What are the Spring Festival customs in Xinjiang?

The young crop festival of Uygur farmers in Hami, Xinjiang is the most complete and culturally rich Spring Festival celebration.

The Spring Festival in Xinjiang is different from the Spring Festival in Han nationality. The Spring Festival of the Han nationality is on the lunar calendar 1 month 1 day, while the Spring Festival of Kazaks, Kirgiz, Uighurs and Tajiks in Xinjiang is when spring comes back to the earth, everything recovers and the grass is lush. The time starts around the vernal equinox on March 2 1 every year and ends in Tomb-Sweeping Day, which is called "Noroko". In terms of time and scenery, the Spring Festival in Xinjiang is more suitable for the name "Spring Festival".

When it was still in the ice and snow, people with high moral character and rich family in the village, at the request of the villagers, lifted a plate of young crops with wheat grains. On the day of the vernal equinox, the villagers invited this dish of young crops, singing and dancing, and patrolling the village streets with fat sheep to celebrate the arrival of spring.

When everyone is celebrating the arrival of spring, some people will go to the canal, sprinkle young crops into the canal water, and then come to the fields to symbolically sprinkle some wheat seeds into the fields. And a group of housewives set up a big pot in the Woods to cook a Spring Festival dinner for everyone. Spring Festival rice is a kind of eight-treasure rice cooked with wheat, corn, highland barley and other grains, which is served on glutinous rice for everyone to eat together to pray and wish a bumper harvest and a happy life.