What are the customs of the New Year for each ethnic group?

Customs of the New Year of each ethnic group:

Han - on the first day of the New Year, people do not sweep the floor, do not throw water outside, do not go to the back door, do not scold the children, congratulate each other on the New Year's auspiciousness and wealth, 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. New Year's Eve package dumplings, pay attention to the pleats more good, son of the time to cook dumplings, some of the inner side of the package on the copper, those who ate 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 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 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 wear new clothes and 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 the New Year's Eve dinner, cutting the windows and gluing the 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 the guests with a "fish feast". 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 whole family reunion. At dawn on the first day of the evening to the elders to toast the "farewell wine", then young men and women straddle the pike horse, riding string yurt, first to the elders kowtow to wish, followed by drinking and dancing, 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 to friends and relatives, taking turns to be guests, young and middle-aged men to organize a lantern festival, and compete 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", "the lion rolling embroidered ball", "phoenix dance" and so on.

Tibetan - 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 beat the whip of the king.

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 colorful national cultural and sports activities to celebrate, singing "Caicha", lion and dragon dance, jumping to play the flat dance, the gong, playing gyro, ball games, local theater and so on.

Jing - the first day of the incense and candles to take to the well to burn worship, called "buy new water", Tibetan women on the first day of the day before dawn from the river back to the "auspicious water". Think the first day of the new water can bring the gospel and good luck, can keep a year of good luck.

The Dongxiang people - like to fight during the Spring Festival to show their love for the land that nurtures them.

The Qiang people - each family should make all kinds of fried flour calves, lambs, chickens and other offerings to ancestors and the gods of the sky, New Year's Day to drink smack wine, everyone sitting around the altar, by the eldest sang the "open altar words", and then about two feet long wheat pipe from left to right, in order to smack drink.

Ewenke people -- the first day of the first month, pay homage to each other, especially to their elders and relatives must go to kowtow to pay homage on the first day. On the night of the first day of the new year, men and women gather in a larger house to have fun, usually called by the elderly for this entertainment party, the women start to dance or sing first, and then everyone dances regardless of gender.

The Daur ethnic group - the first day of the first month, dawn, women prepare breakfast, men burn incense to worship the gods of heaven and earth, praying for the gods and God's grace to give peace and plenty of years, after worshiping the gods, to the elders of the toast kowtow to accept the old man's benediction. After eating dumplings and putting on new clothes, close relatives of men and women gather together, led by the eldest old man, according to the seniority of various recreational activities.

The Hani ethnic group - on New Year's Eve, women are busy making patties, and young men go up the mountain to cut bamboo and build swing sets. Both men and women, young and old, enjoy swinging in the Spring Festival.

Buyi - on New Year's Eve, the whole family sits around the fire and keeps watch all night. On the first day of the new year, the girls will be the first to run to the river to pick water, who is the first to pick back to the water, who is the most hard-working and the happiest people, but also as an omen of a good year.

Yao people - during the festival, people get together to watch the interesting and chic "plow play". One person pretends to be a cow, one person pretends to be a plowman, one person pretends to be a farmer expanding a hoe, and the three dance and sing to celebrate a good agricultural harvest; young men and women gather on the lawn around the village to play the reed-sheng, the moon zither, and sing mountain songs to find the man of their dreams.

Jingpo people - the Spring Festival held "target shooting" competition. On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, people gather on the field, the girls hang their embroidered purses on the top of the bamboo poles, the shooter shoots at the thin line hanging purses counted as sharpshooters, the girls will award the sharpshooter a bowl of sweet rice wine.

Lahu -- every year on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar to the fifteenth, is the Yunnan Lahu "expansion of the tower" festival (Lahu for the Spring Festival). On New Year's Eve, every family will make glutinous rice poi symbolizing the sun, the moon and the stars to sacrifice the sun, the moon and the stars, hoping for good weather and a good harvest in the new year. From the first to the fourth days of the year, young men and women compete to be the first to run to the spring to welcome the new water, which symbolizes purity and happiness, in order to be the first to get it. At the same time, with gifts to villages and villages, visit friends and relatives.