Characteristics of the Zhuang People
The Zhuang compatriots in Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangdong and other regions celebrate the Spring Festival at the same time as the Han Chinese. On the evening of New Year's Eve, the rice eaten on the day of the festival is called "New Year's Rice", and in some areas it is called "Eat Lijie", which means "to celebrate the new year" in Zhuang. It is an omen of a good agricultural harvest in the coming year. Some also packaged with more than a foot long, five or six pounds of heavy alkali, a family with a small population a meal is not finished! Early in the morning on the first day of the New Year, before dawn, people get up, put on new clothes, firecrackers to welcome the new, women are scrambling to the river or wells, "draw new water", to start a new year of boiling life.
Buyi Characteristics
On New Year's Eve, the whole family stays up all night to keep watch at the watering hole. As soon as the sun came up, the girls would scramble to fetch water. Whoever is the first to fetch back the first load of water is the hardest working and happiest girl.
Manchu Characteristics
Manchu people are divided into four banners: red, yellow, blue and white. During the Spring Festival, the red flag people stick red hanging flags on the door, the yellow flag people stick yellow hanging flags on the door, the blue flag people stick blue hanging flags on the door, and the white flag people stick white hanging flags on the door. These flags are beautifully patterned and colorful, symbolizing an auspicious start to the year.
Dong characteristics
The Dong compatriots in Guizhou and Hunan Province, during the Spring Festival there is a popular activity called "playing the Dong New Year" (also known as the Lusheng Association). This activity is similar to the Han Chinese "reunion", but more joyful and enthusiastic than "reunion". This kind of activity is generally organized by two villages **** with the agreement. The two teams officially hold a Lusheng song and dance competition in the square. At this time, the audience of the two villages, accompanied by music, dance and enjoy the fun.
Paiwanese characteristics
Yunnan Bai compatriots in the New Year, there is a called "put high up" celebration. The so-called "put high rise" is to use the whole big bamboo, in the bamboo joints loaded with gunpowder, ignited after the whole big bamboo can be crashed into the sky hundreds of feet, to become a veritable "high rise". Some areas of the Bai compatriots and Miao, Zhuang, as from the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival, are in the "embroidered ball" activities. Where the catch can not catch the embroidered ball, to give each other souvenirs, many times lost the ball and redemption of souvenirs, that is, to express the willingness to allow love.
Tujia characteristics
During the Spring Festival, the Tujia people hold a grand hand-waving dance. The hand-waving dance is an ancient dance popular among the Tujia people, which includes more than 70 dance movements such as hunting, military, farming and banquet, with distinctive rhythm, beautiful movements, simple dance posture, healthy mood, without props, with distinctive national characteristics and a strong sense of life.
Dai Characteristics
The Water Splashing Festival is the New Year's festival of the Dai ethnic group, and it is the grandest traditional program of the Dai ethnic group in a year. During the three or four days of the festival, people splash water on each other to show their blessings to you. Because the Dai people believe in small town Buddhism, Buddhism, water is the most pure, blessing people a new year of happiness and peace.
Li characteristics
Li people living on Hainan Island, whenever the Spring Festival comes, every family has to slaughter pigs and chickens, set up a sumptuous delicacies, the whole family sat together to eat "New Year's Eve"; during the seat the whole family will also sing the "New Year's Song". During the meal, the whole family would sing the "New Year's Song". On the first day, the second day, the village of young and strong men, but also held a "Spring Festival hunting". This day's prey village **** enjoy. Interestingly, in the division of the prey, the first half of all the prey to the first hit the prey shooter; the other half by everyone equally. Pregnant women are entitled to two shares, and passers-by who happen to cross paths are also entitled to a share.
The Lisu People
The Lisu people call the New Year's Day "Qaoshi", and most of them make indica rice, glutinous rice, and water wine, and put a small amount of the first mortar pounded out of the poop on the peaches, plums, and other fruit trees, to wish for fruitfulness in the coming year. The Lisu people in the Nujiang region of Yunnan Province first feed salt to their oxen to show respect for their labor. Young men and women like to hold target shooting competitions in the Spring Festival. The girls hang their embroidered purses on bamboo poles, and the purses are shaken from side to side, inviting the young men to shoot, and whoever shoots down the purses first, the girls will send the wine as a prize to whoever they want.
Lahu Characteristics
On the night of New Year's Eve, the whole family of Lahu compatriots take a bath to clear their bodies and make good food for the following day. In the food, special attention is paid to the glutinous rice poop, in addition to eating, always give a little to the cattle to eat, off in the plow, hoe, machete and other farm equipment on a little, in order to reward its year with the master cooperation, and wish to create more wealth in the new year.
Daur characteristics
Daur people living on both sides of the Nenjiang River in the northeast, the morning of the first day of the first month of the Lunar New Year, young men and women dress up, first to the elders to ask for good health, toast, salute, and then go from house to house to pay homage to the new year, each family is prepared to have a steamed cake, to pay homage to the new year, once the people enter the door to grab a steamed cake, it is said to have eaten it, the production and life are able to "higher every year".
Mulao
From the first to the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, men, women, and children of the Mulao ethnic group dress up in festive costumes, and dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of people gather on the hillsides or racecourses to sing songs about labor, life, and love.
The Dulong
The only festival is the "Kachuowo" festival, which takes place in the winter months. The most solemn ceremony is the cow sacrifice to heaven. On this day, the chief of the clan ties the ox to a stake in the center of the square. A young woman hangs a chain on the bull's horn, and then a brave and strong young man, holding a sharp bamboo spear, stabs the bull in the armpit until the bull falls down and dies. At this moment, people will dance "cow pot Zhuang" dance, and then share the beef.
Oroqen
Oroqen compatriots in the Northeast, the Spring Festival morning, the first in the family according to the size of the generation pouring wine, the younger to the elders kowtow, the younger generation to each other, please, the second and the third horse race. The first fifteen days of the first month of delicious food. On the morning of the 16th day of the first month, the activity of smearing each other's black faces is carried out. When young people wipe the black face of the elderly, they should bow first.
Herzhe
The Spring Festival, Herzhe language for the "Fo Feshix", that is, the meaning of the New Year's Eve. People put on in the hat ear, collar, cuffs, trouser legs, aprons, shoes embroidered with beautiful patterns, geometric patterns and birds and flowers and other lace on the animal skin and other clothing. During the New Year's festivals, the average family makes a "fire feast" or a cake made from a wild fruit called "Bird cherry," which is also filled with fish and animal meat. When treating honored guests, live fish are killed or fish sticks are roasted and served in this "taraha".
Kinuo
When the Spring Festival arrives, the Jinuo, who live in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, have a betel nut-chewing old man playing cymbals with his head raised, a crone wearing a big pointy hat sounding a gong with her head lowered, and a drum played by a zhouba (father of the village), while young men and women dance in a circle with their bare hands.
Hani
Swinging, a few days before the Spring Festival, the villages inhabited by the Hani ethnic group are already bustling with activity, and the women are busy pounding poi. Ba Ba is a cake made from glutinous rice. And the young men are busy going up the mountain to cut bamboo to prepare for setting up swings. The swings there are more than ten meters high, and the Hani people, young and old, love to swing. During the festival, everyone wears their favorite clothes to swing, everywhere showing a lively, harmonious festival scene.
The Gaoshan people
"Around the stove", on New Year's Eve, a family of young and old sits around a round table with hot pots and pans and gathers to eat, which is called "around the stove". Women, who normally do not drink alcohol, are also expected to take a symbolic sip of wine as a sign of good luck. "Vegetables are eaten without being cut with a knife, but are washed and boiled with their roots, as a sign of wishing long life to the parents. If someone in the family is away, a seat is left empty and the person's clothes are placed on the empty seat to show that the family misses him.
Jingpo
Target shooting competitions are held during the Spring Festival. 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 the bamboo poles, the shooter shoots at the thin threads of the hanging purses and counts them as sharpshooters, and the girls award the sharpshooters a bowl of sweet rice wine.
Yao
During the festival, people get together to watch the interesting and unique "farming theater". 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 their sweethearts.
Ewenki
On the first day of the first month, they pay homage to each other, especially to their elders and relatives who must go to kowtow to pay homage on the first day. On the evening of the first day of the New Year, men, women and children gather in a larger house to have fun, usually by the elderly to convene this entertainment evening, the women first began to dance or sing, and then everyone dances regardless of gender.
Qiang
Every family should make all kinds 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, we sit around the altar, the longest one sings the "altar words", and then about two feet long wheat pipe from left to right, smack drink in turn.
The Dongxiang people
People like to fight earth battles during the Spring Festival to show their love for the land that nurtures them.
Beijing
On the first day of the year, people should take incense and candles to the well to burn and worship, which is called "buying new water", and Tibetan women have to carry back "auspicious water" from the river before dawn on the first day of the year. Think the first day of the new water can bring the gospel and good luck, can keep a year of good luck.
Miao
The Spring Festival is called the "Hakka Year", and every family kills a pig and slaughters a goat, and bakes wine to celebrate the harvest, hoping for good weather and good harvests in the coming year. 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.
Naxi
New Year's Eve, people visit each other's relatives and friends, taking turns as a guest, young and middle-aged men to organize lanterns, and compete with other villages. Cities and villages hold lantern festivals, and the lantern festivals feature stories of their own ethnic groups, such as "Anume Jokes", "The Old Longevity Star Releases a Deer", "The Night Pearl of the Social Opera", "The Lion Rolls the Embroidery Ball", and "The Phoenix Dance".
Mongolians
Five nights to eat dumplings, firecrackers with the Han Chinese. 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 package of men and women also take advantage of this opportunity to Ting line horse racing.
Shui nationality
Mainly in China's Guizhou Province, not a few scattered in Guangxi Autonomous Region. Like many ethnic groups, the Shui people also celebrate the Spring Festival from the first to the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar year. On the eve of the festival, every family has to clean the courtyard, tidy up the house, sew new clothes, stick New Year's paintings, Spring Festival couplets, and prepare sumptuous festival food to welcome the arrival of the New Year. During the Spring Festival, the most important activity for people is to worship their ancestors, and fish is an essential offering. The custom of offering sacrifices is that in some places, a table is temporarily placed in front of the house and a banquet is set up. Some places on the basket, one head holding a variety of production tools, hoping for a good harvest in the coming year.
When sacrificing, burning incense and paper, the whole family, men and women, young and old, should kneel down and pray for the ancestors to bless the whole family peace, all the best. During the Spring Festival, children of the water tribe will go from house to house to ask adults for candies, and whoever asks for the most will be considered the most fortunate and will be smart and healthy in the future. In addition, people dress up in festive costumes and visit each other to celebrate the New Year. Young men and women gather at the end of the village to play the sheng, beat the copper drums, and dance various copper drums to the beat of the drums. During the festival, the sound of drums is often non-stop day and night, the whole aquatic cottage immersed in the joyful atmosphere of the festival.