Tibetan Spring Festival customs: Tibetan people celebrate the New Year, is in accordance with their own calendar for the Tibetan calendar year. Tibetan calendar and the Chinese lunar calendar is similar. The Tibetan New Year usually comes within a few days after the Han Chinese New Year. On the day before New Year's Eve, when the sun is about to set, every family pours out dirty water and dirt to the west, so that those dirty things can be removed following the setting of the sun, in order to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and to hope for the prosperity of the people and the growth of all things.
New Year's Eve this day, to hold a grand, grand "Jumping God will". People wearing colorful costumes, wearing strange masks, in the conch, drums, suona and other musical instruments accompanied by singing and dancing, to show that the old to welcome the new, drive away the evil and blessing. New Year's Eve night, Tibetans like to eat food is oil cake, milk cake, blood sausage, hand-held meat and so on. On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, women go to the river or well to carry "auspicious water" to symbolize the family's good fortune, health and longevity. Then, every family puts a symbolic offering, "Druk Suqi Ma", on a conspicuous red table. "Bamboo Suqi Ma" that is the Yuan Bao type of long, large colorful pot (similar to the Han region of the grain bucket), at one end filled with wheat grains, the other end is filled with sugar, ghee and barley flour made of pastries, and inserted on the top of a few bunches of color dyed wheat and barley spikes, and I wish to look forward to a good harvest, people and animals flourish. Happy people in the house with "bamboo Suqi Ma", gathered around each other to drink barley wine, presenting khata, singing and dancing to celebrate the New Year.
During the Spring Festival, family, friends and neighbors, all pay tribute to each other, give each other khata, wishing a happy and happy. And with barley wine, ghee tea and cakes to entertain guests. The square and the wilderness is very lively, the young people get together to hold a race and shooting competition, singing and cheering one after another. After the game, everyone gathered together, lit a bonfire, playing and singing unity blessing song, dancing "pot Zhuang", string dance, carnival into the night.
The Dai New Year Customs: The Dai people's New Year, according to the Dai calendar, is about the seventh day after the Qingming Festival of the lunar calendar. During the festival, the Dai compatriots hold lively and extraordinary water-splashing, dragon boat racing, and release of high rise activities. The water-splashing activity is the culmination of the Dai people's New Year's Eve, and it is also the most wonderful scene in the Dai calendar year, so it is usually called the "Water-splashing Festival".
On this day, people splash water on each other to express their sincere friendship, pure love and blessings. There are two types of water splashing: cultural water splashing and martial arts water splashing. Wen splash water is to the elders, scoop up a spoonful of clean water, said the words of blessing, pull open each other's collars, so that the water along the spine flow down. The person being splashed happily accepts the blessing and is not allowed to run away. Wu splashing is not a fixed form, with a ladle, basin, bucket can be, chasing each other head to face splashing. The more water being poured, the more blessings being received, the more happy the person being poured.
Strong Spring Festival customs: the Zhuang people in addition to the Spring Festival, but also in the first 30 days of the month and then a "late year". The two festivals are equally grand. The morning of the festival, the sky will be bright, the women ran to the river, wells to take new water, this day, drink with, can not be the previous day's water storage. In the past, in some areas, immediately after retrieving the new water, and the same amount of old water than the scale, if the new water is heavy, it is a sign of a good harvest. During the festival, men and women gather in the village by the roadside or on the hillside to sing songs. Sometimes even to sing three days and nights. In individual areas, young men and women in the festival also like to be held in teams to throw the embroidered ball (sewn with various colors of cloth, four corners and the bottom of the five locks of tassels, the middle of the tie colorful rope. The center of the ball is filled with grain chaff, weighing about half a kilogram.
Mongolian small year and big year: the twenty-third day of the lunar month of the Mongolian people's "small year". This day is to send "the fire god of the year fire" day, every family in front of the "stove god" niche burning incense. Offerings of beef, mutton, butter, milk skin, cheese, milk cake, candy and other offerings, called "Zaizao". This day is the most important family reunion, eat reunion dinner, drink reunion wine, especially lively. In the evening, that is, to send the gods to heaven, people should be prepared in advance of the firewood or cow and sheep dung pieces, with fire, and then from a variety of offerings to take out a little, thrown into the fire, help the fire burning. At this time, the whole family prayed to the fire god to the flame. Generally on the fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, every family should slaughter the cattle and sheep, in addition to leaving their own food, but also to prepare some meat to give to friends and relatives. At the same time, they have to make a good-looking Mongolian robe for children and adults, buy new boots, new hats, purchase milk buckets, felt, pots and pans, pots and spoons and other utensils, and then the holiday riding horse conditioning. Spring Festival, which is called "White Festival" and "Big Year" by Mongolians, is a traditional program of Mongolians and is held on the first day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar. Mongolian people living in rural areas, cities, industrial and mining areas have similar customs of Spring Festival as Han Chinese, but there are many different features in the pastoral areas. The night of New Year's Eve for the "old age", the old family sitting on the floor in the yurt around a low table, the table is set with a plate of fragrant meat, milk food, as well as sweets, cigarettes, wine and other things, and some have to be on the low table for a large piece of paper, the paper is written on the name of the ancestors. At midnight, start drinking and eating New Year's dinner, or eat New Year's Eve dumplings. According to the rules of the reunion feast to eat more wine, meat, food utensils should be set full of a seat. If you can't eat it all, you should have as much left over as possible, symbolizing that you will have plenty to eat and drink in the new year. The young people in the family should toast to the elders, "the New Year's Eve wine". Particularly interesting is the whole family **** eat a piece of ghee, sugar, white flour branded into a large round cake, which is called to eat New Year's Day cake, each person only ate a bite, meaning the whole family will never be separated, permanently reunited, and will always have sweet days. New Year's Eve to play "Garamu" (play sheep bones), storytelling, singing, dancing, all night long, lively night. New Year's Eve, according to the custom of New Year's Day, the night of New Year's Eve for the resignation of the Old Year ceremony, the first morning of the New Year, the younger generation to parents and the old man kowtow, toast, offering hatha, wishing the old people good health and happiness in old age! The old people embraced their grandchildren and poured a bowl of fresh milk, wishing their children happiness, as pure as milk. Before liberation, some families also invited the lama to the home to recite sutras, eliminating the New Year's bad luck, praying for the New Year's prosperity of the family. The whole family, old and young, go to the Lama Temple to burn incense and worship, and seek the blessing of the living Buddha. After breakfast on the first day of the New Year, men and women in full costume, three or five groups to the HaoTe (villages and towns), from house to house to friends and relatives to pay tribute to the New Year. Guests into the house first kowtow to the elders to pay tribute to the New Year, wishing the elderly good health, good health and longevity. According to customary son-in-law of the host shirt to the guests one by one toast, each toast must drink, or drink while singing, singing and dancing. In the village cold or choose a piece of grass horse racing, jousting, camel racing and so on.