Chinese Folkways and Customs

Han Chinese - On the first day of the Lunar New Year, people don't sweep the floor, don't splash water outside, don't go to the back door, don't scold their children, and congratulate each other on the auspiciousness of the New Year and the wealth and prosperity of all things. Manchu - when the New Year's Day is approaching, families clean their courtyards and put up window grills, couplets and lucky charms. On the thirtieth day of the Lunar New Year, every family erects a six-meter-high lantern pole, and from the first day to the sixteenth day of the Lunar New Year, red lanterns are hung high every day. The New Year's Eve dumplings, pay attention to the pleats more good, son of 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 to worship once again, 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 also a lantern festival. Korean - every family puts up spring couplets, cooks various 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 fifteenth day of the first month, a traditional celebration gathering is held, in which a few old people are elected to climb on the wooden "Moon Watching Frame" and sing and dance with long drums, tubular pipes and suona. Oroqen - New Year's Eve, the whole family sits around, **** into the dinner. Tasting mountain treasures, drinking wine and eating 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. Herzhe people - New Year's Eve, everyone is busy making New Year's Eve dinner, cutting windows and gluing lanterns. On the first day of the New Year, girls, women and children put on new clothes embroidered with cloud borders and go to friends and relatives to pay New Year's greetings, and treat 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, straw target shooting and straw ball throwing. The Mongols eat dumplings and firecrackers on the fifth day of the month, the same as the Han Chinese. In addition, on New Year's Eve, they eat "hand-held meat" to show that the family is reunited. Early morning of the first day of the evening to the elders of the "New Year's Eve wine", and then young men and women across the pike horse, riding string yurt, the 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. Naxi - the first month of spring people visit each other's relatives and friends, take turns to be a guest, young and middle-aged men to organize a lantern festival, and compete with other villages. Cities and villages have organized lanterns Lantern Festival program is performed in the national story: such as "A Nu Mei jokes", "the birthday boy deer", "social theater night pearl", "lion rolling embroidered ball", "phoenix dance" and so on.