Hunan life, what are the customs of the festival

Hunan traditional festivals are numerous and diverse. The more common traditional festivals of various ethnic groups and regions include the New Year's Day, Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, June 6, Mid-Autumn Festival, and many distinctive festivals have been inherited.

Panwang Festival of Yao People

New Year Festival. From the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month (in some areas and the Tujia from the twenty-third day of the lunar month), to the thirty-fourth day of the lunar month, is a very important traditional festival throughout Hunan. The 24th is said to be the day when the God of the Stove goes to heaven, and the old custom is to prepare fruits and offerings to the stove on the night of the 23rd, and to ask the God of the Stove to say more good things when he goes to heaven. Families get together on the 24th to celebrate the "Little New Year", and on the 28th to clean up their homes. The most solemn is the night of New Year's Eve on the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, when travelers return from afar and families gather for a reunion dinner, called the New Year's dinner. The New Year's dinner is a sumptuous meal, filled with chickens, ducks, fish, meat, eggs, and vegetables, but many places still keep their traditional and unique recipes. Fish is an indispensable dish for every family, symbolizing "yearly surplus"; people in Chenzhou are fond of eating pig's liver and intestines with pickled radish, symbolizing that one should have liver and intestines; Hongjiang area is fond of eating spring noodles with two pieces each of fish, meat, chicken, duck, hoof flower, and ginger on top of the noodles to show that good things come in pairs; and some families have a bowl of tofu mixed with onions in all seasons to show that "the seasons are clear and auspicious". Some people also have a bowl of tofu with green onions for all seasons, which means "four seasons of good fortune". On the night of the New Year's Eve, the folk custom of the New Year's Eve, the family sitting around the stove, to say goodbye and welcome the new year, many places have the habit of burning wood root and stem fires, take the "head of the wealth" resonance, I hope that New Year's good luck.

The Spring Festival. The old custom is generally from the first day of the first month to the first fifteenth Lantern Festival. The first day of the new first chicken crowing that is, in front of the court set off firecrackers, called "open the door of wealth", "open the door red". Candles are burned to honor heaven and earth, ancestors, and then go out to worship the five parties, called "traveling" or "out of the party". Festivals are even more colorful, the most lively is to play dragon lanterns. There are many varieties of dragon lanterns, such as long dragons, old dragons, young dragons, ao dragons, straw dragons and so on. Playing with dragon lanterns is generally the first five out of the lamp, fifteen to close the lamp, marching in the streets and lanes and fields between the ridge, in the case of spacious and crowded that is to dance a little. In western Hunan Chenxi area, some play dragon lanterns until the 30th day of the first month, to play around dozens of miles of villages with the same family name, commonly known as "players door lights. To the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month, each family should eat Lantern, to show the reunion and harmony.　

Hunan's ethnic minorities have their own unique customs for the Spring Festival, which is unique is the Dong's "line of the year", the Tujia's "over the rush of the year" and "transfer of the New Year's Eve". From the third to the fifteenth day of the first month of each year, the Dong villages in Huaihua have the custom of going to another village as a collective unit to be their guests, which is called the "New Year's Journey". After the Lusheng guests arrive at another village, the main village will hold a collective banquet, starting with a 12- or 13-year-old teenager specially selected by the guest village to talk about "payment". The content of the story usually starts from "the opening of the sky and the earth", "the flooding of the sky", "the origin of man", "the origin of the lusheng", "the origin of the lusheng", "the origin of the lusheng", and so on, "The Origin of the Lusheng" to "Village Rules and Regulations". At each segment of the story, the crowd responded with a chorus of "Yes! to show their appreciation. After the speech, the main village would organize a banquet and leave in a happy mood. The Tujia people in western Hunan celebrate the Spring Festival one day earlier than scheduled. According to legend, in the Ming Dynasty, Tujia soldiers were deployed to the southeast coast to fight against Japanese invasion, and the military order was urgent, so they celebrated the New Year in advance and went to the front line of the war. The Tujia soldiers made the first achievement in the southeast after the expedition, and in order to commemorate this expedition, the descendants brought forward the Spring Festival by one day, which has been continued to this day. Tujia's "tune annual meeting", the festival generally from the beginning of the first three days of the year, continued to be held for several days and nights, the most lively is the dance of the swinging hand, and at the same time will be held in the bullock jockeying, against the kang jin and clams ants grabbing eggs and other traditional folk sports and material exchanges.

Hua Yuan Miao Catch Autumn Festival

In the Qingming Festival, Hunan folk still inherited the ancestral tomb, the custom of hanging paper on the grave. Because of the blossoming of spring flowers around the Qingming Festival, the wind of trekking is prevalent everywhere, and the folk also fly kites on this day.　

Duanwu Festival on the fifth day of the fifth month, all over Hunan, the custom of dragon boat racing to commemorate the sinking of Qu Yuan, especially Miluo for the prevalence. Dragon Boat Festival food to zongzi, salt egg-based, folk have hanging grass, wrapped in colorful silk threads, with Cangzhu, atractylodes macrocephala, Yunxiang burning smoke smoke house, children on the forehead, such as the custom of pointing the andrographis, the intention is to avoid the epidemic to the evil. Many places, especially the Tujia people have big and small Dragon Boat Festival, the fifth of May for the small Dragon Boat Festival, May 15 for the big Dragon Boat Festival. Miao Dragon Boat Festival.　　

June 6, also known as the half-year festival, Hunan will be used as a new tasting festival. In the festival to seven lines of sheaves on the rice steamed, in recent times, some people will be new rice on the old rice, there are all new rice steamed, first to honor the ancestors, and then to the dog first taste, and then taste the new. To show that we do not forget the blessings of the ancestors, do not forget the dog from the Palace of Heaven to steal the seeds of virtue. Some places in Shaoyang, June 6, but also sacrificed cattle land. June six around the custom of turning over the tanning of clothes, books, there are "people tanning clothes and dragons tanning robes," said.　

Mid-Autumn Festival, commonly known as the reunion festival. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, the moon is shining brightly, and the whole family will set up an incense burner under the moon, offering seasonal fruits, lotus roots, and mooncakes to honor the moon and enjoy a family reunion. In Changsha, there is a folk song that says, "The fragrance of osmanthus blossoms in August makes every family pick up a girl", and married daughters are brought back for the festival. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, it is customary for women to pin osmanthus flowers on their hairpins or insert osmanthus flowers in their rooms, and it is also an old custom to go to Nanyue for the "August Fragrance" festival. Mid-Autumn Festival is the main holiday food is moon cakes, some parts of Hunan also do not eat rice dumplings in the Dragon Boat Festival, but in August in the middle of the fall of the custom of wrapping rice dumplings.　

In addition to the above festivals, the grandest festivals of the Miao people in western Hunan are the "April 8" and "Catch the Autumn". "April 8" is a festival in honor of a Miao hero named Yayi. On the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, people dressed in full costume, flocked to the place where the Miao hero Yayi fought - the Phoenix well "jumping moon", the festival activities include blowing the reed-sheng, suona, race songs, drumming and dancing. "Catch Autumn" is a festival for the Miao people to celebrate a good harvest. Every autumn day, people dress up in full costume and gather at the harvest field to swing on swings, sing Miao songs, perform Miao opera, play dragons, dance lions, blow wooden leaves, etc. Young men and women talk about love and look for a partner. There are many festivals of the Yao people in Hunan, and the Yao people in different regions have their own unique festivals. For example, the Longhui Yao hold the "Tanlegui" festival from the fifth to the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year; the Dongkou Yao hold the "Paga Festival" on the sixth day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar; on the sixteenth day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, the "Panwang Festival" is celebrated in the south of Hunan Province, and in Xinning Yao, the "Pangwang Festival" is celebrated on the sixteenth day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar. On October 16th of the lunar calendar, "Panwang Festival" is celebrated in the area of Koushan Yao in southern Hunan, and "Drumming Festival" is held in the Yao family in Xinning. One of the most important events is the "Panwang Festival", which celebrates the birthday of their ancestor, Panwang, in the southern Hunan province. On this day, Yao men, women and children, dressed in full costume, gather together to sing and dance, and the most spectacular event is the drum dance. The dancers hold a long drum in their arms and stand on a small square table, striking the drum with their hands while dancing, with both knees always bent and every gesture maintaining a curve, and their movements are rhythmic, steady and powerful.　

There are many other traditional festivals of Hunan's ethnic groups, such as the "March 3", the "Guyu Tea Festival" and the "Laha Festival" that have been passed down in many places, and the "Sama Festival" of the Dong ethnic group, the "Girl's Festival" of the Jianghua Yao ethnic group, and the "Sama Festival" of the Jianghua Yao ethnic group, Girl's Day, Jianghua Yao's Bird Festival, Xiangxi Tujia's Mouse Festival, and so on, all have a strong ethnic and regional characteristics.