What is the custom of the She nationality during the Spring Festival?

The first to fifteenth day of the first month is the Spring Festival, which is a traditional festival of She nationality. During the festival, every family sticks up red, everyone wears new clothes, firecrackers explode, congratulate each other and prepare three sacrifices to worship their ancestors. People attach great importance to celebrating the Spring Festival. Since October of the lunar calendar, they have prepared glutinous rice to brew "Chinese New Year wine" and made rice cakes (rice cakes) with glutinous rice and soda ash. Eating Ciba is one of the characteristics of the She nationality in the Spring Festival. There is such a poem circulating in Shexiang that "glutinous rice is round, fragrant, sweet and sticky." In other words, making Ciba expresses the people's good wishes, hoping that spring (Ciba) will come, life will be sweet every year, and families will reunite.

During the Chinese New Year, men rub sandals and do housework to show their respect and sympathy for women. The girls are busy weaving colorful ribbons with colorful silk threads, ready to give them to their lovers. During the festival, there are cultural activities such as duet, "sizing", mountaineering competition and swinging, which are filled with festive atmosphere everywhere. After the Lantern Festival, the Spring Festival is over.

She people in Lufeng She Nationality Township in Shanghang County spend the Spring Festival in a way similar to the local Han people, which is called "eight festivals a year", and the Spring Festival is the first of the eight festivals, so it is highly valued by the She people.

The unique Spring Festival of She nationality began on the 25th of the twelfth lunar month. On this day, every household "sweeps the dust": housewives will get up early to clean the house, wash the sheets and mosquito nets, and dress up the whole family to welcome the Spring Festival. From this day on, the old people at home will warn their children that "if they get married next year, the children should not swear, quarrel or say unlucky things."

On New Year's Eve, the She nationality, like the Han nationality, got up early in the morning and the whole family was busy. Every household should put up Spring Festival couplets and New Year pictures. However, when she people put up Spring Festival couplets, in addition to all the doors, they will also put up a sign on the barn door and a sign on the pigsty door, which means "the five grains are abundant" and "the six animals are prosperous". After cooking in the morning, first of all, put a big bowl of "old man's rice" in front of "Siming Kitchen Jun" on the stove, make tea and burn incense, welcome the kitchen Jun home, and let him "spread the good words to the sky and leave the bad words aside" or "God does good things and the next world is auspicious". Then the housewife will steam the cooked rice sticks and put them on a small plate, plus three animals (slaughter the fattest chicken). Wine and meat, burning incense and setting off firecrackers in the temple in Lanzhou, indicate that you are busy all the year round, and the new year has such a rich harvest, thanks to the blessing of the previous generation of ancestors.

In the evening, the whole family will have dinner and have a reunion dinner. All the family members who are studying, doing business, being an official or working in other places will come back for reunion, drink their own brewed rice wine, enjoy this sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner and enjoy family happiness. This is the result of her people's busy all the year round. After dinner, adults give their children lucky money. Her family is used to lighting red candles all night, which means that the whole family will get together for the Spring Festival, which means to usher in the New Year when "days are getting longer, people are prolonging their lives, spring is full, and kung fu is full of work". On time at 0: 00, every household sets off firecrackers to welcome the Spring Festival and receive blessings, which is called "opening a new era". However, people in mourning don't want to set off firecrackers and paste Spring Festival couplets.

The first day of the first month, which is the first day of the year. She gets up early and puts on new holiday clothes. Everyone smiles. When they meet acquaintances, they should congratulate each other and wish all the best in the new year. Deep friendship visits each other to pay New Year greetings, bows, "Congratulations on getting rich" and "Long life and prosperity". Most people have candied kumquat (commonly known as "candied dates"). When relatives and friends come, please eat candied dates first and offer an auspicious word: "Eat candied dates every year!" "

I have been playing tirelessly all day. In the evening, there will be fragrant lanterns (tied with straw into a dragon shape and stuffed with incense) and lion-beating activities, and we will go to every house to dance lanterns to add fun and indulge in joy. It's really "New Year's Day, open the door early, set off firecrackers, celebrate the New Year, light candles and install incense lamps ..."