What are the folk customs of the Spring Festival in Guangxi?

Customs of Spring Festival in Guangxi;

Chongzuo District of Nanning 1

Whenever the Spring Festival comes, Nanning citizens will prepare a lot of Chinese New Year food. Among them, rice cakes, zongzi and vermicelli are essential traditional foods for Nanning people in the New Year, commonly known as the "three heads" of Chinese New Year food.

Rice cakes and zongzi mean "high every year (cakes) and mid-year (zongzi)", and Nanning people should print the word "fat" when buying rice cakes; On the other hand, Li Fen is combined with potted oranges placed on both sides of the portal during the Spring Festival, forming the meaning of "Lucky (orange) benefits every year".

2. Guilin-Liuzhou-Hechi area

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

3. Beihai-Qinzhou-Fangchenggang Beibu Gulf Area

Spring Festival-the first day of the Lunar New Year, all the doors are closed, and red couplets are posted on every household. It is customary not to go to the streets on the first day. The phrase "Congratulations on making a fortune, making a fortune" can be heard anytime and anywhere. It is customary to eat vegetarian food on New Year's Day, and it is not allowed to pour water on the ground. Greeting people during the Spring Festival is a kind of etiquette, and elders are used to giving packages to their children.

On the first day of the first month of the first month, we should worship the two masters, and the business owners are particularly grand. It is lucky to choose a day, a time and a direction when going out in the New Year.

4. Guiping-Yulin-Wuzhou area

People in this direction celebrate the Spring Festival with local flavor. A few days ago, people began to "three busy":

As soon as they are busy "clearing households", every family should clean up and decontaminate;

Second, busy "organizing new year's goods", preparing chickens (mainly capons, mainly geese in Luchuan area), ducks, fish, meat and various vegetables needed for the New Year. There are also Spring Festival couplets, firecrackers, scented paper candles and so on.

Three busy "fried food", making all kinds of fried food such as "white powder", crisp corner, crisp son, thin crisp and so on.

From the end of the year to midnight, every household scrambled to set off firecrackers, bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year with jubilant mood, and began to bless each other with the best words. In Rongxian, Bobai and other places, most New Year's Eve dinners stay up all night.

5. Baise-Debao-Jingxi = Longlin area

During the Spring Festival in many counties and townships of Baise City in western Guangxi, some ancient and ancient customs are different from each other, with their own characteristics, interesting and colorful.

Every New Year, many rural areas will kill pigs for the New Year.

Extended data:

Guangxi, referred to as "Guangxi". Nanning, the capital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Named after the ancient place name "Guangxin", Guangdong and Guangxi are bounded by Guangxin, and the west of Guangxin is called Guangxi. It is adjacent to Guangdong, Hunan, Guizhou and Yunnan, across the sea from Hainan, and governs 14 prefecture-level cities and11county-level administrative regions (40 municipal districts, 8 county-level cities, 52 counties and 12 autonomous counties). To the south of Beibu Gulf is the only coastal autonomous region in China.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Customs and Habits of Yao Nationality in Guangxi