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Gelao, one of China's ethnic minorities. There are now 437,997 people. The birthplace of the Gelao is Wuchuan Gelao-Miao Autonomous County in Guizhou Province. Nowadays, the Gelao are mainly located in the Wuchuan Gelao-Miao Autonomous County and Daochen Gelao-Miao Autonomous County of Guizhou Province. The rest live in Guiyang City, Liupanshui City, Zunyi City and four regions, including Tongren, Bijie, Anshun and Qianxinan, with a few scattered in Yunnan and Guangxi. Those living in Guizhou Province account for more than 97% of the total ethnic population.

The Gelao settlement area is located in the north of Guizhou, at the junction of Guizhou and Sichuan, which is a slope area in the transition from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau to the Sichuan Basin. The terrain is complex and diverse, the annual rainfall is higher than the national average, there are abundant water resources and animal and plant resources, suitable for agriculture and the development of a variety of business.

The Gelao people are mainly engaged in agriculture, with many kinds of rice in the flat areas and many kinds of miscellaneous grains in the drylands of the mountainous areas, which is a type of rice farming economy and culture.

The Gelao have their own language, which belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family. The belonging of the language branch of the language family, the academic community has not yet been determined. The Gelao people do not have their own national script, and use Chinese characters as the ****same script, and only a few old people speak Gelao at present.

The Gelao people are hard-working, loyal and brave, and often recruited as soldiers to fight as pioneers in history, and the Gelao soldiers who were recruited to fight against Japanese invaders during the years of Ming Jiajing were successful in the battle of Gradual River, Wangjiangjing (now north of Jiaxing County.) When the Red Army passed through the Gelao area of Qiuxinan during the Long March in 1935, they left some of the wounded and sick in the homes of Gelao people to recuperate, and they were covered by the masses, and were not killed by the reactionaries. They were fully covered by the people and were not killed by the reactionaries. The Gelao people made their due contribution to the struggle against banditry at the beginning of the founding of the country and the campaign against the United States and North Korea.

[Edit paragraph]Ethnic history

The Gelao people have a long history, from the Shang and Zhou Dynasties to the Western Han Dynasty, the "Baipu", and from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the "Pu" and "Bong" are all related to their ancestors. The "Pu" and "Bureaucrat" have a long history, from the Shang Dynasty to the Western Han Dynasty, and from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Gelang", "Gejian", "Bureaucrat", "Gelao" are the titles given to them in various periods after the Sui and Tang dynasties, and after the founding of New China, they were officially recognized as "Gelang".

The Gelao ethnic group was officially named after the founding of New China.

The Gelao people have a close relationship with the Bong people who lived in Guizhou in ancient times. During the Tang and Song dynasties, names such as "Ge Bong", "Gelao Bong", "Gelao", "Gelao" and so on began to appear in history books, collectively known as "Bong". They were collectively called "Bong". Bureaucrat may have been a generic term for a number of minorities in the region in ancient times, but it is more directly related to the Gelao. The name "Gelao" was first mentioned in the Southern Song Dynasty in Zhu Fu's Xiban Congxiao (A Series of Jokes about the Xiban). Many historical books since the Ming Dynasty have said: "Gelao, the ancient name for bureaucrats". In the past one or two hundred years, some of the customs of the ancient Bong people have been preserved among some of the Gelao people, such as women's wearing of tunic and chiseling of teeth, as well as burial in stone coffins, etc., which indicate that the Gelao people and the ancient Bong people have a relationship of origin. The ancient bureaucrats were one of the main ethnic groups of the Yelang Kingdom (mainly in present-day Guizhou and Yunnan) during the Western Han Dynasty. More than 2,100 years ago, the Bureaucrats in the territory of Yelang were "charmingly knotted, cultivating fields, and gathering in euphonies" ("Records of the Grand Historian - Legend of the Southwest Barbarians"), i.e., they were already living a sedentary farming life, with the emergence of the Gelao people and the ancient Bureaucrats. With a settled farming life, the emergence of villages and towns, with the chief, their society has been in the end of primitive society or the early stage of class society. In 130 B.C., the Han Dynasty set up Gandan County with the land of Yelang, and in 111 B.C., it was divided into groups. From then on, the connection between this area and the Central Plains gradually became closer. The production mode of Han feudal society influenced the bureaucratic society, thus slowly transitioning to the feudal society. in the 7th century, the Tang Dynasty established tie-up prefectures and counties in the bureaucratic inhabited areas in the northern part of present-day Guizhou Province. At that time, the productivity of the bureaucratic society had developed to a fairly high level. The rice and wheat produced by the farmers had been partly sold in the market as commodities, and the quality of their textile "Bong Cloth" was so good that it became the tribute to the feudal dynasty.

From the Tang and Song dynasties to the Qing Dynasty, the Gelao people were under the rule of the feudal dynasty and local officials, and suffered from oppression and exploitation. During the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, most of the Gelao areas were ruled by local Tusi. Later on, military institutions such as guards, houses, cantonments and forts were established here. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the "land reorganization" began, and in the Yongzheng Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, the "land reorganization" of the Gelao area was basically completed, and the Gelao people have been under the rule of the officials since then. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the early years of the Republic of China, the Gelao population decreased dramatically, the living area was rapidly shrinking, the Gelao settlement was mostly distributed in the shape of a point between the living areas of other ethnic groups, and the Gelao people in various places in the surrounding other ethnic groups in the *** with the same life, through the mutual influence of each other and learn from each other, their living customs, food and clothing, and other aspects of life are also changing to varying degrees. However, in Guizhou Qianxi, Dafang and other Yi An surname Tusi, still retained their political and economic power, until the eve of the founding of New China, but also to the local Gelao and other nationalities of the farmers carried out cruel exploitation.

[edit]Ethnic Religion

The Gelao follow Taoism, and some also practice Buddhism.

[Edit Paragraph]Ethnic Architecture

According to the literature, the housing of the Gelao in ancient times was mostly of the dry-fence type, and the Gelao in the northern part of Guizhou still retain the traditional style of housing. The Gelao in other areas mostly live in adobe houses built on the hills, usually in a row of three, with a hall in the center for a shrine, which doesn't house people, and a bedroom and a kitchen on each side.

[Edit Paragraph]Ethnic Costumes

The traditional costumes of the Gelao people are very distinctive, with both men and women wearing tube skirts, which are made of dyed wool and hemp; the women wear a short waist-length blouse embroidered with scaly patterns, and a long, pleat-less tube skirt, which is divided into three segments in green, red, and white, and is covered with a long, sleeveless, green robe that is shorter in front than at the back, a long, blue-cloth bandana wrapped around their heads, and hooked-pointed shoes worn by their feet. Men's clothing is mostly short jacket with lapel, and their heads are wrapped in green or white cloth with a long kerchief.

[edit]Ethnic Diet

Most of the Gelao people live in the area, most of them are in the slope area of the transition from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau to the Sichuan Basin, where the terrain is complicated and the climate is humid; the economic life of the Gelao people is mainly based on agriculture, with maize planted in the mountainous areas and rice planted in the flatlands, so that these two kinds of crops are also the most important food for the Gelao people.

The Gelao people used to put the corn flour in the steamer and steam it, which is called dried corn rice; this is the staple food on the table of the Gelao people all the year round, and if there are festivals or distant guests, they will add an equal amount of white rice to the corn flour and steam it, which is called "mixed rice".

In order to get rid of dampness and warmth, Gelao people have a pot of chili soup in every meal; Gelao people have many ways to eat chili, such as chili congee, moldy tofu chili, bean chili, etc., but the most favorite is to be regarded as the chili bone which is processed and salted by bone meal and chili pepper.

[Edit]Ethnic Art

Gelao folklore includes poems, stories, proverbs, etc. Poems are mostly ditties that can be easily sung and are categorized into three-word, five-word, seven-word, etc.

Gelao folklore includes poems, stories, and proverbs.

Gelao musical instruments include erhu, xiaojiao, suona, gongs and drums. Gelao people play the "Eight Immortals" music is rich in national characteristics, by the eight people using erhu, cross-xiao each pair and other instruments and ensemble, the tone is very harmonious and melodious. The suona is an indispensable instrument for Gelao celebrations, and the suona is used to play more than ten tunes such as "Old Gray Tune", "Crossing the Mountain Tune", "Crossing the River Tune", "Crossing the Street Tune" and "Welcoming the Marriage Tune", and the atmosphere is even more enthusiastic when the gongs and drums are played together.

Gelao living in the mountains, also known for its many skilled stonemasons. They are in the stone tombs, monuments, pagodas, bridges, railings and other supplies and buildings on the stone carvings unique, quarry often come from their rough and bold, the mountain should be heard in the valley of the stone workers horn.

Respect for bamboo

The Gelao people call bamboo "Gelao", and "Gelao" is accurately translated as bamboo. It is not strange to use bamboo as a person's name, but to use bamboo as the name of an ethnic group is surely a novelty to those who hear it for the first time, even if it is a very old ethnic group, and it is as exciting as seeing spring bamboo shoots coming out of the ground in winter. The Chinese have given bamboo many virtues, such as hardiness, integrity, modesty, toughness, and a wide range of uses, so the use of bamboo as a name for the ethnic group is actually very elegant and meaningful. About the custom of Gelao people to respect bamboo, as early as 1600 years ago, the book "Huayang Guozhi" and more than 1500 years ago, "South China Zhi" were written. South China Zhi" written more than 1600 years ago and "Hou Han Shu" written more than 1500 years ago, both recorded in the "Legend of the Southwestern Barbarians". Southwest barbarians biography" are recorded in the following legend: the night, earlier a woman in the recluse water (now the Beipan River in western Guizhou) washing, there is a section of three sections of a large bamboo tube drifted to the woman's feet between the two, pushed it refused to drift away. She heard the sound of a child crying in the tube. Split open the bamboo tube, see a baby boy, carry back to raise, talented and martial arts, self-made Yelang Hou, to bamboo as the surname. In the place where the broken bamboo tube was discarded, a lush bamboo forest grew, and the descendants built the Bamboo King Shrine to worship it. The legend of the Bamboo King and the custom of honoring the bamboo still remain widely in the Gelao folklore. The Gelao of Meijiazhai in Daochen Gelao-Miao Autonomous County, when they give birth to their first boy, the parents bury his placenta and some egg shells into the ground of the bamboo forest, in order to pray for the blessing of the Bamboo King. In the Spring Festival, families go to the bamboo forest to offer money to the bamboo king. There are quite a few places where rice in bamboo tubes is offered to ancestors or for a good harvest. Some scholars believe that the veneration of bamboo originates from the bamboo totem worship, and this worship originates from the bamboo on the Gelao ancestors have important meaning and practical value of life.

Feeding trees on New Year's Day

The Gelao people have two New Year's Days in a year, one is Spring Festival and the other is Gelao Year, which is celebrated on the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar. The timing and customs of the Spring Festival are generally the same as those of the Han Chinese, but there is a special element of "feeding the trees". The custom of "feeding the tree", also known as "sacrificing the tree" or "worshipping the tree", originated from the Gelao people's belief in the worship of ancient trees (big trees), which have spirits in everything. The Gelao people of Longlin Autonomous County in Guangxi, at noon on the 14th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, each family prepares offerings such as rice wine, pork, fresh fish, glutinous rice, etc., and brings red paper firecrackers, and goes up to the mountain to worship the tree with friends and relatives. After seeing the tree first firecrackers, and then choose the tall and sturdy tree burning paper and incense kneeling. Worship to the tree after "feeding" offerings: a person holding a knife in the bark of the tree cut 3 mouths, another "feed" some meat and rice wine in the mouth of the knife, and finally sealed with red paper to the knife mouth, to the tree weeding cultivated soil. "Feed" rice for different trees, to answer different words. Such as fruit trees, to say: "feed you rice, knot string; feed you meat, knot lump", said wishing fruitful. After "feeding" the tree, people gather to feast. In some areas, on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar, we also hold a cow's heart and new rice to worship the sacred tree next to the fortress, "Bodhisattva tree", and pray for a good year.

The second day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar every year is the Gelao "Eat Bug Festival". On this day, there are several dishes of other flavors on the dinner table - fried locusts, pickled grasshoppers, sweet fried butterfly chrysalis, burnt fried aphid loach and so on.

There are also some areas to "sacrifice trees" called "sacrifice mountain", because Gelao people have been living in the mountainous areas for generations, love the mountain, respect the mountain is completely understandable. The specific object of "offering to the mountain" is also a tall and luxuriant old tree near the village, which is a manifestation of its tenacious vitality. The festival is organized on a village basis, and only adult men are allowed to participate. In addition to offering sacrifices, the shaman will sing the Song of Sacrifice to ask the God of the Mountain to bless the village with peace, a good harvest, and prosperity for people and animals.

[Edit]Ethnic Weddings

Gelao girls begin to "cry for marriage" three or five days before they get married. The groom does not welcome the bridegroom, but sends a sedan chair to the woman's home before dark on the day before the wedding. Before entering the door, the woman has a person to preside over the "door ceremony", to perform the toast, laying felt, waiting and other rituals, each procedure has a traditional answer to the words, must be sung in accordance with the rules, or to be laughed at. When the girl was married first sedan chair into the house, by the bride's brother or uncle will be the bride "pulled out" of the house, to the parents kowtow to the ancestors, and then "strong embrace" into the sedan chair, said the family of the mother's reluctance to give up. The bride's family to carry the sedan chair outside the village, before handing over to the male bearer. Sedan chair in front of two people holding a sword to open the way, sedan chair surrounded by colorful flags and blue umbrellas, on the way to sound the trumpet and firecrackers, blowing and beating, very lively. To the groom's home to pay homage, the bride to re-dressing, and then to the walled village in a spacious place for everyone to appreciate, laugh, in order to establish a friendly relationship with the townspeople.

In the northwest of Guizhou Gelao, the wedding is more interesting. The groom rides a horse to meet the bride, accompanied by four groomsmen, two of whom carry bamboo brooms and the other two carry gifts of wine and meat. On the way there are a few strong men sent by the female side of the road "robbery", the "robbery" of the meat and wine on the hillside to eat, that the female family rich, do not care about you this gift. Groom to the female side of the cottage door, there is a group of people holding wood chips around the "fight" groom, the male side of the bamboo broom to fully protect the breakout. Groom ran into the door of the woman's home, immediately have "toasting wine" reception, and the groom and the bride also toast to each other. After the toast, the bridegroom will bride "hold" on the horse, the bridegroom reins and lead the way back.

The solemn wedding banquet is divided into two or three Taiwan, that is, to eat two or three consecutive different seats. The first is the tea table, only tea, fried food and dried fruit. The second table is a banquet, to drink white wine, eat a variety of cold platter. The third is the main seat, in addition to the must have two bowls of buckled meat, there must be a variety of cooking and frying of ethnic flavors.

In the wedding banquet, Gelao people also use smack wine to entertain the guests. Smack wine is the wine brewed and sealed in the outer plastered with wood ash mixed with yellow mud in the altar inserted two bamboo poles, a bend has been, the bamboo joints are not completely open. Drinking through the bamboo joints, straight pipe into the air, bent pipe smack suck and drink, drinking with special singers singing "hustle song" singers to help, so that guests feel a piece of warmth.

[Edit]Gao Tai Lion Dance

Gelao folk Gao Tai Lion Dance is a very popular entertainment with acrobatic characteristics. High platform is to 8 to 12 large square table layer stacked into the top table four legs towards the sky, a total height of more than 10 meters, a lion dance team, as few as four or five people, as many as 15 people. Generally at the same time on stage performance is 4 people. Two people play the lion, the lion's head lion skin cloak in the whole body, only two feet; the other two people were dressed as a monkey and a smiling monk. Sometimes there are small lions that appear at the same time. The "Sun Monkey" and "Smiling Monk" waved handkerchiefs to lure the lion to climb up the platform layer by layer until the top. The upward climbing action is very thrilling, there are positive up, upside down, flip up, "monkey" and "monk", "small lion" and "small lion "a positive and a reverse up; big lion has straight up, wear on, through the spiral around the table, to the highest place but also four feet on the table leg performance, without any insurance ropes. The skills performed, have vivid image of the name, such as "swallow turn over", "toad holding cubs", "arowana fish draught", "eagle spreading wings ", "carp belly", "spider hanging line", "immortal monkey picking peaches", "rolling dragon embracing the pillar ", "sky-high inverted", "leaning back flip", "stepping on a high pile", "stacked Luohan ", "whirlwind car", etc., a lion dance class can sometimes perform continuously for four or five hours. Some of the movements make people breathless, heart thumping, and some of the movements are funny and ridiculous so that the audience can not help but laugh.

The more common sports games among the Gelao folk are playing gomer eggs, playing flower dragon, playing chicken ball, horse racing, jumping tendon dance, grinding cats and so on. Playing Gomer Eggs is made of thin gimlets of nanzhu or jinzhu woven into a ball as big as a duck egg, the ball is stuffed with straw or old cotton rags, and a demarcation line is drawn on the flat ground, and each of the two participating teams enters its own half of the field. The game began, party A with a hand "egg" shot to the field of party B, party B and then hit over, or kicked over. Egg was hit out of bounds, or did not catch, or touched the hands and feet outside the body parts, the other side of the convenience of scoring, to score a number of counting winners and losers.

"Flower Dragon" is in the scorn of woven ball filled with some coins and broken magnets, patting or throwing can make a pleasant sound. Competition is not divided into teams, first by a person throwing "flower dragon", the participants to grab to catch, after receiving the hand and then thrown, and shouted that they want to throw "flower dragon", who received the number of throws, who is the winner. Because of the fierce competition, and there is no fixed range of venues and competition time, so it is very lively, but also easy to see who is the most resourceful, the most endurance.

Cliff cave burial and sarcophagus burial

Gelao people in ancient times practiced cliff cave burial and sarcophagus burial, in recent times, although there are wooden coffins and stone coffins burial, but the cliff cave burial and sarcophagus burial is still there, and burial must be a stone base as a sign, the head of the grave should be planted poplar tree, in front of the grave to be planted in the Solo tree, osmanthus tree, and other symbols of good feng shui trees. There are two kinds of cliff cave burials: natural cave and artificial cave. Artificial holes are divided into several kinds of holes cut on the cliff, slate set holes, lime bamboo pole arching holes, earth brick arching holes. Slate inlaid caves and "paper bucket", "Shau Kei shape", "bright hall", "ringing hall", "dark coffin" and other forms. Slate set points can be father and son in-laws **** tombs. Sarcophagus made of slate, generally buried in the soil market, the top of the mountain, stream bank, there are also buried in the rocky jungle. Existing cliff cave burial more famous is the Taojin County three will be rural green ball cliff caves group. On the steep cliff face, orderly arranged caves were carved out, each about 1.2 meters high, 1.7 to 2.6 meters wide, and about 2 meters deep. The caves are neatly arranged with stone inlaid tomb outlines, and the numbers are mostly singular, with some having 7, 9, or even more than 10 letters. The tomb of Wang Yinliang in Daochen County. The establishment of green stone, the front wall of the tomb is carved as a pagoda, overall if the pagoda, divided into 3 layers, a height of 5.5 meters, 6 meters wide. The bottom layer of 3 tomb door, carved historical figures, flowers, plants, birds and insects, the top gable forehead relief phoenix. The second layer of 4 columns and 3 doors, carved folk stories. The middle two columns of the third floor are carved with coiled dragons, and the two sides are carved with the wings of the phoenix. Exquisite carving, ingenious design, applied to the cliffs, suspected of ghostly work, but the carved dragons, phoenixes, grasses, flowers and characters and vivid, from nature and life, can be described as skillful. Folk Songs of Guizhou Province: Han, Miao, Buyei, Dong, Tujia, Yi, Gelao, Shui and others 01, Plum Blossom (Han) 02, The Sun Comes Out to Shine on Baiyan (Han) 03, I'm in Guiyangfu, Guizhou (Han) 04, The Sun is Big in June (Han) 05, Night Song of the Qingshuijiang River (Miao) 06, The Flying Songs (Miao) 07, The Good Flower Red (Buyei) 08, Long Time No Singing Forget the song" (Buyi) 09, "Gui flowers open happiness" (Miao) 10, "everywhere cicada song not see the cicada face" (Dong) 11, "all day long want you hard to open face" (Dong) 12, "look at the cow mountain song" (Tujia) 13, "Axi Risi" (Yi) 14, "the moon came out" (Yi) 15, "wine ceremony" (Yi) 16, "play the swings" (Gelao Gelao < p> < p> Gelao year: Lunar New Year: the first year of the Chinese New Year, the first year of the Chinese New Year, the first year of the Chinese New Year, the second year of the Chinese New Year. p>Gelao Year: The third day of the third month of the lunar calendar is the Spring Festival of the Gelao people. At that time, chickens, wine, meat and rice are prepared to honor the gods of the mountains or the land of rice seedlings. It is believed that honoring these gods will bring good fortune and peace. After the offerings have been used, they gather on the mountain or in front of the village gate to eat. The local Gelao people call it the New Year, commonly known as Gelao Nian. Every year after breakfast on this day, the men, women and children of the Gelao family, dressed in brand-new national costumes, carrying Gelao's unique five-barrel reed-sheng and other national musical instruments and gabion eggs (small solid balls made of bamboo gabions and filled with cotton) and other national sports equipment, as well as meat and wine and food, converge from all directions on the lawn where the old ancestors' graves are buried. When all the people have arrived, the chief of the clan lights firecrackers and fires a cannon to signal the start of the New Year. Then, the people freely organize themselves into groups and start various recreational activities. When people have fun until about 2:00 p.m., they gather at their ancestors' graves to pay homage to their ancestors. At the time of the sacrifice, the elders are in the front and the juniors are in the back, and the chief kills 10 live chickens (5 roosters and 5 hens, which are brought by 10 families in turn each year) and spills the blood into the wine to honor the ancestors. During the ceremony, the ancestors are praised in the national language for their achievements in "opening up the land and grass" and prayed for blessings and longevity for their children and grandchildren. After the ancestor worship, people move to the lawn in order of seniority, face the mountains and forests, and worship the mountain gods and the "seedling land". In the language of the people, they pray to the mountain gods and the "land of seedlings" to bless the Gelao people with a good harvest and prosperous livestock. After the rituals are finished, the New Year's dinner begins. The New Year's dinner is divided into several tables according to the number of people, regardless of age, as long as they are of the same generation, they will sit at the same table. Each table of ten people, according to the generation in the lawn around the squatting circle, the senior sitting in the front row, the generation of short sitting in the back row, there are a few generations of people on the arrangement of a few rows. Each table with a wooden pot to scoop a pot of chicken soup and a pot of vegetables in the center of the circle, each person toasting each other a cup of wine, that is, began to eat the New Year's Eve. Only after the New Year's dinner do they go home. Gelao

Gelao New Year: The third day of the third month of the lunar calendar is the Spring Festival of the Gelao people. On that occasion, chickens, wine, meat and rice are prepared to honor the gods of the mountains or the land of the rice plantations. It is believed that honoring these gods will bring peace and prosperity. After the offerings have been used, they gather on the mountain or in front of the village gate to eat. The local Gelao people call it the New Year, commonly known as Gelao Nian. Every year after breakfast on this day, the men, women and children of the Gelao family, dressed in brand-new national costumes, carrying Gelao's unique five-barrel reed-sheng and other national musical instruments and gabion eggs (small solid balls made of bamboo gabions and filled with cotton) and other national sports equipment, as well as meat and wine and food, converge from all directions on the lawn where the old ancestors' graves are buried. When all the people have arrived, the chief of the clan lights firecrackers and fires a cannon to signal the start of the New Year. Then, the people freely organize themselves into groups and start various recreational activities. When people have fun until about 2:00 p.m., they gather at their ancestors' graves to pay homage to their ancestors. At the time of the sacrifice, the elders are in the front and the juniors are in the back, and the chief kills 10 live chickens (5 roosters and 5 hens, which are brought by 10 families in turn each year) and spills the blood into the wine to honor the ancestors. During the ceremony, the ancestors are praised in the national language for their achievements in "opening up the land and grass" and prayed for blessings and longevity for their children and grandchildren. After the ancestor worship, people move to the lawn in order of seniority, face the mountains and forests, and worship the mountain gods and the "seedling land". In the language of the people, they pray to the mountain gods and the "land of seedlings" to bless the Gelao people with a good harvest and prosperous livestock. After the rituals are finished, the New Year's dinner begins. The New Year's dinner is divided into several tables according to the number of people, regardless of age, as long as they are of the same generation, they will sit at the same table. Each table of ten people, according to the generation in the lawn around the squatting circle, the senior sitting in the front row, the generation of short sitting in the back row, there are a few generations of people on the arrangement of a few rows. Each table with a wooden pot to scoop a pot of chicken soup and a pot of vegetables in the center of the circle, each person to each other a cup of wine, that is, began to eat New Year's dinner. After eating the New Year's dinner before they go home.