What are the traditional customs in Zunyi

The traditional customs of Zunyi are colorful and cover a number of festivals and events such as the Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. Here are the details:

1. Spring Festival. During the Spring Festival, Zunyi people have the custom of killing the New Year pig, sweeping the dust and making patties. Families will put up flaming red spring couplets and buy New Year's goods, such as chickens, fish and meat, etc. Chickens symbolize good luck, and fish signify a good year. On New Year's Eve, families would sit around and eat New Year's Eve dinner and keep vigil until the early hours of the morning to ward off evil spirits and welcome the new year.

2. Dragon Boat Festival. Zunyi people have the custom of hanging calamus and mugwort on the lintel of their doors during the Dragon Boat Festival, and children will wear incense buns, cloth monkeys, or tie copper coins and garlic heads to their chests to drive away evil spirits and avoid illnesses. In addition, during the Dragon Boat Festival, people will pick zongzi leaves to make zongzi, and worship their ancestors and Qu Yuan.

3. Mid-Autumn Festival. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, families would reunite and honor their ancestors with fruits and mooncakes, then eat while enjoying the moon and catching up on old times.

4. In addition, there are other rich traditional customs in the Zunyi area, such as the Gelao people's rituals for heavenly pilgrimage to their ancestors, the Eating of the New Festival, and the Liuhui Festival, as well as the Buyei people's June 6 and other festivals. These customs reflect Zunyi's deep cultural heritage and colorful ethnic customs