What are the customs and traditions of China's various ethnic groups What are the customs and traditions of China's various ethnic groups?

1, Tibetan Bathing Festival

In the Tibetan calendar on the sixth day of the seventh month is the Tibetan bathing festival in Tibetan called "Gama Ri Ji", this festival has been eight hundred years of history. It is said that every year in early fall, Lhasa's southeastern sky will appear a star and seven consecutive nights, that time people bathe in the seven days, they believe that during this period of time the starlight to the bath water can be removed from the disease and evil spirits, to protect the health of the body, and even get good luck. The water at the time of the bathing festival according to the Tibetan calendar.

2. Mongolian diet

The traditional Mongolian diet is very different from ours. Because of their geographical and natural conditions, the proportion of milk and meat in their daily diet is relatively large. Mongolian dairy cuisine is very diverse, they call milk food also called white food to symbolize purity and holiness. They have yogurt, milk wine, milk skin, cheese, milk crisp, milk tofu and so on, and in addition to milk they also eat goat's milk, deer's milk, horse's milk, it is simply a paradise for dairy lovers. They are also very generous in the meal, they will be entertaining guests on a whole sheep, and first let the guests will be a sheep's head of an ear cut down and then cut off a piece of meat to show respect.

3, the Zhuang March 3

March 3 is an important festival for the Zhuang people, in this day young men and women will be gathered on a hillside from each other to express their love songs. Usually the man starts first, and if there is a woman who sees eye to eye, she responds. As this goes on, love grows. In the end, if things go well, the girl will give her ball to the boy, and the boy will return the favor with a handkerchief or towel.

4, Qiang

The first day of October in the lunar calendar for the Qiang New Year's Day, New Year's Day banquet, also known as the "harvest wine". On the day of the festival, the whole village goes to the "God's Grove" to pay back their wishes and burn cypress incense to honor their ancestors and the gods of heaven. Every festival, wedding, funeral, rituals, gatherings, hospitality or labor, in addition to the meal, but also must have wine.

5, Manchu

Traditional festivals are mainly Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, two have two, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. The festival is generally held during the "pearl ball", jumping horse, jumping camel and ice skating and other traditional sports activities. Gold Festival is the Manchu "clan celebration" day. October 1989, the official December 3 every year as "Gold Festival".