What is the moral of tasting the New Year Festival?

Tasting the significance of the New Year Festival means a bumper harvest, thanking ancestors and the gods of heaven and earth, and praying for protection. Nianwei Festival is a traditional festival for Gelao people and Miao, Buyi, Bai, Zhuang and Dong people in Hunan, Guizhou and Guangxi provinces. People set off firecrackers to clean villages, perform Nuo opera, sing folk songs and play martial arts. The elders in the village used sieves to hold chicken, meat and wine, and inserted bamboo poles tied with red peppers and green garlic in the fields to show off their ancestors.

The New Year Tasting Festival is held on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month and on the day when the new valley appears in June and July of the summer calendar. Before the festival, housewives went to the fields to pick new grains and make fragrant white rice. On the morning of the festival, every housewife will steam new rice and cook fresh fish, that is, invite elderly guests, take their children to the fields to worship their ancestors, and then have a family dinner to wish a bumper harvest.

During the annual flavor festival, the Gelao people will also hold release activities, mainly wild animals and fish. Farmers will pick a few ears of cooked rice from the ground, rub it into rice grains, cook new rice, kill chickens and ducks, and hold family banquets. Before the banquet, they will provide food to the world to worship their ancestors, then feed the new rice to the dogs, and then taste the new rice in the order of the family.

On New Year's Day, an old man or a ghost teacher in a village leads boys and girls to a nearby field corner to pick new fruits, pick some ripe grains and fruits, hang them under old trees, then kill pigs, sheep and chickens, and offer sacrifices to ancestors and gods, including whole chicken, pig head, sheep head, nine skewers of pork and twenty-four bowls of rice. People are arranged according to their generations and bow down to their ancestors. Ghosts read the language of the Gelao people, and teach six livestock five grains with bamboo whips. Everyone follows them like students.