, the festive atmosphere continues to no night. Zhuzhou and most other areas depending on the lunar calendar to the 24th for the "small year", Yiyang and other places to the 23rd for the "small year", but Shaoyang, Loudi and other places to the first month of the 15th for the "small year". Hengyang and Xiangbei region is more important to the small year, while Zhuzhou and other less focus on the small year.
2, New Year's Eve and New Year's dinner
The New Year's Eve is one of Hunan's folk customs, which is a night when the firewood in the stove stays lit all night long, and the whole family stays together until after twelve o'clock. The Miao people in western Hunan are even more distinctive. Thirty evening every year, the family fried good incense bacon, good sour fish and other delicacies, ready for the Bao Gu Soju, happy to eat "New Year's Eve dinner". But this time the whole family can not be seated. The master is fully armed, hand manipulation of a full-face shuttle dart, alone into the corner of the gate, two eyes can not stop peeping out of the fortress, in case of wild beasts and foreigners to offend, if friends come, the master of the high ground out of the door, will be friends into the house, high and low to eat a friendly New Year's Day meal, together with a circle of fireplace to spend the evening of the New Year's Eve.
The Dong compatriots in Hunan-Guizhou area, during the Spring Festival, prevailed a kind of "playing Dong Nian" (also called Lusheng will) of mass activities. This activity is similar to the Han's "reunion", but more happy and enthusiastic than the "reunion". This kind of activity is generally organized by two villages *** with the agreement of the two teams in the square officially held Lusheng dance competition. At this time, the audience of the two villages, accompanied by music, dance, and enjoy the joy.