What are the customs of Guizhou Lantern Festival?

You can watch Yuanxiao in Guizhou, steal vegetables, visit Huaxi Dazhai, eat Yuanxiao and so on.

Watching Yuanxiao is an indispensable traditional folk activity for Guizhou people in the New Year. The fifteenth day of the first month is the night of the first full moon in a year, and it is also the night of reunion. People celebrate it in the Spring Festival, which is also a continuation of celebrating the New Year.

On the 15th day of the first lunar month, it is the vegetable stealing festival of the Miao people in Ping Huang. On this day of the festival, girls will steal other people's food in droves. It is forbidden to steal from one's own family or friends of the same sex, because stealing vegetables is related to one's marriage. The stolen vegetables are limited to cabbage, and the quantity is enough for everyone to eat. Everyone put together the stolen dishes and made a cabbage feast.

Custom culture

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Buyi people and other ethnic minorities near Guiyang gather in Dazhai, Huaxi, wearing masks and singing and dancing. The content is a combination of drama, song and dance and dance drama. Its materials are basically stories of China's ancient battles and loyalty, mixed with myths and legends, and mixed with rural auspicious words.

Eating Yuanxiao on the fifteenth day of the first month, as a kind of food, has a long history in China. In the Song Dynasty, a novel Lantern Festival food was popular among the people. This kind of food was originally called floating Zi Yuan, and later it was called Yuanxiao. And every place in Guizhou has its own unique way to eat Yuanxiao. The famous dumplings in Guizhou are chicken soup dumplings and Bijie dumplings in southwest Guizhou.

Refer to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Lantern Festival