The custom of Miao Nian Festival

The customs and habits of Miao Year Festival include celebrating Miao Year, celebrating a hundred lions, setting off firecrackers to seize the year, cleaning doors, dating parties and so on.

1, after the nursery year.

Chinese New Year is the biggest festival, so we should prepare rich food, such as killing pigs, bacon, cooking rice, killing chickens to worship ancestors, keeping the old age, making money and celebrating the New Year. Some elderly men and women are also visiting relatives and friends with wine, meat and rice cakes, or are busy receiving guests at home. On the first day of the new year, women don't have to cook breakfast. On the first day of the new year, men cook breakfast, which means that women have been cooking for a year, so they should be given a rest on this day.

2. Hundred Lions Club

Nearly a hundred or dozens of lions are dancing among the Miao people in four neighboring towns. They gather in traditional villages or market towns, beating gongs and drums, swinging spears and shooting guns.

3, set off firecrackers to grab the year

It is very important for Miao people to grasp the custom of the New Year. On New Year's Eve 12, firecrackers will be set off to seize the New Year.

Step 4 clean up the portal

In the first few days after the Year of Miao, every household should clean the house and actively prepare new year's goods, such as making rice cakes, brewing rice wine, making tofu and bean sprouts, and generally killing pigs or buying pork. On the New Year's Eve of Miao people, the whole family will have a New Year's Eve dinner at home.

5, blind date rally

Some young men and women either danced in their respective villages in blowing sheng, or danced bronze drums and bullfights. Or the young man went to other villages to "tour", where men and women sang and poured out their love. Before and after the activity, it took about 9 days to end.