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What are the festivals of each ethnic group

Tujia - Starting two days before the first day of the first month, the first day is called the Big New Year and the second day is the Small New Year. On New Year's Eve, each family burns a piece of firewood, and everyone sits around listening to old people tell 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.

The Zhuang - from the thirtieth to the second day of the first month, *** three days. Anyone who works outside should go home before the 30th. 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 point in the song, or playing gyro, dancing, ball games, theater.

Dulong - living in Yunnan Nujiang Gongshan County of the Dulong, will be between November 12 every year for the first time between the snow for the first of the year, because there is no fixed time, by the head of the clan to choose the day, usually 3 to 5 days. During the festival, families invite each other for friendly exchanges while holding recreational activities.

The Hani tribe--The year is celebrated twice a year. One is the October Festival and the other is the June Festival. The Hani calendar takes October as the first day of the year, i.e. the "Big Year". New Year's Day, people visit friends and relatives, marriage. "June Festival" during the animal sacrifice to ancestors, swinging, wrestling, singing songs and other cultural and sports activities.

Kado people (Hani tribe)--The Kado people in Xinping County, Yunnan Province, 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 the word on their way 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. At New Year's, they celebrate by killing pigs and slaughtering sheep and dancing the big drum.

Pumi - the Pumi people in the highlands of northwestern Yunnan mostly take the sixth day of the Lunar New Year as the first day of the year, and on New Year's Eve, the villages and cottages should set off firecrackers three times and blow the conch. Then the family reunion to eat glutinous rice.

The Lemo people (a term for the Bai people) - who mainly live in Bijiang County in Yunnan Province - have their own way of projecting the festivals, and the dates of the Spring Festival vary. 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 the month of March is called the March Festival, which is equivalent to the Spring Festival of the Han Chinese.

Kinuo -- the Jinuo people in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, the sixth month of the lunar calendar as the New Year, the singers take turns to sing to each other, and if they lose, they leave a piece of cloth to wrap their heads, and then go on to the next year. Every night during the New Year, the old men and women enjoy wine and food while dancing the big drum dance, and young men and women take this time to talk about love and find their lovers.

Gelao--The third day of the third month of the lunar calendar is the Spring Festival for the Gelao people. Because they live in places with low temperatures, the grass and trees do not begin to sprout until March, when spring begins. At this time of the upcoming spring plowing busy, we get together to celebrate the New Year, *** with prayers to the ancestors, the mountain gods blessing, all things as expected, a bumper harvest. And because the Qingming Festival is often around the beginning of March, so the two festivals together, so the day will be Gelao year, that is, the Spring Festival.

Yao people -- every year in the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the Moon Festival is the Yao people's grandest festival -- the Spring Festival, the eve of the Moon Festival, families are busy, inside and outside the village is filled with the sound of cattle horns and the sound of laughter.

The Han Chinese - on the first day of the Lunar New Year, people do not sweep the floor, do not splash water outside, do not go through the back door, do not scold the children, congratulate each other on an auspicious and wealthy New Year, all the best.

Manchu - when the New Year's Day is approaching, every family cleans the courtyard and puts up window grills, couplets and lucky charms. On the thirtieth day of the Lunar New Year, families erected six-meter-high lantern poles, from the first day of the year to the sixteenth, every day red lights hanging high. The New Year's Eve dumplings, pay attention to the pleats more good, son of time to cook dumplings, some wrapped in the inside of 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 to worship once again, 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.

Korean people - every family puts up spring couplets, cooks various kinds of sumptuous meals, eats "eight treasures rice", and on New Year's Eve, the whole family observes the New Year's Eve all night long, plays the Gayageum and blows 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, press the springboard, and tug of war. On the night of the 15th day of the first month, a traditional celebration is held, in which a few elderly people are elected to climb onto a wooden "moon watch frame" and sing and dance to long drums, dongxiao and suona.

Oroqen--New Year's Eve, the whole family sits around, **** into the dinner. Tasting mountain treasures, drinking wine and eating New Year's dinner. Young people salute the elders of the family and close relatives, kowtow and ask for peace. 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.

The Hezhen people--New Year's Eve, everyone is busy cooking, cutting windows, gluing lanterns. On the first day of the year, girls, women and children put on new clothes embroidered with cloud borders and go to friends and relatives to pay New Year's visits, and treat the 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, skating, shooting at straw targets and pitching straw balls.

Mongolians - five nights to eat dumplings, firecrackers and the same as the Han. In addition, New Year's Eve to eat "hand meat" to show that the family reunion. Early morning of the first day of the evening to the elders of the "New Year's wine", and then young men and women across the pike horse, riding string yurt, first to the elders kowtow to wish, and then drink and dance, and then string packet of men and women also take advantage of this opportunity to Ting line horse racing.

Naxi - the first month of spring people visit each other's relatives and friends, take turns as a guest, young and middle-aged men to organize lanterns, and competitions with other villages. Cities and villages are organized lantern fair Lantern Festival program is the performance of the national story: such as "Ah Nu Mei Jokes", "the old man put deer", "social theater night pearl", "lion rolling embroidered ball", "phoenix dance" and so on.

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 blessings.

Yi - Spring Festival rally jumping "A fine jumping moon", some villages on the first day of the year to fetch water for cooking are undertaken by men, so that the women rest, in order to and on their hard work a year of condolences.

Miao - the Spring Festival called "Hakka year", every family kills pigs and goats, baked wine to beat the poi to celebrate the harvest in the hope that the next year of wind and rain, a good harvest. They also sing the "Spring Festival Song," with lyrics to the effect that they are thinking of spring, looking forward to spring, cherishing spring, and salvaging spring.

Bai people - Bai people from New Year's Eve began to worship each other, 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. People either go on a tour of places of interest in groups, or play dragon lanterns, lion dances and whip fights.

Strong people - the night of the New Year's Eve, the family fire on the fire pit to light a fire, never go out, called "welcome the new fire". Folk customary package dumplings over the Spring Festival. During the festival, but also to organize a rich and colorful national cultural and sports activities to celebrate, singing "Caicha", lion and dragon dance, jumping to play the flat dance, gong, playing gyro, ball games, local theater and so on.