Thailand
The traditional New Year's Day in Thailand, known as Songkran ("Songkran" is the translation of the Sanskrit word
), is also called "Water Festival". Songkran" ("Songkran" is the translation of the Sanskrit word
), also known as the "Water Splashing Festival", is celebrated from April 13th to
16th in the Gregorian calendar. During the festival, people carry or cart around huge Buddha statues,
which are followed by a float on which stands a made-up Songkran woman
goddess, and groups of young men and women dressed in brightly colored national costumes,
beating long drums, singing and dancing. On both sides of the road where the procession passes by, good
men and women walk along the road, using a silver bowl filled with water soaked with shells and oozing with
spices, pouring it onto the Buddha statue and the "Goddess of Songkran," praying for a New Year
as expected, and a good wind and rainfall, and then people sprinkle each other's water with smiles and laughs. Wish elders
generation health and longevity, wish friends and relatives a lucky new year, unmarried young men and women, then
splash water to express their love for each other. Thai people on the first day of the New Year
are in the window sill, the door end of a pot of water, every family should go to the countryside in the river
River for the New Year bathing. To celebrate the New Year, the Thai people held in the scale of
"Elephant Race", content: people and elephants tug-of-war, jumping elephants to pick up things, elephants across the
personal, elephant soccer, the ancient Elephant Formation show, and so on. It is very exciting and moving.
Egypt and
Egypt is an ancient civilization, 40 BC, the Egyptians were able to observe the stars
Elephant, they found that Sirius and the sun rises together, the Nile River water immediately
rise. Egypt took the day of the Nile's rise as the beginning of the new year. It was called
"the New Year of the Rising Waters."
The Egyptian Krut greeted the New Year by placing a
table in front of the door, with seven or eight plates of soybeans, lentils, alfalfa, and wheat grains, as well as small shoots of greenery, which symbolized abundance. The more things that were offered to the gods
, the greater the New Year's harvest. The Egyptian New Year was in the fall,
because agricultural production in Egypt began in the fall.
Germany
Germany's New Year is celebrated for a week before and after. During this time, every family
has a fir tree and a koa tree, with silk flowers tied between the leaves, to signify that the flowers
are like a brocade and that spring is in the air. The Germans climb
up to their chairs at midnight on New Year's Eve, and as soon as the clock strikes, they jump off their chairs and throw a weight behind
the back of the chair as a sign of casting off the mischief and jumping into the New Year. Children form bands, dress up in
new clothes, carry harmoniums and accordions, and parade through the streets playing. Adults,
holding colorful flags, follow behind, shouting and singing to celebrate the New Year, and German women
perform improvised comedic sketches on family themes on New Year's Day. In the German countryside
circulates a New Year's custom ---- "tree-climbing contest", young men along
the bare tree race to climb high, the first place is known as "New Year's hero" to
show to show that they will rise higher and higher in the New Year.
India
India from October 31 every year for the New Year **** 5 days, the fourth day for New Year's Day.
On the first day of the New Year, no one is allowed to be angry with anyone, let alone lose their temper. India has
the region, the morning of New Year's Day, families crying, everyone's face snot and tears
flow, they to the passing of the years, life is short, with the crying to welcome the New Year, is the lamentation of human
life. In some areas, people greet the new
year by fasting for a day and a night, starting in the early hours of New Year's Day until midnight. Because of this strange custom,
India's New Year's Day is known as "crying New Year's Day", "fasting New Year's Day". India
People in the first five days of New Year's Day, all over the world to perform the Indian epic Ramayana,
(meaning the procession of the Rama), playing the hero in the epic and paper giants "fight",
"Hero" The "hero" triggers an arrow that is lit on fire, and the paper giants
catch fire and burn to the ground amidst the cheers of the spectators.
Before the New Year's Eve, various beautiful pictures are posted in front of every house.
On the morning of New Year's Day, people carry small refined lamps and red powder packets, and go out to pay New Year's greetings to the old
people and friends and relatives. After meeting and saying goodbye, they put red powder on each other's foreheads
to show good luck and raise their heads to see joy. Young people put red ink into a water pistol
and shoot it on their friends and relatives, called "sprinkling red", to express good luck. In India
young people like to meet and fight hand-to-hand on New Year's Day, regardless of familiarity. Onlookers
The good help wind, often become the object of the girl's quest. Central India's indigenous
national Bohil people, to celebrate the New Year, in the playground erected a smooth thick
large wooden pole, the top of the pole there is a small bag containing gifts, the girls holding bamboo
pole to try to thwart to the pole climbed to the boy guards, the young men in the pole under the circle of
, efforts to defend the girls on the pole climber's attack, until the pole climber to seize
the pole, the young people in the pole under the
round, efforts to defend the girls on the pole climber's attack, until pole climber captured
the pouch for victory.
Iran
Iran follows the Islamic calendar, which has irregular seasons and months.
In Iran, celebrating the New Year means celebrating the arrival of spring, often in late March
, and the New Year is celebrated for a week, with people pouring out into the streets to build "bonfires"
- "night fires", and then the whole family goes in turn from the night fires to the night fires, and then the whole family goes in turn from the night fires to the night fires. The whole family jumps from night fire to night fire in order to burn off the "bad luck", usher in the light, drive away evil spirits and diseases, and happiness will last forever. New Year's Eve to
eat "seven dishes", the name of each dish should start with the letter "S" to
show auspicious. From the first to the third day of the Lunar New Year, people visit friends and relatives to wish each other a happy Spring Festival. On the last day of the new year, the whole family goes on a trip to avoid evil.
China
New Year's Day is the first day of the year. The name "New Year's Day" is said to come from Zhuan Xu, one of the three emperors in the legend. He took
the first month of the lunar calendar as Yuan, and the first day as Dan. The word "yuan" means "first" and "beginning," while "dan" means "a red sun rising from the ground," and "yuan" and "dan" mean "the first day of the month. "Dan" and together, that is, to people to vigorously
Qi, to meet the brand new year. On this day, China's cities and rural
villages, are decorated with lanterns and festive costumes, many units
hanging up "celebrate New Year's Day" huge banners to celebrate the New Year.
September 27, 1949, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Plenary session of the first sector resolved: "The Chinese people **** and the national chronology
year to use the A.D. chronology", that is, what we call the solar calendar, in order to
To distinguish between the lunar calendar and the solar two New Year's Day, but also
The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, which was held in Beijing from September 27 to September 28, 1949, has been the most successful in the world. In view of the fact that the 24th
node of the lunar calendar, "Lichun", falls around the time of the Lunar New Year, the first day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar was renamed "Spring Festival", and the first day of January of the solar calendar was
designated as "New Year's Day", so that New Year's Day has become a festival of joy for all people in the country.
Japanese people have been celebrating New Year's Day for many years.
Japan
Japanese people pay special attention to New Year's Day, which is celebrated on December 29 - January
3 every year as a national vacation. The Japanese call December 31st "Dai
Hi Day", which is also known as New Year's Eve. On the night of New Year's Eve, which the Japanese call
New Year's Eve, they pray to the gods for blessings to usher in a beautiful New Year by sending away the old year, which they call Hatsu Atsui (first attainment).
On New Year's Eve, at midnight, temples in cities and towns ring 108 bells to drive away evil, while Japanese people sit quietly and listen to the "New Year's Eve bells", the sound of which
stops signaling the arrival of the New Year. People then leave their seats and go to bed,
hoping for good dreams. On the morning of New Year's Day, family members sit together and tell each other the dreams they had on New Year's Eve in order to gauge their luck. The Japanese call the first day of New Year's Day
1 "Shoichi", and 1-3 "Sangaichi". On the first day of the New Year,
the younger generation must first go to their parents to greet them, and then go to
relatives and friends to pay respect to the New Year. The New Year is also a festival of "eating", and people of all countries
eat their own food to pray for good luck. The Japanese
On the first day of the New Year, they have a big breakfast, eating carrots and buckwheat noodles and drinking sake. For the next three days, they eat vegetarian food as a sign of piety and to pray for good luck in the coming year. Most Japanese
city dwellers have given up the habit of eating vegetarian food on New Year's Eve, and instead eat
a meal of hollow noodles on New Year's Eve to wish for good health and longevity in the new year.
North Korea
North Korea, like China, has a custom of putting up windowpane and peach
charms on New Year's Day. North Koreans put up couplets and New Year
paintings in every house on New Year's Day. Some people put portraits of longevity stars or fairies on their doors to pray for
the blessing of heaven, to drive away ghosts and demons and to give happiness. At dawn on New Year's Day, people
stuffed some banknotes into scarecrows pre-tied on New Year's Eve and threw them at
intersections to signify the sending away of evils and welcoming of auspicious and lucky stars. At dusk,
people then burn the hair of the whole family that has fallen off during the year to wish their families
four seasons of peace. Women in North Korea dress up for the New Year's Day. On New Year's Day
the girls wear a kind of hemp hat called "Boksang" and colorful clothes with flower patterns and compete in swinging competitions. They take a
tree flower as a target and see who wins by kicking or biting it first. There is also a competition in which bronze bells are hung high up in the air, and the winner is the one who touches the bells first. During the New Year, the Korean
Freshmen, in addition to enjoying fine food and wine, must also make a kind of glutinous rice
with pine nuts, chestnut powder, date paste and honey, steamed into a sweet rice similar to our
Baobao rice to eat to herald the prosperity of the family
Days as sweet as honey.
Britain
In Britain, the New Year's Day is not as grand as Christmas, but
on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, or according to local customs and habits to carry out all kinds of
kinds of celebrations to show that the old welcome the new. The British late at night on New Year's Eve,
often with cakes and wine to go out to visit, they do not knock on the door, they go straight
into the home of friends and relatives. According to English custom, the person who takes the first step towards
the house after the thousand nights of New Year's Eve heralds the luck of the new year.
If the first guest is a dark-haired man, or a happy, fortunate
and wealthy person, the host will be lucky all year round. If the first guest is a woman with light yellow hair, or a person who is sad, poor, or unfortunate, the host will have bad luck in the new year, and will encounter difficulties and disasters. On New Year's Eve, those who visit friends and relatives at their homes, before talking,
should first stir the fire in the fireplace to bless their hosts with "good luck". Most of the New Year celebrations in Britain
are held on New Year's Eve, and the "New Year's Banquet
is one of them, which is divided into two categories: the "family banquet" and the "group banquet. The banquets are divided into two types: family banquets and group banquets, which usually start at 8 p.m. on New Year's Eve and end in the early hours of New Year's Day. A variety of food, drinks and snacks are available for people to enjoy all night long. At midnight, people
turn on their radios and listen to the New Year's bells of the church bells, which ring out
with a great deal of joy, toasts and cheers, and songs of "
The Days of Yesterdays". The "New Year's Eve Ball" is another celebration.
By local inns and dances, night falls. People dressed in festive attire come from all directions to these brilliantly decorated and illuminated dance floors to dance to the sound of beautiful music, and crowds of thousands of people,
also gather in squares to sing, dance and revel around the fountains and the statue of Eros in the center of the square.
This is another celebration, which is also done on television. Television stations also broadcast live from the squares, allowing those who are "keeping watch" at home to enjoy the fun.
New Year's customs of ethnic minorities
Kirghiz - when the first month of the year appeared, the Kirghiz people celebrated the "Nuo Ruoz" festival, which is very similar to the Spring Festival of the Han Chinese people. At the festival, each family according to their own ability to make the meal more sumptuous, treating each other to celebrate. On the night of the festival, when the herds of animals return from the pasture, every family felt house before the use of hyacinth grass to build a pile of fire, people first jumped from the top, and then the livestock jumped from the top, to signal the elimination of disasters and difficulties, and in the new year of the livestock and the two prosperous.
Buyi people - at the end of the Lunar New Year on the lunar calendar, every family fumigates meat, enchants sausages, roasts wine, makes glutinous rice pudding, rice flowers, sews new clothes and handkerchiefs. On the twenty-third day of the Lunar New Year, the god of the stove is sent with malt candy and other fruits. They ask a gentleman to write couplets and put up door gods and New Year's paintings. On the evening of the 30th, the whole family sits around the fire, first offering sacrifices to the ancestors of heaven and earth, and then the whole family blesses each other, eats a reunion dinner, and observes the New Year's Eve all night long. At dawn on the first day of the New Year, the girls will be scrambling to the river to pick water, who is the first to pick back to the water, who is the most hard-working and happy people, but also as a harbinger of a good year. On the first day of the first day of the first day of the first day of the first month in the family tie colorful lanterns, night all lit, hanging in front of the door. After the first day, people began to visit the New Year. Young men and women meet to go to the "table" to express their love in song; or get together in the suona, Yueqin, Dongxiao, sister xiao, copper drums and other musical instruments accompanied by the sound of jumping "hit the flower bag". Some areas of the first month of the fifteenth after the New Year, the first month of the thirtieth also have a "small year".
Tujia - from the first two days before the first day of the first month, the first day called the big year, the second day for the small year. On New Year's Eve, each family burns a piece of firewood, and everyone sits around and listens to the old man's stories, keeping watch until dawn. During the festival, "red fish" is eaten to symbolize wealth and abundance, and a large pot of braised vegetables is eaten, which is called Hap Cai. On the third day of the Lunar New Year, the "Hand Dance" is held, with as many as 10,000 participants. In addition, there are dragon lanterns, lion dance, lanterns, theater, martial arts and other activities.
The Zhuang - from the thirtieth to the second day of the first month, *** three days. All those who work outside are required to return home before the 30th. On the night of New Year's Eve, a fire should be lit on the family's fire pit, never extinguished, called "welcoming the new fire". On New Year's Eve, every family kills chickens and ducks, steams buckled meat, powders fine meat, and makes barbecued pork. There are eight dishes for dinner, including "white chopped chicken" and stewed whole chicken. All the families will keep the New Year's Eve until midnight, and go to bed after setting off firecrackers. The first day of the first month, the second day of the first month, where guests must eat zongzi, zongzi filling, by the peeled green beans, half-fat not thin meat mixed with the sauce made above. Men and women more than at this time on the song, or playing gyro, dancing, ball games, theater. On the night of the thirtieth of the year to cook the first day of the whole day of rice, to show that the next year to harvest. This rice is called "rice dumplings", some as long as feet, weighing five or six pounds. Favored during the festival to throw bags of flowers activities. Male and female youth each divided into a team, the two sides are about 50 meters away from each other, draw a line, throw each other, where the throw line or no next will be the loser.
The Dongxiang people - who like to play earth wars during the Spring Festival to show their love for the land that nurtures them. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, they hold the traditional activity of "hitting the earth". They use the earth as a "weapon", each other throw each other, this day, the old man will also be excited to run to the mountains and fields of the "battlefield" to show their skills.
The Dong people - early in the morning on the first day, from the pond to get a few big and fresh carp, fried, deep-fried, burned, stewed, on the table, plus a plate of fragrant pickled fish, the whole table dishes to fish. Dong family members say that eating fish in the Spring Festival is an omen of a new year of good fortune and prosperity (fish), a good harvest, and money and food. During the Spring Festival, a mountain-climbing competition is held. Whoever climbs to the top first gets a gift from a girl or a boy. The girl presents her own embroidered Dong brocade, and the young man offers exquisite bamboo boxes and hats, an activity that often lasts as long as half a month.
Gelao -- The third day of the third month of the lunar calendar is the Spring Festival for the Gelao people. Because they live in a place with low temperatures, grasses and trees do not begin to sprout until March, when spring begins. At this time of the upcoming spring plowing busy, we get together to celebrate the New Year, *** with prayers to the ancestors, the mountain gods blessing, all things as expected, a bumper harvest. And because the Qingming Festival often falls around the beginning of March, so that the two festivals are celebrated together, so the day is designated as Gelao New Year, or Spring Festival. During the festival, young people from villages and cottages hold activities such as playing chicken feather, shuttlecock, flower dragon and eggs, accompanied by songs and dances, to enjoy themselves.
Kazakhs - the Spring Festival favorite "girls chase" activities. This activity is interesting and touching, but also a chic way for young men and women to express their love.
Jingpo people - the Spring Festival held "target shooting" competition. On the morning of the first day of the year, people gather on the field, the girls hang their embroidered purse on the top of the bamboo pole, the shooter shoots the purse hanging thin line counting sharpshooter, the girls will award the sharpshooter a bowl of sweet rice wine. The girls are the organizers and referees of this activity, and whichever young man wins, the girls will send the water wine to his mouth as a prize. During the Lunar New Year, every family brews water wine and toasts their elders.
Korean people -- every family puts up spring couplets, cooks all kinds of sumptuous meals, eats "eight treasures rice," and on New Year's Eve the whole family stays up all night, playing the Gayageum and Dongxiao. At dawn on the first day of the year, people put on their festive costumes to pay homage to their elders. During the festival, men, women, and children sing and dance, press the springboard, and tug of war. On the night of the 15th day of the first month, a traditional celebration is held, in which a few elderly people are elected to climb the wooden "Moon Watching Frame" and sing and dance to long drums, dongxiao and suona. Spring Festival, people dressed in costume, a pair of excitedly play teeter-totter, each other with a fall, who did a beautiful movement in the air, bouncing high, who is ahead of the winner.
The Water Tribe-- According to the Water Tribe's water calendar, the twelfth day of the first month is the "Duan Festival", which means "New Year's Day". On the night of the festival, a party is held in the village where young men and women sing and dance to the sound of gongs and drums and suona. There are many types of gongs and drums used in the festival, the largest of which is more than one meter in diameter and weighs one to two hundred kilograms. The surface of the drums is painted with floral patterns and the drums are carved with reliefs, making them both folk music and handicrafts.
The Dai -- the second and third days, some villages will be held in the "Elephant's Foot Drum Competition", the contestants are excited, drumming non-stop, who moves beautifully, the drum sound is good that won the award. During the Spring Festival, young men and girls throw chaff bags at each other to see who can throw accurately and who can catch. Play to a certain time, the girls will quietly snatch the young man wearing a belt knife, head cloth or tethered horse, ran home. If the young man is in love, he will follow. Parents see their daughters with a head cloth, holding a horse back, they will host a feast. In addition, April 13 every year is the Dai New Year, but also the Dai people's grandest festival - Water Splashing Festival, they see the splashing of water as a symbol to drive away evil spirits, good luck and good fortune, but also regard this day as the most beautiful, most auspicious day.
The Dulong - year, generally held in the second half of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar every year, the specific date of each family by their own fortune-telling decisions, the length of the festival also depends on the preparation of the food more or less depending on. Due to the Dulong people do not have words, in the past to invite guests over the New Year's Day, you have to use carved wood or knotted rope for "invitations". After a family decided which day to celebrate the festival, they calculated how many days were left for the festival, and if they carved wood to remember the day, they would carve a few frames on a special wooden board, with each frame representing a day, and then cut it into two halves, half of which they kept and half of which they gave to the guests. Then they cut it into two halves, keeping half for themselves and giving half to their guests. Afterwards, both sides would cut off one frame for each day, and when the last frame was left, they would know that the next day was going to be a festival. If you use a rope to remember the day, how many days until the festival, how many knots, and then give the rope to friends and relatives to be invited, keep one for yourself, and every day to solve a knot, solve to the last "knot", we know that it is New Year's Eve.
The Hani people celebrate the New Year twice a year. The first is the October Festival and the second is the June Festival. The Hani calendar takes October as the first day of the year, which is the "big year". New Year's Day, people visit friends and relatives, marriage. During the "June Festival", people kill animals to offer sacrifices to their ancestors and carry out cultural and sports activities such as swinging, wrestling and singing songs. On New Year's Eve, women are busy making patties, and young men go to the mountains to cut bamboo and build swing sets. Both men and women, young and old, enjoy swinging in the Spring Festival.
Kado people (Hani tribe)--The Kado people in Xinping County, Yunnan Province, celebrate the New Year on the sixth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. Legend has it that in ancient times, brave Kado youths went out to fight in the war in order to resist foreign invasions, and left the word on their way that a new life would begin on whichever day they returned to their hometowns. After the war, they did not return home until the sixth day of the new year because of the long journey. People in their hometown set this day as the beginning of a new year. At New Year's, they celebrate by killing pigs and slaughtering goats and dancing the big drum.
Pumi - the Pumi people in the highlands of northwestern Yunnan mostly take the sixth day of the Lunar New Year as the first day of the year, and on New Year's Eve, villages and cottages should set off firecrackers three times and blow the conch. Then the family reunion to eat glutinous rice.
The Lemo people (a term for the Bai people) - who mainly live in Bijiang County in Yunnan Province - have their own way of projecting the festivals, and the dates of the Spring Festival vary. For example, when the peach blossom buds, they call it March, and when the lacquer tree develops its leaves to about five inches, they call it May. As a result of this projection, there are thirteen months in a year, and the month of March is called the March Festival, which is equivalent to the Spring Festival of the Han Chinese.
Kinuo -- the Jinuo people in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, the sixth month of the lunar calendar as the New Year, the singers take turns to sing to each other, and if they lose, they leave a piece of cloth to wrap their heads, and then go on to the next year. Every night during the New Year, the old men and women enjoy wine and food while jumping on the big drum, and young men and women take this time to talk about love and find their lovers.
The Han Chinese - on the first day of the Lunar New Year, people do not sweep the floor, do not splash water outside, do not go to the back door, do not scold the children, congratulate each other on an auspicious and wealthy New Year, all the best.
Manchu - when the New Year's Day is approaching, every family cleans the courtyard and puts up window grills, couplets and lucky charms. On the thirtieth day of the Lunar New Year, families erected six-meter-high lantern poles, from the first day of the year to the sixteenth, every day red lights hanging high. The New Year's Eve dumplings, pay attention to the pleats more good, son of time to cook dumplings, some wrapped in the inside of the copper coins, eaters have good luck. The Spring Festival to worship twice, once on the night of the New Year's Eve, for the resignation of the old year; the first day of the year and then worship once, to welcome the new year. Before the Spring Festival will also be held before the horse jumping camel jumping competitions. On the 15th day of the first month, there is a lantern festival. The family feast on the 30th day of the New Year is very rich and grand. The staple food is glutinous rice flour or into the powder wrapped dumplings, roasted, bean buns, etc.; traditional New Year's Eve dishes are delicious blood sausage, boiled white meat and unique blanch white meat with pickles, and symbolize the auspiciousness of the fish dishes are more indispensable. Zi time to eat a meal to send the old and welcome the new fresh meat dumplings.
Oroqen - New Year's Eve, the family sat around, **** into dinner. Tasting mountain treasures, drinking wine, eat New Year's dinner. Young people salute and bow to the elders of the family and close relatives. At midnight, people hold birch bark boxes or iron boxes and circle the stables several times to pray for the prosperity of the six animals. On the first day of the year, people dressed in new clothes pay respect to each other. Young men and women get together to dance in a circle. There are hunting dance, "red fruit" dance, "black bear fighting" dance.
The Hezhen people--New Year's Eve, everyone is busy cooking, cutting windows and gluing lanterns. On the first day of the year, girls, women and children put on new clothes embroidered with cloud borders and go to friends and relatives to pay New Year's visits, and treat guests with "fish feasts". The feast includes raw fish with a hot and sour taste, fried fish with a crispy flavor, and salmon roe. Folk poets present poems and tell stories. Women play the games of "touching the blind" and "throwing bones". Young people compete in skiing, skating, shooting at straw targets and pitching straw balls.
Mongolians - five nights to eat dumplings, firecrackers and the same as the Han. In addition, New Year's Eve to eat "hand meat", to show that the family reunion. Early morning of the first day of the evening to the elders of the "farewell wine", and then young men and women across the pike horse, riding string yurt, first to the elders kowtow to wish, and then drink and dance, and then string packet of men and women also take advantage of this opportunity to Ting line horse racing. New Year's Eve, the family sat around the fireplace in the package, in the toast to the elders "New Year's wine" after the roast leg of lamb and boiled dumplings.
Naxi - the first month of the new year, people visit each other's relatives and friends, taking turns to be a guest, young and middle-aged men to organize lanterns, and compete with other villages. Cities and villages are organized lantern fair lantern fair program is performed in the national story: such as "Ah Nu Mei jokes", "the birthday boy put deer", "social theater night pearl", "lion rolling embroidered ball", "phoenix dance" and so on.
Tibetan - New Year's Eve, held a grand "Jumping God will", people wearing masks singing and dancing, to show that the old and welcome the new, to get rid of evil and blessings. During the Spring Festival, barley wine, ghee tea and pastries are used to entertain guests.
Yi - Spring Festival rally jumping "A fine jumping moon", some villages on the first day of the year to fetch water for cooking are undertaken by men, so that the women rest, in order to their labor for a year of condolences.
Miao - the Spring Festival called "Hakka year", every family kills pigs and goats, baked wine to beat the poi to celebrate the harvest in the hope that the next year of wind and rain, a good harvest. They also sing the "Spring Festival Song," with lyrics to the effect that they are thinking of spring, looking forward to spring, cherishing spring, and salvaging spring.
Bai people - Bai people from New Year's Eve began to worship each other, gifts. New Year's Eve Vigil. After midnight, young men and women compete to be the first to pick water to show their diligence. Early in the morning, the whole family drinks sugar water soaked with rice flowers to bless the sweet days. People visit places of interest in groups, or play dragon lanterns, dance lions and beat the whip.
Jing - the first day of the incense and candles to the well to burn worship, called "buy new water", Tibetan women on the first day of the day before dawn from the river back to the "auspicious water". Think the first day of the new water can bring the gospel and good luck, can keep a year of good luck.
The Qiang people -- every family to do a variety of fried flour calves, lambs, chickens and other offerings to ancestors and the gods of the sky, New Year's Day to drink smack wine, everyone sitting around the altar, by the longest one sings the "altar words", and then about two feet long wheat pipe from left to right, in turn smack drink.
Ewenki -- the first day of the first month, pay homage to each other, especially to their elders and relatives must go to kowtow to pay homage on the first day. On the evening of the first day of the year, men and women gather in a larger house to have fun, usually by the elderly convene this entertainment party, by the women first began to dance or sing, and then everyone dances regardless of gender.
The Daur ethnic group--living on both sides of the Heilongjiang and Nenjiang rivers. New Year's Eve rice is yellow rice steamed cake, early in the morning on the first day of the year, the people who pay tribute to each other as soon as they enter the door to grab the rice cake, in order to pray for life to improve year after year. On the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, women prepare breakfast and men burn incense and worship the gods, praying to the gods and God for a peaceful and fruitful year, and after worshipping the gods, they toast to the elders and kowtow to receive the old man's congratulations. After eating dumplings and putting on new clothes, close relatives of men and women gather together, led by the eldest old man, according to the seniority of various recreational activities.
Yao people - during the festival, people gather together to watch the interesting and chic "farming play". A person plays a cow, a person plays a plow farmer, a person plays a hoe farmer, the three dance and sing, to celebrate the agricultural harvest; young men and women gathered on the lawn around the village, playing the reed-sheng, playing the moon zither, singing songs, looking for the man of their dreams. Every year in the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the moon half of the festival is the Yao people's grandest festival - the Spring Festival, the moon half of the festival eve, families are busy, inside and outside the village is full of the sound of cattle horns and the sound of laughter.
Lahu--Every year from the first to the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, it is the Lahu's "Janta" festival (Spring Festival in Lahu) in Yunnan. On New Year's Eve, every family will make glutinous rice poi, which symbolizes the sun, moon and stars, to sacrifice the sun, moon and stars, hoping for good weather and abundant harvests in the new year. From the first to the fourth days of the year, young men and women scramble to the spring to meet the new water, symbolizing purity and happiness, in order to be the first to get it. At the same time, with gifts to villages and villages, visit friends and relatives.
The alpine tribe--The alpine tribe in Taiwan has the custom of eating "Lunar New Year's Vegetables". This is also known as "mustard", and eating it is a sign of a long life. Some people add long vermicelli to the long life vegetables to symbolize longevity.
The Li ethnic group - in the Spring Festival, every family slaughters pigs and chickens, prepares delicious food and wine, and the whole family sits around to eat the "New Year's dinner", during which they sing the "New Year's greeting song". On the first or second day of the Lunar New Year, people hunt collectively, and the prey is given to the first shooter who hits the prey, and half of the rest is shared equally, with pregnant women getting two shares of the prey.
The Wa people - in addition to saying goodbye to each other for the first time in the New Year, they also give glutinous rice balls, sugar cane and plantain as a wish for harmony, sweetness and beauty of family life.
Tujia - At the family reunion dinner table, there must be lumps of meat and combined vegetables.
Uyghur - the annual feast food: rice, mutton, raisins, etc. made of "Pulo", flour, mutton, onions, etc. made of "Pitir Manda" (baozi), "Pitir Manda" (baozi), "Pitir Manda" (baozi), "Pitir Manda" (baozi), "Pitir Manda" (baozi). (buns) made of flour, mutton, onions, etc., "Gesi" (hand-held mutton) made of boned mutton, "Lanman" (stretched noodles) made of dough, and "Qu Quer" (spicy and sour) similar to Han Chinese wontons. and "Qu Quer", which is similar to the Chinese wontons, are also available. In addition, there are many kinds of traditional cakes and snacks, such as "Aisimsanza" (deep-fried noodle cake in a round plate), "Yaimaza" (deep-fried noodle cake in a lace), and "Bohusak" (deep-fried custard), "Shamu Posa" (deep-fried deep-fried noodle cake), "Kayikka" (colorful deep-fried food) and so on.
The Brown people - during the Spring Festival to carry out ball activities, lively and interesting. Participants form a circle, first by a person will be a small ball made of bamboo pieces up in the air, and then in order to catch the ball, and with the palms of their hands to the ball into the air, can not catch the ball of the person to be penalized for singing a song.
New Year's Taboos
The saying goes, "At the beginning of the new year, at the end of the old year," meaning that the most important days of the year are "New Year's Eve" and "Spring Festival," so it's important to be particular about what you say and do on New Year's Eve. The Chinese hope that the beginning of the year will be a good one and that everything will go well and there will be a good omen.
There are many taboos in the Spring Festival period, mainly to ensure peace and prosperity in the coming year, women are not allowed to go out on the day of the Spring Festival to pay homage to the New Year, which is called "Jiemen", daughters married out of the even more can not go home, if you go back to your mother's home in the New Year will eat poor mother's family. Children are not allowed to cry, not allowed to say unlucky words, but also can not fight with others, the offense will make the year is not smooth. You are not allowed to break the furniture in the New Year, because breaking it is an omen of bankruptcy, and you have to quickly say "peace in the year" or "blossom on the ground, wealth and honor". No matter what kind of sickness you have, you are not allowed to call a doctor, because if you do, you will be sick for the rest of the year. The first to the fourth may not move the knife (the main murder), needle (the main long needle eye), shear (the main verbal dispute), and can not sweep the floor, sweeping the floor will be all the wealth swept away. Chinese New Year day may not eat thin rice, otherwise the year, when traveling will certainly encounter rain.
Some of the taboos from the first day to the first ten: the first day: chicken day - the old days in the New Year's Day stickers chicken to ward off evil spirits and pray for good luck (chicken resonance auspicious "ji").
The second day: the dog day - go out to pay homage to the New Year or ancestors.
The third day of the month: the day of the sheep - "red mouth", prone to quarrels, not suitable for New Year's Eve, "field birthday", "grain birthday", sacrifices to the field.
The fourth day of the month: Pig Day - to sacrifice to the God of Wealth. If the boss wants to "fire" someone, he should not invite him to worship the God.
Christmas 5: Ox Day - "break the fifth", can break many taboos, "send the poor five": the garbage from the first to the fourth can not be dumped, lest pouring "wealth", the garbage on the fifth is regarded as "poor soil", dumping it will "send the poor out".
On the birthday of the God of Wealth, it is customary to receive the God of Wealth.
The sixth day of the month: Horse Day - the day of "sending off the God of Wealth", when the paper horses sent to the God of Wealth on New Year's Eve are burned, and stores begin to resume business.
The seventh day of the month: Man Day - the birthday of man, and the custom of gathering to eat and drink, as well as setting off firecrackers and fireworks and starting fireworks, is the "Birthday of the Fire".
The eighth day of the month: Gokuji - the day when the stars come down to the world, and therefore star offerings are made, and temples often set up altars on this day to offer the stars and receive alms.
The ninth day of the first month: the birthday of the Heavenly Master - the birth of the Jade Emperor, a grand festival is held.
The tenth: the stone birthday - where the mill, pestle, mill and other stone utensils are taboo to move, called "ten (stone) does not move", and even burn incense to worship stone utensils.