Dong nationality's Spring Festival custom

Kill pigs, make rice cakes, make tea, make tofu and collect firewood.

Killing pigs: In the twelfth lunar month, you can see the scene of Dong Cun sharpening his knife and killing pigs every day. Generally speaking, killing pigs should be discussed with every household in the village, because the butcher is limited and the date must be arranged. When "Killing the Year Pig", some relatives and friends will be invited to have a meal, commonly known as "eating the soup", and they will be given 1-3 Jin of pork, so that everyone can share the joy of the prime of life, and at the same time, preserved meat and other new year goods will be kept.

Ciba: Ciba is a round rice cake made of glutinous rice. No matter how many fields there are, every Dong family will plant some glutinous rice, dry it after harvesting, and put it in the twelfth lunar month to make rice cakes.

People put steamed glutinous rice in a "face hammer" made of wood and knead it into a paste. They often add some wild vegetables, twist them into round tuo and flatten them, dye them with patterns of pine and cypress branches and leaves, and coat them with beeswax to make round zanba, which means family reunion every year. After air drying, they will store them in a water tank filled with cold well water for the New Year.

Tea making: Dong people like to make all kinds of agricultural products into dry goods after harvest, and the most prominent thing is to make all kinds of fruits and vegetables into candied fruit. There are ten kinds of Dong people's candied fruit in Jingzhou, which are called "ten kinds of candied fruit", including preserved melon, pumpkin, grapefruit and tomato. They also steamed glutinous rice and dyed it red, yellow and green before the Spring Festival, dried it and fried it. This is making tea.

Tofu beating: Dong people have the habit of planting soybeans and other beans on the ridge of the field, and tofu has become an important dish in the Spring Festival. Every household will fry the ground tofu into small pieces, which can last for ten days and a half, and prepare nutritious and convenient dishes for the first month.

Chai Jie: It was on the morning of New Year's Day. As soon as the host and hostess get up, the first thing to do is to go out and pick up a small bundle of firewood and enter the house.

The pronunciation of Xiangxi is rich and rich. Collecting firewood is collecting money. Collecting firewood is collecting money and interest. When the financial door is opened, people will install incense, burn paper, light blue oil lamps and serve tea, which means to welcome the God of Wealth to the shrine and hope that the God of Wealth will stay at home forever.

Extended data:

Dong is a minority in China, and its national language is Dong, which belongs to the Dong Shui branch of the Zhuang Dong language family of Sino-Tibetan language family, and has polytheism.

The ancestors of the Dong nationality were called "Thousand Hands" in the documents before the pre-Qin period, and it is generally believed that the Dong nationality developed from a branch of ancient Baiyue.

Agriculture is the mainstay of the Dong people, and rice cultivation is the mainstay of agriculture. Rice planting has a long history, and forestry, agriculture and forestry production have reached a fairly high level. There are many basins called "bazi" in Wanshan Congling in Dong nationality area.

Dong people are mainly distributed in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture and Tongren Prefecture of Guizhou Province, xinhuang dong autonomous county, Huitong County, Tongdao Dong Autonomous County, Zhijiang Dong Autonomous County and Jingzhou Miao and Dong Autonomous County of Hunan Province, Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Longsheng Ethnic Autonomous County, Rongshui Miao Autonomous County and Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Hubei Province.

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