Han: Spring Festival is an ancient festival in China, located in the first of the four major festivals. It is a customary festival that evolved from the ancient "year-end prayers and sacrifices". Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals recorded that China in the Yao and Shun period has the custom of sweeping dust in the Spring Festival. This custom is based on people's desire to break up the old and bring in the new and their prayers for the old and the new, heralding the coming of spring and hope. The main customs are: cleaning and sacrificing, putting up spring couplets, window decorations, sticking on blessings and New Year's paintings, eating New Year's dinner, keeping watch on New Year's Eve, setting off firecrackers, paying homage to the New Year, as well as celebrating the Lantern Festival and haunting the lanterns, and so on.
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2. Zhuang: The Spring Festival is celebrated at the same time as the Han Chinese. On the evening of New Year's Eve, the rice eaten on the day of the festival is made and called "New Year's rice". There are also packages of more than a foot long, five or six pounds of alkali poop. On the first day of the new year, they get up before dawn, wear new clothes, set off firecrackers to welcome the new year, and women scramble to the river or the well to draw new water to start the year's boiling new life.
3. Hui people: Hui people attach great importance to the Spring Festival, but the Hui people's Spring Festival is not our Spring Festival, but Eid al-Fitr. It is the biggest annual festival of the Hui people. Eid al-Fitr, is the Arabic language, in the Islamic calendar on October 1st. The main rituals are: busy eating a thing. Muslims in the day after the morning rituals quickly into a small amount of food and drink, in order to show the fullness of the abstinence, thanksgiving to God's intention. Paying the Iftar donation. Alms, or to help the poor, or to the mosque. Holding a meeting. On the morning of this day, the Muslims bathe and dress up, and with their hearts and mouths silently chanting hymns, they gather in the largest mosque in the area for a large-scale congregational ceremony.
4. Manchu: the content of the Spring Festival Manchu families and the Han people are largely the same, the Spring Festival is called "New Year". But in the Manchu settlements, especially in the traditional Manchu families still retain the characteristics of their own ethnicity. Before the New Year, every family cleans the courtyard and puts up window decorations, couplets and lucky charms. On the thirtieth day of the Lunar New Year, families put up six-meter-high lantern poles, and from the first day to the sixteenth day of the Lunar New Year, red lanterns are hung high every day. Dumplings are wrapped on the thirtieth day of the New Year, and the lantern festival is held on the fifteenth day of the first month.
5. Uyghur:? Uyghur Spring Festival is Nowruz. The word "Nowruz" comes from the ancient Iranian language, meaning "spring rain". It is the equivalent of the Han Chinese spring equinox. Nowruz, which is celebrated on March 22nd of the Gregorian calendar, is a festival of preparation for spring production. Therefore, the "Nowruz" festival is also called the Spring Festival. On this day, men, women and children should be dressed in national costumes, the parents of each family first get up, in the middle of the house burned a pile of pine and cypress branches, the smoldering branches in the head of each person to turn around, wishing them peace and happiness in the new year. Then, the parents should bring the smoldering pine branches to the door of the livestock enclosure, so that the herd passes through the smoke, praying for the new year, livestock fat and strong, rapid reproduction.
6. Hmong: The Hmong year is the Hmong's own year, and in most areas it is "the first of the year to winter March, each Shang its one." The first of the year is the beginning of each year, which means the New Year. Some are celebrated in October, others in the winter or waxing moon. In recent years, most of the Hmong New Year's Eve in the first month of the New Year, the Spring Festival, but the Hmong New Year's Eve customs and habits remain unchanged. Such as killing the New Year pig, smoked bacon, patties, fried fried rice, but also kill chickens to sacrifice ancestors, "keep the year", open the "door of wealth", honor the "New Year's God", from the first day of the year to the first fifteen are to rest. Traditional recreational activities are held, such as "Stomping on the Flower Mountain", "Jumping on the Field", "Jumping in the New Year", "Jumping on the Moon", "Eating Paijia Rice", and "Eating the Paijia Rice". "Eating Paijia rice" and so on. Miao New Year's customary recreational activities called "catch the New Year's Eve", the main content of the swing, a hundred lions, play dragon lanterns, singing lanterns and so on.