What are the Chinese New Year customs of each ethnic group

1, Zhuang

(1) On New Year's Eve, every family kills chickens and ducks, and steams buckwheat, steamed pork and barbecued pork. The rice on New Year's Eve is steamed a lot to symbolize affluence. Rice dumplings are essential for the Zhuang Spring Festival.

(2) Zhuang dumplings are more noble food, oversized dumplings, weighing one to twenty pounds, taste and fragrance can be said to be one of the best. On the first and second day of the first month of hospitality to eat dumplings. Spring Festival to be held during the song, playing gyro, dancing, ball games and other cultural and sports activities.

2, Tibetan

(1) 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.

(2) on the third day of the first month of the Tibetan calendar, Lhasa people in groups, to the eastern suburb of the bottle mountain and the western suburb of the medicine king mountain, inserting 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, the grand ceremony of opening the plow is held.

(3) farmers dressed in festive attire, strong oxen dressed up "flamboyant" - forehead pasted with ghee patterns, horns inserted red flags and colorful feathers, shoulders draped in colorful satin, satin covered with seashells and turquoise, the tail is tied with a colorful silk belt.

3. Lahu

(1) Lahu celebrates 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.

(2) 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 that the winds and rains will be smooth and the grains will be plentiful in the new year. The Lahu people also have the custom of gathering together to observe the New Year.