In our country, the Spring Festival is also a custom festival for people of various ethnic minorities. People of all ethnic groups hold various celebration activities according to their own customs, with their own strong national unique style.
On New Year’s Eve of the Tibetan people, people put on colorful clothes and strange masks, play music with suonas, conch shells, and drums, and perform a solemn and grand "Tiao Shen Meeting." The young men dance and sing wildly, which means to get rid of the old and welcome the new, and to drive away evil spirits and bring blessings. On New Year's morning, women carry "auspicious water" to wish them good luck in the new year.
Yi Nationality Compatriots of the Yi nationality choose their festivals according to the Yi calendar. Some celebrate the Spring Festival with the local Han people. In some areas, the Yi compatriots set up green pine trees in front of their doors and spread the ground with pine needles to avoid disasters. In other areas, pigs and sheep are killed during the festival and lumps of meat are eaten. People visit each other and give each other meat and steamed buns. On the morning of New Year's Day, the first thing I do when I get up is to carry water home. They compare the weight of a bowl of water with yesterday's water. If the New Year's water is heavier, it means there will be enough rain this year.
Zhuang compatriots distributed in Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangdong and other regions celebrate the Spring Festival at the same time as the Han people. On New Year's Eve, the rice eaten on the festival day is cooked, which is called "New Year's Rice". In some areas, people call it "Eating Lijie", which means "Celebrating the Old Year" in Zhuang language. It heralds a good agricultural harvest in the coming year. Some even make cakes that are more than a foot long and weigh five or six kilograms. A family with a small population will not be able to finish the whole meal! Early in the morning on the first day of the Lunar New Year, people get up before dawn, put on new clothes, and set off firecrackers to welcome the new year. Women are rushing to the river or well to "draw new water" and start the exciting life of the new year.
The entire Buyi family stays up all night by the pond on New Year’s Eve. As soon as day breaks, the girls rush to fetch water. Whoever carries back the first load of water first will be the most diligent and happiest girl.
Manchu Manchu people are divided into four banners: red, yellow, blue and white. During the Spring Festival, people with red flags put red flags on their doors, people with yellow flags put yellow flags on their doors, people with blue flags put blue flags on their doors, and people with white flags put white flags on their doors. These hanging flags have beautiful patterns and bright colors, symbolizing the auspicious beginning of the year.
Dong compatriots in Guizhou and Hunan have a popular mass activity called "Dong Year Fighting" (also called Lusheng Festival) during the Spring Festival. This kind of activity is similar to the "group worship" of the Han people, but it is more joyful and enthusiastic. This kind of activity is usually organized by consensus between the two village leaders. The two teams officially held a Lusheng singing and dancing competition in the square. At this time, the audience in the two villages danced to the music and had fun.
Bai ethnic group When the Bai ethnic group in Yunnan celebrates the New Year, there is a celebration called "Fang Gaosheng". The so-called "high-sheng" method is to use a whole big bamboo, load gunpowder into the bamboo joints, and after lighting it, the whole big bamboo can collapse hundreds of feet into the sky, becoming a veritable "high-sheng". In some areas, Bai compatriots, like the Miao and Zhuang people, engage in the "Hydrangea Throwing" activity from the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival. Anyone who cannot catch the hydrangea should give the other party a souvenir. Anyone who misses the ball many times but cannot redeem the souvenir is a sign of love.
Tujia people During the Spring Festival, the Tujia people hold a grand waving dance. The hand-waving dance is a popular ancient dance of the Tujia people. It includes more than 70 dance movements such as hunting, military, farming, and banquets. It has a distinctive rhythm, graceful movements, simple dance postures, and a healthy mood. It does not use props and has distinct ethnic characteristics and strong breath of life.
Dai Nationality The Water Splashing Festival is the New Year festival of the Dai nationality and the most grand traditional event of the year for the Dai nationality. The day when Guyu begins is designated as the "Water Splashing Festival". During the three- or four-day festival, people splash water on each other to wash away the old dirt on their bodies and wish them happiness and peace in the new year.
The Li people living on Hainan Island, every Spring Festival, every household will slaughter pigs and chickens, serve sumptuous food and wine, and the whole family will sit together to eat "New Year's dinner"; We also need to sing "New Year's greetings". On the first and second days of junior high school, a "Spring Festival Hunt" is held for all young and middle-aged men in the village. This day's prey is shared by the whole village. What is interesting is that when dividing the prey, half of the total prey is first given to the shooter who hits the prey first; the other half is divided equally among everyone. Pregnant women can get two points, and passers-by who happen to meet can also get one.
The Susu people call the New Year's Day "Yushi". Most of them make indica rice cakes, glutinous rice cakes and brewed water wine. They put a little of the cakes pounded out in the first mortar on peaches, plums, etc. On the fruit trees, I wish you a fruitful year ahead. The Lisu people in the Nujiang area of ??Yunnan first feed their cattle salt to show respect for their work. Young men and women like to hold Spring Festival target shooting competitions. The girls hang the embroidered purse on the bamboo pole, shake the purse left and right, and ask the boys to shoot. Whoever shoots the purse first will be given wine as a prize by the girls.
Lahu On New Year’s Eve, the whole family of the Lahu people must take a bath and prepare food for the next day. In the food, special attention is paid to glutinous rice cakes. In addition to eating, always give some to the cows and put some on farm tools such as plows, hoes, machetes, etc. to reward them for cooperating with the owner throughout the year and wishing them great success in the new year. More wealth.
The Daur people live on both sides of the Nen River in the northeast. On the morning of the first day of the first lunar month, young men and women dress up. They first greet their elders, toast and salute, and then go from house to house to pay New Year greetings. Each house prepares steamed cakes. , New Year greeters rush to eat steamed cakes as soon as they enter the door. It is said that after eating, production and life will be "higher every year."
From the first to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month of the first lunar month of the Mulao ethnic group, men, women, old and young all wear festive costumes in every village of the Mulao ethnic group. Dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of people gather on the hillside. Or sing folk songs in the stadium, singing about labor, life and love.
The only festival of the Dulong people is the "Kaquewa" festival held in the twelfth lunar month of winter. The most solemn ceremony is the sacrifice of cattle to heaven. On this day, the patriarch tied the cow to a wooden stake in the center of the square. A young woman hangs the beads on the horns of the cow, and then a brave and strong young man stabs the armpit of the cow with a sharp bamboo spear until the cow is stabbed to death. At this moment, people dance the "Niu Guozhuang" dance and then share the beef.
The Oroqen compatriots in the Northeast, on the morning of the Spring Festival, first pour wine in the family according to their seniority, the younger ones kowtow to the elders, and the older generations greet each other, and horse racing is held on the second and third day of the lunar month. Delicious food on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. On the morning of the 16th day of the first lunar month, there is an activity of smearing each other's faces. Young people should kowtow first when slandering the elderly.
The Spring Festival of the Hezhe ethnic group is "Fo'e Shikes" in Hezhe language, which means New Year's Eve. People wear animal skins and other clothing embroidered with beautiful patterns, geometric patterns, flowers and birds on hat ears, collars, cuffs, trouser legs, aprons, and shoe uppers. During the New Year festival, most people will have a "fire-spitting feast", or make pancakes with a kind of wild fruit "thick plum", and fill them with fish, animal meat and other foods. To treat distinguished guests, kill the fish alive or grill the fish sticks and serve them with this "talaha".
The Spring Festival is coming for the Jinuo people, who live in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan. The old man chewing betel nuts raises his head and plays the cymbal, and the old woman wearing a big pointed hat lowers her head and plays the gong. Zhou Ba (the village father) takes the lead. Beat the drums and young men and women form a circle and dance with their bare hands.