What are the Spring Festival customs in Guangxi during the Spring Festival?

Drinking Lingshui is the custom of the Spring Festival in Guangxi. The specific customs are as follows:

1, pick new water and drink smart water.

Picking new water is also called painting new water, picking smart water and picking good water; Drinking Lingshui, also known as "drinking Lingshui", is the custom of the Zhuang nationality in the Spring Festival. Popular in Bama, Lingyun and other counties in Guangxi. In the early morning of the first day of the first lunar month, each family's new daughter-in-law or big girl, carrying buckets and three sticks of incense, sang songs, went to the river or spring, inserted incense, put coins wrapped in red paper into the water as a profit, and picked up the first load of new water for the New Year.

2, dance spring cattle.

In some areas of western Guangxi, chicken dances and spring cattle dances handed down from generation to generation have added a festive atmosphere to the Spring Festival. The young man who jumped the chicken carried two cockfights made of wood and papaya and went to every household in the village to knock gongs to pay New Year's greetings. Dancing chickens and singing auspicious and humorous songs make the host's family smile. Give red envelopes to the chicken jumpers in the New Year, pull a few chicken feathers from the "cockfighting" and put them in their own chicken cages to pray for the prosperity of the six animals.

3. Carry a pole.

Carrying loads is a kind of sports activity evolved from productive labor of Zhuang nationality, and it is also a traditional entertainment activity of Zhuang family. In ancient times, after the autumn harvest every year, people used trees to dig troughs (or stone troughs) and injected rice into the troughs. Beat the valley with a wooden pestle. There are five people on each side, between men and women. In the process of tapping, you sometimes tap the edge of the groove and make a rhythmic tapping sound.

4. Eat mother jiaozi in the middle of the year.

On the second day of the Lunar New Year, women bring their children, accompanied by their husbands, and return to their parents' homes with gifts. The Spring Festival of Zhuang nationality is full of novelty and excitement until the Lantern Festival. After the ancestor worship again, every household will withdraw its offerings, which is called "three years". "Three years" means that the eldest daughter in the family helps her parents or the oldest person in the family to sit in the middle of the hall, and then peels off the "mother zongzi" (oversized zongzi) and distributes it in an orderly manner according to the age of the family. Everyone must accept and complete it respectfully. This is "Mother Eating Zongzi".

5. Set off fireworks.

This behavior is to drive away a monster called obsession. At midnight, the New Year bell rang and firecrackers shook the whole sky of China.

Customs of Spring Festival in Guilin-Liuzhou-Hechi;

Dragon and lion dancing is a traditional project for Guiliu people to celebrate the New Year. Therefore, on the eve of the Spring Festival, the dragon and lion dance teams dress up the dragons and lions and practice their traditional routines.

The New Year's Eve dinner starts at four o'clock in the afternoon, which means "all the best". Eating must be done with a round table, which means "reunion and reunion". There must be ten bowls for the New Year's Eve dinner, which means "perfection". At the New Year's Eve dinner, the head of the family will give each of his children and grandchildren a piece of chicken, which means "opportunity", which means that there will be opportunities for promotion and wealth in the coming year. The reason why the New Year's Eve dinner is so rich is that the dishes on the first day of the New Year's Eve should be reserved for eating, which means "more than enough".

On the morning of New Year's Day, people get up early to open the door and greet Grandpa Fortune with warm firecrackers. Neighbors and friends, the first sentence when we meet is "Happy New Year". Children pay New Year greetings to adults, and adults give them lucky money.