New Year Customs in Guizhou

The Spring Festival customs in Guizhou are rich and colorful, with unique national characteristics. The following are some major Spring Festival customs:

1, kill pigs and eat pigs. Before the Spring Festival, people in Guizhou will slaughter their own fat pigs, invite relatives, friends and neighbors to celebrate and share a sumptuous pork dinner, symbolizing the beginning of the new year and the bumper harvest in the coming year.

2. bacon. After killing pigs, the fresh meat was salted in a pickling tank, and then smoked with firewood to make yellow and fragrant bacon.

3. Clean the dust. Before the Spring Festival, families in Guizhou will have a thorough cleaning, which means sweeping away bad luck and welcoming the New Year.

4. Go to Bazin. Around the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month, glutinous rice cakes will be made in many places in Guizhou, which is a characteristic activity of the Miao people, symbolizing bumper harvest and good luck.

5. Post Spring Festival couplets and door gods. During the Spring Festival, every household will post festive Spring Festival couplets and door gods to express their best wishes for the new year.

6. Set off firecrackers and fireworks. During the Spring Festival, setting off firecrackers and fireworks is a common celebration, symbolizing exorcism and welcoming the new year.

7, offering sacrifices to ancestors. On the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, there will be activities of offering sacrifices to the kitchen god and ancestors.

8. Happy New Year. On the evening of the Spring Festival, the family will watch together and wait for the arrival of the New Year. During the Spring Festival, people will pay New Year greetings to each other and wish each other a happy New Year and all the best.

9. These customs not only reflect Guizhou people's eager expectation for the New Year and respect for traditional culture, but also show the rich and colorful ethnic customs in Guizhou.