Traditional festivals, living customs and food culture of 56 ethnic groups.

New Year's Eve is a traditional festival of 56 ethnic groups in China.

"New Year's Eve" is called "New Year's Eve" and is the last day of the Lunar New Year. This is the biggest traditional festival of Zhuang nationality in Nanning. At the beginning of the month, we began to make all kinds of preparations for the New Year. On the 30th, every household was busy cleaning the quadrangle, changing clothes, killing chickens, fishing, frying oil tofu, making zongzi and steaming rice cakes. Before dinner, every household should offer sacrifices such as pork, chicken, wine and rice to worship the ancestors' gods. Then burn paper money and set off firecrackers. After the sacrifice, we began to have a reunion dinner. The dishes are rich, and everyone drinks heartily to repay the hardships and family happiness of the year, and the dishes of this meal should be kept to show that there is more than one year.

the Spring Festival; Chinese New Year

The Spring Festival begins in the early morning of the first day of the month and lasts until the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day, with the first day to the fifth day being the most lively. Early in the morning, families are competing to set off fireworks and firecrackers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. At dawn, women rushed to the well by the river to "grab new water", and the first one to pick up new water was the lucky one. Women use "fresh water" to cook glutinous rice balls with ginger juice, first offering sacrifices to ancestors and then eating them by the whole family. We don't visit each other on the first day of the first month. After breakfast, teenagers dress up and invite their peers and friends to participate in various recreational activities nearby. In the past, Nanning also held a ceremony to celebrate the Spring Festival. "Fuzhou County is decorated with colorful pavilions, and local scalpers are arranged to celebrate the Spring Festival in the eastern suburbs"; "The ceremony is very prosperous, and men, women and children are competing to watch it within 20 miles from the county seat. It is very lively." The habit of dancing lions, dragons and spring cows is also popular in rural areas. The lion dance team walked through the village, gongs and drums were loud, and firecrackers were ringing; The children are happy to follow. Every time a lion comes to a house, the owner rewards it with a bag and congratulates each other. No killing on the first day, vegetarian for lunch and leftovers for dinner. Adults give their children lucky money. From the second day of junior high school, relatives began to communicate with each other to pay New Year greetings. The gifts they brought were mainly zongzi, rice cakes, pork and other things, which lasted for several days. The host family only accepts half of the gifts brought by visitors, and keeps half of them or puts them on new year's goods for them to take back. After the fifth day, the visits between relatives and friends to pay New Year greetings gradually decreased, and families began to plan the preparations for that year. On the Lantern Festival, every family kills chickens to prepare meat, worships ancestors, and prays for good weather, long life and prosperity of six livestock. The Spring Festival is over.