A... Tibetans
Every ethnic group has its own unique culture and living habits, Tibetans are an ancient and passionate people, in the long history, also formed their own habits and taboos in life.
1, when two long-time friends greet or chat with each other, your hands can't be on each other's shoulders.
2, you can't cross or step on other people's clothes, or put your own clothes on other people's clothes, or cross over people.
3. Women drying their clothes, especially pants, and underwear must not be dried where everyone passes by.
4. You must not whistle or cry loudly in the house.
5. You can't sweep the floor or take out the garbage at noon or after sunset or on the first day of the Tibetan New Year when your family is out of town or when guests have just left.
6. Outsiders are not allowed to mention the name of a deceased person in front of his or her relatives.
7. Work that should be completed this year cannot be left until next year, such as twisting wool, weaving sweaters, carpets and so on.
8, dusk, can not just go to people's homes, especially when people will have a pregnant woman in labor and just gave birth to a woman in labor or a seriously ill person, strangers can not go.
9. After noon, one must not take out any of the family's possessions.
10. A stranger who goes to the big mountains and cliffs and canyons that you have never been to before cannot make a loud noise.
11, you can't cross or step on eating utensils, pots and pans, ladle and basin.
12. If two people go out at the same time and in opposite directions, they cannot leave the house at the same time, but must go out before and after and at different times.
13. Women are not allowed to comb and wash their hair at night, nor are they allowed to go out with their hair draped over their heads.
14. When using brooms and dustpans, they must not be passed directly from hand to hand, but must first be placed on the ground and then picked up from the ground by another person.
15, whenever friends and relatives come to your home to visit or visit you, will take some ghee tea or barley wine and other items as a gift to you, the guests before leaving to vacate the things, can not be all empty, you must leave a little in the inside or change a little of their own things loaded.
16, chipped or cracked bowls can not be used to eat, and can not pour tea for guests.
II... Yi
The Yi torch festival, also known as the Yi year. In the eyes of the Yi people, fire symbolizes light, justice, prosperity, and a powerful force capable of destroying all evil. The Torch Festival is a festival of joy, love and happiness for the Yi people.
On the origin of the Torch Festival, there are many beautiful and touching stories circulating in the folklore of the Yi areas in different provinces, one of which says: a long time ago, the heaven and the earth were connected. One year, the god of the sky, Siti Gujia, sent Siti Abi to the earth to collect taxes. Because of the disaster on earth and crop failure, people can not afford to pay the rent, the earth there is a can eat copper and iron Hercules Othi Laba tax collector Sijia Abi killed. The gods were furious and sent a flood to drown the people on earth, but the flood was overcome by the people. But the flood was overcome by the people. The gods then released all kinds of pests to the earth to eat the people's crops, and Othiraba and his group gathered around a fire pit to discuss a cure for the pests, and inadvertently found that a pest that fell into the fire pit was quickly burned to death. Thus, the Russian body Raba organized the group to raise the torch burning insects, and ultimately defeated the pests, captured a good harvest. Over time, it became a custom and formed the Yi Torch Festival. The Yi Torch Festival is usually celebrated for three days, the first day of which the whole family gathers and eats wine to congratulate. People cook the meat of livestock and cut it into heaps to sacrifice to the gods and ancestors, and then use it to drink wine. In the evening, torches are burned to light the prairie, which usually lasts for three nights. People's emotions are very enthusiastic. People take the village as a unit, holding up torches around the village and the fields to light prairie, as if a thousand fire dragons flying. The next day and the third day, the torch festival into the climax, the whole Liangshan boiling. The young men put on their national costumes and wrapped their headscarves with heroes' knots; the women wore pleated skirts and gathered on the vast grassy dams to engage in all kinds of traditional sports competitions. The boys engage in wrestling, horse racing, and archery competitions, while the women sing, dance, and play the mouth harp.
In some areas, during the festival, pigs and goats are sacrificed to the gods; in some areas, a dog is slaughtered and sacrificed to the "Tian Gong Di Mu" in the fields. People believe that the torch can drive away ghosts and evil spirits, so light the torch to go from door to door to light prairie, while walking on the fire sprinkled with rosin, people call it "send the evil spirits". Undoubtedly, this is the remains of the ancient concept of fire worship.
Torch festival, the most lively place to count the bullfighting arena. Bullfighting is not only a kind of recreational activity, but also a good way to choose the good breed of cattle, which is very positive for agriculture and livestock production. Whose cow wins in the competition means that the young cattle breeder is a hard-working animal husbandry expert, and is often a good object for the girls to choose their spouses. Wrestling is another activity that attracts spectators in the Torch Festival. Two people wrestling, ten thousand people gathered to, family and friends, all come to cheer. Before and after the match, the onlookers play the mouth harp for the girls, and the boys play the moon zither to show their love and admiration.
"Beauty contest" is unique. The "beauty contest" is judged by a respected senior citizen. After the referee announced the start of the "beauty contest", the Yi girls who took part in the contest formed a circle, the latter pulling the former in the hands of the hanapa, while walking and singing beautiful and moving folk songs. This is the place where most of the young men gather to watch, and they are also the most generous. When the boys think that a girl is the fittest, they will give their gifts to the judges and ask them to pass them on to the girl on their behalf. The referee declares the girl who has received the most gifts to be the most beautiful. When the girl who was elected as the beautiful girl came out of the meeting with many gifts on her back and a reddish haze on her face, her friends and relatives gathered around to express their congratulations; the young men even gathered around the girl, tinkling and strumming the moon-lute to express their own heartfelt feelings.
On the fourth day, a handful of people sweep up the ashes of the torches and offer them with wine and meat for good luck.
III. Hong Kong Customs
The Lunar New Year is traditionally a great festival in China, and I believe that no Chinese person is unaware of it. However, celebrating Lunar New Year in Hong Kong is very different from the traditional one in terms of customs and atmosphere.
In recent years, very few Hong Kong people have traditionally put up Chinese New Year couplets and paintings at home during the Lunar New Year. Instead, they put up spring scrolls in some stores or at home to wish "prosperous business" and "peace in and out of the city". In spite of this, the original intention of sticking spring and sticking spring couplets and New Year's paintings, take its auspicious meaning, hope that the coming year everything goes well, peace and security.
Four. Macau New Year customs
Macau New Year's customs have a unique flavor. One of the most traditional Chinese New Year customs preserved in Macau is the "thank you to Zao" ceremony. On the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year, the Macau people send off the God of Stoves, which is called "thanking the God of Stoves". Macanese traditionally use Zao candies to give to the god of Zao, saying that it is to paste the mouth of the god of Zao with candies to prevent him from saying bad words to the Jade Emperor. I've seen a Santa Claus statue in a Macau family's house on Flower Street in Macau, and strangely enough, the Santa Claus statue is labeled with a "good things to say in heaven, and good fortune to come back to the house" link.
Five Taiwan Chinese New Year customs to pick up interest
The Spring Festival, is the Chinese nation's long history, the most grand folk festival. In Taiwan and Fujian Province across the water, its history and culture, customs, living customs, relatives and so on are with the motherland, especially in Fujian Minnan region of the same lineage, so the island people's Spring Festival customs naturally and the motherland folk similar.
Since the ancestors of the islanders (mostly Minnan and Hakka) went to Taiwan for development, it is a long time ago and has gone through many vicissitudes, and the Chinese New Year customs there have gradually formed some unique patterns and colors.
VI. Interesting Jiangsu Spring Festival customs
The Spring Festival in Jiangsu folk, in addition to posting Spring Festival couplets, hanging New Year's paintings, the New Year's Eve, lion dances, the New Year's Eve and other national customs, there are also a number of unique customs, is now recorded a number of them for the benefit of the readers.
Suzhou New Year's Eve in the rice into the cooked water chestnuts, digging out when you eat, called "digging treasure", friends and relatives to come and go, bubble tea should be placed into the two green olives, said to drink "treasure tea", congratulations on wealth.
Wujin people on the morning of the first day of the year, the ancestral portrait hanging in the center hall, for the tea fruit, rice cakes, a family of old and young people in order to perform New Year's rites, known as the "worship God shadow." They are not allowed to sweep the floor from home to the outside, lest the "wealth", "Ruyi" swept out, only from the outside to the inside.
Jiangning people have the Spring Festival "playing the drums" custom, by the flag to open the way, drummers and gongs to beat the drums with all their strength, the third "playing the night drums", the seventh "on the seven drums", thirteen to fifteen to play the "shoulder drums", the atmosphere is enthusiastic.
Nantong people have the custom of inserting sesame stalks, holly, and cypress branches in front of their homes or halls, meaning that life blossoms and grows higher and higher, and is verdant all year round.
Huaiyin people also have the sixth day of the child "baked head wind" custom. It is the night to take the child to the field open space lit torches, for the child to drive away the disease, baked while singing: "baked head, wake up the brain, baked feet, step corrective, baked belly is not diarrhea, full of body are baked all over, the disease never see."
Wuxi fishermen on the eighth day of the year by boat to the West Mountain to worship the custom of Yuwang Temple, praying for the blessing of the God of Water, sacrificing ao fine Buddha, called "on?"
The custom gradually faded after the demolition of the Yuwang Temple.
During the Spring Festival, there are many taboos in the old customs in Jiangsu, such as the first day of the year does not move the scissors, lest the verbal dispute; do not move the knife, so as not to kill; do not eat rice, for fear of going out to meet the rain; do not sweep the floor, for fear of sweeping away the wealth and so on. With the popularization of scientific knowledge, there are many unscientific customs are gradually forgotten; healthy and useful entertainment and leisure activities, but has been continued.
VII. Spring Festival Customs in Guilin
From "New Year's Eve" to New Year's EveThe Spring Festival steps into the city and countryside of Guilin with the bell ringing at zero hour on December 24th of the lunar calendar. This day is the "New Year's Eve" of Guilin people, also known as the "New Year's Eve". On this day, people slaughter dogs and ducks to celebrate the arrival of the Spring Festival. The sound of firecrackers on this day, with people to send Zaowang master "to the sky to say good things" wish crackling, sound spread to the world. People believe that the God of the stove is the master of the family, a family of good and evil merits and demerits are in charge of it, so the end of each year, we must send the God of the stove to the sky to the Jade Emperor, for the whole family to lower the blessing from disaster. The ceremony of sacrificing to the God of Zaos is mostly done by the elders of the family, who put candies on the head of the stove to sacrifice to the God of Zaos, praying that the God of Zaos "says good things in heaven and descends to the earth with good luck". The purpose of offering candies to Zaoshen is to make the candies "stick" to Zaoshen's mouth, so that his sweet mouth can say good things. After New Year's Eve, firecrackers are set off to bring the Zaoshendi down to earth. This is the ancient custom of Guilin's "New Year's Eve", and now even the firecrackers are only a remnant of the ancient rituals.
From the 24th to the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, people are busy shopping for new year's goods and cleaning up inside and outside their homes to welcome the new year in a clean and tidy manner. There are many kinds of traditional foods for the festival, and they have good wishes: on the twenty-ninth day of the Lunar New Year, people steam rice cakes, which are sweet and sweet, meat and vegetarian, and eat them to make their lives and work flourish in the new year, so that they can rise higher and higher.
New Year's Eve dinner, people like to get together as a family, the dishes must have "round", "happy", to take its meaning of reunion, happy. On this night, thousands of people are at home to observe the New Year. During the vigil, the charcoal fire in the fire pit is burned red-hot to symbolize the prosperity of life year after year. When the zero hour arrives, young and old are filled with joy and welcome the New Year with the sound of firecrackers. The sound of the firecrackers, one after another, until late at night, people still do not sleep, the fire is still strong, is to go to rest, but also will not forget to nestle the fire pot fire, leaving kindling, and so on tomorrow morning to burn a good fire pot. New Year's fire is like human life, it is a good omen for the New Year's prosperity, family prosperity. People have such a deep affection for fire, perhaps because the fire has brought civilization to mankind, brought warmth. Love fire as love their own lives, especially in the New Year.
From the first day of the New Year to the fifteenth day of the first monthEarly in the morning on the first day of the New Year, the firecrackers of the God of Fortune awakened the dawn. Neighbors, friends and colleagues, the first thing they say when they meet is to wish a good new year. The Spring Festival is a good time for people to enhance their relationships and consolidate their friendships. People pay their respects to each other, have fun, look back on the past and look forward to the future, and have a strong sense of humor.
The streets and alleys, a team of New Year's Eve lion dance side line, very active, many children follow the lion team to see the lion New Year's Eve hustle and bustle. When the lions went to a store door, the owner will light firecrackers to meet, the lions in front of the door to the owner of the salute, the leader also went up to the owner of the arch bow to the New Year blessings. The lion's humane New Year's greeting and the leader's auspicious words will make the owner's heart happy and the store's business will be prosperous. At this time, the lion in the sound of firecrackers dance, dance out of a good luck, dance out of a strong wind. Its big head of joy, broad forehead, big eyes, raised nose, square mouth, golden red hair, its image is both powerful and naive, amusing. See the lion robust and courageous, out of the cave, across the bridge, in the head up chaotic clouds flying over, head down, "ten thousand feet deep" on the bridge to rise up to God's might. At this time the lion drums such as stormy, thrilling and wonderful lion performance thrilling. Then it is up and down the mountain, drinking water and eating green, step on the star walk pile, on the ladder, nine days to catch the moon, etc., the lion head, lion tail with the tacit understanding. Dance to the sound time, stacked Luohan picking green, the lion picked green after nodding to the audience bowing. And then hair, cut the collar, quite interesting. Drums stop, the lion from the nine days Guanghan straight down, shocked the whole audience, to be fixed eyes, the lion is stable in the hands of all Luohan, is looking back at the moon. This stunt in the silence of the heart, won the applause of the audience.
Lion New Year's Day is a favorite traditional project of Guilin people, so every Spring Festival eve, the lion team will be dressed up, practicing the traditional routine of lion dance. Once the Spring Festival arrives, the lion shakes its spirit and dances on the street to pay New Year's greetings to the pre-arranged home or store. The lion walks all the way to dance all the way, jumping, intruding, Rin, roaring, stepping, leaping and so on to perform a lively performance. The big-headed monks and big-headed dolls who play the lion dance take three steps to twist, and the monkeys who tease the lion dance are full of monkey energy. The sound of gongs and drums of the lion dance team adds to the joy of Guilin and brings a sense of spring.
Guilin's lion New Year's greetings and monkeys to pick spring, picking high green, eat ground green and other forms. Some of the lion team's lion, able to dance on the 6-meter-high platform, 13 benches stacked high mountain, and can move freely on it, amusing and entertaining! After the dance, the lion also calmly edge of the bench and down, the demeanor is still so natural. Of course, compared to the lion that eats the ground green and the lion that picks the high green, its skill is slightly lower. The master of the package and vegetables on the bench, in front of a pot of water, the lion in the "eat green" before drinking water, "eat green" after also want to gargle, these very rich in animal interest and anthropomorphic action, it is more than handsome.
Lion New Year's Eve, in some of the countryside in Lingui, also accompanied by blessings of auspicious lion song: lion head on the three points of yellow, today worship on your hall, congratulations to the master of the house to give birth to a noble son, all over the world to the name. Three points of green on the lion's head, today to pay homage to your court, congratulations on the good fortune of the master's family, and add to the wealth and add to the family. The lion's tail is a ball, come to your house to pay respect to the pig and cow, congratulations to the master's family, the pig will be big soon, and you will have food and clothes without any worries. The lion's eye is bewildered, congratulating the master's family on their good fortune, and their six animals will prosper, and there are geese and ducks and dogs.
The lion's song is a beautiful song, which has been passed down in the folklore for thousands of years, and has been a blessing for the neighbors every year in the Spring Festival, making people happy.
Unwittingly to the Lantern Festival, the night of the fifteenth day of the first month of the year, Guilin City, although there is no fire trees and silver flowers in full bloom, but it is the lights of all the houses.
The Lantern Festival in Guilin in the past, from the thirteenth day of the first month onwards, there were dragon lanterns on parade. The dragon lanterns traveled through the streets and alleys for three nights, and wherever they went, families set off firecrackers and burned incense and candles, praying that the dragon lanterns would bring good luck and prosperity. Dragon lantern parade there are a variety of shengxiao drum music, stilts, card lamps, gongs and drums shed together on the streets, forming a vast dragon lantern parade, the scene is very spectacular. On the night of the festival, the lanterns are lit up all night long, which together with the flying dragon lanterns turn Guilin into a city that never sleeps.
Nowadays, the custom of lighting lanterns on the night of the Lantern Festival is still preserved in Guilin. On the night of the Lantern Festival, you can see the lanterns from a height, which is very refreshing. The flickering lights converge into a river of lights, as if the Milky Way in the sky falls several times. The light or quiet, or flow, flash leap in tall buildings, open in the green leaves, so that the night sky of Guilin brilliant. At this time the halls and rooms of the families, all the lights are shining brightly, and the whole family sits under the lights and eats osmanthus sugar-centered Lanterns, peanut and sesame Lanterns ...... that sweet and fragrant traditional food, so that every family is immersed in the joy of the festival." Fire on New Year's Eve, Lights on the Fifteenth Day" is a proverb circulating in Guilin's folklore. The fire pots on New Year's Eve are red-hot, and the lanterns on the fifteenth day of the festival are also closely related to fire, which is also a kind of hope for the New Year.
Customs of Spring Festival of Chinese Minorities
China is a multi-ethnic country, in addition to the Han Chinese, there are 55 ethnic minorities. Although they have different languages, scripts, lifestyles and customs, most of them celebrate the Spring Festival as a major festival for their own ethnic groups.
VIII. Daur ethnic group: year high
The Daur ethnic group in the north has the habit of paying New Year's greetings. At the Spring Festival, people put on their festive dresses and visit each house to congratulate each other. Each family is equipped with steamed cakes, the New Year's visitors enter the door, the host with steamed cakes hospitality. "Cake" in Chinese and "high" resonance, to cake hospitality, said each other in the new year, the standard of living further improved. During the festival, the Daur people also held songs and dances, sports activities, has lasted half a month.
9. Mongolia: meat and wine not exhausted
The Mongolian people in the north of the Spring Festival is another scene, before the festival, families are prepared for the year of the growth of the ram and a variety of dairy products and a few altars of wine. On New Year's Eve, people put on their beautiful Mongolian robes and the whole family sits in the center of the yurt to welcome the new year. Midnight began to drink and eat, according to the usual to eat and drink, the more meat and wine left over the better, so that the symbol of the new year of meat and wine, eat and drink no worries. The first morning, dressed in a variety of clothing, men and women, straddling the steed, in groups of three to five run to the "Haut" (villages and towns), string of yurts one by one. When stringing yurts, the first to kowtow to the elders to wish, and then the son-in-law of the host family came to string yurts for the guests to toast, people sing and dance.
X. Zhuang: Welcoming the Heroes
The Zhuang, who live in southern China, call the Spring Festival the "New Year's Day". On this day, people go out and congratulate each other no matter who they meet, believing that this will make the year auspicious. In the Zhuang folk there is also the custom of the late New Year, the Zhuang called "eat Li Festival". "Eat Li Festival" is on the 30th of this month, according to legend, more than 100 years ago, a peasant army of the Zhuang people in the fight against foreign invaders returned in triumph, when the Spring Festival has passed, the Zhuang people in order to welcome them, on the 30th of this month for them to repeat the Spring Festival.
XI. Buyei: girls rush to pick the first load of water
The Buyei, who live on China's southwestern border, keep watch all night on New Year's Eve every year. At dawn, the girls compete to go outside the house to pick water, who picks back the first water, who is the most diligent girl. The Jingpo people there like to hold target shooting activities before the Spring Festival, and the girls are the organizers and referees of this activity. They hang embroidered purses on bamboo poles with threads and swing them from side to side in the tips of trees, asking young men to shoot them. Whoever shoots down the purse first, the girls give the wine as a prize. The purse usually contains a coin, a few grains of grain and a few decorative beads as a symbol of happiness.
XII. Hani: Swinging
A few days before the Spring Festival, villages inhabited by the Hani ethnic group are already bustling with women who are busy pounding poi. Ba Ba is a cake made of glutinous rice. And the young men are busy going up the mountain to cut bamboo and prepare to set 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.
Thirteen. Dai: throwing chaff bag
The Dai young men and women love to throw chaff bag game, during the Spring Festival, the boys and girls throw each other chaff bag, to see who threw accurate, to see who caught. Play to a certain time, the girls will quietly snatch the young man's body to wear a belt knife, head cloth or tethered horse, ran home. If the young man is in love, he will follow. When the parents see their daughters return with their head cloths and horses, they hold a banquet.
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.
XIV. Alpine people: "Around the Furnace"
The Alpine people who live in Taiwan Province of China have a different kind of fun when they celebrate the Spring Festival. On the evening of New Year's Eve, families sit around a round table with hot pots and pans and have a meal, called a "hibachi". The women, who usually do not drink alcohol, will also 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 goes out, a seat should be left empty and the clothes of that person should be put on the empty seat to show that the whole family misses him.
Fifteen. Manchu: hanging the flag for the New Year
Manchu people divided into "red, yellow, blue, white" four flags. Spring Festival, the red flag people in the door posted red hanging flag, yellow flag people in the door posted yellow hanging flag, blue flag people in the door posted blue hanging flag, white flag people in the door posted white hanging flag. These hanging flags are beautifully patterned and colorful, symbolizing an auspicious start to the year.
During the festival, the boys ganged up to set off firecrackers, or ride the homemade wooden plows of various kinds, in the hillock, on the ice whooshing speed. Young girls and young daughters-in-law wearing newly made flowery clothes, in groups of three or five, split up into families to play Garaha (the knee bone of a pig or a cow). From the first to the fifth night, people also voluntarily organized to twist rice-planting songs to pay homage to the New Year, a strong rice-planting team, not only in the village to twist, but also to the outside village to twist. Onlookers are often so happy that they forget about fatigue and cold. There are even enthusiastic spectators - straight along with the rice-planting team to go to the countryside, until dawn to return.
Sixteen. Bai people: "put high up"
Yunnan Bai compatriots on New Year's Eve, there is a kind of celebration called "put high up". The so-called "put high rise" is to use the whole large bamboo, in the bamboo joints filled with gunpowder, after ignition can be the whole large bamboo collapsed into the sky a hundred feet, become a veritable "high rise". Some areas of the Bai compatriots and Miao, Zhuang, from the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival, young men and women are "throwing 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, is to say that accept each other's love.
XVII. Dong: Lusheng will
Guizhou, Hunan Dong compatriots, during the Spring Festival prevailed a "playing Dong New Year" (also known as the Lusheng will be) of mass activities. 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.
Eighteen. Yi: jumping tiger
Shuangbai County, Yunnan Province, the Yi people have a New Year's Eve "jumping tiger festival" special custom, the eighth day of the first month, the village adult men gathered in the village behind the site of the land temple, kill the dog dedication "Mis" ("Mis" meaning "Mis"), "Mis" means "Mis", "Mis" means "Mis". "Mimi" means earth, "Division" means master, the fan Division that is the meaning of the Lord God of the earth), followed by the village "Bimo" sacrifices to the Lord God of the tiger. 8 villagers disguised as tigers dancing, "the tigers". The "tigers" have high ears, thick tails, tiger stripes all over their bodies, a Chinese character for "king" painted on their foreheads, and a big brass bell hanging on their necks, making them look majestic. After the "Bima" reads out the rituals to invite the tiger god, the tiger king leads all the tigers into the village. Throughout the jumping tiger festival period, the whole village up and down men, women and children are immersed in the welcome tiger, send tiger, watch the tiger jumping and drive away the evil spirits and monsters in a joyful atmosphere, the local people are convinced that only through the annual tradition of jumping tigers, tiger god and pray for the blessing of the old ancestors, all the villagers in order to be fruitful and prosperous, more than one year more beautiful and happy.
Nineteen. Sani: food dumplings
New Year's Eve, the Sani language called "Si Rub period". New Year's Eve for ancestors, eat New Year's dinner, is very solemn. In the afternoon, in front of the door of the house inserted a green branch, hanging a straw hat on the branch. This is a silent notice: Do not enter! No talking! Even the people in the house are not allowed to raise their voices.
There is an interesting phenomenon in the Sani language: "dumplings" and "New Year's Eve" is the same word, called "Kaozima". Because the New Year must eat dumplings. For half a month from the first day of the first month of the lunar year, people have a lot of fun. On the first night of the first month, a bonfire party is held, with folk songs and a three-stringed hu solo, which is simple and lyrical. The thumping and thumping of the sanxian is soaring, and people sing and dance to the music.
Sacrificing the mountain god on the second day of the lunar month and sending sparks on the fourth day of the lunar month are meant to expel disasters and show the power of human beings.
Every year, the second day of the Spring Festival in the afternoon, the farmers to take the cow out, around the village center to walk around a few times, in its forehead wear red cloth tied flowers, expressed its contribution to the year's respect. Also feed it rice and fat pork, to show their close companion's condolences.
The Sani people, from New Year's Eve to the fifth day of the month, have activities to honor their ancestors. From their veneration and remembrance of their ancestors, the cohesion of this nation and the good things in traditional morality can be found.