Spring Festival customs in various places

China is a multi-ethnic country. While the Han people celebrate the Spring Festival, many ethnic minorities, like the Han people, are immersed in the festive atmosphere. Due to the differences in history, culture, religious beliefs and living habits of ethnic minorities, they have formed their own colorful Chinese New Year customs. On the first day of the first lunar month, there are Mongolian, Korean, Daur Ewenki, Dongxiang, She Zhebai and other ethnic minorities who spend the Spring Festival with the Han nationality.

the Mongol nationality

Mongolians have always worshipped white, so they call the first month of the lunar calendar "Bai Yue" and the Spring Festival in China "White Festival". Preparations for the Mongolian New Year began on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. In addition to cleaning and arranging yurts for bathing, people have to put on new clothes, red tassels and new saddles. Give the whole cow and sheep to their closest relatives and friends with Hada. Eat "hand-grabbed meat" for your family on New Year's Eve. In the early morning of the first day of junior high school, we first propose a toast to our elders and then propose a toast to our peers. Relatives and friends exchange Hada, wishing you a happy New Year. The first day to pay New Year greetings to elders must be in the morning.

Manchu

Manchu people should stick couplets and the word "Fu" when celebrating the Spring Festival. On 30th, the whole family packed jiaozi, jiaozi paid attention to pleating, and jiaozi, the "monk's head" who couldn't get rid of the edges and corners, was afraid that he would be "bald" all his life. Jiaozi should be packed in rows, symbolizing the wealth of the new year extending in all directions. Jiaozi can't let it go, for fear that there is no way out.

Korean nation

On New Year's Eve, the Han family stayed up all night, and the ancient music of Gayeqin and flute brought people into the New Year. During the festival, men, women and children indulge in singing and dancing and hold competitions such as springboard tug-of-war. On the fifteenth night of the first month, several old people were selected to the "moon-watching shelf" to celebrate the traditional party. Seeing the bright moon first shows that their children and grandchildren are healthy and progressing smoothly. Then, everyone danced around the lighted "moon-watching frame" to the suona music of long drums and flutes.

She ethnic group

She nationality should adopt homophonic characters in the Spring Festival, wishing them good luck in the new year and sticking to them every day. On the first day of New Year's Day, the She people paid homage to Pan Hu's ancestor, and the whole family paid homage to the "Pan Gu Zutu" (a portrait drawn according to the legend of Pan Hu), telling the hardships of their ancestors in starting a business.

Zhuang people

The Spring Festival of Zhuang nationality lasts for three days from the 30th day of the first month to the 2nd day of the second month. On New Year's Eve, people kill chickens and ducks, steam lean meat and barbecued pork. A lot of rice is steamed on New Year's Eve, which symbolizes wealth. There should be boiled chicken on the dining table, families with old people, stewed pig's trotters and whole chicken. Zongzi is an indispensable food for Zhuang people during the Spring Festival, but it is not eaten at night. Zongzi of Zhuang nationality is aristocratic food, the big one weighs one or two kilograms, and the small one only weighs two or three ounces. In addition, there is another kind called "Feng Mo", which is an extra-large zongzi, weighing ten or twenty Jin. The main raw material of zongzi is glutinous rice, which contains mung bean pigskin and batter. The taste of zongzi is a must. Guests must eat zongzi when they arrive on the first day and the second day of the first month. During the Spring Festival, cultural and sports activities will be held, such as singing, top dance and ball games.

Hezhe ethnic group

The Hezhe Spring Festival is the happiest festival in a year. On New Year's Eve, everyone cooks New Year's Eve, cuts window grilles and puts up lanterns. On the first day of the lunar new year, girls and children wear new clothes embroidered with clouds and go to relatives and friends' homes to pay New Year's greetings. Fish banquet is a delicious dish for Hezhe people to entertain guests, including "stepping on the dragon" (raw fish) with sour and spicy flavor, "fried fish hair" with crispy flavor, and transparent and bright red salmon roe. Skiing, mowing and shooting are the favorite recreational activities of Hezhe teenagers.

Bai (ba)

Bai people began to worship each other and give each other gifts on New Year's Eve. After midnight, young men and women rushed to fetch water as a sign of thrift. In the morning, the family drank syrup soaked in rice flowers, wishing the days were sweeter than honey. After breakfast, the children, led by adults, go to relatives and friends' homes to pay New Year greetings to their elders. Playing dragon lanterns, dancing lions and shooting the whip are essential activities in festivals.

Daur

The Daur people call the Spring Festival "Agne". On the morning of New Year's Eve, every family cleaned the courtyard and piled up a lot of sundries and household feces in front of the gate. After finishing the pile at night, the air is filled with faint smoke, and the festive atmosphere is everywhere. Old people throw big and fast meat buns, jiaozi and other foods into the heap of life, wishing people and animals good health and abundant crops. In the evening, the whole family eats hand-grabbed meat and carries out various activities to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. People plant incense in the snow on the west side of the house and bow to the west to show their memory of their ancestors. On New Year's Eve, everyone eats jiaozi, and jiaozi is wrapped with a white line, which means longevity. During the Spring Festival, there are hockey games, masquerade parties, listening to books, singing and other games.

Lahu people

The Lahu people celebrate the New Year from the first day to the fourth day of the first month, and from the ninth day to the eleventh day of the first month. On the 30 th night of the twelfth lunar month, pigs are killed to make glutinous rice, and each family makes a pair of big Baba, symbolizing the sun and the moon. In addition, we will also make many small babas, symbolizing the stars, indicating that in the new year, the weather is good and the crops are bumper. Lahu people also have the custom of getting together to support the elderly.

Cloth (BY)

Buyi people should prepare festival food such as Baba rice wine before New Year's Eve, and stay up until dawn on New Year's Eve. As soon as the cock crowed at dawn, the girls ran to the river to fetch water. Whoever takes the first sip of water shows that she is the most hardworking and happy.

Department of Veterans Affairs

Wa people congratulate each other on New Year's Day, especially the elders in the stockade. During the New Year's greetings, the two sides presented bananas, glutinous rice and sugar cane to each other, symbolizing unity and harmony. Wa men and women in Cangyuan and other places gather in the square to form a circular dance circle on the night of the festival, while elderly women wear long skirts and stand in teams of dozens, hand in hand on the shoulders of their predecessors, singing ancient songs and gently moving their steps.

Tujia nationality

Tujia people will dance "waving dance" in the New Year. In the past, when dancing hand-waving, three cages of curtains were hung in the "Bo Tang", in which pig heads, pork smells and wild boar's heads and hooves were hung, and then an old toast wearing a red cassock and a crown took the lead in waving flags and shouting, and all men, women and children participated and danced after worshipping God. Now Tujia people not only dance with their hands, but also play dragon and lion to perform drama and martial arts.

Gaoshan (GS)

During the Spring Festival, people of Gaoshan ethnic group wear gorgeous national costumes and gather in groups at the edge of the village to drink and enjoy songs and dances accompanied by musical instruments. Some villages also hold harpoon competitions and carry out sports activities such as basket lifting and pole ball.