Kirghiz--When the first month of the year appears, the Kirghiz people celebrate the festival of "Noroz", which is very similar to the Spring Festival of the Han Chinese. At the festival, each family according to their own ability to make the meal more sumptuous, treating each other to celebrate. On the night of the festival, when the herds of animals return from the pasture, every family felt house before the use of hyacinth grass to build a pile of fire, people first jumped from the top, and then the livestock jumped from the top, to signal the elimination of disasters and difficulties, and in the new year of the livestock and the two prosperous.
Buyi people - at the end of the Lunar New Year on the lunar calendar, every family fumigates meat, enchants sausages, roasts wine, makes glutinous rice pudding, rice flowers, sews new clothes and handkerchiefs. On the twenty-third day of the Lunar New Year, the god of the stove is sent with malt candy and other fruits. They ask a gentleman to write couplets and put up door gods and New Year's paintings. On the evening of the 30th, the whole family sits around the fire, first offering sacrifices to the ancestors of heaven and earth, then the whole family blesses each other and eats a reunion dinner. On the first day of the New Year in the family tie colorful lanterns, lit together at night, hanging in the front door. After the first day of the year, people began to visit the door to pay tribute to the New Year. Young men and women meet to go to the "table" to express their love in song; or get together in the suona, Yueqin, Dongxiao, sister xiao, copper drums and other musical instruments accompanied by the sound of jumping "hit the flower packet". Some areas of the first month of the fifteenth after the New Year, the first month of the thirtieth also have a "small year".
Tujia - from the first two days before the first day of the first month, the first day called the big year, the second day for the small year. On New Year's Eve, each family burns a piece of firewood, and everyone sits around and listens to the old man's stories, keeping watch until dawn. During the festival, "red fish" is eaten to symbolize wealth and abundance, and a large pot of braised vegetables is eaten, which is called Hap Cai. On the third day of the Lunar New Year, the "Hand Dance" is held, with as many as 10,000 participants. In addition, there are dragon lanterns, lion dance, lanterns, theater, martial arts and other activities.
The Zhuang - from the thirtieth to the second day of the first month, *** three days. Anyone who works outside should go home before the 30th. On New Year's Eve, every family kills chickens and ducks, steams buckled meat, powders fine meat, and makes barbecued pork. There are eight dishes for dinner, including "white chopped chicken" and stewed whole chicken. All the families will keep the New Year's Eve until midnight, and go to bed after setting off firecrackers. The first day of the first month, the second day of the first month, where guests must eat zongzi, zongzi filling, by the peeled green beans, half-fat not thin meat mixed with the sauce made above. Men and women more than at this point in the song, or playing gyro, dancing, ball games, theater.
Dulong - living in Yunnan Nujiang Gongshan County of the Dulong, will be between November 12 every year for the first time between the snow for the first of the year, because there is no fixed time, by the head of the clan to choose the day, usually 3 to 5 days. During the festival, families invite each other for friendly exchanges while holding recreational activities.
The Hani tribe--The year is celebrated twice a year. One is the October Festival and the other is the June Festival. The Hani calendar takes October as the first day of the year, i.e. the "big year". New Year's Day, people visit friends and relatives, marriage. "June Festival" during the animal sacrifice to ancestors, swinging, wrestling, singing songs and other cultural and sports activities.
Kado people (Hani tribe)--The Kado people in Xinping County, Yunnan Province, celebrate the New Year on the sixth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. Legend has it that in ancient times, brave Kado youths went out to fight in the war in order to resist foreign invasions, and left the word on their way that a new life would begin on whichever day they returned to their hometowns. After the war, they did not return home until the sixth day of the new year because of the long journey. People in their hometown set this day as the beginning of a new year. At New Year's, they celebrate by killing pigs and slaughtering goats and dancing the big drum.
Pumi - the Pumi people in the highlands of northwestern Yunnan mostly take the sixth day of the Lunar New Year as the first day of the year, and on New Year's Eve, villages and cottages should set off firecrackers three times and blow the conch. Then the family reunion to eat glutinous rice.
The Lemo people (a term for the Bai people) - who mainly live in Bijiang County in Yunnan Province - have their own way of projecting the festivals, and the dates of the Spring Festival vary. For example, when the peach blossom buds, they call it March, and when the lacquer tree develops its leaves to about five inches, they call it May. As a result of this projection, there are thirteen months in a year, and the month of March is called the March Festival, which is equivalent to the Spring Festival of the Han Chinese.
Kinuo - the Jinuo people in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, the sixth month of the lunar calendar as the New Year, the singers take turns to sing to each other, and if they lose, they leave a piece of cloth to wrap their heads, and then go to the next year. Every night during the New Year, the old men and women enjoy wine and food while dancing the big drum dance, and young men and women take this time to talk about love and find their lovers.
Gelao--The third day of the third month of the lunar calendar is the Spring Festival for the Gelao people. Because they live in places with low temperatures, the grass and trees do not begin to sprout until March, when spring begins. At this time of the upcoming spring plowing busy, we get together to celebrate the New Year, *** with prayers to the ancestors, the mountain gods blessing, all things as expected, a good harvest. And because the Qingming Festival is often around the beginning of March, so the two festivals together, so the day will be Gelao year, that is, the Spring Festival.
Yao people -- every year in the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the Moon Festival is the Yao people's grandest festival -- the Spring Festival, the eve of the Moon Festival, families are busy, inside and outside the village is filled with the sound of cattle horns and the sound of laughter.
The Han Chinese - on the first day of the Lunar New Year, people do not sweep the floor, do not splash water outside, do not go through the back door, do not scold the children, congratulate each other on an auspicious and wealthy New Year, all the best.
Manchu - when the New Year's Day is approaching, every family cleans the courtyard and puts up window grills, couplets and lucky charms. On the thirtieth day of the Lunar New Year, families erected six-meter-high lantern poles, from the first day of the year to the sixteenth, every day red lights hanging high. The New Year's Eve dumplings, pay attention to the pleats more good, son of time to cook dumplings, some wrapped in the inside of the copper coins, eaters have good luck. The Spring Festival to worship twice, once on the night of the New Year's Eve, for the resignation of the old year; the first day of the year and then worship once, to welcome the new year. Before the Spring Festival will also be held before the horse jumping camel jumping competitions. On the 15th day of the first month, there is a lantern festival.
Korean people -- every family puts up spring couplets, cooks various kinds of sumptuous meals, eats "eight treasures rice", and on New Year's Eve, the whole family observes the New Year's Eve all night long, and plays the Gayageum and blows the dongxiao. At dawn on the first day of the year, people put on their festive costumes to pay homage to their elders. During the festival, men, women, and children sing and dance, press the springboard, and tug of war. On the night of the 15th day of the first month, a traditional celebration is held, in which a few elderly people are elected to climb onto a wooden "moon watch frame" and sing and dance to long drums, dongxiao and suona.
Oroqen--New Year's Eve, the whole family sits around, **** into the dinner. Tasting mountain treasures, drinking wine and eating New Year's dinner. Young people salute the elders of the family and close relatives, kowtow and ask for peace. At midnight, people hold birch bark boxes or iron boxes and circle the stables several times to pray for the prosperity of the six animals. On the first day of the year, people dressed in new clothes pay their respects to each other. Young men and women get together to dance in a circle. There are hunting dance, "red fruit" dance, "black bear fighting" dance.
The Hezhen people--New Year's Eve, everyone is busy cooking, cutting windows, gluing lanterns. On the first day of the year, girls, women and children put on new clothes embroidered with cloud borders and go to friends and relatives to pay New Year's visits, and treat guests with "fish feasts". The feast includes raw fish with a hot and sour taste, fried fish with a crispy flavor, and salmon roe. Folk poets present poems and tell stories. Women play the games of "touching the blind" and "throwing bones". Young people compete in skiing, skating, shooting at straw targets and pitching straw balls.
Mongolians - five nights to eat dumplings, firecrackers and the same as the Han. In addition, New Year's Eve to eat "hand meat" to show that the family reunion. Early morning of the first day of the evening to the elders of the "New Year's wine", and then young men and women across the pike horse, riding string yurt, first to the elders kowtow to wish, and then drink and dance, and then string packet of men and women also take advantage of this opportunity to Ting line horse racing.
Naxi - the first month of spring people visit each other's relatives and friends, take turns as a guest, young and middle-aged men to organize lanterns, and competitions with other villages. Cities and villages are organized lantern fair Lantern Festival program is the performance of the national story: such as "Ah Nu Mei Jokes", "the birthday boy put deer", "social theater night pearl", "lion rolling embroidered ball", "phoenix dance" and so on.
Tibetans - New Year's Eve, held a grand "Jumping God will", people wearing masks singing and dancing, to show that the old to welcome the new, to get rid of the evil blessings.
Yi - Spring Festival rally jumping "A fine jumping moon", some villages on the first day of the year to fetch water for cooking are undertaken by men, so that the women rest, in order to and on their hard work a year of condolences.
Miao - the Spring Festival called "Hakka year", every family kills pigs and goats, baked wine to beat the poi to celebrate the harvest in the hope that the next year of wind and rain, a good harvest. They also sing the "Spring Festival Song," with lyrics to the effect that they are thinking of spring, looking forward to spring, cherishing spring, and salvaging spring.
Bai people - Bai people from New Year's Eve began to worship each other, gifts. New Year's Eve Vigil. 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 to bless the sweet days. People either go on a tour of places of interest in groups, or play dragon lanterns, lion dances, and beat the whip of the king.
Strong people - the night of the New Year's Eve, the family fire on the fire pit to light a fire, never go out, called "welcome the new fire". Folk customary package dumplings over the Spring Festival. During the festival also organized a rich and colorful national cultural and sports activities to celebrate, singing "Caicha", lion and dragon dance, jumping and playing flat dance, gong, playing gyro, ball games, local theater and so on.
Jing - the first day of the incense and candles to the well to burn worship, called "buy new water", Tibetan women on the first day of the day before dawn from the river back to the "auspicious water". Think the first day of the new water can bring the gospel and good luck, can keep a year of good luck.
The Dongxiang people - like to play earth battles during the Spring Festival to show their love for the land that nurtures them.
The Qiang people - each family should make all kinds of fried flour calves, lambs, chickens and other offerings to ancestors and the gods of heaven, New Year's Day to drink smack wine, everyone sitting around the altar, the longest person by the most singing the "altar words", and then about two feet long wheat pipe from left to right, in order to smack drink.
Ewenki -- the first day of the first month, pay homage to each other, especially to their elders and relatives must go kowtow to pay homage on the first day. On the night of the first day of the year, men and women gather in a larger house to have fun, usually by the elderly convene this entertainment evening, by the women first began to dance or sing, and then regardless of men and women everyone dances.
The Daur ethnic group - the first day of the first month, dawn, women prepare breakfast, men burn incense to worship the gods of heaven and earth, praying for the gods and God's grace to give peace and prosperity, after worshiping the gods, to the elders of the toast kowtow to accept the old man's benediction. After eating dumplings and putting on new clothes, close relatives of men and women gather together, led by the eldest old man, according to the seniority of various recreational activities.
The Hani ethnic group - on New Year's Eve, women are busy making patties, and young men go up to the mountains to cut bamboo and build swing frames. Both men and women, young and old, enjoy swinging in the Spring Festival.
Buyi - on New Year's Eve, the whole family sits around the fire and keeps vigil all night. On the first day of the new year, the girls will scramble to the river to pick water, who is the first to pick back to the water, who is the most hard-working and happy people, but also as a harbinger of a good year.
Yao people - during the festival, people get together to watch the interesting and chic "plowing play". One person pretends to be a cow, one person pretends to be a plowman, one person pretends to be a farmer expanding a hoe, and the three dance and sing to celebrate a good agricultural harvest; young men and women gather on the lawn around the village to play the reed-sheng, the moon zither, and sing mountain songs to find the man of their dreams.
Jingpo people - the Spring Festival held "target shooting" competition. On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, people gather on the field, the girls hang their embroidered purses on the top of bamboo poles, the shooter shoots at the thin line hanging purses counted as sharpshooters, the girls will award the sharpshooter a bowl of sweet rice wine.
Lahu -- Every year, from the first to the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, it is the Lahu festival in Yunnan (the Spring Festival in Lahu). On New Year's Eve, every family will make glutinous rice poi, which symbolizes the sun, moon and stars, to sacrifice the sun, moon and stars, hoping for good weather and abundant harvests in the new year. From the first to the fourth days of the year, young men and women scramble to the spring to meet the new water, symbolizing purity and happiness, in order to be the first to get it. At the same time, with gifts to villages and villages, visit friends and relatives.
Mongolians - at the New Year's Eve feast, families sit around the fireplace in their packs, and after offering "New Year's wine" to their elders, they eat roasted leg of lamb and boiled dumplings.
The Alpine people--The Alpine people in Taiwan have the custom of eating "Niancai" (New Year's vegetables). This is also called "mustard" and is eaten as a sign of a long life. Some people add long vermicelli to the long life vegetables to symbolize longevity.
The Manchus - the family feast on the 30th day of the new year is very sumptuous and grand. The staple food is glutinous rice flour or into the powder wrapped dumplings, roasted, bean buns, etc.; traditional New Year's Eve dishes are delicious blood sausage, boiled white meat and unique blanch white meat with pickled vegetables, and symbolize the auspiciousness of the fish dish is more indispensable. Zi time to eat a meal to send the old and welcome the new fresh meat dumplings.
Strong people - the night of the New Year's Eve to cook the first day of the whole day of rice, to show that the next year to be a good harvest. This rice is called "dumplings", some of which are more than a foot long and weigh five or six pounds.
Lahu - every New Year's Eve must do sticky rice, which has a pair of particularly large, said to symbolize the sun and the moon, to pray for a new year of wind and rain, fruitful.
The Dong people -- early in the morning on the first day, from the pond to get a few big and fresh carp, fried, deep-fried, roasted, stewed, on the table, plus a plate of aromatic pickled fish, the whole table dishes to fish. The Dong family said, the Spring Festival to eat fish, omen of a new year of auspicious celebrations (fish), grains, money and food.
Li - Spring Festival, the family slaughtered pigs and chickens, prepared food and wine, the family sat around to eat "New Year's dinner", singing "New Year's song". On the first or second day of the Lunar New Year, people hunt collectively, and the prey is distributed to the first shooter who hits the prey, and half of the rest is divided equally among them, and pregnant women can get two shares of the prey.
Jingpo - During the Spring Festival, every family brews water wine and toasts their elders.
Daur - live on both sides of the Heilongjiang and Nenjiang rivers. On New Year's Eve, the New Year's meal is a steamed cake of yellow rice, and early on the first day of the Lunar New Year, people who pay their respects to each other snatch the rice cake as soon as they enter the door, in order to pray for the improvement of their lives year after year.
The Wa people - in addition to saying goodbye to each other for the first time in the New Year, they also give glutinous rice balls, sugar cane and plantain as a wish for harmony, sweetness and beauty in family life.
Tujia - At the family reunion dinner table, there must be lumps of meat and combined vegetables.
Uyghur - the annual feast food: rice, mutton, raisins, etc. made of "Pulo", flour, mutton, onions, etc. made of "Pitir Manda" (baozi), "Pitir Manda" (baozi), "Pitir Manda" (baozi), "Pitir Manda" (baozi), "Pitir Manda" (baozi). (buns) made of flour, mutton, onions, etc., "Gesi" (hand-held mutton) made of boned mutton, "Lanman" (stretched noodles) made of dough, and "Qu Quer" (spicy and sour) similar to Han Chinese wontons. and "Qu Quer", which is similar to the Chinese wontons, are also available. In addition, there are many kinds of traditional cakes and snacks, such as "Aisimsanza" (deep-fried noodle cake in a round plate), "Yaimaza" (deep-fried noodle cake in a lace), and "Bohusak" (deep-fried custard), "Shamu Bosa" (deep-fried deep-fried noodle cake), "Kayikka" (colorful deep-fried noodle cake) and so on.
Tibetans - entertain guests with barley wine, ghee tea and pastries during the Spring Festival.