? Why is the Chicken and Ox Dance a unique Chinese New Year custom for the Zhuang people?

For the Zhuang people in the Spring Festival dance chicken dance cow is a kind of auspicious thing, here the chicken and the cow are not really cattle. China's fifty-six ethnic groups have fifty-six customs for the Spring Festival, and the Zhuang people may attach more importance to the Spring Festival than the Han people. The Zhuang people are simple and kind, and believe that the chicken dance and the cow dance can bring good luck and pray for the prosperity of six animals. They will go to pick water on the day of the Spring Festival because they believe that the Spring Festival is the first day of the new year, and that the water on the first day is the cleanest, and that picking it back can bring good luck to the family.

The chickens for the chicken dance are made of wood, not real chickens, and are held by the chicken dancers who go from door to door to deliver the blessings of the Chinese New Year. The teenagers who dance the chicken will sing a festive song, and the family being blessed will pluck a few chicken feathers from this chicken made of wood and put them into their own chicken coop, and this process is to hope that the six animals will prosper in the new year. It is indeed a very interesting and meaningful custom. I think what is rare is not that the teenagers who dance the chicken can go from door to door to deliver the blessing, but that the Zhuang people have been continuing this custom.

The bull of the Dancing Bull is made of bamboo and then wrapped in cloth outside to look like a bull, and it is also held by someone to go from house to house to pay homage to the New Year. Dancing Bull is not a person to complete the thing, usually a person holding, a person driving the bull, a few people around the song, very lively, the bull where to go to where to bring good luck and good fortune, such a custom is indeed to the Spring Festival added a lot of lively, joyful. On the day of the Spring Festival, the Zhuang people will eat rice dumplings, New Year's Eve will do colorful pressure rice, which heralds the coming year of the grains, families have surplus food.

On this day of the New Year the Zhuang people will also go to pick water, Zhuang women will be in this day to pick the water with brown sugar, which becomes ? Eloquent water? All in all, the Zhuang people's Spring Festival is indeed a very happy life, the Spring Festival this day full of arrangements, which also reflects the excellent quality of the Zhuang people's diligence. I hope that the beautiful custom can be passed on.