Northern New Year's Eve dumplings are often wrapped and eaten to harmonize the meaning of the word "New Year's Eve". For good luck, northerners often put coins, sugar, peanuts, jujubes and chestnuts into the dumplings with meat. Put sugar, the intention is to eat the New Year days sweet; put peanuts (or called the fruit of life), the intention is to eat people can live long; there is a dumpling put a coin, the intention is who ate the "fortune".
Southern New Year's Eve is generally eaten yuan Xiao and rice cakes. Lanterns, also known as "dumplings", "dumplings", "round", the center of the package sugar for more, take the meaning of family reunion and sweetness. Rice cakes are made of glutinous rice to harmonize with the meaning of "yearly high". To this day, the custom of making dumplings for New Year's Eve in the north and soup dumplings for New Year's Eve in the south is still extremely common.
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New Year's Customs of Ethnic Minorities:
Kirgiz - When the first month of the year appears, the Kirgiz people celebrate the "Noorodz" festival, which is very similar to the Han Chinese New Year. This is very similar to the Chinese New Year. During the festival, each family celebrates by making their meals as sumptuous as they can afford and treating each other.
On the night of the festival, when the herds of animals from the pasture back, each family felt house before a pile of fire with hyacinth grass, people first jumped from the top, and then the livestock jumped from the top, to herald 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 23rd day of the Lunar New Year, the god Zao is sent with maltose and other fruits.
Please ask a gentleman to write a pair of 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 and heaven and earth, then the whole family blesses each other, eats a reunion dinner, and observes the New Year's Eve all night long.
On the first day of the new year, the girls will be the first to run to the river to pick water, who is the first to pick back to the water, who is the most hard-working and the happiest people, but also as a harbinger of a good year.