Which Ethnic Minority's Festival is the Taste of the New?

The Taste the New Festival, commonly known as the "Eat the New Festival", is a traditional festival of the Gelao, Miao, Buyi, Bai and Zhuang ethnic groups in Hunan, Guizhou and Gui provinces and regions. It is especially popular among the Gelao. The time is the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year. Before the festival, housewives go to the fields to pick new grains and pound fragrant white rice. In the morning of the festival, the housewives steam the new rice and cook the fresh fish, then invite the old guests and bring the children to the fields to worship the ancestors, and then the whole family gathers together for a meal, thus wishing for a good harvest.

Taste the new festival to put earth cannon, firecrackers to sweep the cottage, play Nuo opera, singing songs, playing martial arts, the old man of the cottage with a sieve of chicken, meat, wine, will be bolted with red peppers and green garlic bamboo poles inserted in the fields to show that send ancestor Bi. During the festival, Gelao people also hold life release activities, mainly for wild animals and fish. Nowadays, Gelao villages such as Anshun Xixiuwanzizhai and Pingba Dagouchang have the grandest Eat New Festival.