The Spring Festival of the Zhuang is celebrated for three days from the 30th day of the New Year to the first and second day of the first month of the ****. On New Year's Eve, families kill chickens and ducks, and steam buckled meat, powdered fine meat and barbecued pork. The rice on New Year's Eve should be steamed a lot to symbolize affluence. There should be white chopped chicken on the dinner table, and for families with elderly people, there are also stewed pig's feet and stewed whole chickens. Rice dumplings are an essential food for the Zhuang Spring Festival, but they are not eaten on the 30th night. Zhuang dumplings are more noble food, large one or two years heavy, small only two or three two. In addition to this there is a "Feng Mo", meaning that the oversized dumplings, weighing one, twenty pounds. The flavor of the dumplings is excellent. On the first and second day of the first month of the guests to eat rice dumplings. Spring Festival to be held during the song, playing gyro, dancing, ball games and other cultural and sports activities.
Tibetan New Year
According to Tibetan scholars, in the ancient times, Tibet is not the turn of winter and spring New Year, but the summer New Year, "wheat ripe for the first of the year," "under the snowy mountains, the wheat is yellow, happy New Year came." Now, in the middle reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo River, there is a tradition of "Wang Guo" festival before the fall harvest. People wear ancient costumes, riding a horse, along the harvest barley land circle prayer, but also horseback archery, dancing around the bonfire carnival, both entertainment themselves, but also entertainment local protection god. According to legend, this is all ancient Tibet June New Year's Eve legacy.
There is also the New Year in the Tibetan calendar on the first day of October, "wheat harvest for the first of the year". Four hundred kilometers east of Lhasa, snow-capped mountains and virgin forests surrounded by the Gongbu (Linzhi) area, is still the first day of the tenth month of the Tibetan New Year, known as the "Gongbu Losa". Tibetan history records, Gongbu area has a very long history, as early as in the Tubo dynasty before the establishment of the Tibetan primitive religion benzene religion is very prevalent here. The celebration of the New Year in the tenth month of the Tibetan calendar originated in those ancient times.
Around the 13th century AD, when the Sakya dynasty ruled Tibet, Tibetans celebrated the New Year in the first month of the Tibetan calendar. However, farmers often celebrated the New Year earlier, on the first day of December, which was called "Sorang Losar" (Farmer's New Year). The reason is that in the first month of the Tibetan calendar, when spring is in full swing and plowing is in full swing, farmers no longer have the heart to celebrate the New Year.
New Year's Day to wear the most beautiful clothes, wear the most precious jewelry, even if the economic conditions of the poor, but also to prepare a New Year's Eve robe, or one or two rough decorations, the Tibetan language is called 'Saju', i.e., the new clothes. These of course come from the nature of Tibetans to love beauty. But there are also said that the God King Xinzhu Qu Jie, to observe the world's life from the copper mirror, everyone dressed beautifully, he was happy, and then give the world some favor, dressed in rags, he was upset, descending disasters and plagues. Therefore, wearing new clothes on New Year's Day has the meaning of pleasing the God-King.
On the third day of the first month, Lhasa people in groups, out of the noisy and bustling market, to the eastern suburb of the Baobao Mountain and the western suburb of the Medicine King Mountain, inserting sutra flags, hanging colorful streamers, sacrifices to the god of the mountain and the god of the water.
The first five days of the first month of the Tibetan calendar, Lhasa suburbs of farmers to hold a grand open plow ceremony. Farmers dressed in festive attire, strong Pian plough oxen dressed more beautiful, forehead pasted with ghee pattern, horns inserted with red flags and colorful feathers, shoulders draped in colored satin, satin decorated with shells and turquoise, tail tied with colorful ribbons, with "flamboyant" to describe, is not excessive.
Mongolians
Mongolians have always respected the white color, so the first month of the lunar calendar known as the "white month", the New Year's Day known as the "White Festival". Mongolian New Year's preparations begin on the twenty-third day of the Lunar New Year. In addition to sweeping, bathing, and arranging yurts, people wear new clothes and horses wear red tassels and new saddles. A whole cow or sheep with a haida is offered to the closest friends and relatives. New Year's Eve to eat "hand-meat" to show that the family reunion. The first morning of the first day of the year to the elders first toast to the New Year's wine, and then to the same generation of wine, friends and relatives to give each other the hatha, congratulations on the New Year's good luck and good luck. The first day of the New Year to the elders must be in the morning.
The Bai people
The Bai people began to worship and give gifts to each other on New Year's Eve. 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, wishing for a day sweeter than honey. After breakfast, children are led by adults to their friends' and relatives' homes to pay New Year's greetings to their elders. Dragon lanterns, lion dances and whip beating are indispensable activities of the festival.
Buyi
Buyi people prepare festive food such as poi and rice wine before New Year's Eve, and keep watch on New Year's Eve until dawn. When the rooster crows at dawn, the girls scramble to the river to carry water, and whoever carries back the first load of water first shows that she is the most industrious and the happiest.
Koreans
The Korean New Year's Eve family vigil goes on all night long, with the ancient music of the Gayeqin and the Tubular Jiao bringing people into the new year. During the festival, men, women, and children sing and dance, and hold competitions such as the pressurized springboard and tug-of-war. On the evening of the fifteenth day of the first month, a traditional celebration is held in which a few elderly people are chosen to climb the "moon watchers" to be the first to see the bright moon, which implies good health, progress, and all the best for their children and grandchildren. Afterwards, everyone dances around the lighted "moon frame," accompanied by long drums, tubular pipes and suona music.
The Daur ethnic group
The Daur language calls the Spring Festival "Ane". On the morning of New Year's Day, every family sweeps the courtyard, and in front of the main door with debris and livestock feces yards into a high stack, and in the evening after the stacks are lit up, the smoke lingers, and a festive atmosphere hangs over the whole place. The old people throw large pieces of meat, buns, dumplings and other food into the fire, blessing the well-being of people and animals, and a good harvest. In the evening, the whole family eats hand-held meat and engages in various activities to celebrate the old and welcome the new. People put incense on the snowy ground on the west side of the house and bow to the west to honor their ancestors. On New Year's Eve, families eat dumplings wrapped in white thread to symbolize longevity. During the Spring Festival, there are field hockey games, masquerades, and games such as listening to books and singing.
The Gaoshan people
Dressed in colorful national costumes, the Gaoshan people gather in groups at the edge of villages to drink wine and sing and dance to the accompaniment of musical instruments in the Spring Festival. Some villages also hold fish-forking competitions and carry out sports activities such as basket ball and pole ball.
Herzhe
Herzhe Spring Festival is the happiest program of the year. On New Year's Eve, every family cooks New Year's dinner, cuts windows and pastes lanterns. On the first day of the New Year, girls, women and children wear new clothes embroidered with cloud borders and go to the homes of their friends and relatives to pay tribute to the New Year. Fish feast is a delicious dish for the Hezhen people to entertain their guests, including the sour and spicy flavor of "Tala Chang" (raw fish), the flavorful and crispy "fried fish hair" and the transparent and bright red salmon roe. Skiing, shooting at straw targets and pitchforks are recreational activities that fascinate the youth of the Hezhen ethnic group.
Lahu
The Lahu celebrate the Big New Year from the first to the fourth day of the first month, and the Small New Year from the ninth to the eleventh day of the first month. On the night of the 30th day of the Lahu month, pigs are killed and sticky rice poi is pounded, and each family makes a pair of large poi to symbolize the stars, which indicates good weather and abundant harvests in the new year. The Lahu also have the custom of gathering together to observe the New Year.
The Manchu
The Manchu celebrate the Spring Festival with window decals, couplets and the word "God". On New Year's Eve, the whole family wrapped dumplings, dumplings, speaking of pleated, can not pinch the light side of the "monk head" dumplings, fear of the day over the "bald". Dumplings should be coded into horizontal and vertical rows to symbolize the new year's wealth in all directions, dumplings can not be arranged in a circle, fear that the days have no doorway.
She
She people pound mochi for the Spring Festival, which is a symbol of good luck in the new year and sweetness. The She people worship their ancestor, Pan Gou, and on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the whole family bows to Pan Gu Zutu (a picture painted according to the legend of Pan Gou) and tells the story of the hardship of their ancestor's business.
The Tujia people
The Tujia people have a Spring Festival dance. In the past, when dancing, we should first hang three cages in the "hand-swinging hall", and inside the tent, we should hang the pig's head, pork, incense and wild boar's head and hooves, etc., and then we should wear red vestments and a crown of law in the hands of the old Tuji, and bring off the swinging and shouting, and men, women and children should all take part in the ceremony, and worship the gods before dancing. Now the Tujia in addition to dance swinging hands, but also to play dragon lanterns, playing lion, performing theater and martial arts.
Wa
The Wa congratulate each other on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and especially pay homage to the elders of the village. When paying homage, both sides give each other bananas, glutinous rice poi and sugar cane to symbolize unity and harmony. The Wa men and women in Cangyuan and other places gather in the square to dance in a circle on the night of the festival, and the elderly women wear long skirts and dozens of people are in a team, with their hands on the shoulders of their predecessors, singing ancient songs while moving lightly in their dance steps.