Why is "My Past Festival" the most traditional grand festival of Pumi people?

According to ancient regulations, it used to take nine days to celebrate this festival. Up to now, most Pumi people still celebrate this festival solemnly, and some Pumi areas spend the Spring Festival with Han people. "My Past" Festival ("I" means New Year, "Yesterday" means New Year) is a traditional festival of Pumi people, usually held on the sixth day of the twelfth lunar month or the seventh and eighth days. According to ancient regulations, it used to take nine days to celebrate this festival. Up to now, most Pumi people still celebrate this festival solemnly, and some Pumi areas spend the Spring Festival with Han people.

The Pumi people used to have extremely grand festivals. Before the festival, people are busy making all kinds of preparations: chopping wood, milling rice, grinding noodles, cooking Surima wine, baking green white wine, killing pigs, slaughtering sheep, starching bedding, clothes, bathing, cleaning indoor and outdoor sanitation on auspicious days, and trimming fire pits, altars and worshipping Bala gods to make them clean, bright and brand-new. On this day of the festival, pine trees are inserted in front of the door, on the altar and on the roof, and prayer flags are hung to show the welcome of the new year, worship the ancestors and seek peace. Cigarettes curled up in the incense burner on the shrine, and the magic lamp was brightly lit before living in Bala. The altar was filled with apples, pears, yellow fruits and pomegranates. Tea, cigarettes, salt and all kinds of flower candy.

Cutting pig fat during the Chinese New Year and offering sacrifices to pig heads in the pot field. Flowers are placed around the fireplace. White conch. The yard was piled with chopped firewood and Song Ming. In the afternoon, after three shots, the conch rang, and the brigade commander or Han Gui held a glass and poured wine on Zongbala, giving a ceremony of "cutting music" (that is, worshipping the pot village): too many!

Year after year, month after month, the new year has come, with good weather, bumper crops, healthy old and young, and prosperous livestock. Put out a bowl and take back a thousand bowls! Give up a blessing and come in with a thousand blessings!

One out, ten thousand in! Too many! After the recitation, the family got together and held a grand dinner. There are twelve bowls of dishes on the table, including pork belly, bacon, pig's head, pig's foot, sausage and crispy skin. Tofu, mutton, beef. Mushrooms, cauliflower, etc.