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Which nation is tasting the new year's goods?

The activities of the festival include: setting off firecrackers to sweep the village, performing Nuo opera, singing folk songs, playing martial arts, "offering sacrifices to Shennong", bypassing rice fields and picking new valleys. Chinese New Year Festival, commonly known as "Eating Chinese New Year Festival", is a traditional festival for Gelao people and Miao, Buyi, Bai and Zhuang people in Hunan, Guizhou and Guangxi provinces. It is held every year when the new valley debuted in June and July in the summer calendar, mainly to thank the ancestors and the gods of heaven and earth and pray for a bumper harvest.

The origin of the flavor of the year: A long time ago, the Zhuang people suffered from hunger. Under the guidance of Buluotuo, they went to heaven to look for the seeds of grain. When Kyubi no Youko, a loyal partner of Zhuang nationality, arrived in the fairyland and saw golden rice all over the floor, he rolled on it with joy. The fairy was furious and cut off its eight tails. Kyubi no Youko dog ran away in a hurry, and returned to the world to find that all his grains were lost in the escape. Fortunately, there are still a few tails left, and the Zhuang people rely on it.

Before New Year's Day, housewives went to the fields to pick new grain and cook delicious 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 good harvest.

During the Spring Festival, firecrackers were set off to sweep the village, Nuo operas were performed, folk songs were sung and martial arts were played, while the elders in the village screened chickens, meat and wine, and bamboo poles tied with red peppers and green garlic were inserted in the ground to show their ancestor worship. During the festival, the Gelao people will also hold release activities, mainly wild animals and fish. Nowadays, the New Year Festival in the villages of Gelao nationality, such as Wanxiu Wanchai Village in Anshun and Dagouchang in Pingba, is the most grand.