Folkways and customs of different regions.

I. Miao Festivals The traditional festivals of the Miao people include the Miao New Year, April 8, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Eat New Festival, and the Catch the Autumn Festival, etc., among which the most solemn is to celebrate the Miao New Year. The Miao New Year is equivalent to the Spring Festival of the Han Chinese, and is usually held after the fall. In the morning of the festival, people will do a good job of delicious food set up on the stove by the fire to sacrifice to their ancestors, and smear wine on the nose of the cow to show their appreciation for their hard work for a year. Young men and women in full costume dance the Stomping Hall Dance. The Year of the Miao is a traditional festival for the Miao people in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture of Guizhou Province and Rongshui Miao Autonomous County of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region to celebrate the harvest and pray for good weather in the coming year. It is usually held after the harvesting season, some on the Ohi day in October of the lunar calendar, and some on the Mao (rabbit) day or the U (ox) day in the ninth, tenth and eleventh months of the lunar calendar. It is equivalent to the Spring Festival of the Han Chinese. In the morning of the festival, the younger generation will do a good job of delicious food, piously placed on the stove by the fire to offer sacrifices to the ancestors. Some wine is rubbed on the nose of the ox as a reward for its hard work throughout the year. The girls, dressed in brightly colored, differently styled, embroidered or embroidered batik dresses and pants, or long and short pleated skirts, and wearing eye-catching earrings, bracelets, and other silver ornaments, and the handsome young men dance the Stomping Dance (men play the Lusheng and women dance in an arc). At night, the sound of big copper drums spreads throughout the village. Outside the village young men carrying horse lanterns and playing flutes came to the village near the "Yufang" field to go to Yufang (also known as "sitting sister", "sitting village", "stepping on the moon", etc., i.e. young men and women). " and so on, that is, young men and women's social love activities), villages and cottages singing constantly. Through the songs, men and women who are in love will be connected by the love object - the brocade flower belt embroidered with mandarin ducks. If the Year of the Miao meets the Year of the Eat Drum Tibetan, it will be even more solemn "Drum" means "big family", and "drum Tibetan" is Ancestor worship ceremony held by the family people *** with a number of years held once, seven or eight years, ten years vary. "Drum Tibetan" before the "drum Tibetan" cattle (for the drum Tibetan God fed three years of big bullock) line up to fight. At that time, we elected the "drum Tibetan head" a host ceremony, kill cattle ancestor, but also kill chickens and ducks. The whole drum relatives have to come to participate in the activities lasted more than ten days. Eat New Festival is also called "New Harvest Festival". "It is one of the festivals of the Miao people who live in the middle and upper reaches of the Qingshui River and the Duliu River. There is no standardized date. It is customary to find a field with the best growing rice during the harvest season and celebrate the "Eating New Rice Festival" here. Legend has it that in ancient times, there was no grain on earth, but only grain in the state of grain in the sky, which was controlled by Sue Hoo (Lei Gong), and people had to hunt for a living. In order to get the grain seed, the Miao's old ancestor first surao took nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine kinds of rare birds and beasts to the grain country for nine buckets and nine liters and nine bowls of grain seed, put in the warehouse, and so on the next year, the beginning of the spring sowing. But one night, A Wuyou, who had very long and long arms, with his hands grasping the sky, stepped on a stone and pounded fern roots by the light of a sky lantern, and accidentally knocked the lantern over, which happened to fall onto the roof of the wooden plank warehouse. As a result, a fire started, which got bigger and bigger, and the grain seeds cried out in the barn, and finally flew up to the sky on the smoke and ran back to the house of Sue Hoo. Gulaw went to Gulhoo and asked him to persuade the grain seed to return, but Gulhoo insisted that the grain seed had not gone up to the sky. But he insisted that the grain seed had not gone up to the sky. With no other choice, Gulaw discussed with Gulaw and Gulaw again, and took 9,999 kinds of rare birds and animals to exchange for the grain seed. After nine layers of skin had been worn out and his voice had been dried up, Sue Hoo refused to agree. After thinking for nine days and nine nights, Sue Hoo finally came up with a plan: when the grain is ripe, send a dog to the paddy field to play a few rolls, so that the grain is stained on the fur to bring back. On the morning of July 13th of the ancient calendar, the dog was about to set off, and the surau was again confided in: to take the grain stalks were five feet high, and the ears were five feet long. But because the dog walked too fast, to the south gate, accidentally tripped and fell, the confession of the words reversed, the result is to run into only five inches long rice paddy, hastily rolled a few back to run. The strategy was recognized by the defendant Hue, when the dog went to the bridge, the sue Hue early sent ninety-nine strong warriors to guard the bridge, they knocked the dog down to the Tianhe River, they thought the Tianhe River is wide and deep, the dog is only one way to die. But they never thought, the dog fell into the sky river after hurrying to the tail high exposed to the water, after nine oxen and two tigers strength, swim across the sky river back, the tail is also stained with nine grain seed. Sue Lau has a grain seed, quickly plowed and withdrawn the seed, to the ancient calendar June 6 this day, the tip of the seedling extracted a string of dog tail like the ears of grain, a month later, the golden ears of grain ripened. On the 13th day of the 7th month of the ancient calendar, it was the day of obtaining grain seeds for a year, and on this day, Sue Law picked nine liters of grain and cooked a big pot of fragrant white rice. He scooped up three large bowls for the dogs to eat before tasting the new one himself. The rest of the grain seeds were sown year after year, so that all the people ate white rice. In order to remember the day when the grain seeds were taken, the 13th of July was designated as the New Eating Festival, which has been passed down. On the day of the festival, every family uses the new grain to cook, the day just breaks, people will bring the new rice, wine, chicken, duck, fish, meat to the field, after sacrificing the ancestors, the feast begins, everyone forms a circle, each person will raise the hand of the wine cup to the lips of the next, the old man gave an order, everyone cheered three times in succession, then each other to toast and wine, drink it all. All of a sudden the sound of laughter echoing in the fields, singing, stepping on the pond, jumping Lusheng and other traditional cultural and sports activities began until dusk. April 8, the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, is a traditional festival of the Miao people near Guiyang City, Guizhou Province, to commemorate the ancient hero "Yanu". Legend has it that long, long ago, the Miao people lived a happy, fulfilling and well-fed life in the affluent area of Gerogesang (near present-day Guiyang). In order to resist the attack of the ruler's soldiers, the resourceful leader "Yanu" led the people to fight valiantly and dealt a heavy blow to the invaders, but was outnumbered and unfortunately sacrificed his life on the eighth day of the fourth month, and was buried in the "Jia Bashi" (near the fountain of Guiyang City today). In order to commemorate the martyrdom of "Yanu", so far every lunar April 8, dressed in festive costumes of the Miao people, from all directions to gather in Guiyang City, fountain side of the rally. At that time, the fountain by the red flags, people like a tide, blowing the sheng playing flute, singing love, playing lion, play dragon lanterns, playing ball, than the martial arts lively and extraordinary. The young men's lusheng competition is very interesting, as they play the lusheng while doing tricks such as fast spinning, short steps and inverted position. At night, the city of Guiyang and the fountain area is as bright as day, singing and dancing everywhere, a joyful scene. The April 8 event is also widely practiced among the Miao people in Sichuan, Hubei, Hunan and Guizhou. Zhouxi Lusheng Festival is held by the Miao people who live in the Zhouxi area of Kaili. The Lusheng Festival is held from the 16th to the 20th day of the first month of the lunar calendar. The Lusheng Hall is located on the sandy dam of the river by Zhouxi Jingkan. Early in the morning of the sixteenth day of the first month, several presided over the reed-song hall of the old man, carrying a reed-song to the well to view the inscription, read: "blowing the sheng pick the moon, is my Miao people thousands of years of prevalence of recreational activities. Every new year in the first month, all over the world have to follow suit, in order to entertainment and congratulate the new year, more I Miao free match marriage good time ...... " read after pouring out the gourd of rice wine, first in the tablet and the center of the lusheng hall, spray wine several mouth, each person and drink a big mouth, blowing the first luzhu song; at this time with the silver flower jewelry, wearing a At this time the girls and young men with silver jewelry and colorful festival dresses danced to the melodious tunes. The young men ask for flower ribbons from their sweethearts, and the girls tie the ribbons to the reed-pipe of the young man they like. Three days passed, and the young men and women each found a partner of their choice. At this time, the old man who presides over the Lusheng Hall still carries rice wine on his back and sprays rice wine on the monument and the Lusheng Hall. A straw marker is inserted in the center of the hall. Thereafter, the lusheng is hung high until the grains are returned to the barn and the "Miao Year" in the lunar calendar, when it can be taken down and blown until the Lusheng Festival. The fourth day is the Spring Festival, young couples, free to talk and sing, mingling feelings, send each other a token. Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Boat Festival is May 24 to 27 of the lunar calendar every year, when ten thousand people dressed up, gathered on the river, to participate in the dragon boat before the departure of the sacrificial activities. The race began, dozens of dragon boats breaking the waves, the two sides of the gongs and drums, salutes, the audience shouted the earth. The shore also held songs, dancing Lusheng dance and other activities. At night, the afterglow, young men and women get together to sing songs, pouring out their true feelings. Fishing FestivalThe Fishing Festival is a festival of the Miao people on the banks of the Dumu River and the Nanming River in central Guizhou. The Dumu River originates from the Yunwu Mountains and flows northward in Guizhou to the junction of Yuli and Fulei where it joins the Nanming River and then flows northward into the Wujiang River. This festival is initially in the sowing of rice seedlings in need of water, the Miao people in the river to pray for rain Dragon King rain festival, but over the years, it gradually evolved into a fishing festival. Festival period varies from place to place, from March to June, by the village good fishing and have the prestige of the "fishing head" agreed. At that time, young and strong men will go to the mountains to collect leaves for "haunted medicine", go to the river to haunted fish fishing, women at home to prepare preserved meat, sausage, glutinous rice and wine. At noon, the whole family dresses up and carries wine and meat to the river for a meal. After the meal, the men play the reed-sheng. The women sing songs and have fun. When the sun goes down, they go home with fresh fish and hold a banquet for their friends and relatives or give them fish as gifts. Eat letter festival eat letter festival, is a festival of the Miao people in the area of Baozhai, Hejiang County, Guizhou Province, which lasts for four days, in the sixth month of the lunar calendar every year, "letter" (e) day (calculated according to the dry calendar year). At that time, the Miao girls married to other countries, extremely well groomed, dressed like flowers and brocade dresses, wearing a full range of silver ornaments, full of "loaded" holiday gifts, trekking home to visit their parents and relatives. During the festival, the whole cottage jubilation, drums and music, blowing up the Lusheng, dancing, everywhere overflowing with the joy of the festival. The foot of Baigariya Mountain and the bank of Ongya River are crowded with people. Bullfighting, birdfighting, jumping lusheng, tug-of-war, ball games and other competitions, cheering one after another. Young men and women in love are invited to the woods and the streams to sing songs to each other and confess their love. Flower Hill Festival Flower Hill Festival, also known as "Stomping Flower Hill", "Playing Flower Hill" or. "Treading on the mountain", also known as "jumping field" or "peach blossom", is a grand festival of the Miao people in western and central Guizhou Province, southeastern Yunnan Province and southern Sichuan Province. The date varies, some in the first month of the lunar calendar, some in May, June and late August. Before the festival, several Miao villages jointly produced flower mountain will be the three-person leadership group, re-election for three years, seven years, twelve years ranging from flower farms in the terrain of the flat Feng Shui treasure trove. At that time, dressed in holiday attire "flower field", lanterns hanging high, colorful flags flying. Flower poles stand. Dressed in a pair of lapel short clothes, head wrapped in long green cloth, waist to the big city belt of men and dressed in festive attire, well-groomed women, blowing the lusheng, blowing na, beating the drum, singing and dancing, from all directions gathered at the venue. The Lusheng Dance runs through the beginning and end of the festival, the Song Race is the main program of the festival, and the Pole Climbing Competition attracts the most attention. Lion dances, martial arts competitions, bullfights and horse races vary from place to place, or both. Lusheng dance gives a relaxed and lively feeling, brightly dressed girls and young men dancing with the melody of the lusheng, there are several men lined up, blowing while dancing, the girls around the lusheng team, jumping in a circle; there are young men blowing the sheng in front of the girl's joint arms in the back of the vertical dance, or the whole field of hundreds of people with the music and dance, song and dance, it is exciting to the spirit of the people. Lion dance activities are interesting, hanging a pig's head (or a chicken), two bottles of wine at the top of the standing flower pole, the lion dance after the competition to climb the flower cup. Flower cup is made of a peeled pine tree, high and slippery and thin, to win is very difficult, people often use the human ladder to pick the victory. Climbing the flower pole performance is the most rich in national characteristics. Performers play the sheng, while dancing around the pole. A harrier on the turn on the pole, head down, legs crossed tightly strung poles hanging upside down, playing the reed sheng, a carp hit the back, the body inverted one hundred and eighty degrees, the cycle of repetition has been climbing to the top of the pole debut. The performer hangs upside down with his feet clamped on the flower pole. Blowing the reed fungus down, a few feet from the ground, a somersault flip down, light and free, race over the skills of gymnasts, won the applause of the audience. Women's performance of hemp threading competition, interesting, the competition rolling hemp rope, threading the needle quality, speed. The crystallization of hard work, wisdom for them to bring joy to the festival. Huashan will be young men and women's social opportunities, love of the girl will be the young man opened the flower umbrella close to each other, snuggled up, confiding in each other. Huashan will be everywhere filled with the atmosphere of the program, full of sincere friendship, pure love. Chopping Mars Festival Miao traditional festival. Popular dry Guizhou Guanling area. The content of the festival is mainly to stipulate the rules of the township. According to different surnames, the time of the festival is not the same. Roughly July, August and September 27 vary. Once a year, according to the people in the clan, take turns to be on duty, the duty year is responsible for convening everyone to discuss the rules of the township and related major events, and then the duty year family should prepare wine and kill chickens, invite everyone to drink "Heshin Wine", and the head of the chicken to honor the next duty year. When the cycle turns to whose family is on duty, they will hold a gathering at whose house to discuss and drink the "heart wine". The Hakka New Year of the Hmong is the Spring Festival. On the evening of the 30th day of the Lunar Calendar, family members get together and are not allowed to be disturbed by outsiders. They use a half-covered door to set off firecrackers to show that no one is allowed to enter at this time. Early in the morning on the first day, they continue to set off firecrackers to honor their ancestors and get rid of evil. People with two hands to do rail cattle, stop the shape of the sheep, the mouth said: "drive cattle, drive sheep ......" to show that the six animals flourish, and then eat the New Year's dinner. Beginning of the second year dressed in full costume Miao people walk around the countryside, congratulate each other on the holiday. Hospitable hosts to the guests to toast three cups of wine. Every house is filled with the joy of the festival. Young men and women gather on the lawn in front of the village and beside the cottage to play the lusheng, moon zither, dance and sing, and in some places, they also hold activities such as "stepping on the flower mountain" and "merging cows". Drying Bridge Festival is a traditional festival in Zhaitou, Miao Township, Sanxiu County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province, also known as "February 2nd". Legend has it that the people of Zhaitou originally lived in the foggy mountains, and because of the fertile land in Zhaitou, the whole village moved into Zhaitou together. On the day of the move, the dragon should also follow the move, but the water of the Shiping River blocked the way of the dragon, so the Walled City's Guru (elders) discussed and decided to build a bridge to bring the dragon, because the dragon symbolizes good luck and happiness. The whole village twelve houses to receive, so the bridge was built twelve piers. The bridge was repaired and named "Dragon Bridge", the bridge is built on the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, in order to commemorate this day, every year this day the head of the twelve houses of the Miao family lift a pig, slaughtered on the bridge. Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the "Dragon Boat Festival", is a traditional festival of the Miao people in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Songtao Miao Autonomous Prefecture and Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Guizhou Province, generally held on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar. At that time, the banks of the Qingshui River, colorful flags fluttering, people like the sea, song like the tide, dozens of decorated green, red, yellow dragon boat lined up, parked in the race to the starting line. The flags of "good wind and rain" and "good harvest" are "clattering" in the wind. Thirty to forty athletes on each boat, wearing short jacket with lapel, embroidered belt at the waist, pants with dungarees, and delicate hats, were all in high spirits and on standby. Respected drummers and handsome teenagers beat the drums and shouting, commanding the dragon boat marching on the wide river, the dragon boat like a flying arrow off the string, the two sides of the cheers, applause echoed through the sky. Competition is over, male and female youth with the lusheng, blowing na, bamboo flute, mango tube, moon qin, wood leaves and other music and dance. Horse-racing, bullfighting, drum-stomping and "touring" activities are held in conjunction with each other, adding to the rich atmosphere of the festival. During the festival, the married aunt is comparable to a load of chickens, ducks and brown poi to visit her mother's home. Sisters Festival is a traditional festival of the Miao people. It is popular in the Miao area of Qiandongnan, Guizhou Province. Every spring, the Miao women there will have a "Sisters Festival" and eat a meal of "Sisters Rice". On the morning of the festival, the girls in the village go to the fields to catch fish and prepare the "Sisters' Rice", and no matter which field they go to catch fish, they will be welcomed. After the women have eaten the "sister rice", they each bring their own colorful glutinous rice and go to the square to find young men to sing songs. The young men must win the song in order to get the rice. In addition to the songs, women can participate in all kinds of recreational activities. Married girls also go back to their mother's home for the "Sisters' Festival". Climbing Festival Miao climbing festival also known as "climbing festival", formed so far has a history of thousands of years, every year in the second half of March in the lunar calendar, "Horse Day" (the ancient use of the twelve signs of the Zodiac to remember the day), that is, the lunar calendar, March 19th this day. At that time, the Miao people living in the Kaili area of Southeast Guizhou gathered on the incense burner mountain, where they sang songs and fought with the birds, singing mountains and seas of people, bustling with activity. Young men and women sing while climbing along the winding mountain path to the top of the mountain. All the way to the spring breeze all the way song, the Miao fly song, love song, wine song, ancient song sprinkled all over the hillside, the first to reach the top of the mountain is known as "climbing hero", by everyone's respect. The first to reach the top of the mountain is known as the "climbing hero" and is respected by everyone. He is favored by the girls. Legend has it that the Xiangfu Mountain Climbing Festival commemorates the Hmong's handsome young man, A Tinker, and the Jade Emperor's youngest daughter, Abel. The Jade Emperor's youngest daughter, Abel, longed for a free life on earth and flew down the mountaintop to marry and have three daughters with the smart, capable, loyal and kind-hearted Tonic. One day at dawn, the whole family was happy when the rooster crowed for the first time. The Jade Emperor stipulates that every day when the rooster crows three times is the time of pilgrimage, and if Abel can't get there in time, there will be a great disaster. Anxious as fire, Abel ran towards the sky at the top of the mountain and collapsed the top of Fragrant Furnace Mountain by one foot. Without the top of the mountain, Abel could no longer descend to the earth, and the Jade Emperor, who could not enjoy the incense on earth without the top of the mountain, punished Abel by turning him into an incense burner for the purpose of burning incense. In order to commemorate the faithful love of Abel and A Patch, the Miao people will have the annual mountain climbing festival on the day A Patch turns into an incense burner. Fish Festival in Guizhou Province, living in the Guiding area of the Miao people every year on the ninth day of the third month of the lunar calendar to kill fish festival. On this day, the people get up early to the river, forked up the fresh fish in the river, in the river to cook and eat, eat while singing songs, blowing Lujian, wishing the wind and rain, the harvest. The Onion Festival is a gathering of Miao youths in Wengpaipo, Baoding County, western Hunan. Legend has it that a long time ago, Ada, the daughter of a native official of the Miao village of Laobizi, fell in love with Iwano, a cowherd of the Miao family of Ramsha. The land official was furious and said, "How can a phoenix bird **** its nest with a pegged sparrow?" Iwano's old man also advised Iwano: "The honeysuckle flower and the ground cabbage can't share the same heart." Adajia was locked in the hammock and could not go out. Every day at dusk, Yannuo drove his cows home and ran from Ramsha to Laobizhai to see his beloved girl. The girl, who had lost her freedom, sang: "The kingfisher is locked in a bamboo cage, but the flowers on the mountain are all I care about. The bird looks forward to the flower, the flower looks forward to the bird, and the bird meets only after the Qingming Festival." "Qingming Caiqing" is a Hmong girl on the day of Qingming, picking gourd onions on the mountain, to seek the blessing of the mountain gods. Iwano understood the meaning of the girl, busy singing: "Pulling down the tree's vine rolled in the ground miles, the vine is also withered leaves are also withered good lonely miles, looking forward to the Qingming, the spring rain miles, entangled in the village and then not away miles." Qingming this day, the two men left home early, just walking in the thick green Ong Pai slope met. Their love for each other touched the HULU onion fairy goddess, which led to their beautiful marriage. Therefore, every year during the Ching Ming Festival, young Miao women put on their festive dresses, bring along the steamed "Ching Ming Ba Ba", hold the onion knife in their hands, and young men hold sand knives, and gather on the slope of Ong Pai to sing songs to choose their spouses. This is the annual "Onion Picking Festival". Drum Festival is a traditional festival of the Miao people for ancestor worship. It is a big festival in 12 years and a small festival in 6 or 7 years. Legend has it that the mother of mankind, "Meibong Meiliu", was born from the heart of the maple tree, and after their deaths, they had to go back to the maple tree, and the souls of the dead had to go back to their old homes before they could rest in peace. The ancestral home is in the heart of the tree, and the wooden drum symbolizes the resting place of the ancestors. Later, when the ancestors were sacrificed, the word "ancestor sacrifice" was changed to "drum sacrifice". Nowadays, sacrificing drums means sacrificing ancestors. The drum festival is held on the basis of a unit called "Reiryo," which is a clan of blood relatives passed down from the first ancestor, and they worship a wooden drum in which the soul of the ancestor is believed to reside. On the day of the drum festival, each family prepares a buffalo, or several families can prepare one, or buy some beef. First, the bulls are released to fight, and the scene is spectacular with hundreds of bulls fighting together, and then they are slaughtered to honor the offerings. According to custom, whether it is to celebrate the friends and relatives, but also to see the bullfighting guests, passing vendors, all stay, not allowed to go, the more people, the owner of the face the more colorful. Jumping flower festival Miao traditional festival. Popular in the Guanling area of Guizhou. This is the longest and largest festival of the Miao people in the Guanling area. It is said to be an entertainment event for couples who have not had children for many years. Now it goes far beyond that. The program is mostly held in the first month and lasts for about three days. During the day, playing the lusheng and mouth string, singing and dancing. In the evening, songs are sung, love is talked about, and old people gather around bonfires to drink and talk. Sometimes there are tens of thousands of participants, men, women, young and old, competing for the meeting. II. Yao 1. Yao Song and Dance Panwang Festival, also known as jumping Panwang, according to legend, the Yao ancestor Panwang's birthday is on the 16th day of the 10th month of the lunar calendar, every year at this time, coincidentally, is also the time of harvest in the fall, in order to commemorate the ancestors and to celebrate the harvest, the Yao family will be on this day to get together and hold the "play song hall" activities. The day before the festival, the village starts to kill pigs and cows, prepare chickens, ducks, fish and meat, grind tofu, make patties, and bring brewed rice wine to entertain visitors from all directions. The Pangwang Festival is held at the bottom of a valley in the mountains, called "Gotangping", which is very spacious. On the day of the festival, starting from the morning, Yao men, women and children come out of their villages in traditional costumes, and they form a queue according to their different identities and converge on the Songtang Ping of Nangang Yao Village, where the song playing begins. And foreign tourists also drive to watch, the valley is lively and unusual. The Yao people's playing song hall carries out the rituals of visiting the god, crossing the nine states, sacrificing Fazhen, etc., and at the same time, they also beat gongs and drums, sing mountain songs, dance the long encouragement, and discharge the cannon, which vibrates the Yao Mountain for hundreds of miles. Yao people live in the mountains, the land is more barren than elsewhere, their living environment can be described as difficult, but they also the same flaunt their happiness, from the difficult life to feel the song and dance of joy and inspiration. Like many other folk festivals, Juggling Song Hall is also an opportunity for young Yao men and women to begin their relationship. When young men and women start to sing to each other, the atmosphere becomes even more enthusiastic. In the Yao family, a boy is called A Gui and a girl is called Sa Wa Mui, and the song pairing is also an opportunity for them to express their love for each other. After singing and dancing, the enthusiastic Yao girls will invite outsiders and guests to **** dance together, and by this time, the guests are not shy, and freely dance with the Yao people.2. The diet of the Yao people is based on maize, rice and sweet potatoes, with taro, corn and wheat as the auxiliary food. Frequently eaten vegetables include white watermelon, winter melon, pumpkin, radish, cabbage, mustard greens, chili peppers, eggplant, bean curd, tomato and so on. In addition, they also pick bamboo shoots, mushrooms, fungus and aromatic mushrooms in season as vegetable food. The Yao people like to make their own tofu, especially the "tofu round" made by the Yao people in Hunan Province, which is tender and delicious, and is a must-have dish for festivals. The Yao people also make bacon, smoked meat and edelweiss meat, especially the "bird edelweiss" cured by the Yao people in the Dayao Mountain of Jinxiu, Guangxi, which is a famous flavorful snack. Patty cake is also a traditional snack of the Yao people, and is a necessary food for festivals. Yao people have a hobby of drinking, many places men drink with bowls without cups, especially festivals and celebrations, drinking all day long. Oil tea is a dietary custom of the Yao people. Get up early in the morning, boil water, set up a tea pot, put a handful of tea leaves with oil and salt small fry, to be fragrant tea, rushed on the boiling water to roll, that is made of fragrant oil tea. Whenever a guest arrives, the host often treats the guest with oil tea to show respect. Yao people like to drink sweet wine. All guests at the door, the host first honors a cup of sweet wine. There is also a kind of sweet wine that Yao women drink during menstruation, which is different from the general sweet wine and is a good tonic with ginger, brown sugar and eggs added when cooking. The women who are sitting on the moon drink this kind of sweet wine, which can receive the effect of strengthening the body, replenishing blood and restoring health. In China, the Spring Festival is also a customary festival for people of various ethnic minorities. People of various ethnic groups in accordance with their own customs, held a variety of celebratory activities, with their own strong national unique style. Tibetans On New Year's Eve, people put on colorful costumes, wearing strange masks, with suona, conch, drums, music, to perform a grand and grand "jumping god will". The young men dance and sing to welcome the new year and to drive away evil spirits. In the morning of the New Year, women will go to back "auspicious water", wishing for a new year of good luck. Yi compatriots choose their New Year's festivals according to the Yi calendar. Some of them celebrate the Spring Festival with the local Han Chinese. In some areas, Yi compatriots set up pines in front of their doors and pave the ground with pine needles to avoid disasters. In other areas, pigs and goats are killed and eaten during the festival, and people visit each other and give each other meat and buns. On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, the first thing you do when you get up is to carry water home. They will be a bowl of water and yesterday's water than the weight, such as the New Year's water heavy, it means that this year's rainfall is sufficient. The Zhuang compatriots distributed in Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangdong and other regions celebrate the Spring Festival at the same time as the Han Chinese. On the night of New Year's Eve, the rice eaten on the day of the festival should be made well, known as the "pressure of the New Year's rice", and in some areas, the masses are called "eat Lijie", which is the meaning of the Zhuang language for "over the late year". It is an omen of a good agricultural harvest in the coming year. Some also packaged with more than a foot long, five or six pounds of heavy alkali, a family with a small population a meal is not finished! Early in the morning on the first day of the New Year, before dawn people get up, put on new clothes, firecrackers to welcome the new, women are scrambling to the river or well "draw new water", to start a new year of boiling life. Buyei People On New Year's Eve, the whole family stays up all night to keep watch at the watering hole. As soon as the day breaks, the girls scramble to fetch water. Whoever is the first to pick back the first load of water is the most diligent and the happiest girl. Manchu The Manchus are divided into four banners: red, yellow, blue and white. Spring Festival, the red flag people in the door posted red hanging flag, yellow flag people in the door posted yellow hanging flag, blue flag people in the door posted blue hanging flag, white flag people in the door posted white hanging flag. These hanging flags have beautiful patterns and bright colors, symbolizing an auspicious start to the year. Dong compatriots in Guizhou and Hunan, during the Spring Festival, there is a popular activity of "playing Dong Nian" (also known as the Lusheng Association). This activity is similar to the Han Chinese "reunion", but more joyful and enthusiastic than "reunion". This kind of activity is generally organized by two villages **** with the agreement. The two teams officially hold a Lusheng song and dance competition in the square. At this time the audience of the two villages, accompanied by music, dancing, and enjoy the joy. Bai compatriots in Yunnan Bai New Year's Eve, there is a called "put high up" celebrations. The so-called "put high rise" is to use the whole of the large bamboo, in the bamboo joints loaded with gunpowder, after ignition can be the whole large bamboo collapse on the sky 100 feet, become a veritable "high rise". Some areas of the Bai compatriots and Miao, Zhuang, as from the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival, are in the "embroidered ball" activities. Where the catch can not catch the embroidered ball, to give each other souvenirs, many times lost the ball and redemption of souvenirs, is to express the willingness to allow love. Tujia During the Spring Festival, the Tujia people will hold a grand hand-waving dance. Hand-waving dance is a popular ancient dance of the Tujia people, including hunting, military, agricultural, banquet and other more than 70 dance movements, rhythmic, beautiful, simple dance, healthy mood, without props, with distinctive ethnic characteristics and a strong sense of life. Dai People The Water-splashing Festival is the New Year's festival of the Dai people, and it is the grandest traditional program of the Dai people in the year. The day of the beginning of the rainy season is designated as the "Water Splashing Festival". During the three or four days of the festival, people pour water on each other to wash away the old soil and bless the new year with happiness and peace. Li people living on Hainan Island Li people, whenever the Spring Festival comes, every family has to slaughter pigs and chickens, set up a sumptuous food and wine, the whole family sitting around together to eat "New Year's dinner"; the whole family will also be singing "New Year's song". On the first day, the second day, the village of young and strong men, but also held a "Spring Festival hunting". This day's prey village **** enjoy. Interestingly, in the division of the prey, the first half of all the prey to the first hit the prey shooter; the other half by everyone equally. Pregnant women can get two shares, and passers-by who happen to meet, can also get a share. The Lisu people call the New Year's Festival "Qash", and most of them make indica rice, glutinous rice and water wine, and put a little of the first mortar pounded out of the poop on the peach, plum and other fruit trees, wishing for fruitfulness in the coming year. The Lisu people in the Nujiang region of Yunnan Province first feed salt to their oxen to show their respect for their labor. Young men and women like to hold target shooting competitions in the Spring Festival. The girls hang their embroidered purses on bamboo poles, and the purses are shaken from side to side, inviting the young men to shoot, and whoever shoots down the purses first, the girls will send the wine as a prize to whoever is in front of their mouths. Lahu On the evening of New Year's Eve, the whole family of Lahu compatriots will take a bath to clean themselves and make good food for the following day. In the food, special attention is paid to the glutinous rice poop, in addition to eating, always give a little to the cattle to eat, off in the plow, hoe, machete and other farm equipment on a little, in order to reward its year with the master cooperation, wishing the new year to create more wealth. Daur Ethnic Group The Daur ethnic group living on both sides of the Nenjiang River in the northeast of China, on the first morning of the first day of the first month of the Chinese lunar calendar, young men and women dress up and greet their elders, drink wine and salute, and then pay homage to the New Year door to door, and each family prepares steamed cakes, and the people who pay homage to the New Year rush to eat the cakes, which is said to be able to make production and life "higher every year". Mulao Tribe From the first to the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, men, women and children of the Mulao Tribe dress up in festive costumes, and dozens, hundreds or even thousands of people gather on the slopes of the hills or in the racecourses to sing songs about labor, life and love. The only festival of the Dulong people is the "Kachowa" festival, which takes place in the winter months. The most solemn ceremony is the cow sacrifice to heaven. On this day, the chief of the clan ties the ox to a stake in the center of the square. A young woman hangs a chain on the bull's horn, and then a brave and strong young man, holding a sharp bamboo spear, stabs the bull in the armpit until the bull falls down and dies. At this moment, people will dance "cow pot Zhuang" dance, and then share the beef. Oroqen Oroqen compatriots in the Northeast, the morning of the Spring Festival, the first in the family according to the size of the seniority of the pouring of wine, the younger to the elders kowtow, the generation of each other to please each other, the second, the third horse race. The first fifteen days of the first month of delicious food. On the morning of the 16th day of the first month, the activity of smearing each other's black faces is carried out. Young people to the elderly to wipe black to kowtow first. Herzhe Spring Festival, Herzhe language for the "Fo E Shix", that is, the meaning of the New Year's Eve. People wear in the hat ear, collar, cuffs, pants legs, aprons, shoes embroidered with beautiful flowers, geometric patterns and birds and other lace laces such as animal skins and other clothing. During the New Year's festivals, the average family makes a "fire feast" or a cake made from a wild fruit called "Bird cherry," which is also filled with fish and animal meat. When treating honored guests, live fish are killed or fish sticks are roasted and served with this kind of "taraha". Keno Spring Festival, the gathering of the Keno people in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, betel nut chewing old man raised his head to play the cymbals, wearing a big pointed hat of the old woman bowed down to sound the gong, by the Zhouba (Zai father) is the first to play the drums, male and female youths in a circle to dance with their bare hands.