On Tibetan New Year's Eve, people put on colorful costumes and grotesque masks, played music with suona, conch and drum, and pursued a grand and grand "God Jumping Meeting". The boys danced wildly and sang loudly, indicating that they would get rid of the old and welcome the new, exorcise evil spirits and reduce happiness. On New Year's morning, women go to carry "auspicious water" and wish the new year good luck.
Yi people and Yi compatriots choose festivals according to the Yi calendar. Some spend the Spring Festival with the local Han people. In some areas, Yi compatriots set up pine trees in front of the door and spread the floor with pine needles to avoid disasters. In other areas, pigs and sheep are slaughtered during festivals, and people visit each other and give each other meat and steamed buns. On the morning of New Year's Day, the first thing to get up is to carry water home. They compare the weight of a bowl of water with yesterday's water. For example, the water in the New Year is heavier, which means that there is enough rain this year.
Zhuang compatriots in Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangdong and other regions celebrate the Spring Festival at the same time as Han people. On New Year's Eve, we should prepare the rice we eat on the festival day, which is called "New Year's Rice". In some areas, people call it "Eating the Festival", and Zhuang language means "Old Age". It portends a bumper agricultural harvest in the coming year. Some of them also make paraffin cakes that are more than a foot long and weigh five or six pounds, and a family with a small population can't finish a meal! In the early morning of New Year's Day, people get up before dawn, put on new clothes and set off firecrackers to welcome the new year. Women are scrambling to go to the river or well to "draw new water" and start a boiling life in the new year.
On New Year's Eve, the whole family of Buyi people stayed up all night by the pond. At dawn, the girls scrambled to fetch water. Whoever picks up the first load of water first is the hardest-working and happiest girl.
Manchu Manchu is divided into four banners: red, yellow, blue and white. During the Spring Festival, people with red flags put up red flags, people with yellow flags put up yellow flags, people with blue flags put up blue flags and people with white flags put up white flags. These flags are beautifully patterned and brightly colored, symbolizing the auspicious beginning of the year.
During the Spring Festival, a mass activity called "Playing Dong Year" (also called Lusheng Festival) is popular among Dong compatriots in Guizhou and Hunan. This activity is similar to the "group worship" of the Han nationality, but it is more joyful and enthusiastic than the "group worship". This kind of activity is usually held by two villages. The two teams formally held a Lusheng Song and Dance Competition in the square. At this time, the audience of the two villages danced and enjoyed themselves with the music.
During the Chinese New Year, Bai compatriots in Yunnan have a kind of celebration called "Putting Up High". The so-called "soaring" is to use the whole big bamboo and put gunpowder in the bamboo joints. After lighting, the whole big bamboo can collapse into the sky and become a veritable "soaring". In some areas, Bai compatriots, like Miao and Zhuang, are carrying out "throwing hydrangea" activities from the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival. Anyone who can't catch the hydrangea will be given a souvenir to the other party. Those who miss the ball many times and can't redeem the souvenir will show their willingness to love.
During the Tujia Spring Festival, Tujia people will hold a grand waving dance. Hand-waving dance is an ancient dance popular in Tujia nationality, including hunting, military, farming, banquet and more than 7 dance moves. It has a distinct rhythm, beautiful movements, simple dancing, healthy mood, no props, distinctive national characteristics and a strong flavor of life.
The Dai People's Water-splashing Festival is the Dai People's New Year Festival and the biggest traditional program in a year. The day when Grain Rain started was designated as the "Water-splashing Festival". During the three or four-day festival, people throw water at each other to show that they have washed away the old soil and wished happiness and peace in the new year.
Li people who live in Hainan Island, every household will slaughter pigs and chickens, put on rich food and wine, and have a "New Year's dinner" with the whole family. During the dinner, the whole family will also sing "New Year's Song". On the first and second day of junior high school, young and middle-aged men in the village will also hold a "Spring Festival Hunting". The prey of this day is enjoyed by the whole village. Interestingly, when dividing prey, half of all prey is given to the first shooter who hits the prey; The other half is shared equally by everyone. Pregnant women can get two points, passers-by happen to meet, and they can also get one.
The Yi people call the New Year's Festival "what is lost". Most of them make glutinous rice cakes, glutinous rice cakes and brew water wine, and put a little cake from the first mortar on peach, plum and other fruit trees. The Yi people in Nujiang, Yunnan, should first feed salt to the cattle to show their respect for their work. Young men and women like to hold Spring Festival shooting competitions. The girls hung the embroidered purse on the bamboo pole, and the purse swayed from side to side, asking the boys to shoot. Whoever shoots the purse first, the girls will send the wine as a prize to whose mouth.
On the New Year's Eve of the Lahu people, the whole family of Lahu compatriots should bathe themselves and prepare food for the next day. In food, special attention is paid to glutinous rice Baba. In addition to eating, cows should always be given some and put some on farm tools such as plows, hoes and machetes to reward their cooperation with their owners in the past year and wish them more wealth in the new year.
Daur people live on both sides of Nenjiang River in Northeast China. On the morning of the first day of the first lunar month, young men and women dress up, first greet their elders, toast and salute, and then pay New Year greetings from house to house. Every family prepares steamed cakes, and people who pay New Year greetings grab steamed cakes as soon as they enter the door. It is said that after eating them, their production and life will be "high year after year".
From the first day of the first month to the fifteenth day of the first month, in the villages and villages of the Mulao nationality, men, women and children all put on holiday costumes, and dozens, hundreds or even thousands of people gather on the hillside or in the sports field to sing folk songs and enjoy their labor, life and love.
The only festival of Dulong people is the "Kaque Wow" festival in the twelfth month of winter. The most solemn ceremony is the sacrifice of cattle to heaven. On this day, the patriarch tied the cow to a stake in the center of the square. A young woman hung a chain bead on the horn, and then a brave and strong young man, armed with a sharp bamboo spear, stabbed the ox in the armpit until it fell dead. At this moment, people dance "Niuguozhuang" and then share the beef.
On the morning of the Spring Festival, Oroqen compatriots in the northeast of China pour wine in the family according to their seniority, and the young kowtow to the elders, while the peers greet each other. On the second and third days of the Spring Festival, they hold horse races. Delicious food on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the morning of the 16th day of the first month, there will be activities to discredit each other. Young people should kowtow first when they discredit the elderly.
during the Hezhe Spring Festival, Hezhe means "Foeshikes", which means New Year's Eve. People wear animal skins embroidered with beautiful patterns, geometric patterns and lace such as flowers and birds on hats, collars, cuffs, trouser legs, aprons and uppers. On the New Year's Day, people usually have a "fire-spitting banquet", or make cakes with a wild fruit "thick plums" and fill them with fish, animal meat and other foods. Treat distinguished guests by killing live fish, or roasting fish sticks and entertaining them with this kind of "Tallaha".
When the Spring Festival comes, Jino people who live in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, the old man who chews betel nuts raises his head and plays the cymbals, and the old woman with a big pointed hat rings the gong with his head down. Zhou Ba (the village father) is the first to ring the drums, and the young men and women dance in a circle with their bare hands.