Tibetan customs
Tibetan New Year's Eve, people dressed in colorful costumes, wearing strange masks, with oboe, conch, drums, music, held a grand and grand "jumping god will". To the New Year's morning, the women will go to the back of the "auspicious water", wishing a new year of good luck.
Yi Customs
The Yi choose their annual festivals according to the Yi calendar. Some celebrate the Spring Festival with the local Han Chinese. Green pines are erected in front of the door and the ground is paved with pine needles to show that they are free from disasters and calamities. In other areas, pigs and goats are killed and eaten during the festival, and people visit each other and give each other meat and buns.
On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, the first thing you do when you get up is to carry water home. They compare the weight of a bowl of water with that of the previous day's water, and if the water is heavy on the New Year's Day, it means that there will be plenty of rain in the coming year.
Strong customs
New Year's Eve, to do a good job on the day of the festival to eat rice, known as the "pressure of the New Year's rice", some areas of the masses known as the "eat Li Festival", the Zhuang language for the "over the evening" meaning. The Zhuang language means "to celebrate the new year". It is an omen of a good agricultural harvest in the coming year.
Some also packaged with more than a foot long, five or six pounds of heavy alkali, a family with a small population a meal is not finished! Early in the morning on the first day of the new year, before dawn, people get up, put on new clothes, firecrackers to welcome the new year, the beginning of a new year of boiling life.
Buyi customs
Buyi New Year's Eve, the whole family stayed up all night in the water pond. As soon as the day breaks, the girls scramble to fetch water. Whoever is the first to pick up the first quart of water is the hardest working and happiest girl.
Manchu customs
Manchu people are divided into "red, yellow, blue, white" four banners. During the Spring Festival, the red flag people stick red hanging flags on the door, the yellow flag people stick yellow hanging flags on the door, the blue flag people stick blue hanging flags on the door, and the white flag people stick white hanging flags on the door. These flags are brightly colored and symbolize the auspicious beginning of the year.
Dong customs
Dong people during the Spring Festival prevailed a kind of "playing the Dong New Year" (also known as Lusheng will) of mass activities. This activity is similar to the Han's "reunion", but more joyful and enthusiastic than "reunion".
This activity is generally organized by two villages **** with the agreement. The two teams formally hold a lusheng song and dance competition in the square. At this time the audience from the two villages, accompanied by music, dance and have fun.
Bai customs
Yunnan Bai people celebrate the New Year with a kind of celebration called "put high up". The so-called "put high rise" is to use the whole big bamboo, in the bamboo joints loaded with gunpowder, after ignition can be the whole big bamboo collapsed into the sky hundreds of feet, to become a veritable "high rise".
Some areas of the Bai compatriots and Miao, Zhuang, as from the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival, are in the "embroidered ball" activities.
Tujia Customs
During the Spring Festival, the Tujia people hold a grand hand-waving dance. The hand-waving dance is an ancient dance popular among the Tujia people, which includes more than 70 dance movements, including hunting, military, agricultural and banquet movements.
The dance has a distinctive rhythm, beautiful movements, simple dance posture, healthy mood, without props, with distinctive ethnic characteristics and a strong sense of life.
Customs of the Dai People
The Water Splashing Festival is the New Year's festival of the Dai people, and it is the biggest traditional festival of the Dai people in a year. The day of the beginning of the rainy season is designated as the "Water Splashing Festival". During the three or four days of the festival, people splash water on each other to wash away the old soil and bless the new year with happiness and peace.
Li Customs
Li people living on Hainan Island, the Spring Festival, every family will be set up on the sumptuous food and wine, the family sat together to eat "New Year's dinner"; the family will also be singing "New Year's song".
The first day, the second day, the village young men, but also held a "Spring Festival hunting". This day's prey village **** enjoy.
The Lisu custom
The Lisu people called the annual festival for the "Qash", most of them do indica poi, glutinous rice poi and brewing water wine, the first mortar pounded out of the poi to put a little in the peach, plum and other fruit trees, and wished for the next year of fruitfulness.
The Lisu people in the Nujiang region of Yunnan Province first feed salt to the plowing oxen to show respect for their labor.
Lahu Customs
On New Year's Eve, the whole family of Lahu compatriots take a bath to clear their bodies and make food for the following day. Among the food, special attention is paid to the glutinous rice poop, which is always given to the cows to eat a little bit in addition to the food, in order to reward them for their cooperation with their masters throughout the year, and to wish for the creation of more wealth in the new year.
Daur custom
The morning of the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, young men and women dress up, first to the elders, toast, salute, and then pay tribute to the New Year, each family is prepared to have steamed cake, pay tribute to the New Year's Day, once the door to the steamed cake, it is said that after eating, the production and life can be "high year after year".
Mulao Customs
From the first to the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, men, women and children of the Mulao ethnic group dress up in festive costumes and gather on the hillside or in the racecourse to sing songs about labor, life and love.
Customs of the Dulong People
The only festival of the Dulong people is the "Kaqiao Wow" festival, which takes place in the winter months. The most solemn ceremony is the cow sacrifice to heaven. At this moment, people dance the "Cow Pot Chong" dance, and then share the beef.
Oroqen Customs
The morning of the Spring Festival, the first in the family according to the size of the seniority of the pouring of wine, the younger to the elders kowtow to the younger generation to invite each other to the second, the first three horse races. The first month of the fifteenth delicious food. On the morning of the 16th day of the first month, there is an activity of wiping each other's black faces.
Herzhe customs
Herzhe Hezhe language "Spring Festival" phonetic translation for "Fo Feshix", that is, the meaning of the New Year's Eve. People wear animal skins embroidered with beautiful floral patterns, geometric designs, and laces of flowers and birds on their hats, collars, cuffs, trouser legs, aprons, and shoe uppers.
On New Year's Day, people make a "fire feast" or a cake made from a wild fruit called "Bird cherry," which is also filled with fish and animal meat.
Kinuo Customs
When the Spring Festival arrives, the Jinuo, who live in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan province, have a betel-nut-chewing old man playing cymbals with his head raised, a crone wearing a big pointy hat sounding a gong with her head lowered, and a drum played by a zhouba, or father of the village, while young men and women dance unarmed around in a circle.
Customs of the Gaoshan people
The people of the Gaoshan ethnic group in the Spring Festival, dressed in colorful national costumes, gathered in groups at the village side of the cottage head to drink wine, and in the musical instruments accompanied by singing and dancing to their heart's content. Some villages also held a forked fish race, carry out the basket ball pole ball and other sports activities.