What is the New Year's custom in Inner Mongolia

Chinese New Year customs in Inner Mongolia:

Customs of the Chinese New Year in Inner Mongolia rituals include the content of the "longevity", but also from the eldest, for example, first for the 85, 73 years old to wish for longevity, the time is generally in the waxing twenty-five before and after the waxing; waxing twenty-seven to New Year's Eve this period, for the 61, 49 years of age of the elders to wish for longevity. New Year's Eve is the traditional custom of Mongolian people to eat "hand-meat" to show the reunion of the family. On the evening of New Year's Eve, the family puts the cooked sheep on the table and puts the sheep's head on top of the sheep, with the head of the sheep facing the oldest and most senior elders. The head of the family uses a knife to make a "ten" on the forehead of the sheep's head, and then the whole family starts to enjoy a sumptuous dinner. Drinking is an essential part of the Mongolian New Year's Eve program. Mongolian New Year's Eve dinner is routinely served with a lot of food and drink. Folk also popular New Year's Eve dinner of wine and meat left over the more the better, symbolizing the new year the whole family wine and meat inexhaustible, eat and drink no worries.

Mongolian New Year's Eve, the house lights must be lit until dawn. This night, the whole family regardless of the old and young to enjoy entertainment, a night of sleeplessness, until dawn. In addition to cleaning the environment, but also family reunion, firecrackers, drink good wine, eat a good meal, and the beef and mutton, sugar cubes, cakes, milk food offerings in front of the shrine, to the God of the stove incense kowtow lively. Dainian, also known as Spring Festival. The Mongolian people take the meaning of milk food is white, called the Spring Festival for the "White Festival". On New Year's Eve, the younger generation will honor their elders with "New Year's Wine" and eat dumplings around the fire. After the meal, but also play chess, play "Garaka" (sheep bones), accompanied by the horse head qin, singing and playing all night. The next day at dawn, men, women and children will put on brand-new national costume, by the elders with the whole family sacrifices to the sky, and in the pile of "Ovoo" in front of the southwestern direction to bow. Then, the New Year's Eve worship begins. By the younger generation to the elders kowtow to toast, offering hatha, wishing the old man a long and healthy life, a lifetime of peace. From the first to the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, they usually do not travel far. After the fifth, they rode horses, cheerfully with gifts to friends and relatives to pay New Year's Eve, *** into the whole sheep feast. Every festival, the grassland is full of laughter and songs, the ethnic groups immersed in the happiness of the festival.

On the first day of the first month, sacrificing Ovoo, sacrificing heaven and earth after the lively New Year's activities began, most people used to need to ride a horse to pay tribute to each other, the younger generation of the kowtow; everyone first to the elders of the home (yurt) to pay tribute to the New Year, and then invite relatives and friends to their own homes. Has been busy, kowtow festival, New Year's Eve generally lasts until the first month of the fifteenth before the end. During this period, meat and wine, singing and dancing are the constant themes. Nowadays, most of the Mongolian ceremonies have been simplified, but during the Spring Festival they will definitely dress up and wear Mongolian robes. The festival ceremony is still very solemn, and the most important thing is to make offerings of wine, meat, and dairy products, and after kneeling down, then it is time to pay New Year's greetings to the elders and honored ones within the family, and finally to pay New Year's greetings to the friends outside of the family.

Beginning on the second day, in Inner Mongolia Spring Festival customs, the elderly pay tribute to each other, or gathered together to drink entertainment, young people are automatically organized to carry out sports and cultural activities, or singing and dancing; or horse-racing and shooting, wrestling matches; or playing chess and cards. Songs and dances are especially loved by the people. Their dance reflects the life of birds and beasts of prey, there are hunters to capture the beast scene, there are also depicted women collecting labor scene, the action is simple and innocent, with a deep hunting life. Recreational activities have continued until the fourth day of the Lunar New Year. On the fifth day of the month, people think it is "ghost day", avoid going out, and no entertainment and noise. On this day, people are at home to rest. Beginning of the sixth, the hunters can go to the mountains to hunt, resume normal production activities. In Inner Mongolia Spring Festival customs, the morning of January 16, there is the custom of rubbing each other's faces.