What are the activities of She nationality? How to celebrate the holidays?

She nationality is one of the ethnic groups with less population in China, and it is also one of the typical scattered ethnic groups. They also have many traditional festivals, and the activities in the festivals are also very distinctive. So, do you know what the activities of the She nationality are? How do they spend their holidays? Let's go to She culture with Bian Xiao.

Festivals:

Also known as the Spring Festival, it is the most grand and lively festival of She nationality. She people began to celebrate the New Year with "offering sacrifices to stoves" and "offering sacrifices to gods" on February 24th, 65438. After the sacrifice to the Kitchen God, a "New Year's Eve" and a "fireplace" will be prepared for the whole family. At that time, steaming "golden cakes" and eating "golden cakes" were one of the characteristics of the She nationality. The phrase "glutinous rice is round, fragrant, sesame, sweet and sticky" is circulating in She nationality township, which indicates her family's desire to reunite in the new year and have a better family life.

On New Year's Eve, the whole family "eats New Year's Eve" (that is, "New Year's Eve"), which is the happiest moment for the She people. While enjoying the delicious food, they expressed their wish for a better life in the coming year than this year. After "surrounding the stove", the housewife chooses a piece of wood with a diameter of about seven or eight centimeters to burn in the stove chamber, burns it to a certain temperature and buries it with ashes to keep it from going out, and prepares it as the fire on the first day of the first month of the first month, commonly known as "pig (coming year)" or "fire in the coming year". At night, thousands of lights are on, staying up all night, and enjoying the "shou sui". The so-called "care for the elderly" means "care for the special", which is intended to prevent special injuries to children.

In the early morning of the first day, when the rooster crowed for the first time, all the She villages opened the hall doors and fired guns (that is, double-sounding paper cannons). People walk from village to village, and peers greet each other for a happy new year. The younger generation greets their elders, and housewives scramble to fetch water from the well and cook noodles for breakfast, which symbolizes the safety and longevity of their families. The children went to the village to "shake the bamboo mother" in groups of three and five, singing: "shake the bamboo mother, shake the bamboo mother, you grow up with me, grow up with you in the old year, grow up with me in the new year, and grow up with me next year." To show that it is as strong as bamboo; Teenagers take part in various entertainment games, such as chess, "monkey incubating eggs", hide-and-seek and swinging. The activity lasted until the "Yuanxi Festival" and the celebration of the Spring Festival ended.

February 2:

Also known as the wedding festival, it is a traditional festival of She nationality after the Spring Festival. Mainly popular in Fuding, Fuan and other counties in eastern Fujian. The so-called "wedding ceremony" refers to the She nationality who originally came from Hua Shuang and Fuan Banfen Road in Fuding to southern Zhejiang and eastern Fujian. Every year, on the second day of the second lunar month, they gather in their ancestral homes and hold wedding activities. The "Wedding Festival" in Hua Shuang, Fujian Province is the largest and most famous.

On this day of the festival. A pennant with a white background and a red border and a round umbrella similar to the ancient "Gai Hua" were raised in front of the She family, and all ethnic groups were dressed up to visit their relatives. The crowd was bustling, singing and laughing, and the quiet mountain village suddenly became a sea of joy. Especially when the sun sets, the night falls, and pine fires like day, it adds a warm atmosphere to the festival. The concert reached a climax and people sang loudly. Loud songs echoed in Shan Ye, and the more they sang, the more interested they became. They stayed up all night and were very lively.