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The Zhuang New Year is the Zhuang New Year. The time is one month earlier than the Han Chinese. In the past, every year on the 30th day of the 11th month of the lunar calendar, every family kills pigs and goats, sacrifices their ancestors, and worships the community, welcoming the New Year. In the past, there was also the August Youzhi festival to welcome the new year. Song Dynasty music history "Taiping Huan Yu Ji" records: "Vine State custom does not know the year, only with the August You Day (i.e., before and after October) for the wax, young and old congratulate each other as the year." The Zhuang people harvest rice in August for the New Year's festivities, which is different from the Han Chinese New Year and is said to be the "customary not knowing the year".

Nowadays, although the festival of the Spring Festival of the Zhuang people is influenced by the Spring Festival of the Han people, the form and content of its activities have the characteristics of their own people. Before the Song Dynasty, the festivals of all parts of the Zhuang people were based on the cycle of agricultural production, and since the Ming Dynasty most areas have gradually adopted the lunar calendar festival. The activities of the Zhuang people to welcome the new year, and the Han people are more or less the same, from the first day of the first month to the fifteenth day, to the fifteenth day of the family ate for the ancestral god of the "mother zongzi" (oversized zongzi) that is after the "loose year", meaning that the new year festival period of the termination of the gathering and celebrating. There are also some areas of the New Year's festivities extended to the end of the first month, picking the white head of Weng or mugwort and glutinous rice patties (commonly known as "Ai Ba") small sacrifices for the end of the year celebrations, and some extended to the end of the February 2 social festival. Therefore, the entire first month of the year is usually celebrated as the Spring Festival period, known as the "first month of the year", "eat the first month of the year". The Zhuang language Cieng ("first month" for short) for the Spring Festival.

The first day of the Spring Festival is the grandest festival of the year for the Zhuang people, and at dawn, everyone is dressed up and full of joy. New daughters-in-law and girls scramble to the streams and springs to pick "new water" and drink "Lingli water". Families and neighbors visit each other to congratulate their predecessors, and adults give money to the children who come to pay New Year's visits. After the New Year's greetings, each family holds offerings to the village side of the temple to sacrifice to the gods, praying for the New Year's peace of man and beasts, and a bumper crop. Some villages hold bronze drum races, and some villages have young men and women meet on river beaches or flat dams to sing songs of love. On this day, in addition to receiving guests from outside the village, the family does not help each other to eat. Some places avoid eating rice dumplings on that day, that open rice dumplings will cause cracks in the ridge leakage. And most avoid quarrels, everyone seeks peace and good fortune.

(1) Drawing new water: also known as picking water, picking new water, picking good water. It has been passed down in the western part of Gui. In the early morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, the new daughters-in-law or big girls of each family pick up buckets of water, holding three pillars of incense and singing songs, go to the river or spring, put incense on them, and put money wrapped in red paper as a lucky draw into the water to pick back the first load of new water of the New Year. Liu Xifan's "Lingtiao Jiba - Festivals" reads: "On New Year's Day, we carried urns to draw new water and sang along the way, 'Cows, goats, chickens, and boars, and the souls of the six animals come'. This "new water" is called "smart water" or "clever water" in some places. Legend has it that the water on the first day of the Lunar New Year is the purest and most auspicious, drink it, the girl will be smart and clever, the voice is also sweet; children will grow up healthily; the old man will get rid of the disease and live a long life; some places say that the clever girl who guards the river on the first day of the Lunar New Year in the river to put the wisdom of the first who get the new water first, who will become smarter and cleverer.

(2) Welcome Spring Cow Song: "Welcome Spring Cow" is an ancient custom circulating in Guangxi Jingxi County. It began in the Yuan and Ming dynasties. The spring cow is the earth cow, ancient clay molding, now the paper tied spring cow. Welcoming the spring cow means advising farmers and the beginning of spring. On this day, young men and women sing songs to each other, ask and answer questions about the year's festivals and agricultural affairs, and throw cotton seeds to the spring ox, wishing for good weather and a good harvest. They make friends and choose their mates according to the songs.

(3) grab the head of the duck: Lingyun County, Guangxi Sicheng area of the Zhuang Spring Festival customs. The first night of the year twelve o'clock, when the people in the first slaughter of chickens and ducks, re-cooked rice dumplings, and in accordance with the rules put in the ancestor worship on the case: the whole chicken and duck in the center of the table, rice dumplings peeled off on both sides, and the outside of the two sides of each side of a handful of clamped pork or pig's tail and paste the red paper of the garlic shoots. Sacrifice ancestors first, and then sacrificed one by one to the king of the stove, the god of the door, pigsty, cattle pen, etc.. After the sacrifice, firecrackers are set off. The first to set off the firecrackers is to grab the "head duck", and it is believed that if you grab the "head duck", you will have good luck.

(4) lift the paper dog New Year's Day: the first day of the Lunar New Year, young men carrying a paper dog, walking through the village to pay tribute to the New Year. Households burn firecrackers to welcome the new year. This is a legacy of the ancient worship of the Zhuang dog.

(5) playing Spring Festival: Pingguo around the Zhuang folk Spring Festival popular as a recreational activity. "Playing Chuntang" is to use the pestle and mortar of pounding rice to knock the wooden trough. Now there are some places to change the form of the bench to hit the flat, so it is also known as "playing the flat", or according to its sound and directly called "playing Ru Lie". Small-scale Terang is generally held in the village or yard, hall, two or three pairs of men, women and children holding mortar and pestle or flat stretcher, lined up on both sides of the spring hall or bench, similar to the action of pounding rice, rhythmically knocking each other, or knocking on the spring hall or bench, making the sound of "with the fight, with the fight, with the same fight with the doodoo hit", a larger scale of the Terang is held in the open area of the village side, dozens of people lined up in the temporary built-up area of the village, and the sound is also called "hit Luolie". The larger-scale tulang is held in the open space at the edge of the village, with dozens of people lined up on both sides of the temporary benches, beating rhythmically to the accompaniment of gongs and drums, and hundreds of onlookers applauding and cheering from time to time, making for an enthusiastic and spectacular spectacle. Larger-scale Terang usually also performs the whole process of planting rice from harrowing and transplanting rice seedlings, bailing water and cultivating the field to harvesting and pounding rice to taste the new, quite a harvest of labor and festive colors.

(6) eat mother rice dumplings: Guanxi around the yuan Xiao custom, every year from New Year's Eve, that is, with about ten pounds to twenty pounds of glutinous rice wrapped into a very large rice dumplings "mother rice dumplings" and a number of small rice dumplings placed on the desk in honor of ancestor sacrifice. Until the New Year's Day, again Longkan sacrifices to the ancestors, before the offerings are removed, this is the "scattered years. "When the year is scattered, the eldest daughter of the family will help her parents or the oldest person in the family to sit in the center of the hall, and then peel off the "mother rice dumplings" and distribute them according to the age of the family in order of seniority, and each person must respectfully accept them and finish eating them, which is to eat them. This is called "naming the mother's rice dumplings". After eating the "mother rice dumplings", the whole family will carry rice dumplings and incense to the village entrance by the forked road or the river, while burning incense and standing in front of the read "to avoid evil spirits" or sing "to avoid evil spirits", while throwing rice dumplings, which is known as the "sell scabies", "sell asthma" and "send evil". The local people believe that this custom can protect the New Year's well-being, good luck.

(7) sacrifice frog mother-in-law, also known as "ant worm another festival", "filial ant worm another", is the upper reaches of the Hongshui River, Donglan, Tian'e, Nandan, Fengshan and other places Zhuang folk the most grand, the most ancient and most local ethnic characteristics of the traditional festival.

February--The Festival of Sacrificing the Land Lord and the Land Lady, the Festival of the Flower King, the Festival of the Child, and the Festival of the Dog's Birthday

(1) The Festival of Sacrificing the Land Lord and the Land Lady: It is held on the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar every year. The Zhuang people are a farming nation with a long history, relying on the land to survive for generations, popular worship of the land god, each village has built a land temple in front of the land god, dedicated to the land god, that the land god is a place of protection, not only to bless the agricultural production, but also to protect the village peace, to prevent beasts and ghosts from entering the village to jeopardize the people and animals. It is said that the second day of February is the birthday of the God of Land, and every family will kill chickens and cook meat to the Land Temple to worship the God of Land, praying for blessings on agriculture, livestock and prosperity, and peace of life. The Zhuang around Daxin area call the second day of February as the Land Goddess Festival. At that time, people in each village donate money to kill pigs and invite Taoist priests to recite sutras at the Land Temple to express their wishes for the land goddess and pray for good weather and abundant harvests. Legend has it that once upon a time there was a kind and rich wife who died after giving birth to three daughters. Because she did some good deeds during her life, people erected a land temple in her honor to pay tribute to her.

(2) Flower King Festival: also known as the Flower Dynasty Festival, Hundred Flowers Fairy Festival or Flower Lady Festival. Zhuang folk religious festival. Held annually on the second or nineteenth day of the second month of the lunar calendar. During the festival, sisters and sisters-in-law from all villages gather together to kill chickens to honor the Flower King, praying for the Flower King to gift children and bless them with healthy growth.

(3) Children's Festival: also known as "children's Wei", Debo, Jingxi and other counties of Zhuang folk children's festivals. Held annually on the second day of February or March 28 of the lunar calendar. During the festival, the children of the villages and villages in red and green, gathered in the nearest dike. Children get special permission from their parents to buy toys, stationery items, but also to taste the rice noodles, pastries and other delicacies. In Donglan and other counties, the Children's Festival is held on the hillside. In the early hours of the day, when the rooster crows for the first time, the children set off firecrackers in front of their homes and hold torches to the springs to drink "fairy water". After dawn, the children and their parents bring red eggs and other food to the hillside outside the village and enjoy themselves. It is believed that the children will be smarter and cleverer after the festival.

(4) Dog Birthday Festival: A folk festival of the Zhuang people in the area of Jingxi, Longlin and Debao. Held annually on the 22nd day of the second month of the lunar calendar. Folk legend has it that the dog is a dragon dog in the sky, the 22nd day of the second month of the lunar calendar is its birthday. It is the day when the dog god manifests its spirit, and eating dog meat at this time can benefit life and prolong life. Therefore, on this day, every family cooks dog meat.

March - Song Wei Festival, Qingming Festival

(1) March Song Wei Festival: March 3 of the lunar calendar, also known as "March 3 Song Festival" or "March Song Wei", is the traditional song festival of the Zhuang people. The traditional song festival of the Zhuang people. The Zhuang have several regular folk song gatherings each year, such as the first month of the 15th, March 3rd, April 8th, August 15th, etc., of which March 3rd is the most grand. On this day, families make five-color glutinous rice, dye colorful eggs and celebrate the festival. The song festival usually lasts two or three days each time, and is held in an open space not far from the village, where bamboo and cloth are used to build a singing hut to receive singers from other villages. Singing to unmarried young men and women as the main, but the old and children have to come to the spectators to help. Small song dike has one or two thousand people, the big song dike up to tens of thousands of people. Next to the song dike, vendors gathered, active civil trade, the nearby masses to catch the song dike people to provide housing and food, no matter whether they know each other or not, are warmly received. A larger song dike, dozens of miles around the young men and women come to participate in the sea of people, singing one after another, very lively. Tianyang County's Qiaoye are traditionally larger song dike. People to the song dike on the race song, enjoy the song; male and female youth through the song, if the two sides of the love for each other, will give each other tokens, thought the love. In addition, there are interesting activities such as embroidery ball tossing and colorful egg touching. Throwing embroidered balls is mainly for entertainment, but also as a token of love. When a girl has a crush on a young man, she throws the ball to him. Touching colored eggs is to make fun of each other and also has the meaning of betrothal. The Song Festival is an event of folk trade and the promotion of national culture, and in 1985, the People's Government of the region designated the third of March as Guangxi's National Arts Festival.

(2) Ching Ming Festival: the festival of ancestral tomb sweeping. The Zhuang people worship their ancestors, sweeping the graves must be three sacrificial offerings. Large families are joint ancestor worship; in the cemetery mountain feast, all passers-by are invited to feast. Generally speaking, tomb-sweeping is carried out fifteen days before and after the Ching Ming Festival.

April - Ox Spirit Festival, Plowing Festival, Mud Splashing Festival

(1) Ox Spirit Festival: also known as the "Ox King Festival", "off the yoke festival". It is a festival of the Zhuang people to worship the bull god. The festival is held on the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar every year, and there are also some places in June or August 8th. According to legend, the eighth day of the fourth month is the birth anniversary of the Ox King. It was originally a sky god, by the order of the Jade Emperor for the earth to plant grass green, the Jade Emperor stipulated that it every three steps to sow a handful of grass seed, but it is a step to sow three handfuls of grass seed, so that the grass on the ground than the seedlings more. The Jade Emperor then punished it to go to the earth to eat grass. When the cow came to earth, it fed on grass, plowed for people, and worked hard for a year to the end. People appreciated its merits and sacrificed the soul of the ox on its birth anniversary. On that day, the farmers gave the ox a day off from work, and each family freshened up the ox and repaired the cattle pen. The elders of the village commented on the cows of the village and motivated the families to take care of the cows. Families steamed five-color glutinous rice, with loquat leaves wrapped in five-color glutinous rice to feed the cattle, some outside the house with wine, meat, fruits and offerings, the parents took an old ox around the table, and then the whole family ate the holiday meal.

(2) Plowing Festival: also known as the open harrow festival, rice-planting festival, rice-planting festival. Zhuang folk agricultural festival in southern Guangxi. Held annually on the fourth or eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar. During the festival, people must ask the Taoist priest to drive away the ghosts before they start harrowing fields and planting rice seedlings.

(3) Mud Festival: Xilin, Napo, Jingxi County around the Zhuang folk festival. Held every April during the rice-planting season. Girls and young daughters-in-law use the mud in the field to splash the men passing by the field, as a way to advise men to work in agriculture. Legend has it that in ancient times a married man often went out to sing and did not return during the busy farming season. One day, his wife was planting rice seedlings with a group of girls, and he passed by the field without asking. The girls pretended to splash mud to mix the battle, and made him covered in sludge, so that he could not string cottage. Since then, he has changed his mind and farms with his wife*** and gets a good harvest. This mud splash to welcome the harvest activities have since become a custom.

May - Medicine King Festival, Love Monkey Festival, Chicken Festival, Festival of Worship, Dragon Boat Festival

(1) Medicine King Festival: also known as Medicine Master Festival. Zhuang folk festival. Held annually at the Dragon Boat Festival in the fifth lunar month, the content of the festival varies from place to place. Guangxi Longsheng Autonomous County area of the Zhuang people went up the mountain to pick back the Uber, Tianji Huang, gourd tea, Yuanbao grass and other herbs decoction soup to take a bath. It is said to make the skin clean and free from scabies. The Zhuang people around Jingxi County have a special medicine market. Each family also wraps "goat horn dumplings", boils and boils vinegar in the house, burns pomelo peels, and inserts mugwort on the door to drive away evil spirits.

(2) Love Monkey Festival: Guangxi Jingxi County Yue Wei Township, Huaihan Village, Zhuang folk festival of agriculture. Held annually on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. At that time, families sent people with pumpkin, plum fruit, plantain and boiled corn on the cob and other fruits and food, or to the mountains and wild mountains, or to the field to set up, and then hide to the rocky nooks and crannies, has been waiting until groups of monkeys will meet, and look at them one by one to eat and chew, and alive and well will be the big pumpkin moved into the cave after the people only quietly leave. Legend has it that this custom is related to Nong Zhigao's rebellion against the Song Dynasty. Once, Nong Zhigao's troops were trapped in the mountains, and relied on digging roots and peeling bark to feed their hunger. One morning on the fifth day of the fifth month, suddenly there were tens of thousands of monkeys holding a large pumpkin from the cliffs and descending, so the army was saved. Therefore, people set up a festival to repay.

(3) Chicken Festival: "Chicken" is a translation of the Zhuang language, meaning small rooster. This is the children's festival, is a traditional festival of the Zhuang folk in the area of Debo, Guangxi, Jingxi, Napo County. It is held on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year. A few days before the festival, grandma's family sends a two-kilogram rooster and a basket of glutinous rice to their grandson. On the day of the festival, parents early in the morning for the children as a good "chicken get", steaming good colorful glutinous rice, noon, the children invited a few years of similar age of small friends home, climbed up to the small pavilion party or to the field dinner. After the meal, the children brought out their own fruit to eat together, play until the sun goes down before they go home.

(4) Worship Festival: traditional festival of the Zhuang folk. Held annually on the thirteenth day of the fifth lunar month. According to the old custom, men aged 12 years old will have the right to worship brothers. At that time, there are two close friends, they will ask the old man to preside over the worship ceremony, both sides of the age of each other, drink raw chicken blood, reported to the ancestors, swore to heaven. After the ceremony, they become good brothers.

June - Liulang Festival, Lantern Festival, Mona Festival, Lei Wang Festival

(1) Liulang Festival: also known as the June Festival, Chilang Festival, or over the small year. Zhuang folk traditional festival. Held annually on the sixth day of the sixth lunar month. At that time, every family will kill chickens and ducks, and make five-color glutinous rice offerings to ancestors. Legend has it that after Nong Zhigao broke out from the enemy's siege, he celebrated the festival in June for the places he passed through in June and in July for the places he passed through in July. The emperor of the Song Dynasty hated Nong Zhigao so much that he strictly forbade people to commemorate him. The Zhuang people then called the June festival the Sixth Lang Festival. The July festival was called the Qilang Festival, borrowing the name of a famous patriotic general to honor their national hero.

(2) Lantern Festival: the traditional festival of the Zhuang people in Guixi. It is held on the sixth day of June every year. On this day, in addition to the chicken and ducks, steamed cakes and flour, people from time to time to the fields at night to go to the open fire lamps, all night long, to kill insects by light.

(3) Mona Festival: Daxin County, Guangxi, under the Lei area of Zhuang worship forest god "Pishou" and Shennong festival. Held at the end of the sixth lunar month every year. At that time, the collective kill a pig, each family sends a person with rice and wine half a catty each, vegetables and incense and candles and other offerings to worship, praying for the God of the forest and Shennong to bless the crops to get a good harvest.

(4) Sacrifice Mo Yi Da Wang Festival

July - Water Storage Festival, Taste the New Festival, Ancestral Soul Festival, Sacrifice the Green Seedling Festival

(1) Water Storage Festival: A traditional festival of the Zhuang folk in Guangxi's Jingshi and Debao counties. Held every year on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. Every family has a water storage tank to wash, and then go to the spring, stream or river to pick back to the clear water to fill it up. People call the water picked back on this day as "immortal water" for the old man boiled longevity wine, cook longevity porridge for children, dip pickles and pickled vegetables, fruits, but also can be used for dyeing cloth, brewing, vinegar, treatment of disease.

(2) Tasting Festival: one of the traditional folk festival. Held annually in the seventh and eighth months of the lunar calendar when the new grain is ripe. Generally single-family, but also invited neighboring friends and relatives to come together. On the day of tasting the new, every family cooks Dazhen new rice and sumptuous dishes. Early in the morning, women go to the fields to cut green rice leaves and offer them to the shrine, offer prepared food and fruits, burn incense and light oil lamps. When everything is ready, the dog is called to the shrine, a big spoonful of fresh rice is scooped up, and a little of each dish is given to the dog as a reward for his work, so that he is allowed to eat his fill first on this day.

(3) Ancestral Soul Festival: The 14th day of the 7th month of the lunar calendar is a sacrificial festival of the Zhuang people. Legend has it that in ancient times, the Zhongyuan Festival, was celebrated on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, which is still preserved in the Wenshan area of Yunnan. Later, there was a disaster, and some people celebrated the festival in advance and then fled the chaos; others fled the chaos and came back to make up for the festival. So it became a custom to celebrate the festival on July 14th and July 16th now. The content of this festival is both ancestor worship and ghost worship. Legend has it that July 14th is the day when the ancestor of the Zhuang people, Buluo Tuo, passed away, so people have been paying tribute to their ancestors on this day for generations. Legend has it that the ghosts of those who died unnatural deaths have no home to go to, and become wild ghosts and lonely souls, who roam around and haunt. In order to protect them from harm, people on this day to worship their ancestors at the same time, and also worship the lonely ghosts. The practice is to kill chickens and ducks, steam cakes and buns, and use colorful paper to cut into seasonal clothing, shoes and socks. After the family sacrifice, the night and to the river wild sacrifice, burning incense and candles, burning paper clothes, and let its ashes drift with the water. In addition, on this day, all married women must go back to their mother's home to save their relatives, but after the festival must go back, the night can not stay in the mother's home.

(4) Festival of Green Mushrooms: Guixi Zhuang folk festival of agricultural rituals. Held annually on the seventh month of the lunar calendar. On that occasion, pork and rice are sacrificed as offerings to the fields outside the village, indicating that the Harvest God is allowed to enjoy them. Then the road ban begins so as not to disturb the Miao God. At the same time, the whole village, young and old, gathers together and drinks wine while singing agricultural songs to wish for a good harvest.

August--Birthday of the Gods Festival, Worshiping the Moon God Festival

(1) Birthday of the Gods Festival: A folk religious festival of the Zhuang people. Held annually in the early August of the lunar calendar. The Zhuang people are a people who believe in many gods, they will be the second day of August as the gods of the **** with the festival. Therefore, every year is the day will have offerings to worship.

(2) Worship Moon Festival: commonly known as Mid-Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Reunion Festival. The Zhuang people eat moon cakes on this day, steamed flour cakes, when the chicken kill ducks to celebrate the festival. In various ways to enjoy the moon, moon sacrifice, moon worship. For example, in the areas of Mashan, Shanglin and Du'an counties in Guangxi, people use bamboo to build platforms in the water to view the bright moon in the sky and the moon shadow in the water; in Longsheng and Zhongshan counties in Guangxi, each household sacrifices eleven patties to the moon to symbolize the eleven moons in ancient legends. These eleven patties do not eat it, once eat to eat ten, only one allowed to remain, symbolizing a moon in the sky now; all over the customary round food to worship the moon, such as mooncakes, pomelo, peanuts, taro and so on, indicating that heaven and earth with the round, such as the good luck. This day, is also a day of relatives reunion, the moon in the sky, the earth reunion, *** enjoy the family. There are many recreational activities, Guangxi De Bao, Jingxi two counties through the "crooked capsule sea" to invite the moon lady down with the people; Guanxi Guibei young men and women, choose the place to hold a song will be held on the song to pass on love. Therefore, many places also call August 15 the Mid-Autumn Song Festival. Children are made of pomelo skin masks, stepping on the high coping, play the role of the high male and low female, enjoy the fun, play all night. On this day, people avoid the word "round", but to "group", "luan" and other words to replace the "round", otherwise is disrespectful to the moon.

September - Festival of Respect for the Elderly, Festival of the Hundred Spirits, Festival of the New Valley

(1) September 9 Festival: the Zhuang language "nine nine, a hundred years old to become immortal", this festival is mainly for the elderly? Farmers also celebrate the festival, but farmers with elderly people are particularly elaborate. Son to give the old man shaved head, wearing new clothes; married daughters to come back, and bring a chicken, a few pounds of rice, commonly known as "complementary food", to the old man to add food to increase life. Seats, children and grandchildren first feed the old man, and then eat, to show filial piety.

(2) Hundred Spirits Festival: Guangxi Tian et County Zhuang folk traditional festival. The festival is held on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, and is said to be held in honor of the young warrior Bai Ling, who killed the evil dragon and did away with harm for the people. On this day, young men and women gather by the Bailing Spring to worship the Bailing, sing songs to each other, and enjoy entertainment.

(3) New Valley Festival: Daxin County, Guangxi Zhuang folk agricultural festival. On the first day after the harvest in the tenth month of the lunar calendar of the first year, the newly harvested glutinous rice is pounded into mochi, while chickens and ducks are killed and sacrificed to the gods and ancestors in order to celebrate the abundance of the harvest.

October--Catch Falling Festival

Catch Falling Festival means catching up with the activities of the Frost Festival. It is a traditional festival popular in the area of Xialei Township, Daxin County. Every year, on the eve of the frost, men, women and children from dozens of miles around dressed in colorful costumes, with patties and other food, native goods and incense and candle offerings, rushed to the township of Xialei to meet. This day was held to worship "Mo Huai General Temple" ceremony, while this social meeting or barter trade, the night young men and women sing for fun, make friends and talk about love, so it is also known as the "Frost Song Wei". Before and after three days before "scattered drop".

December--Send Stove Festival, New Year's Eve

(1) Send Stove Festival: December 23 is the traditional festival of the Zhuang people to worship the God of Stove, aiming to send the King of Stove back to heaven. People believe that the Zaowang master all year round for the farmhouse stove tube fire, that is, hard, and nasty, from the waxing moon 23 to the first day of the first month of the following year, the farmhouse to the Zaowang master to rest for seven days, Chen offerings to the farewell, and in the mouth of the stove to paste a small couplet: "good things to the sky, down to the ground drop auspicious". This means that the king of the stove is invited to the sky to say more good things for the family, and to pray for abundance and well-being.

(2) New Year's Eve: also known as the New Year's Eve, that is, Lunar New Year's Eve, which is the busiest and most vivid festival of the year for the Zhuang people. Each family slaughtered the New Year pig, wrapping dumplings, making rice cakes, sewing new clothes, posting Spring Festival couplets and so on. At night, pig heads, castrated chickens and fruits are offered to the ancestors in a grand ceremony. Adults around the fire, New Year's Eve vigil; children enjoy the game, sleepless all night. Households in front of the door hanging firecrackers, to be burned when the cock crows to the first sound of the cock crows the first firecrackers for the most auspicious, commonly known as the "pressure chicken mouth gun". And in the fire stove side Chen offerings to welcome the return of Zaowang. After that, every rooster crows again, burning a burst of firecrackers until dawn