Customs of 56 ethnic groups for Chinese New Year

The Spring Festival of the Zhuang Zhuang is celebrated for three days from the 30th day of the New Year to the first and second days of the first month of the year, ****. On New Year's Eve, families kill chickens and ducks, and steam buckled meat, powdered fine meat and barbecued pork. The rice on New Year's Eve should be steamed a lot to symbolize affluence. There should be white chopped chicken on the dinner table, and for families with elderly people, there are also stewed pig's feet and stewed whole chickens. Rice dumplings are an essential food for the Zhuang Spring Festival, but they are not eaten on the 30th night. Zhuang dumplings are more noble food, large one or two years heavy, small only two or three two. In addition to this there is a "Feng Mo", meaning that the oversized dumplings, weighing one, twenty pounds. The flavor of the dumplings is excellent. On the first and second day of the first month of the guests to eat rice dumplings. Spring Festival to be held during the song, playing gyro, dancing, ball games and other cultural and sports activities. Tibetan New Year according to Tibetan scholars, in the ancient times, Tibet is not the turn of winter and spring New Year, but the summer New Year, "wheat ripe for the first of the year," "under the snowy mountains, wheat yellow, happy New Year came." Now, in the middle reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River, there is a tradition of "Wang Guo" festival before the fall harvest. People wear ancient costumes, riding a horse, along the harvest barley land circle prayer, but also horseback archery, dancing around the bonfire carnival, both entertainment themselves, but also entertainment local protection god. Legend has it that this is all ancient Tibet June New Year's Eve remains. There is also in the Tibetan calendar on the first day of October to celebrate the New Year, "wheat harvest for the first of the year". Four hundred kilometers east of Lhasa, snow-capped mountains and virgin forests surrounded by the work of the cloth (Linzhi) area, to the Tibetan calendar is still the first day of October to celebrate the New Year, known as the "work of the cloth Loza". Tibetan history records, Gongbu area has a very long history, as early as in the Tubo dynasty before the establishment of the Tibetan primitive religion benzene religion is very prevalent here. The Tibetan New Year, celebrated in the tenth month of the Tibetan calendar, originated in those ancient times. Around the 13th century AD, when the Sakya dynasty ruled Tibet, Tibetans celebrated the New Year in the first month of the Tibetan calendar. However, farmers often celebrated the New Year earlier, on the first day of December, which was called "Solang Losar" (Farmer's New Year). The reason is that in the first month of the Tibetan calendar, when spring is in full swing and plowing is in full swing, farmers no longer have the heart to celebrate the New Year. New Year's Day to wear the most beautiful clothes, wear the most precious jewelry, even if the economic conditions of the poor, but also to prepare a New Year's Eve robe, or one or two rough decorations, the Tibetan language called 'Saju', that is, the new clothes. These of course come from the nature of Tibetans to love beauty. But there are also said that the God King Xinzhu Qu Jie, to observe the world's life from the copper mirror, everyone dressed beautifully, he was happy, and then give the world some favor, dressed in rags, he was upset, descending disasters and plagues. Therefore, the New Year wear new clothes, have to please the meaning of the God King. On the third day of the first month, Lhasa people in groups, out of the noisy and bustling market, to the eastern suburb of the bottle mountain and the western suburb of the medicine king mountain, inserting scripture flags, hanging colorful streamers, sacrifices to the god of the mountain and the god of water. On the fifth day of the first month of the Tibetan calendar, farmers in the suburbs of Lhasa to hold a grand open plow ceremony. Farmers dressed in festive attire, strong Pian plough oxen dressed more beautiful, forehead pasted with ghee pattern, horns inserted with red flags and colorful feathers, shoulders draped in colored satin, satin decorated with shells and turquoise, tail tied with colorful ribbons, with "flamboyant" to describe, is not excessive. Mongolian Mongolian people have always respected white, so the first month of the lunar calendar is called "white month", the New Year's Day is called as "white festival". Mongolian New Year's preparations begin on the twenty-third day of the Lunar New Year. In addition to sweeping, bathing, and arranging yurts, people wear new clothes and horses wear red tassels and new saddles. A whole cow or sheep with a haida is offered to the closest friends and relatives. New Year's Eve to eat "hand-meat" to show that the family reunion. The first morning of the first day of the year to the elders first toast to the New Year's wine, and then to the same generation of wine, friends and relatives to give each other the hatha, congratulations on the New Year's good luck and good luck. The first day of the year to the elders must be in the morning. The Bai ethnic Bai people from New Year's Eve began to worship each other, give gifts. After midnight, young men and women compete to be the first to pick water to show hard work. Early in the morning, the whole family drinks sugar water soaked with rice flowers, wishing for days sweeter than honey. After breakfast, children are led by adults to their friends' and relatives' homes to pay New Year's greetings to their elders. Dragon lanterns, lion dances and whip fights are indispensable activities of the festival. The Buyi people prepare festive foods such as poi and rice wine before New Year's Eve, and keep watch until dawn on New Year's Eve. When the rooster crows at dawn, the girls scramble to the river to carry water, and whoever carries back the first load of water first shows that she is the most industrious and the happiest. The Korean family observes the New Year's Eve all night long, and the ancient music of the Gayeqin and Jongjang brings people into the new year. During the festival, men, women, and children sing and dance, and hold competitions such as the pressure board and tug-of-war. On the evening of the fifteenth day of the first month, a traditional celebration is held in which a few elderly people are chosen to climb the "moon watchers" to be the first to see the bright moon, which implies good health, progress, and all the best for their children and grandchildren. Afterwards, everyone dances around the lighted "Moon Watch Frame", accompanied by long drums, tubular pipes and suona music. The Daur ethnic group calls the Spring Festival "Ane" in Daur language. On the morning of New Year's Day, every family cleans the courtyard, and in front of the main door with debris and livestock feces yards into a high stack, and in the evening after the stacks are lit up, the smoke lingers, and a festive atmosphere hangs over the whole place. The old people throw large pieces of meat, buns, dumplings and other food into the fire, blessing the well-being of people and animals, and a good harvest. In the evening, the whole family eats hand-held meat and engages in various activities to celebrate the old and welcome the new. People put incense on the snowy ground on the west side of the house and bow to the west to honor their ancestors. On New Year's Eve, families eat dumplings wrapped in white thread to symbolize longevity. During the Spring Festival, there are field hockey games, masquerade parties, and games such as listening to books and singing. The Gaoshan people dress up in colorful national costumes and gather in groups at the edge of villages to drink wine and sing and dance to the accompaniment of musical instruments in the Spring Festival. Some villages also held forked fish competition, carry out the basket ball, pole ball and other sports activities. Herzhe Spring Festival is the happiest program of the year. On New Year's Eve, every family cooks New Year's dinner, cuts windows and pastes lanterns. On the first day of the New Year, girls, women and children wear new clothes embroidered with cloud borders and go to friends and relatives to pay New Year's greetings. Fish feast is a delicious dish for the Hezhen people to entertain their guests, including the sour and spicy flavor of "Tala Chang" (raw fish), the flavorful and crispy "fried fish hair" and the transparent and bright red salmon roe. Skiing, shooting straw targets and pitchforks are recreational activities that fascinate the youth of the Hezhen ethnic group. Lahu The Lahu celebrate the Big New Year from the first to the fourth day of the first month, and the Small New Year from the ninth to the eleventh day of the first month. On the night of the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, pigs are killed, glutinous rice is pounded, and each family makes a pair of large poi, symbolizing the stars, which indicates good weather and abundant harvests in the new year. The Lahu also have the custom of gathering together to observe the New Year. The Manchu people put up window decals, couplets and the word "God" during the Spring Festival. On New Year's Eve, the whole family will make dumplings, and the dumplings should be pleated, so they can't pinch the "monk's head" dumplings, for fear that the days will be "bald". Dumplings should be coded horizontally and vertically into rows, symbolizing the new year's wealth in all directions, dumplings can not be arranged into a circle, fearing that there is no way out of the day. The She ethnic group pounds mochi for the Spring Festival to symbolize their luck in the new year, and to wish them good luck and sweetness in the new year. The She ethnic group worships the ancestor "Pan Gou". On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the whole family bows to the "Pan Gu Zutu" (a picture painted according to the legend of Pan Gou) and tells the story of the hardships of their ancestors' business. The Tujia people dance the "hand dance" during the Spring Festival. In the past, when they danced, they had to hang three tents in the "Pendulum Hall", and inside the tents they hung pig's head, pork, joss sticks and wild boar's head and hooves, etc. Then they were dressed in red vestments and wore crowns of old priests who held magic weapons and brought off the pendulum and cried out to the men, women and children, and then they danced after worshipping the gods. Now the Tujia people have to play dragon lanterns, lions, dramas and martial arts in addition to dancing with swinging hands. The Wa ethnic group congratulates each other on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and especially pays New Year's greetings to the elders in their villages. When paying homage, both sides give each other bananas, glutinous rice poi and sugar cane to symbolize unity and harmony. Cangyuan and other places of the Wa men and women in the festival evening gathered in the square to dance in a circle, the elderly women are wearing long skirts, dozens of people for a team, hands on the shoulders of the previous person, while singing ancient songs while lightly moving the dance steps Respondent's Supplement 2010-02-15 22:38 Zhuang Zhuang Spring Festival from the thirtieth day of the New Year to the first day of the first month of the year, the first two days, **** three days. On New Year's Eve, families kill chickens and ducks, and steam buckled meat, powdered fine meat and barbecued pork. The rice on New Year's Eve should be steamed a lot to symbolize affluence. There should be white chopped chicken on the dinner table, and for families with elderly people, there are also stewed pig's feet and stewed whole chickens. Rice dumplings are an essential food for the Zhuang Spring Festival, but they are not eaten on the 30th night. Zhuang dumplings are more noble food, large one or two pounds, small two or three two. In addition to this there is a "Feng Mo", meaning that the oversized dumplings, weighing one, twenty pounds. The flavor of the dumplings is excellent. On the first and second day of the first month of the guests to eat rice dumplings. Spring Festival to be held during the song, playing gyro, dancing, ball games and other cultural and sports activities. Tibetan New Year According to Tibetan scholars, in the ancient times, Tibet is not the turn of winter and spring New Year, but the summer New Year, "wheat ripe for the first of the year", "under the snowy mountains, the wheat is yellow, happy New Year is coming." Now, in the middle reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River, there is a tradition of "Wang Guo" festival before the fall harvest. People wear ancient costumes, riding a horse, along the harvest barley land circle prayer, but also horseback archery, dancing around the bonfire carnival, both entertainment themselves, but also entertainment local protection god. Legend has it that this is all ancient Tibet June New Year's Eve remains. There is also in the Tibetan calendar on the first day of October to celebrate the New Year, "wheat harvest for the first of the year". Four hundred kilometers east of Lhasa, snow-capped mountains and virgin forests surrounded by the work of the cloth (Linzhi) area, to the Tibetan calendar is still the first day of October to celebrate the New Year, known as the "work of the cloth Loza". Tibetan history records, Gongbu area has a very long history, as early as in the Tubo dynasty before the establishment of the Tibetan primitive religion benzene religion is very prevalent here. The Tibetan New Year, celebrated in the tenth month of the Tibetan calendar, originated in those ancient times. Around the 13th century AD, when the Sakya dynasty ruled Tibet, Tibetans celebrated the New Year in the first month of the Tibetan calendar. However, farmers often celebrated the New Year earlier, on the first day of December, which was called "Solang Losar" (Farmer's New Year). The reason is that in the first month of the Tibetan calendar, when spring is in full swing and plowing is in full swing, farmers no longer have the heart to celebrate the New Year. New Year's Day to wear the most beautiful clothes, wear the most precious jewelry, even if the economic conditions of the poor, but also to prepare a New Year's Eve robe, or one or two rough decorations, the Tibetan language called 'Saju', that is, the new clothes. These of course come from the nature of Tibetans to love beauty. But there are also said that the God King Xinzhu Qu Jie, to observe the world's life from the copper mirror, everyone dressed beautifully, he was happy, and then give the world some favor, dressed in rags, he was upset, descending disasters and plagues. Therefore, the New Year wear new clothes, have to please the meaning of the God King. On the third day of the first month, Lhasa people in groups, out of the noisy and bustling market, to the eastern suburb of the bottle mountain and the western suburb of the medicine king mountain, inserting scripture flags, hanging colorful streamers, sacrifices to the god of the mountain and the god of water. On the fifth day of the first month of the Tibetan calendar, farmers in the suburbs of Lhasa to hold a grand open plow ceremony. Farmers dressed in festive attire, strong Pian plough oxen dressed more beautiful, forehead pasted with ghee pattern, horns inserted with red flags and colorful feathers, shoulders draped in colored satin, satin decorated with shells and turquoise, tail tied with colorful ribbons, with "flamboyant" to describe, is not excessive. Mongolians Mongolians have always respected the white color, so the first month of the lunar calendar is called the "white month", the New Year's Day is called the "White Festival". Mongolian New Year's preparations begin on the twenty-third day of the Lunar New Year. In addition to sweeping, bathing, and arranging yurts, people wear new clothes and horses wear red tassels and new saddles. A whole cow or sheep with a haida is offered to the closest friends and relatives. New Year's Eve to eat "hand-meat" to show that the family reunion. The first morning of the first day of the year to the elders first toast to the New Year's wine, and then to the same generation of wine, friends and relatives to give each other the hatha, congratulations on the New Year's good luck and good luck. The first day of the year to the elders must be in the morning. The Bai people began to worship and give gifts to each other on New Year's Eve. 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, wishing the days to be sweeter than honey. After breakfast, children are led by adults to their friends' and relatives' homes to pay New Year's greetings to their elders. Dragon lanterns, lion dances and whip fights are indispensable activities of the festival. Buyei People The Buyei people prepare poi, rice wine and other festive foods before New Year's Eve, and keep vigil until dawn on New Year's Eve. When the rooster crows at dawn, the girls scramble to the river to carry water, and whoever carries back the first load of water is the most diligent and happy. The Korean People The Korean people observe the New Year's Eve with the whole family all night long, and the ancient music of the Gayeqin and the Tubular Jiao will bring people into the new year. During the festival, men, women and children sing and dance, and hold competitions such as the springboard press and tug-of-war. On the evening of the fifteenth day of the first month, a traditional celebration is held in which a few elderly people are chosen to climb the "moon watchers" to be the first to see the bright moon, which implies good health, progress, and all the best for their children and grandchildren. Afterwards, everyone dances around the lighted "Moon Watching Frame" to the music of long drums, tubular pipes and suona. Daur Ethnic Group The Daur language calls the Spring Festival "Ane". On the morning of New Year's Eve, every family cleans the courtyard and makes a high stack of debris and animal feces in front of the main door, and in the evening, after the stacks are lit, the light smoke hangs around, and a festive atmosphere hangs over the whole place. The old people throw large pieces of meat, buns, dumplings and other food into the fire, blessing the well-being of people and animals, and a good harvest. In the evening, the whole family eats hand-held meat and engages in various activities to celebrate the old and welcome the new. People put incense on the snowy ground on the west side of the house and bow to the west to honor their ancestors. On New Year's Eve, families eat dumplings wrapped in white thread to symbolize longevity. During the Spring Festival, there are field hockey games, masquerade parties, and games such as listening to books and singing. Alpine People The people of the Alpine people, dressed in colorful national costumes, gather in groups at the edge of villages to drink wine and sing and dance to the accompaniment of musical instruments in the Spring Festival. Some villages also held a forked fish competition, to carry out the basket ball, pole ball and other sports activities. Hezhen Spring Festival is the happiest program of the year. On New Year's Eve, every family cooks New Year's dinner, cuts windows and pastes lanterns. On the first day of the New Year, girls, women and children put on new clothes embroidered with cloud edges and go to the homes of friends and relatives to pay tribute to the New Year. Fish feast is a delicious dish for the Hezhen people to entertain their guests, including the sour and spicy flavor of "Tala Chang" (raw fish), the flavorful and crispy "fried fish hair" and the transparent and bright red salmon roe. Skiing, shooting at straw targets, and pitching straw balls are recreational activities that fascinate the youth of the Hezhen ethnic group. Lahu The Lahu celebrate the Lunar New Year from the first to the fourth day of the first month, and the Lunar New Year from the ninth to the eleventh day of the first month. On the night of the 30th day of the Lahu month, pigs are killed, glutinous rice is pounded, and each family makes a pair of large poi to symbolize the stars, which means good weather and abundant harvests in the new year. The Lahu also have the custom of gathering together to observe the New Year. Manchu The Manchu celebrate the Spring Festival by putting up window decals, couplets and the word "God". On New Year's Eve, the whole family will make dumplings, and the dumplings should be pleated, so they can't pinch the light side of the "monk head" dumplings, for fear that the days will be "bald". Dumplings should be placed in horizontal and vertical rows to symbolize the new year's prosperity, and dumplings should not be placed in a circle, fearing that there will be no way out. The She ethnic group pounds mochi for the Chinese New Year, taking the sound of the mochi as a symbol of good luck in the new year, and wishing for sweetness day after day. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the She people worship their ancestor, Pangu Zutu (a picture painted according to the legend of Pangu), and tell the story of the hardships of their ancestors' business endeavors. Tujia The Tujia celebrate the Spring Festival by dancing the "Hand Pendulum Dance". In the past, when they danced, they would first hang three cages in the tent, inside which they would hang pig's head, pork, joss sticks and wild boar's head and hooves, and then the old Tuji, who wore red vestments and a crown, would hold a magic weapon and bring off the swinging and shouting, and the men, women and children would participate in the ceremony and worship the gods and then dance. Now the Tujia people in addition to jumping swing dance, but also to play dragon lanterns, play lion, perform drama and martial arts. Dong "playing the same year": the Dong people can sing and dance well during the New Year, with the characteristic mass activities is "playing the same year". This activity is somewhat like the Han Chinese New Year's "reunion", but the difference is that the Dong people worship each other with songs and dances. When the huge "worship" team arrives at a village with songs and dances, the women of the village form a queue and ask various questions in the form of singing, and the people in the queue have to answer them with songs. The Dong folk song "Yetang", mostly sung during the Spring Festival, is a kind of collective song and dance combining singing and dancing, without musical accompaniment. "It is a group song and dance without musical accompaniment. The rhythm of the song is fast and enthusiastic. At that time men and women divided into teams, men's team hand in hand in a circle, the song speed, dance, shaking hands and feet, singing, loud, powerful; women's team also surrounded by a circle of song and dance, but the action is gentle and elegant, melodious voice, bright and beautiful. Jinuo": "Te Mau and" is the traditional annual festival of the Jinuo people, meaning "over the big year", is the most grand festival of the Jinuo people. Held every year before and after the Spring Festival of the summer calendar, the specific date of the Walled City is not the same, by the village community elders "Zhuo Ba" (Walled City father), "Zhuo Sheng" (Walled City mother) determination. At that time, the elders beat their unique drums, announced the beginning of the New Year, the village community men, women and children will flock to the elders to celebrate. Every household brings out rice wine brewed in advance, puts on a bounty of food, and invites relatives and friends from nearby villages to celebrate the New Year. In the evening, the whole village gathered in the square, lit a bonfire, and the elders and singers led the singing of epic poems, which was quite a spectacular scene. Young men and women danced and sang songs all night long, and then dispersed when they were finished. Wa People The Wa people congratulate each other on the first day of the Lunar New Year, especially paying New Year's greetings to the elders in their villages. When paying homage, both sides give each other bananas, glutinous rice poi and sugar cane to symbolize unity and harmony. The Wa men and women in Cangyuan and other places gather in the square to dance in circles on festival evenings, while the elderly women wear long skirts and dozens of them are in a line, with their hands on the shoulders of the people in front of them, singing ancient songs while moving lightly in their dance steps. Answer: Zero canon - second level 2008-2-6 08:50 Han Chinese New Year, also known as the first day, New Year's Day, New Year's Day, no positive, Yuan Chen, Yuan Shuo, New Year's Day, the first day of the year, years of the first, years of the morning, the new first, the first throne, the first three yuan or year, the first day of the New Year for the Summer Calendar. Due to different calendars, the day of the first day of the year is not consistent across generations: the first day of the first month of the Xia Dynasty, the first day of December in the Shang Dynasty, the first day of November in the Zhou Dynasty, the first day of October in the Qin Dynasty, and the first day of the first month of the first year of the year was restored to the Han Emperor Wu Di, and continues to this day. "Spring Festival", there are differences in the reference to each generation. Han Dynasty refers to the day of spring, the North and South Dynasties refers to the entire spring, to modern times only refers to the first day of the first month. It is China's longest history, the richest activities, ceremonies, the most grand, the most spectacular scene, the most exquisite food of a traditional festival, the country's 53 of the 56 ethnic groups (excluding Tibet, White, Dai) are to hold a grand family or clan feast to celebrate, so it is also known as "the first day of the great celebration of the feast". The origin of the Spring Festival According to historical records, the Spring Festival in Tang Yu called "Zai". Xia Dynasty called the "year", the Shang Dynasty called the "sacrifice", the Zhou Dynasty called the "year". The original meaning of "year" refers to the growth cycle of grain, grain a year a hot, so the Spring Festival once a year, contains the symbolism of celebrating abundance. It is also rumored that the Spring Festival originated from the "Lunar Sacrifice" at the end of the primitive society. At that time, every time when Lunar Spring came, the ancestors would kill pigs and slaughter goats, sacrificing to the gods, ghosts and ancestral spirits, and praying for good weather in the new year to avoid calamities. They painted their faces with vermilion sand, wore bird feathers, sang, danced, ate and drank, and were very lively. As for the mutual New Year's feast, it started in the early Han Dynasty, which was recorded in the Tongdian. Spring Festival food customs ※ East Han Dynasty, ancestor worship is an important activity and custom of the Spring Festival. According to Cui Ti's "Four People's Monthly Orders", "The first day of the first month is the first day of the first month. I rate my wife and offspring, clean ancestor sacrifice. And the ritual day, into the wine Shen Bibi, is the family of inferiority and superiority, no big and no small, in order to be listed in the ancestor before the children, women and great-grandchildren, each on the pepper wine in the parents, said goblet lifting life, Xin Xin as well." ※ the Southern Dynasties period, the Spring Festival, the whole family to congratulate each other, drinking and banquets, and recreational activities. According to the Liang man Zong懔 "荆楚岁時记", "the first day of the first month, .......young and old are all properly dressed, in order to pay their respects. The first day of the first month, all the children and elders were properly dressed, and they paid tribute to each other in turn. Into the tusu wine, gum teeth molasses, under the five Xin plate." There are also games such as painting chickens, lighting firecrackers, hanging from ropes, and begging for wishes. ※ Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties in the Spring Festival food customs in the ceremonial component gradually increased. According to the Southern Song Dynasty Wu Zicollection "Dream Liang Records" records: "the soil of the great masters are exchanged congratulations, fine people of both sexes are also freshly dressed, to and from the festival", "Fantianlu Congruent Records" records: "men and women in order to worship the elders, the masters of the young out to visit their friends and relatives, or not only to send their children on behalf of the congratulations, known as the New Year's Day"; "Qingbo Magazine" contains: "the Spring Festival. Qingbo Magazine": "Song Yuanyou years, New Year's greetings, often using servants to hold the name of the prick on behalf of to". Friends and relatives to pay tribute to the New Year, the host family must set up a banquet, wine and meat unusually rich. According to the "jia tai wu ji zhi" records: "new year's day men and women at an early age, the master of the house set up wine and fruits to propitiate, men and women order to worship, finished is full dress, at relatives congratulations, set up wine and food to pay, day old leave, where five days and finished." to the qing dynasty, "the emperor jing years and seasons jisheng" cloud: "the scholar and the people's home, add clothes and crown, clean belt, worship god and ancestor; burn kozogangbi, taste cool family reunion, offer pepper plate, pouring cypress wine, help steamed cake, sip powder soup. When they go out to welcome the joy, they visit the temple of medicine and shadow, and make invitations to congratulate the festival. Road meets friends and relatives, then drop the carriage long bow, and wish the day of the new jubilee Nafu", for the spring to come to pay homage, "even if it is not close to the thick, but also must be served three cups of festive wine. If the relatives forget, why not get drunk! It is said that the new festival, walk a thousand homes as well as sitting in a family. And the cars and horses, after the joy of the day, can be said to be the best of the moment also carry on". Chinese New Year food customs around the Han Chinese New Year food customs, generally to eat rice cakes, dumplings, patties, dumplings, eggs, meat nine, whole fish, wine, Fukuo orange, apples, peanuts, melon seeds, candies, fragrant tea and delicacies; and accompanied by dusting, washing bedding, prepare New Year's Eve, posting Spring Festival couplets, sticker, sticker, sticker cutouts, sticker, candles, point of the fire, firecrackers, the year-oversight, the new-year's money, New Year's Eve, go to relatives, on the graves of the ancestors, shopping flower market, fireworks and many other activities, the joy of family life. Such as the New Year's Eve dinner, especially elaborate: First, the whole family must get together, for some reason did not return to the person must leave a seat and a set of tableware, reflecting the reunion of the meaning of; Second, the meal is sumptuous, attach importance to "mouth color", the rice cake called "step by step", dumplings called "Wan Wan Shun", and "Wan Wan Shun", and so on. The rice cake is called "Bu Bu Gao", the dumplings are called "Wan Wan Shun", the wine is called "Chang Liu Shui", the eggs are called "Da Yuan Bao", and the goldfish is called "Nian Nian Yu"; The fish is not allowed to be eaten, and it is called "Watching the surplus", which must be reserved for the first day of the year. Northern regions without fish, mostly carved a wooden fish instead; Third, the seating order, mostly grandparents on top. Grandchildren in the center, the father's generation under, regardless of gender, old and young, are to drink. Eating closed, lively and enjoyable and stop. New Year's Eve feast dishes have their own characteristics. In the old days, Beijing, Tianjin, the average family to do rice, stewed pork, beef and mutton, stewed chicken, and then do a few fried dishes. Shaanxi banquets are generally four big dishes, eight big bowls, four big dishes for fried dishes and cold dishes, eight big bowls to braised vegetables, roasted vegetables. Southern Anhui only meat dishes are braised meat, tiger meat, meatballs, meat, steamed meat, stewed meat and pork liver, pork heart, pork belly products, in addition to a variety of fried meat, fried meat, and so on. The eastern part of Hubei Province for the "three steam", "three cakes," three pills. "Three steam" for the steamed whole fish, steamed whole duck, steamed whole chicken; "three cakes" is a fish cake, meat cake, sheep cake; "three pills" is a fish ball, meat ball, lotus root ball. Harbin around the average family fried 8, 10 or 12, 16 dishes ranging from the main ingredients are chicken, duck, fish and vegetables. Gannan New Year's Eve dinner is generally 12 dishes. Some places in Zhejiang, generally for the "Ten Bowls", for "ten full ten blessings" of the color, to chicken, duck, fish and various vegetables. Nanchang area in Jiangxi Province, generally more than ten dishes, pay attention to four cold, four hot, eight dishes, two soups. New Year's Eve banquets around the country have one or more essential dishes, and these dishes often have some kind of auspicious meaning. For example, the Suzhou area, the table must be green vegetables (then Anle dish), soybean sprouts (Ruyi dish), celery (hard work). Xiangzhongnan region must be a kilogram of carp, called "reunion fish", there must be a 3 kilograms of pork elbow, called "reunion elbow". Wanzhong, southern Anhui table with two fish, a complete carp, only to see but not allowed to eat, both to honor the ancestors and said that the annual surplus, the other is a silver carp, you can eat, symbolizing even the grandson, prosperous people. The first bowl of Qimen family feast is "in and", with tofu, mushrooms, asparagus, shrimp, fresh meat, etc., made of meaning "peace and prosperity". In Hefei, there is a bowl of "chicken scratching beans", which means "catching money and getting rich". Butler to eat a chicken leg, called "grab money claw", means that next year, attracting wealth into the treasure. Anqing family members to eat a bowl of noodles before dinner, called "money string. Nanchang area must eat rice cakes, braised fish, fried rice noodles, eight treasures of rice, boiled paste soup, the meaning of which in turn is the annual rise, the annual fish, food harvest, rice into strings, eight treasures into the wealth, the annual wealth. In northern regions, dumplings are eaten at Chinese New Year, which symbolizes unity, good fortune and welcoming the old and the new. In order to increase the festive atmosphere and fun, people over the ages have put a lot of effort into the dumpling filling. People put money in the dumplings, and whoever eats them will be rich in the coming year; honey in the dumplings, and whoever eats them will live a sweet life in the coming year, etc. The Mongolian people celebrate the Spring Festival by dividing the dumplings into two parts. Mongolian people celebrate the Spring Festival with "sending the old" and "welcoming the new". Sending the old is the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year to clean the house, and in the evening to "offer fire". The "fire festival" was introduced from shamanism and changed after the Mongolian people believed in Lamaism. The Mongolian people made offerings of sheep breast meat together with white "khada", meat and rice porridge, butter, wine, etc., and then the elders lit nine small lamps and threw the offerings into the fire to burn them. The elders then light nine small lamps and throw the offerings into the fire to burn them, reciting hymns and blessing the family. It is forbidden to use red chopsticks but white or black chopsticks because Mongolian people believe that "fire" represents the succession and prosperity of a family. After burning the offerings, the whole family eats. Some people give the leftovers of the offerings to their relatives in the neighborhood. The time for the "Fire Offering" is in the evening at dusk, and when the offerings are made, the men are in the front and the women are in the back, bowing down. In ancient times, rich people also invited lamas to offer fire. After the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year, preparations are made for the Spring Festival. Related to clothing, food and housing in all aspects of things, such as deep-fried oil fruit, oil food in a variety of ways, especially for the Buddha's products should be beautiful. The next step is to make dumplings. New Year's Eve is the most lively day, the whole family changed into new clothes, in the morning to make offerings to the Buddha, in the Buddha cabinet on the table with a variety of milk, oil food, arranged in a small pagoda, the upper side of the insertion of special honeysuckle flowers. Also use twelve small copper cups filled with white water, once a day to change the water, and then light a long-lasting lamp. At the same time, began by the couplets (with the Han Chinese, just write Mongolian). In the evening, after preparing the meal, find a flat ground outside the yard, spread the new felt, set up wine, vegetables, meat, began to sacrifice ancestors. The elders recite the names of their ancestors and great-grandfathers, and spread wine cup after cup on the ground and into the sky. After sacrificing the ancestors, the whole family is seated, and the younger generation toasts to the elders to send the old year. On this day, the whole family, men and women, young and old, play anything. In the pastoral areas, men play Mongolian chess, women, dolls play "sheep crutch", called "sand" in Mongolian, play until dawn. The first morning, set up a good meal on the degree to the elderly elders toast, toast to kneeling, men kneeling on both knees, head down when the hands swing up and down. At this time, the elders wish you a long life, lifelong happiness and so on. Unmarried women bow down as men do, while married women kneel on their right knee, half kneel on their left knee, and swing their right hand up and down on the right side of their forehead. New daughters-in-law are required to sing. On the first day of the New Year, regardless of gender, the first thing you say to each other is, "Good New Year," "Good New Year," but not, "Meet me and get rich," and so on. When paying New Year's greetings to relatives, each person brings blue khat and wine. When you go to your relatives' homes, you first go to the Buddha Hall or the place where the Buddha statue is offered, bow to the statue, and then toast the elders with the wine you have brought. When toasting the elders, the toaster must wear a hat. When an elder brother or sister makes a toast to you, you must stand up and wait; and it is only polite to drink it, if the person who doesn't drink it can return the toast. Nowadays, the New Year's greeting has been changed to shake hands and other new customs. Pastoral New Year's Eve, whether or not you have eaten, are cooking dumplings, really can not eat can taste one. New Year's Day is the grandest festival of the Jinuo people, but there is no uniform date, and each village chooses a day in January to celebrate the festival. Before the festival, every family makes wine, kills pigs and cows, prepares sumptuous food, and invites relatives and friends from nearby villages to celebrate the New Year. During the festival, men wore bordered collarless lapels, cotton lab coats and white and blue pants; women wore embroidered collarless lapel coats and black front open and close skirts or long skirts with red borders, pulled their hair in buns and coiled it on top of their heads, and wore white thick linen hats with wings on the back. Everyone gathered in the square, in addition to *** with singing and dancing, but also according to different ages, gender to carry out a variety of recreational and sports activities. Children's favorite is the arrow gun and gyro; women swing and play chicken ball; young man throwing javelin, kicking the ball, stilts. Young men and women also turn bamboo bars together. There is also a unique activity in the festival is to beat the big wooden drum. Big wooden drums, the Jinuo people as the most sacred instrument. Usually hang in the "Zhuo Ba" (Zhai father), "Zhuo Sheng" (Zhai mother) home, strictly prohibited, only when the New Year's Day can be struck. Lhoba ethnic Lhoba annual festival is in accordance with their own calendar is presumed. Lhoba calendar is a kind of based on the moon, the moon is missing, the moon out, the moon is not out, as well as the seasonal transition law generalized. Thirty days a month, the shape of the moon, out of time to project. Each day is marked by a specific image. The moon is full and the moon is short twelve times a year. Within a year, and then according to biological activities, natural changes in the order of the month, Taiwan January toad to the river, ditch jumping; February peach blossom fall, "Bab" bird call; March "Jin Ga You" bird call and so on. Because the Lhoba distribution of different areas, the date and name of the festival is not the same.