In China, the Spring Festival is also the customary festival of people of various ethnic minorities. People of all ethnic groups in accordance with their own customs, held a variety of celebrations, with their own strong national unique style.
Tibetan New Year's Eve, people dressed in colorful costumes, wearing strange masks, with oboe, conch, drums, music, to perform a grand and grand "Jumping God will be". The young men dance and sing to welcome the new year and to drive away evil spirits. To the New Year's morning, the women will go to the back of the "auspicious water", wishing a new year of good luck.
Yi Ethnicity The Yi compatriots choose their New Year's festivals according to the Yi calendar. Some of them celebrate the Spring Festival with the local Han Chinese. In some areas, Yi compatriots set up pines in front of their doors and pave the ground with pine needles to indicate that they are free from disasters and calamities. In other areas, pigs and goats are killed and eaten during the festival, and people visit each other and give each other meat and buns. On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, the first thing you do when you get up is to carry water home. They compare the weight of a bowl of water with that of yesterday's. If the water is heavy in the New Year, it means that there has been enough rain this year.
The Zhuang People The Zhuang compatriots, who live in Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan and Guangdong, 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 live in the twilight of the year" in the Zhuang language. 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 The whole family stays up all night on New Year's Eve at the watering hole. As soon as the sun comes up, the girls scramble to fetch water. Whoever is the first to pick up the first load of water is the hardest working and happiest girl.
Manchu The Manchus are divided into four banners: red, yellow, blue and white. 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 have beautiful patterns and bright colors, symbolizing an auspicious start to the year.
Dong Dong Dong compatriots in Guizhou, Hunan, during the Spring Festival, the prevalence of 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 from both villages, accompanied by music, dancing and enjoying themselves.
Bai people 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 of the large bamboo, in the bamboo joints loaded with gunpowder, ignited after the entire large bamboo can be collapsed 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, expressed willingness to allow love.
Tujia Spring Festival, the Tujia people to hold a grand hand-waving dance. Hand-waving dance is a popular ancient dance of the Tujia people, including hunting, military, farming, banquets and other more than 70 dance movements, rhythmic, beautiful, simple dance, healthy mood, without props, with distinctive ethnic characteristics and a strong sense of life.
The Dai People The Water Splashing Festival is the New Year's festival of the Dai people, and it is the grandest traditional program of the Dai people in a year. It is the biggest traditional program of the Dai people in a year. The day of the beginning of the rainy season is designated as the "Water Splashing Festival". During the three or four days of the festival, people splash water on each other to wash away the old dirt on their bodies and bless the new year with happiness and peace.
Li people living on Hainan Island Li people, whenever the Spring Festival comes, every family will slaughter pigs and chickens, set up a sumptuous delicacies and wine, the family sat together to eat "New Year's dinner"; the whole family will also be singing "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 can get two shares, and passers-by who happen to meet, can also get a share.
Lisu People The Lisu people call the annual festival "Qash", most of them do indica rice, glutinous rice and water wine, the first mortar pounded out of the poop put a little in the peaches, plums and other fruit trees, wishing the coming year fruitful. The Lisu people in the Nujiang region of Yunnan Province first feed salt to their oxen to show their 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 is in front of their mouths.
Lahu On the evening of New Year's Eve, the whole family of Lahu compatriots will take a bath and clean themselves, and make good food for the following day. In the food, special attention is paid to 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 to cooperate with the master, and wish to create more wealth in the new year.
Daur People living in the northeast on both sides of the Nenjiang River Daur, the first morning of the first day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar, young men and women dress up, first to the elders, toast, salute, and then pay tribute to the New Year, each family is prepared to have steamed cake, to pay tribute to the New Year's Eve, once the door to the steamed cake, it is said to have eaten, the production and life are able to "high year".
Mulao Tribe 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 slopes of the hills or in the racecourses to sing songs about their labor, their lives and their love.
The only festival of the Dulong people 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 is to invite each other, the second and third horse racing. 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. Young people should kowtow first when they wipe the black face of the elderly.
Herzhe Spring Festival, Herzhe language for the "Fo Feshix", that is, the meaning of the New Year's Eve. People put on the hat ears, collar, cuffs, pants 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. To treat the guest of honor, it is used to kill the live fish, or roast the fish sticks, with this "Taraha" hospitality.
Kinuo Spring Festival, gathered in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, the Kinuo tribe, betel nut chewing old man raised his head to play the cymbals, wearing a big pointed hat of the crone bowed his head to sound the gong, by the Zhouba (Zai father) was the first to play the drums, male and female youths gathered in a circle to dance unarmed.