The Tujia New Year's Day, what is its origin?

One, the Tujia Catch the New Year Festival is the grandest of the many festivals of the Tujia people, and he is the old rules that have been passed down for thousands of years,and on this day there will be a lot of activities.

Two, during the Jiajing years of the Ming Dynasty (1522-1567), when the year was approaching the end of the year, the imperial court issued an edict that the native soldiers in the Tujia area were driven to the Soviet Union. The military order was like a mountain. Calculating the distance and arriving at the designated place on time, they were sent out without waiting for the New Year. In order for these Tujia soldiers and officers who were about to leave their homes and go to the front to walk through the years, after discussions among the kings of the Tujia, they felt that they would be ushering in a new year. Later, several officers and soldiers arrived at the front line on the southeast coast as scheduled and made great contributions.

To commemorate this meaningful day, the Tujia people had to celebrate the New Year a day earlier, and this has become a custom over time. This has to do with "catching up". Because we have to eat in advance, to go to the front line to fight, and eat a lot of people, so with rice dumplings steamed rice. Since then, the Tujia people New Year's Eve, no matter how many people, there are a lot of people, every family has the habit of steaming rice with rice dumplings.

Three, do not yell during the festival, do not hit the children, do not break the bowl. You are not allowed to take a bath when you eat, otherwise the next year, go to work in the mountains will often rain, and will also smash the fields. On New Year's Day, you can not say unlucky words. On the third day of the first month, women do not do needlework. Otherwise, the year will be unlucky; if they don't sweep the floor and splash water, they will sweep away and splash money.

On New Year's Day, it is a good omen to hear the squid's call while eating breakfast. It is not a good omen to hear the squid's cry when you poop. When the door is opened on New Year's Day and animals enter the house, there are different signs, "The pig comes to be poor, the dog comes to be rich, and the cat comes to be filial." These taboo customs formed and inherited from the farming society have been fading out of people's daily life with the progress of the times. This is an introduction to the Tujia's Catch the New Year Festival, and we can travel there sometime.