Folkways and customs of the fifty-six nationalities at the Spring Festival

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Customs and traditions of each ethnic group?

The Han Chinese - on the first day of the Lunar New Year, people don't sweep the floor, don't splash water outside, don't go to the back door, don't scold the children, and congratulate each other on the New Year's auspiciousness and prosperity.

Manchu - when the New Year's Day is approaching, every family cleans the courtyard and puts up window grills, couplets and lucky charms. On the thirtieth day of the Lunar New Year, families erected six-meter-high lantern poles, from the first day to the sixteenth, every day red lights hanging high. The New Year's Eve dumplings, pay attention to the pleats more good, son of time to cook dumplings, some wrapped in the inside of the copper coins, eaters have good luck. The Spring Festival to worship twice, once on the night of the New Year's Eve, for the resignation of the old year; the first day of the year to worship once again, to welcome the new year. Before the Spring Festival will also be held before the horse jumping camel jumping competitions. There is also a lantern festival on the 15th day of the first month.

Korean people -- every family puts up spring couplets, cooks various kinds of sumptuous meals, eats "eight treasures rice", and on New Year's Eve, the whole family observes the New Year's Eve all night long, and plays the Gayageum and blows the dongxiao. At dawn on the first day of the year, people put on their festive costumes to pay homage to their elders. During the festival, men, women, and children sing and dance, press the springboard, and tug of war. On the night of the 15th day of the first month, a traditional celebration is held, in which a few elderly people are chosen to climb onto a wooden "moon watch frame" and sing and dance to long drums, dongxiao and suona.

Oroqen--New Year's Eve, the whole family sits around, **** into the dinner. Tasting mountain treasures, drinking wine and eating New Year's dinner. Young people give salute to the family and close relatives elders, kowtow and ask for peace. At midnight, people hold birch bark boxes or iron boxes and circle the stables several times to pray for the prosperity of the six animals. On the first day of the year, people dressed in new clothes pay respect to each other. Young men and women get together to dance in a circle. There are hunting dance, "red fruit" dance, "black bear fighting" dance.

Herzhe--New Year's Eve, everyone is busy making New Year's Eve dinner, cutting windows, gluing lanterns. On the first day of the year, girls, women and children put on new clothes embroidered with cloud borders and go to friends and relatives to pay tribute to the New Year, and treat guests with a "fish feast". The feast includes raw fish with a hot and sour taste, fried fish with a crispy flavor, and salmon roe. Folk poets present poems and tell stories. Women play the games of "touching the blind" and "throwing bones". Young people compete in skiing, ice skating, shooting at straw targets and pitching straw balls.

Mongolians - five nights to eat dumplings, firecrackers and Han Chinese. In addition, New Year's Eve to eat "hand-meat", to show that the family reunion. Early morning of the first day of the evening to the elders of the "New Year's wine", and then young men and women across the pike horse, riding string yurt, first to the elders kowtow to wish, and then drink and dance, and then string packet of men and women also take advantage of this opportunity to Ting line horse racing.

Naxi - the first month of spring people visit each other's relatives and friends, take turns as a guest, young and middle-aged men to organize lanterns, and competitions with other villages. Cities and villages are organized lantern festival? Lantern Festival program is performed in the national story: such as "Anu Mei Jokes", "the old man put deer", "social theater night pearl", "lion rolling embroidered ball", "phoenix dance", etc.?

Tibetans - New Year's Eve, held a grand "jumping god will", people wearing masks singing and dancing, to show that the old and welcome the new, to get rid of the evil and blessing.

Yi - Spring Festival rally jumping "A fine jumping moon", some villages on the first day of the year to fetch water for cooking are undertaken by men, let women rest, in order to and on their hard work a year of condolences.

Miao - the Spring Festival called "Hakka year", every family kills pigs and goats, baked wine to beat the poi to celebrate the harvest in the hope that the next year of good weather and a bumper crop. They also sing the "Spring Festival Song," with lyrics to the effect that they are thinking of spring, looking forward to spring, cherishing spring, and salvaging spring, etc.

The Hakka family is also known as the Hakka family.

Bai people - Bai people from New Year's Eve began to worship each other, gifts. New Year's Eve Vigil. After midnight, young men and women compete to be the first to pick water to show their diligence. Early in the morning, the whole family drinks sugar water soaked with rice flowers to bless the sweet days. People either visit places of interest in groups, or play dragon lanterns, dance lions, and beat the whip of the king.

Strong people - the night of the New Year's Eve, the family fire on the fire pit to light a fire, never extinguished, called "welcome the new fire". Folk customary package dumplings over the Spring Festival. During the festival also organized a rich and colorful national cultural and sports activities to celebrate, singing "tea", lion and dragon dance, jumping to play the flat dance, the gong, playing gyro, ball games, local theater, and so on.

Jing - the first day of the incense and candles to the well to burn worship, called "buy new water", Tibetan women on the first day of the day before dawn from the river back to the "auspicious water". It is believed that the first day of the new water can bring the gospel and good luck, can keep a year of good luck.

The Dongxiang people like to fight in the Spring Festival to show their love for the land that nurtures them.

The Qiang people - each family should make all kinds of fried flour calves, lambs, chickens and other offerings to ancestors and the gods of the sky, New Year's Day to drink smack wine, everyone sitting around the altar, by the eldest sings the "open altar words", and then about two feet long wheat pipe from left to right, in order to smack drink.?

Ewenki -- the first day of the first month, pay homage to each other, especially to their elders and relatives must go to kowtow to pay homage on the first day. On the evening of the first day of the New Year, men and women gather in a larger house to have fun, usually called by the elderly for this entertainment evening, by the women first began to dance or sing, and then everyone dances regardless of gender.?

The Daur ethnic group - the first day of the first month, dawn, women prepare breakfast, men burn incense to worship the gods, praying for the gods and God's grace to give peace and abundance of the year, after the worship of the gods, to the elders of the toast kowtow to accept the old man's benediction. After eating dumplings and putting on new clothes, close relatives of men and women gather together, led by the eldest old man, according to the seniority of the various recreational activities.

The Hani people - on New Year's Eve women are busy making patties, and young men go up the mountain to cut bamboo and build swing frames. Both men and women, young and old, enjoy swinging in the Spring Festival.

Buyi - on New Year's Eve, the whole family sits around the fire and keeps vigil all night. On the first day of the new year, the girls will scramble to the river to pick water, who is the first to pick back to the water, who is the most hard-working and happy people, but also as a harbinger of a good year.

Yao people - during the festival, people get together to watch the interesting and chic "farming play". One person plays the role of an ox, another plays the role of a farmer holding a plow, another plays the role of a farmer expanding a hoe, and the three dance and sing to celebrate a good agricultural harvest; young men and women gather on the lawn around the village to play the reed-sheng, the moon zither, and sing mountain songs to find their sweethearts.

Jingpo people - the Spring Festival held "target shooting" competition. On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, people gather on the field, the girls hang their embroidered purses on the top of the bamboo poles, the shooter shoots at the thin threads of the hanging purses and counts them as sharpshooters, and the girls award the sharpshooters with a bowl of sweet rice wine.

Lahu -- Every year, from the first to the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, it is the Yunnan Lahu's "Expanded Tower" festival (Lahu is the Spring Festival). On New Year's Eve, every family will make glutinous rice poi, which symbolizes the sun, moon and stars, to sacrifice the sun, moon and stars, hoping for good weather and abundant harvests in the new year. From the first to the fourth days of the year, young men and women scramble to the spring to meet the new water, symbolizing purity and happiness, in order to be the first to get it. At the same time, with gifts to villages and villages, visit friends and relatives.

Naxi marriage customs -- Lijiang dam area in the past Naxi people, due to the implementation of the policy of land reclassification in 1723 Yongzheng first Han cultural influence deepened in the marriage has been the implementation of monogamy and parents arranged marriage system. Children's marriages are arranged by parents, matchmakers, with cattle, goats, pigs and wine. Marriage, pay attention to the family, three from the four virtues, the husband sings with the woman and other traditional Chinese ethics, Lijiang Naxi and the Han, Tibetan marriage more. Within their own ethnic groups, people of different clans with the same surname can be intermarried, but absolutely prohibited from marrying people of the same family.

Miao - in the past, they believed in the spirit of all things, worshipped nature and sacrificed to their ancestors. There are more festivals, in addition to traditional annual festivals and sacrificial festivals, there are also festivals specifically related to eating. For example: Duck Festival, New Festival, Fish Festival, Tea Festival and so on. In addition to preparing wine and meat for the festivals, we must also prepare seasonal food.

Miao Nian? The first day of the first month of the Hmong New Year is usually the first day of the first month of the first dao, which lasts for three, five or fifteen days. Before the year, every family should prepare abundant New Year's food, in addition to killing pigs, slaughtering sheep (cattle), but also to prepare enough glutinous rice wine. The New Year's dinner is sumptuous, with "all seven colors" and "all five flavors", and the best glutinous rice is used to make "New Year's Poi". The best of the best is the "Nian Ba" (New Year's rice), which is used to make gifts to each other.

The Fish Killing Festival? Most in the riverside, by the women with rice, bacon, sausage and other food and wine, as long as the fish caught, that is, burning bonfires, set up pots and pans to cook the fish until the fun party.

"Drum Festival"? The largest Miao folk festival. Generally seven years a small festival, thirteen years a large festival. In the lunar calendar from October to November of the Bhai day, when you have to kill a bullock cattle, jumping Lusheng dance, sacrifices to see the ancestors. The food invited friends and relatives *** to gather together, in order to enhance the relationship, family harmony.

Treading flower mountain? Is the territory of the Miao people's grand traditional festival, generally in the first, third and sixth days of the first month of the lunar calendar every year. Where there are Miao people living in the counties, these days are to set up flower poles, held a grand stamping flower mountain activities. This is not only a good time for young Miao men and women to talk about love, but also an important place for Miao people to carry out cultural, sports and recreational activities. Miao men, women and children, dressed in gold and silver, from all directions to the foot of the flower pole, blowing Lusheng, playing loud scorn, jumping tripod, playing big knife, bullfighting, wrestling, fighting painted eyebrows, climbing the flower pole.

The festival is popular in parts of Funing County. Popular in parts of the territory of Funing County, held from the third to the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year, is a festival of the Miao young men and women. During the festival, young men and women gather in the beautiful scenery on the hillside, when the beat back began, the male swarmed out, rushed to the front of their chosen girl, one hand to hold the girl's neck, one hand blindfolded the girl's eyes, the other lads to beat her back. The girl, not to be outdone, laughs and struggles at the same time. When she breaks free, she catches the lads and returns the favor. The whole field, men chasing women, jumping around. Tired of playing, both men and women that is to find a place to play the earth phone (that is, with two bamboo tubes, the center with a long line, each on one side of the bamboo tube speech, singing can be heard), pouring out each other honeyed words of love, in order to enterprises to form a partner. After the love affair, they will tell their parents and choose an auspicious day to get married.

The distinctive feature of Kino clothing is the use of colorful stripes to decorate the sleeve and lapel edges and the back. People decorate their clothes with colored stripes, which is said to be related to the rainbow in the sky. Folklore, in ancient times, there is a pair of kino men and women died in love with each other hard to part. A vicious rich man saw that the girl is beautiful, suddenly had bad intentions, with a plan to snatch the girl, forcing her to get married. The girl did not comply, was beaten all over the body, dead and alive. Her lover went through a lot of trouble to rescue the girl. The two of them escaped from the tiger's mouth, but the rich man came after them, and the young man fell to the ground with several arrows in his legs. Catastrophe approaching more time, the sky appeared a few rainbow entangled in the lovers, released colorful light to force back the rich gentleman, a pair of lovers in the rainbow surrounded by the sky, rising into the air ....... Therefore, the descendants in sewing clothes, they will use colorful strips of dark allegory rainbow, in order to be auspicious and free from disaster.