What is the "Eat New Festival" in Guizhou Miao Village and what is its significance?

Eating New Year's Day is a traditional national festival in the Xijiang Miao Village in Guizhou. Every year at this festival, people will actively participate in, everyone is trying to actively to dedicate their own part, the purpose is to make this festival more active atmosphere, in addition to enhance the feelings between the ethnic groups, so that they know how important the unity and love. The Eat New Festival shows the Miao culture and folk style of the Miao village.

Xijiang Miao Village's annual Eat New Festival attracts many tourists from all over the country, and many tourists come to the village because of its name, and every time this season, Xijiang Thousand Households Miao Village becomes extraordinarily lively. It can be said that everywhere is a sea of people, this time Xixiang Miaozhai ethnic minorities will carry out all kinds of activities, such as ethnic culture parade, Miao wedding customs, in addition to many programs, such as teasing birds, cockfighting, and singing contests, soccer matches, basketball matches, and so on, these entertainment programs are all available. These colorful entertainment programs attract a large number of customers for the requisitioned land, not only can inherit their own ethnic culture, so that more people understand their own ethnic characteristics, but also for the local GDP per capita has increased.

Eating New Festival, in fact, has another name called Tasting New Festival. On the day of the festival, the local Miao people were able to go out to the fields early in the morning to pick up rice with full wheat grains and strong grains, which they obtained by tying them into bundles through twine. The rice is then placed on both sides of the door, along with some fruits and chicken, ducks, fish and meat, which are the finest ingredients, and placed at the door, which is meant to worship the ancestors. Hopefully, the ancestors will bless the coming year with good weather, abundant harvests, and peace for the family.

Eating New Year's Day is a day when many young men and women, who do not have a spouse, go out to see if there is a man of their choice. If they see their favorite person or have a feeling of people, they will be through the behavior of contact or through some matchmakers to pull the red line, this festival is also very innovative, to help a lot of people, out of the single opportunity.