Buyi - 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, and then the whole family blesses each other, eats a reunion dinner, and observes the New Year's Eve all night long. At dawn on the first day of the New Year, the girls will be scrambling 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. On the first day of the first day of the first day of the first day of the first month in the family tie colorful lanterns, night all lit, hanging in front of the door. After the first day, people began to visit 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 bag". 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. All those who work outside are required to return home before the 30th. On the night of New Year's Eve, a fire should be lit on the family's fire pit, never extinguished, called "welcoming the new fire". 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 time on the song, or playing gyro, dancing, ball games, theater. On the night of the thirtieth of the year to cook the first day of the whole day of rice, to show that the next year to harvest. This rice is called "rice dumplings", some as long as feet, weighing five or six pounds. Favored during the festival to throw bags of flowers activities. Male and female youth each divided into a team, the two sides are about 50 meters away from each other, draw a line, throw each other, where the throw line or no next will be the loser.
The Dongxiang people - who like to play earth wars during the Spring Festival to show their love for the land that nurtures them. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, they hold the traditional activity of "hitting the earth". They use the earth as a "weapon", each other throw each other, this day, the old man will also be excited to run to the mountains and fields of the "battlefield" to show their skills.
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, burned, stewed, on the table, plus a plate of fragrant pickled fish, the whole table dishes to fish. Dong family members say that eating fish in the Spring Festival is an omen of a new year of good fortune and prosperity (fish), a good harvest, and money and food. During the Spring Festival, a mountain-climbing competition is popular. Whoever climbs to the top first gets a gift from a girl or a boy. The girls present their own embroidered Dong brocade, and the boys offer exquisite bamboo boxes and hats, an activity that often lasts as long as half a month.
Gelao -- The third day of the third month of the lunar calendar is the Spring Festival for the Gelao people. Because they live in a place with low temperatures, grasses 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 bumper harvest. And because the Qingming Festival often falls around the beginning of March, so that the two festivals are celebrated together, so the day is designated as Gelao New Year, or Spring Festival. During the festival, young people from villages and cottages hold activities such as playing chicken feather, shuttlecock, flower dragon and eggs, accompanied by songs and dances, to enjoy themselves.
Kazakhs - the Spring Festival favorite "girl chase" activities. This activity is interesting and touching, but also a chic way for young men and women to express their love.
Jingpo people - the Spring Festival held "target shooting" competition. On the morning of the first day of the year, people gather on the field, the girls hang their embroidered purse on the top of the bamboo pole, the shooter shoots the purse hanging thin line counting marksman, the girls will award the marksman a bowl of sweet rice wine. The girls are the organizers and referees of this activity, and whichever young man wins, the girls will send the water wine to his mouth as a prize. During the Lunar New Year, every family brews water wine and toasts their elders.
Korean people -- every family puts up spring couplets, cooks all 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, playing the Gayageum and blowing 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 the wooden "Moon Watching Frame" and sing and dance to the long drums, tubular pipes and suona. Spring Festival, people dressed in costume, a pair of excitedly play teeter-totter, each other with a fall, who did a beautiful movement in the air, bouncing high, who is ahead of the winner.
The Water Tribe-- According to the Water Tribe's water calendar, the twelfth day of the first month is the "Duan Festival", which means "New Year's Day". On the night of the festival, a party is held in the village where young men and women sing and dance to the sound of gongs and drums and suona. There are many types of gongs and drums used in the festival, the largest of which is more than one meter in diameter and weighs one to two hundred kilograms. The surface of the drums is painted with floral patterns and the drums are carved with reliefs, making them both folk music and handicrafts.
The Dai -- the second and third days, some villages will be held in the "Elephant's Foot Drum Competition", the contestants are excited, drumming non-stop, who moves beautifully, the drum sound is good that won the award. During the Spring Festival, young men and girls throw chaff bags at each other to see who can throw accurately and who can catch. Play to a certain time, the girls will quietly snatch the young man wearing a belt knife, head cloth or tethered horse, ran home. If the young man is in love, he will follow. Parents see their daughters with a head cloth, holding a horse back, they will host a feast. In addition, April 13 every year is the Dai New Year, but also the Dai people's grandest festival - Water Splashing Festival, they see the splashing of water as a symbol to drive away evil spirits, good luck and good fortune, but also regard this day as the most beautiful, most auspicious day.
The Dulong - year, generally held in the second half of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar every year, the specific date of each family by their own fortune-telling decisions, the length of the festival also depends on the preparation of the food more or less depending on. Due to the Dulong people do not have words, in the past to invite guests over the New Year's Day, you have to use carved wood or knotted rope as "invitations". After a family decided which day to celebrate the festival, they calculated how many days there were left for the festival, and if they carved wood to remember the day, they would carve a few frames on a special wooden board, with each frame representing a day, and then cut it into two halves, half of which they would keep and half of which they would give to their guests. Then they cut it into two halves, keeping half for themselves and giving half to their guests. Afterwards, both sides would cut off one frame for each day, and when the last frame was left, they would know that the next day was going to be a festival. If you use the knot rope to remember the day, how many days until the festival, how many knots, and then will be invited to give the knot rope to friends and relatives, keep one for yourself, every day to unravel a knot, unraveled to the last "knot", we will know that it is New Year's Eve.
The Hani people celebrate the New Year twice a year. The first is the October Festival and the second 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. During the "June Festival", people kill animals to offer sacrifices to their ancestors and carry out cultural and sports activities such as swinging, wrestling and singing songs. On New Year's Eve, women are busy making patties, and young men go to the mountains to cut bamboo and build swing sets. Both men and women, young and old, enjoy swinging in the Spring Festival.
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 to resist foreign invasion, and left word on their way home that a new life would begin on whichever day they returned to their hometown. 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 jumping on the big drum, and young men and women take this time to talk about love and find their lovers.
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 to 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 the 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. 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 pickles, and symbolize the auspiciousness of the fish dishes are more indispensable. Zi time to eat a meal to send the old and welcome the new fresh meat dumplings.
Oroqen - New Year's Eve, the family sat around, **** into dinner. Tasting mountain treasures, drinking wine, eat New Year's dinner. Young people salute and bow to the elders of the family and close relatives. 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 respect 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 the 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 "farewell 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. New Year's Eve, the family sat around the fireplace in the package, in the toast to the elders "New Year's wine" after the roasted leg of lamb and boiled dumplings.
Naxi - the first month of spring people visit each other's relatives and friends, taking 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 fair program is performed in 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.
Tibetan - New Year's Eve, held a grand "jumping god will", people wearing masks singing and dancing, to show that the old and welcome the new, to get rid of the evil blessings. During the Spring Festival, barley wine, ghee tea and pastries are used to entertain guests.
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 their labor for 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 visit places of interest in groups, or play dragon lanterns, dance lions and beat the whip.
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 Qiang people -- every family to do a variety of fried flour calves, lambs, chickens and other offerings to ancestors and the gods of the sky, New Year's Day to drink smack wine, everyone sitting around the altar, by the longest one sings the "altar words", and then about two feet long wheat pipe from left to right, in turn smack drink.
Ewenki -- the first day of the first month, pay homage to each other, especially to their elders and relatives must go to kowtow to pay homage on the first day. On the evening of the first day of the new year, men and women gather in a larger house to have fun, usually by the elderly convene this entertainment party, by the women first began to dance or sing, and then regardless of men and women everyone dances.
The Daur ethnic group--living on both sides of the Heilongjiang and Nenjiang rivers. New Year's Eve rice is yellow rice steamed cake, early in the morning on the first day of the year, the people who pay tribute to each other as soon as they enter the door to grab the rice cake, in order to pray for life to improve year after year. On the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, women prepare breakfast and men burn incense and worship the gods, praying to the gods and God for a peaceful and fruitful year, and after worshipping the gods, they toast to the elders and kowtow to receive the old man's congratulations. 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.
Yao people - during the festival, people gather together to watch the interesting and chic "farming play". A person plays a cow, a person plays a plow farmer, a person plays a hoe farmer, the three dance and sing, to celebrate the agricultural harvest; young men and women gathered on the lawn around the village, blowing the reed-sheng, playing the moon zither, singing songs, looking for the man of their dreams. 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 full of the sound of cattle horns and the sound of laughter.
Lahu--Every year, from the first to the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, it is the Lahu's "Janta" festival (Spring Festival in Lahu) in Yunnan. 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.
The Alpine people -- Taiwan's Alpine people have the custom of eating "Lunar New Year's Vegetables". This is also known as "mustard", and eating it is a sign of a long life. Some people add long vermicelli to the long life vegetables to symbolize longevity.
The Li ethnic group - in the Spring Festival, every family slaughters pigs and chickens, prepares delicious food and wine, and the whole family sits around to eat the "New Year's dinner", during which they sing the "New Year's greeting song". On the first or second day of the Lunar New Year, people hunt collectively, and the prey is given to the first shooter who hits the prey, and half of the rest is shared equally, and pregnant women can get two shares of the prey.
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 of 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 Posa" (deep-fried deep-fried noodle cake), "Kayikka" (colorful deep-fried food) and so on.
The Brown people - during the Spring Festival to carry out ball activities, lively and interesting. Participants in a circle, first by a person will be a small ball made of bamboo chips on the air, and then in order to catch the ball, and with the palms of their hands to the ball into the air, can not catch the ball of people, to be punished by singing a song.