Killing the New Year pig, playing patties, making bubble tea, playing tofu, picking up Chaixi
Killing the New Year pig: Once in the waxing moon, it is visible that Dong villages have the scene of sharpening knives and slaughtering pigs every day. Generally speaking, to kill the New Year's pig to discuss with the village households, because the butcher is limited, must be scheduled days. "When the pig is killed, some friends and relatives are invited to have a meal, commonly known as "eating soup", and 1-3 pounds of pork is given to them to share the joy of the New Year, and at the same time, many kinds of new year's goods such as bacon are cured.
Patty cake: Patty cake is a round rice cake made of glutinous rice. No matter how many fields there are, every Dong family plants some glutinous rice, which is harvested and dried in the sun and then put away until the month of January to be used for making patties.
People put the steamed glutinous rice in the "pestle and mortar" in the "pestle and mortar" made of wood and kneaded it into a paste, often adding some wild vegetables, twisted into a round flat, dyed with pine and cypress branches and leaves, coated with beeswax, and made into a round patty cake, which symbolizes the reunion of the family, and then air-dried and made into a round patty cake. After air-drying, the patties are stored in a water tank filled with cool well water for the New Year.
Do bubble tea: Dong people like to make all kinds of agricultural products into dry goods after the harvest, the most prominent is to make all kinds of vegetables and fruits into preserves, Jingzhou Dong preserves have more than ten kinds of preserves, called the "ten preserves", there are winter melon preserves, pumpkin preserves, pomelo preserves, tomato preserves, etc. They also steamed glutinous rice and made it into a kind of tea, so that it can be used for the New Year. They will also be glutinous rice steamed and dyed red, yellow and green colors dried, before the Spring Festival with oil fried, which is bubble tea
Tofu: Dong people have a variety of beans in the ridge planting soybean habits, the Spring Festival, tofu has become an important dish. Families will grind the tofu with oil fried into small pieces, can be put ten days and a half months, for the first month of the preparation of nutritious and convenient dishes.
Pick up Chaixi: is the first morning of the New Year. As soon as you get up, the first thing that men and women do is to go out and pick up a small bundle of firewood into the house.
The western Hunan pronunciation is that there is no distinction between firewood and wealth. The first thing you need to do is pick up a small bundle of firewood and bring it into the house. To pick up firewood is to pick up wealth. After opening the door to wealth, they will load incense, burn paper, light green oil lamps, and offer tea, which means welcoming the God of Wealth to the shrine and hoping that the God of Wealth will stay in their homes forever.
Expanded:
The Dong are a minority ethnic group in China, whose national language is Dong, belonging to the Dong Shui branch of the Zhuang-Dong language family of the Sino-Tibetan language family, and whose beliefs are in multiple gods.
The ancestors of the Dong people were called "Qianshou" in pre-Qin documents, and it is generally believed that the Dong people developed from one of the ancient Baiyue people.
The Dong people are mainly engaged in agriculture, mainly rice cultivation, rice cultivation has a long history, and also engaged in forestry, agriculture and forestry production has reached a fairly high level. There are many basins locally called "dams" interspersed with the mountains in the Dong region.
The Dong are mainly found in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture and Tongren area in Guizhou Province, Xinhuang Dong Autonomous County, Huitong County, Dong Autonomous County, Zhijiang Dong Autonomous County and Jingzhou Miao and Dong Autonomous County in Hunan Province, Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County, Longsheng Autonomous County and Rongshui Miao Autonomous County in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Hubei Province.
Baidu Encyclopedia - Dong Ethnic Groups