How do people of different ethnic groups in China celebrate the New Year?

Han Chinese - on the first day of the New Year, people do not sweep the floor, do not pour water outside, do not go to the back door, do not scold the children, congratulate each other on an auspicious and wealthy New Year, all the best Tujia - from the first day of the first month of the first two days of the first day of the first day of the first year, the first day is called the big year, and the second day for the small year. On New Year's Eve, each family burns a piece of firewood, and everyone sits around and listens to old people's stories, keeping watch until dawn. During the festival, "red fish" is eaten to symbolize wealth and abundance, and a large pot of braised vegetables is eaten, which is called Hap Cai. On the third day of the Lunar New Year, the "Hand Dance" is held, with as many as 10,000 participants. In addition, there are dragon lanterns, lion dance, lanterns, theater, martial arts and other activities Hezhe - New Year's Eve, we are busy making New Year's Eve dinner, cut window, paste lanterns. On the first day of the New Year, girls, women and children put on new clothes embroidered with cloud borders and go to friends and relatives to pay New Year's greetings and treat guests with "fish feasts". The feast includes raw fish with a hot and sour taste, fried fish with a crispy flavor, and salmon roe. Folk poets present poems and tell stories. Women play the games of "touching the blind" and "throwing bones". Young people compete in skiing, ice skating, straw target shooting and straw ball forking. The Zhuang - from the 30th day of the New Year to the second day of the first month of the lunar calendar, **** three days. Anyone who works outside has to go home before the 30th. On the night of New Year's Eve, a big fire is lit on the fire pit of every family, which stays on all night and is called "New Year's Fire. On New Year's Eve, every family kills chickens and ducks, steams buckled meat, powders fine meat, and makes barbecued pork. There are eight dishes for dinner, including "white chopped chicken" and stewed whole chicken. All the families will keep the New Year's Eve until midnight, and go to bed after setting off firecrackers. The first day of the first month, the second day of the first month, where guests must eat zongzi, zongzi filling, by the peeled green beans, half-fat not thin meat mixed with the sauce made above. Men and women more than at this time on the song, or playing gyro, dancing, ball games, theater. On the night of the thirtieth of the year to cook the first day of the whole day of rice, to show that the next year to harvest. This rice is called "rice dumplings", some as long as feet, weighing five or six pounds. Favored during the festival to throw bags of flowers activities. Young men and women divided into one team, both sides were about 50 meters apart, drew a line and threw to each other, whoever threw out of the line or didn't catch it would be the loser. Dong people -- Early in the morning on the first day of the Lunar New Year, we got some big and fresh carp from the pond, pan-fried, fried, roasted, stewed, and put them on the table, and then we added a plate of fragrant pickled fish, and the whole table was mainly made up of fish. Dong family members say that eating fish in the Spring Festival is an omen of a new year of good fortune and prosperity (fish), a good harvest, and money and food. During the Spring Festival, a mountain-climbing competition is popular. Whoever climbs to the top first gets a gift from a girl or a boy. The girls present their own embroidered Dong brocade, and the young men offer delicate bamboo boxes and hats, an activity that often lasts as long as half a month. The Kazakhs - during the Spring Festival, they love to carry out the activity of "chasing after the girls". This activity is interesting and touching, and is also a chic way for young men and women to express their love. Korean people - every family puts up Spring Festival couplets, cooks all kinds of sumptuous meals, eats "eight treasures rice", and the whole family observes the New Year's Eve all night long, playing the Gaya gin and blowing the dongxiao. At dawn on the first day of the year, people put on their festive costumes to pay homage to their elders. During the festival, men, women and children sing and dance to their heart's content, press the springboard and play tug-of-war. Shui - According to the Shui calendar, the twelfth day of the first month of the lunar calendar is the Tuan Festival, which means "New Year's Eve". On the night of the festival, a party is held in the village where young men and women sing and dance to the sound of gongs, drums and suona. There are many types of gongs and drums used in the festival, the largest of which is more than one meter in diameter and weighs one to two hundred kilograms. Drum surface painted with floral patterns, drum body carved with reliefs, both folk music, but also handicrafts Tibetans - New Year's Eve, held a grand "Jumping God will", people wearing masks singing and dancing, to show that the old to welcome the new, to get rid of the evil and blessings. During the Spring Festival with barley wine, ghee tea and pastries to entertain guests Dai - the second and third, some villages will be held in the "Elephant's Foot Drum Competition", the contestants are excited, drumming non-stop, who moves beautifully, drum sound is good that won the award. During the Spring Festival, young men and girls throw chaff bags at each other to see who can throw accurately and who can catch. Play to a certain time, the girls will quietly snatch the young man wearing a belt knife, head cloth or tethered horse, ran home. If the young man is in love, he will follow. Parents see their daughters with a head cloth, holding a horse back, they will host a feast. In addition, April 13 every year is the Dai New Year, but also the Dai people's grandest festival - Water Festival, they see the water as a symbol of driving away evil spirits, good luck and good fortune, but also regard this day as the most beautiful, most auspicious day Dulong people - the year, generally It is usually held in the second half of December of the lunar calendar every year, and the specific date is decided by each family's own fortune-telling, and the length of the festival also depends on the amount of food prepared. Since the Dulong do not have writing, in the past, when inviting guests to the New Year Festival, they had to use carved wood or knotted rope as "invitations". After a family decided which day to celebrate the festival, they calculated how many days were left for the festival, and if they carved wood to remember the day, they would carve a few frames on a special wooden board, with each frame representing a day, and then cut it into two halves, half of which they kept and half of which they gave to the guests. Then they cut it into two halves, keeping half for themselves and giving half to their guests. Afterwards, both sides would cut off one frame for each day, and when the last frame was left, they would know that the next day was going to be a festival. If you use a rope to remember the day, how many days until the festival, how many knots, and then give the rope to friends and relatives to invite, keep one for yourself, every day to solve a knot, solve to the last "knot", we know that it is the New Year Naxi - the first month of the New Year people visit each other's friends and relatives, take turns to be a guest, young and middle-aged men to organize lanterns, and competitions with other villages. The young and middle-aged men organize lantern festivals and compete with other villages. Cities and villages are held lantern fair lantern fair program is performed in the national story: such as "Ah Nu Mei Jokes", "the birthday boy deer", "social theater night pearl", "lion rolling embroidered ball", "phoenix dance" and so on Hani - two New Year's Eve every year. One is the October Festival, the second is the June Festival. Hani calendar to October for the first year, that is, "big year". On the day of the New Year, people visit friends and relatives and seek marriage. During the "June Festival", people kill animals to offer sacrifices to their ancestors and carry out cultural and sports activities such as swinging, wrestling and singing songs. On New Year's Eve, women are busy making patties, and young men go to the mountains to cut bamboo and build swing sets. Both men and women, young and old, enjoy swinging in the Spring Festival The Kado people (Hani tribe) - the Kado people in Xinping County, Yunnan - celebrate the New Year on the sixth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. Legend has it that in ancient times, brave Kado youths went out to fight in the war in order to resist foreign invasions, and left a message on their way out that a new life would begin on whichever day they returned to their hometowns. After the war, they did not return home until the sixth day of the new year because of the long journey. People in their hometown set this day as the beginning of a new year. On New Year's Eve, they celebrate by killing pigs and slaughtering goats and dancing the big drum dance. Pumi - The Pumi people in the highlands of northwestern Yunnan take the sixth day of the Lunar New Year as the first day of the year, and on New Year's Eve, villages and cottages should set off firecrackers three times and blow the conch. Then family members reunite to eat glutinous rice Lemo people (the term for the Bai people) - mainly living in Bijiang County, Yunnan Province - have their own way of projecting the seasonal dates, and the date of the Spring Festival varies. For example, when the peach blossom buds, they call it March, and when the lacquer tree develops its leaves to about five inches, they call it May. As a result of this projection, there are thirteen months in a year, and March is called the March Festival, which is equivalent to the Spring Festival of the Han Chinese people. Jinuo People - The Jinuo people in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, call the sixth month of the lunar calendar the month of the New Year, and the singers take turns to sing songs against each other, and if they lose, they leave a piece of head-wrapping cloth behind, and then go back the next year. The singers take turns to sing against each other. Every night during the New Year, the old men and women enjoy wine and food while dancing the big drum, and young men and women take this time to talk about love and look for their lovers. The Manchu - when the New Year's Day is approaching, every family cleans the courtyard and puts up window flowers, couplets and lucky charms. On the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, families erected six-meter-high lantern poles, from the first day of the year to the 16th, every day red lights hanging high. The New Year's Eve dumplings, pay attention to the pleats are good, the son of time to cook dumplings, some of the inside of the package on the copper coins, eaters have good luck. The Spring Festival to worship twice, once on the night of the New Year's Eve, for the resignation of the old year; the first day of the year and then worship once, to welcome the new year. Before the Spring Festival will also be held before the horse jumping camel jumping competitions. On the 15th day of the first month, there is a lantern festival. The family feast on the 30th day of the New Year is very sumptuous and grand. The staple food is glutinous rice flour or into the powder wrapped dumplings, roasted, bean buns, etc.; traditional New Year's Eve dishes are delicious blood sausage, boiled white meat and unique blanch white meat with pickles, and symbolize the auspiciousness of the fish dishes are more indispensable. Zi time to eat a meal to send the old and welcome the new fresh meat dumplings Oroqen - New Year's Eve, the whole family sitting around, **** into dinner. Tasting mountain treasures, drinking wine, eating New Year's dinner. Young people salute and bow to the elders of the family and close relatives. At midnight, people hold birch bark boxes or iron boxes and circle the stables several times to pray for the prosperity of the six animals. On the first day of the year, people dressed in new clothes pay respect to each other. Young men and women get together to dance in a circle. There are hunting dance, "red fruit" dance, "black bear fighting" dance, etc. Mongolians - five nights to eat dumplings, firecrackers with the Han Chinese. In addition, New Year's Eve to eat "hand-meat", to show that the family reunion. Early in the morning on the first day of the evening to the elders of the "farewell wine", and then young men and women across the pike horse, riding string yurts, first to the elders kowtow to wish, and then drink and dance, and then the string of men and women also take advantage of the opportunity to Ting line horse racing. On New Year's Eve, the family sat around the fireplace in the yurt, and after offering "New Year's Wine" to the elders, they had a full meal of roasted leg of lamb and boiled dumplings The Yi ethnic group - during the Spring Festival, they gathered to jump "A fine jumping moon", and some villages fetched water on the first day of the New Year to drink. In some villages, men are responsible for fetching water and cooking on the first day of the Lunar New Year, so that women can take a rest to show their sympathy to them for a year's hard work Miao people call the Spring Festival "Hakka Year", and every family kills pigs and slaughters goats, and celebrates the harvest by roasting wine and beating pies in the hope that the coming year will bring good winds and rains, and that there will be a good harvest of all kinds of grains. But also sing the Spring Festival Song, the lyrics to the effect of thinking of spring, hope for spring, spring, spring, spring, etc. Bai people - Bai people from New Year's Eve began to worship each other, give gifts. New Year's Eve Vigil. After midnight, young men and women compete to be the first to pick water to show their diligence. Early in the morning, the whole family drinks sugar water soaked with rice flowers to bless the sweet days. Everyone or a companion to visit places of interest, or play dragon lanterns, lion dance, beat the whip Tibetan - the first day of the incense and candles to the well to burn worship, called "buy new water", Tibetan women on the first day of the first day of the day will be from the river back to the "auspicious water! The Tibetan women have to carry back "auspicious water" from the river at dawn on the first day of the year. It is believed that the new water on the first day of the lunar month can bring gospel and good luck, and can guarantee a year of good fortune. The Qiang people - every family has to make all kinds of fried flour calves, lambs, chickens and other offerings to their ancestors and the gods of the sky, and they have to drink smacking wine on New Year's Day, everyone sits around the altar, and the longest person sings the "Opening Words", and then smacks wine with a wheat pipe of more than two feet in length from the left to the right. Drinking Ewenki - the first day of the first month, each other to pay tribute to the New Year, especially to their elders and relatives must be on the first day to kowtow to pay tribute. On the evening of the first day of the New Year, men and women gather in a larger house to have fun, usually called by the elderly this entertainment evening, by the women first began to dance or sing, and then regardless of men and women everyone dances Daur ethnic group - living on both sides of the Heilong Jiang and Neng Jiang. New Year's Eve rice is yellow rice steamed cake, early in the morning on the first day of the first year, people pay their respects to each other as soon as they enter the door to snatch the rice cake, in order to pray for life year after year to improve. On the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, women prepare breakfast and men burn incense and worship the gods, praying to the gods and God for a peaceful and fruitful year, and after worshipping the gods, they toast to the elders and kowtow to receive the old man's congratulations. After eating dumplings and putting on new clothes, men and women of close relatives gather together, led by elders of old age, and engage in a variety of recreational activities according to seniority Yao people - during the festival, people gather together to watch the interesting and chic "ploughing play". One person pretends to be a cow, one person pretends to be a ploughman, one person pretends to be a farmer expanding the hoe, the three dance and sing to celebrate the agricultural harvest; young men and women gather on the lawn around the village, play the reed-sheng, play the moon qin, sing songs, looking for the love of their lives. Every year in the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the Moon Festival is the grandest festival of the Yao people - the Spring Festival. On the eve of the Moon Festival, every family is busy, and the sound of cattle horns and laughter are everywhere inside and outside the village Lahu - Every year from the first day of the first month to the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, it is the Lahu in Yunnan Province. "Lahu - From the first to the fifteenth day of the first month of the Chinese lunar calendar, it is the Lahu festival in Yunnan. On New Year's Eve, every family will make glutinous rice poi, which symbolizes the sun, moon and stars, to sacrifice the sun, moon and stars, hoping for good winds and rains and abundant harvests in the new year. From the first to the fourth days of the year, young men and women scramble to the spring to meet the new water, symbolizing purity and happiness, in order to be the first to get it. At the same time, they bring gifts to villages and villages, and visit friends and relatives. Alpine Tribe - The Alpine Tribe in Taiwan has the custom of eating "Lunar New Year's Vegetables". This is also called "mustard greens" and is eaten as a sign of a long life. Some people add long vermicelli to long life vegetables to symbolize longevity. Li people - During the Spring Festival, every family slaughters pigs and chickens, prepares delicious food and wine, and the whole family sits around to eat the "New Year's Dinner", singing "New Year's Song" during the meal. During the meal, "New Year's Song" is sung. On the first or second day of the Lunar New Year, people hunt collectively, and the prey is given to the first shooter who hits the prey, and the remaining half is divided equally among all, with pregnant women getting two shares of the prey Wa - In addition to congratulating each other on the first meeting of the New Year, the Wa also give glutinous rice balls, sugar cane and plantains as a way of wishing for a harmonious, sweet and beautiful family life. --Tujia - At the family reunion dinner table, there must be a pile of meat and combined vegetables. Uyghur - New Year's Day feast foods include "Pulo" made of rice, mutton, raisins, flour, mutton, onions, etc., and "Puro", which is made of Pitirmanda (buns) made of flour, mutton and onions, Gesi (hand-held mutton) made of boned mutton, Lanman (stretched noodles) made of dough, and wontons similar to those of the Han Chinese. The restaurant also serves a variety of traditional ethnic cakes, such as the "Ququl" (spicy and sour dumplings), which is similar to Chinese wontons. In addition, there are many kinds of traditional cakes and snacks, such as "Aisimsanza" (deep-fried noodle cake in a round plate), "Yaimaza" (deep-fried noodle cake in a lace), and "Bohusak" (deep-fried jipi), "Shamu Bosa" (deep-fried noodle cake), "Kayikka" (colorful deep-fried noodle cake), etc. The Brown ethnic group - during the Spring Festival, they carry out ball games, which are lively and interesting. Participants form a circle, first by a person will be made of a small ball made of bamboo pieces up in the air, and then in order to catch the ball, and with the palms of their hands to the ball into the air, can not catch the ball of the person to be punished to sing a song