What is the moral of tasting the New Year Festival?

Pinnian Festival means bumper harvest, thanking ancestors and the gods of heaven and earth, and praying for blessing. Nianwei Festival is a traditional festival for Gelao people and Miao, Buyi, Bai, Zhuang and Dong people in Hunan, Guizhou and Guangxi provinces. Firecrackers are set off to sweep the village, 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 every year, and on the day when the new valley appears in June and July in the summer calendar every year. Before the festival, housewives went to the fields to pick new grains 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 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 first offer food to the world to worship their ancestors, then feed the new rice to the dogs, and then taste the new rice in family order.

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