The ancient traditional festivals of Daur nationality

Although there are not many Daur people with a long history in China, they rely on the wisdom of Daur ancestors to create their own characters, which enables Daur culture to be better passed down, while those antique Daur traditional festivals ensure that Daur culture can be passed down for a long time.

The main festival is the Spring Festival. The Daur people call the Spring Festival "Agne", which is the biggest festival in a year. Before the Chinese New Year, every family should be fully prepared to kill pigs and make rice cakes. On New Year's Eve, a crib was filled with all kinds of sundries and lit at night. Old people should throw large pieces of meat and jiaozi into the fire and wish people and animals prosperity. Some people who eat jiaozi on New Year's Eve put a white line in a jiaozi, which means that people who eat this jiaozi can live for 200 years. Some people put copper coins in a jiaozi, and those who eat them say that they will not be short of money in the future.

On the first day of New Year's greetings, the new year's greetings will open the pot of the host family as soon as they enter the door, grab the rice cake to show their intimacy, and then eat the pork on the birthday of the pig. Women will give gifts to each other, including tobacco leaves, milk skins, cakes and frozen meat. The Spring Festival will last until the 16th day of the first month. The 16th day of the first month is "Black Ash Day". On this day, people, especially young people, should smear each other's faces, thinking that the darker they smear, the more auspicious the new year will be.

Daur people also celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival and eat moon cakes. The Daur people used to worship nature. Every year in May of the solar calendar, they slaughtered cows or pigs to worship the gods of heaven, earth, mountains and Sichuan. Every family has a shaman dedicated to sacrifice. Besides praying and offering sacrifices to Aobao (a mountain god), he even used witchcraft to treat diseases. At that time, he would kill cattle and sheep and give away a lot of food. For example, milk skin, cream, various cakes and sacrificial activities are now rare.