Customs of Spring Festival in Different Places-Hunan

In China, the Spring Festival is also a folk festival for ethnic minorities. People of all ethnic groups hold various celebrations according to their own customs, which have their own strong national unique style.

Tibetans-On New Year's Eve, people put on colorful costumes, grotesque masks and play music with suona, conch and drum, in pursuit of a grand and grand "God-jumping meeting". The boys danced wildly and sang loudly, indicating that they would bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, exorcising evil spirits and reducing happiness. On the morning of the new year, women will pick "auspicious water" to wish good luck in the new year.

Yi-Yi compatriots choose festivals according to the Yi calendar. Some people spend the Spring Festival with the local Han people. In some areas, Yi compatriots set up pine trees in front of their doors and spread the floor with pine needles to avoid disasters. In other areas, pigs and sheep are slaughtered during festivals, and people visit each other and give each other meat and steamed buns. On the morning of New Year's Day, the first thing to do when you get up is to carry water home. They compared the weight of a bowl of water with that of yesterday. For example, the water is heavy in the New Year, which means that there is enough rain this year.

Zhuang people-Zhuang compatriots in Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangdong and other regions celebrate the Spring Festival at the same time as Han people. On New Year's Eve, we should prepare meals for the festival, which is called "New Year's Eve". In some areas, people call it "Eating Festival", which means "old age" in Zhuang language. This indicates a bumper agricultural harvest in the coming year. Some of them also make paraffin cakes that are more than a foot long and weigh five or six pounds. A family with a small population can't finish a meal! On the morning of New Year's Day, people get up before dawn, put on new clothes and set off firecrackers to welcome the New Year. Women are scrambling to go to the river or the well to "draw new water" and start a boiling life in the new year.

Buyi people-On New Year's Eve, the whole family stayed up all night by the pond. At dawn, the girls scrambled to fetch water. Whoever picks the first load of water first is the hardest-working and happiest girl.

Manchu-Manchu is divided into eight banners, such as "red, yellow, blue and white". During the Spring Festival, people with red flags hang red flags, people with yellow flags hang yellow flags, people with blue flags hang blue flags, and people with white flags hang white flags. These flags are beautifully patterned and brightly colored, symbolizing the auspicious beginning of the year.

Dong people-Dong compatriots in Guizhou and Hunan, during the Spring Festival, a mass activity of "Playing Dong Year" (also called Lushenghui) prevailed. This activity is similar to the "group worship" of the Han nationality, but it is more joyful and enthusiastic than the "group worship". This kind of activity is usually held by two villages. The two teams formally held a Song Lusheng and Dance Competition in the square. At this time, the audience of the two villages danced with the music and enjoyed themselves.

Bai people-Yunnan Bai compatriots celebrate the New Year with a way called "holding high". The so-called "soaring" is to use the whole big bamboo and put gunpowder in the cracks of the bamboo. After lighting, the whole bamboo can collapse into the sky and become a veritable "soaring". In some areas, Bai compatriots, like Miao and Zhuang, are carrying out "throwing hydrangea" activities from the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival. If anyone can't catch the hydrangea, give each other a souvenir. Those who lose the ball many times and can't exchange souvenirs will show their willingness to love.

Tujia people-during the Spring Festival, Tujia people will hold a grand swing dance. Hand-waving dance is an ancient dance popular in Tujia nationality, including more than 70 dance movements such as hunting, military, farming and feasting. It has distinctive rhythm, graceful movements, simple dance, healthy mood, no props, distinctive national characteristics and strong life breath.

The Dai Water-splashing Festival is the Dai people's New Year's Festival and the biggest traditional program in a year. The day when Grain Rain started was designated as the "Water-splashing Festival". During the three or four-day festival, people throw water at each other to show that they have washed away the old soil and wish happiness and peace in the new year.

Li nationality-Li nationality living in Hainan Island, every family will kill pigs and chickens every Spring Festival, put on rich dining tables, and the whole family will sit around and eat "New Year's Eve"; During the dinner, the whole family will also sing "New Year Songs". On the second day of the first grade, young men in the village will also hold a "Spring Festival Hunting". The prey of this day is enjoyed by the whole village. Interestingly, when dividing the prey, half of all the prey is given to the first shooter who hits the prey; The other half is shared equally. Pregnant women can get two points, and passers-by can also get one point.

Yi people-Yi people call Chinese New Year "what to lose". Most of them make glutinous rice cakes, glutinous rice cakes and brewed water wine, and put a little cake in the first mortar on peach, plum and other fruit trees. The Yi people in Nujiang, Yunnan, should first feed the cows with salt to show their respect for their labor. Young men and women like to hold Spring Festival shooting competitions. Girls hang embroidered purses on bamboo poles, and the purses swing from side to side, asking boys to make moves. Whoever shoots the wallet first, the girls will send the wine as a prize to whose mouth.

Lahu nationality-On New Year's Eve, the whole family of Lahu compatriots should take a bath by themselves and prepare food for the next day. In food, special attention is paid to glutinous rice Baba. Besides eating, cows should always be given some and put some on farm tools such as plows, hoes and machetes to reward their cooperation with their owners in the past year and wish them more wealth in the new year.

Daur people-Daur people living on both sides of Nenjiang River in northeast China. On the morning of the first day of the first lunar month, young men and women dress up, greet their elders first, toast and salute, and then go door to door to pay New Year greetings. Every family prepares steamed cakes, and New Year visitors grab steamed cakes as soon as they enter the door. It is said that if you eat them, your production and life will be "higher every year".

Mulao people-from the first day of the first month to the fifteenth day of the first month, in the villages of Mulao people, men, women and children all put on holiday costumes, and dozens, hundreds or even thousands of people gathered on the hillside or in the stadium, singing folk songs and enjoying their labor, life and love.

Dulong-The only festival is Kaque Wow in winter1February. The most solemn ceremony is to sacrifice cattle to heaven. On this day, the patriarch tied the cow to a stake in the center of the square. A young woman hung a beaded chain on her horn, and then a brave and strong young man held a sharp bamboo spear and stabbed the cow in the armpit until it fell to the ground and died. At this time, people jump in the "Niuguozhuang" and then share the beef.

Oroqen-Oroqen compatriots in the northeast, on the morning of the Spring Festival, first pour wine at home according to the size of generations, and the young kowtow to the old people and greet each other. On the second and third days of the Spring Festival, horse races are held. Food on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the morning of the 16th day of the first month, there will be activities to discredit each other. Young people should kowtow first to discredit the elderly.

Hezhe nationality-During the Spring Festival, Hezhe nationality means "Foeshikes", which means New Year's Eve. People wear animal skins embroidered with beautiful patterns, geometric patterns and lace such as flowers and birds on hats, collars, cuffs, trouser legs, aprons and uppers. On New Year's Day, people usually hold a "fire banquet", or make a cake with a kind of wild fruit "thick plum" and stuff it with fish, animal meat and other foods. Kill live fish or grilled fish strips, and entertain distinguished guests with this kind of "Tallaha".

Jinuo people-Jinuo people who live in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province. When the Spring Festival comes, the old man who chews betel nuts raises his head to knock the cymbals, and the old woman with a big pointed hat lowers her head to knock the gongs. Zhou Ba (the father of the village) beat the drums first, and the young men and women danced in a circle with their bare hands.

Mongolians call it "New Year" during the Spring Festival. In ancient times, Mongolians called the Spring Festival a "white festival". Nowadays, people call the first month of the lunar calendar "Bai Yue". It turns out that Mongols take "white" as auspicious. It is said that it is related to daily consumption of white milk, which means to congratulate the New Year and be lucky. Bai Yue is also a time for people to get together. On the first day of the first day, men and women dressed in various costumes rode on horses that had already been adjusted and rushed to "Haote" (villages and towns) in groups of three and five, stringing together yurts one by one. First, kowtow to the elders, and then the host's son-in-law will toast the guests who come to string bags. Traditionally, everyone drinks this wine, and some people even sing and dance. A string of men and women took advantage of this opportunity to race horses, especially young men and women. Most of them take the distance between "Hout" as the competition distance and start chasing men and women.