What are the New Year customs of various ethnic groups in China?

1. Achang - Torch Festival

The Torch Festival has a profound connotation of folk culture and is known as the "Oriental Carnival". Different ethnic groups hold torch festivals at different times, most of them are on the 24th of June in the lunar calendar, and the main activities include bullfighting, sheep fighting, cockfighting, horse racing, wrestling, singing and dancing performances, beauty pageants, etc.

2. Bai Nationality - March Street

March Street is also known as "Guanyin City" and "Guanyin Street"; "Sacrifice Guanyin Street", a traditional grand festival of the Bai nationality, is also a grand event of the traditional folk material exchange and entertainment activities of the Bai nationality, which is popular in Dali, Yunnan and other places. March Street is held every year from March 15 to 21 of the lunar calendar at the foot of Diancang Mountain in the west of Dali City.

3. Dai - Songkran Festival

Songkran is a New Year's festival for ethnic minorities such as Dai, Achang, Brown, Wa, and De'ang in China and some ethnic groups in the Indochina Peninsula. It is the grandest traditional festival of the year for the Dai people. The Chinese Dai festival is in June and July of the Dai calendar (about 10 days after the Qingming Festival).

4. Bullang tribe - the opening festival

The Open Door Festival, also known as "Out of the Valley", is a traditional festival that believes in Theravada Buddhism such as the Dai people, the Brown people, the De'ang people, and some Wa peoples, etc., and is popular in Yunnan. The time is on the 15th day of the twelfth month of the Dai calendar, which corresponds to the Guanmen Festival (the summer festival), which originates from the habit of living in silver dust in the rainy season in ancient Indian Buddhism.

5. Korean nationality - Shangyuan Festival

Shangyuan Festival generally refers to the Lantern Festival. The Lantern Festival, one of the traditional festivals of the Changguo Kingdom, is also known as the Shangyuan Festival, the Little New Year's Month, the New Year's Day or the Lantern Festival, which is held on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year. The first month of the first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called the "night" as the "night", and the fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night of the year, so the fifteenth day of the first month is called the "Lantern Festival".

China is a multi-ethnic country with 56 ethnic minorities, each with their own unique Chinese New Year customs. Here are some of the representative Chinese New Year customs of ethnic minorities:

1.Kazakhs: Known as "Norza" during the New Year, the Kazakhs hold a grand feast on Chinese New Year's Eve to gather their families together. They also place five-colored ribbons in front of their homes, symbolizing good wishes.

2.Tibetans: Tibetans celebrate the New Year called "Luosu", and they light bonfires and perform unique dances on Chinese New Year's Eve. At the same time, they will also hang prayer flags to pray for peace and good luck in the coming year.

3.Dai: The Dai New Year is called the "Songkran Festival", which is one of their most important festivals. People will splash water on each other, symbolizing the washing away of the bad luck of the year and welcoming the new year.

4.Uyghurs: Uyghurs celebrate the New Year known as the Hanzi Festival, where they hold a collective sacrifice on Chinese New Year's Eve to pray for a good harvest and peace in the coming year.

5.Yi: The Yi New Year is called "Miao Year", and they will celebrate Chinese New Year's Eve.

There are 56 ethnic groups in China, each with its own customs and habits, let us learn about the etiquette, life, family, marriage customs, clothing, decorations, taboos of ethnic minorities, so that you of different nationalities can go deep into their lives.

1. Mongolian.

The Mongolian people are a long-standing and legendary people, living a nomadic life of "migrating from water to grass". Annually.

The "Naadam" festival is a long-standing traditional festival of the Mongolian people in July and August when the livestock are fattened, and it is a cultural, sports and entertainment meeting held by people to celebrate the harvest.

2. Hui Hui folk festival Eid al-Fitr (also called Rouzi Festival), also known as Iftar. Every year the month of Ramadan is the month of September in the Islamic calendar. All Hui men aged 12 and women over 9 years old should fast.

After the liberation, Eid al-Fitr was designated as a legal holiday for the Hui people.

3. Miao people. The ancestors of the Miao people can be traced back to the Chiyou tribe who were active in the Central Plains in the era of primitive society. In the past, the Miao people believed in animism, worshiped nature, and worshiped their ancestors.

There are many festivals, in addition to the traditional annual festivals, sacrificial festivals, there are festivals related to eating, there are many festivals of the Miao nationality, but the names and methods of each region are not the same, and the traditional festivals are the most solemn in the Miao year.

4. Dai people. The Dai people generally believe in Theravada Buddhism, and many festivals are related to Buddhist activities. The Songkran Festival held in June of the Dai calendar every year is the grandest festival, and this festival is called "Sangkan Bimai" in Dai language.

At that time, the Buddha will be worshipped, and a feast will be held, and the monks and relatives and friends will be feasted and congratulated each other by splashing water. Now, because the water splashing activity is the main content of the Dai New Year festival activities, this activity is deeply loved by the people of all ethnic groups.

5. Lisu people.

The Lisu people were called "chestnut millet" in the Tang Dynasty. The Lisu people first lived in the Jinsha River basin at the junction of Sichuan and Yunnan, and later gradually moved to the Nujiang area of western Yunnan due to war and other reasons. On June 11, 1985, Yunnan Weixi Lisu Autonomous County was established.

Festivals: The main festivals include the Broad Time Festival (December 20, equivalent to the Spring Festival of the Han nationality), the Torch Festival, the Harvest Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Bathing Pond Festival, the Knife Pole Festival, etc. The "Knife Pole Festival" held on the eighth day of the second lunar month every year is exciting, and it is said that the knife pole is set up to make the Lisu people have the spirit of "dare to go up the knife mountain, dare to break through the sea of fire".

The celebrations during the Spring Festival are extremely rich and diverse, including lion dance, floating colors, dragon dance, wandering gods, temple fairs, visiting flower streets, viewing lanterns, traveling gongs and drums, vernier flags, burning fireworks, praying for blessings, making spring, as well as stepping on stilts, running dry boats, twisting Yangge, etc.

According to the saying of Minyuan Fan: because of the homonym of "dust" and "Chen", the Spring Festival dust sweep has the meaning of "removing Chen Buxin", and its intention is to sweep all the bad luck and bad luck out of the door. This custom carries people's desire to break with the old and create the new, and the prayer to leave the old and welcome the new.

Spring Festival (alias: New Year, New Year's Festival, Tianla, the first year, New Year, New Year) is one of the four traditional festivals in China, the New Year of the Orange Calendar, the traditional New Year's sedan chair festival, evolved from the first sacrifice of the year in ancient times, is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation, the date is set on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year.

During the Spring Festival, various celebrations are held in various households, most of which are mainly based on sacrificing to the gods and Buddhas, paying tribute to ancestors, removing the old and cloth the new, welcoming the jubilee and receiving blessings, and praying for a good year. The forms of activities are rich and colorful, and most of them have strong national characteristics.

The Chinese New Year customs are as follows:

1. Sweep the dust: In the folk, on the eve of the New Year, there is the custom of "the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, sweeping the dust (also known as sweeping the house)." The folk proverb is called "twenty-four, sweep the house".

Folks call it "Dust Day". Sweeping is the year-end cleaning, every household should clean their own home, clean all kinds of utensils, dismantle and wash bedding curtains, sprinkle and sweep the courtyard of Liulu, dust and cobwebs, and dredge open channels and culverts.

2. Paste Spring Festival couplets.

Spring couplets are also called door pairs, spring stickers, couplets, pairs, and peach symbols.

It depicts the background of the times in neat, dual, concise and exquisite words, and expresses good wishes, which is a unique literary form in China. Every Spring Festival, every household in the hall will paste couplets to celebrate the arrival of the new year.

3. New Year's goods: China's New Year's customs and culture have a long history, and a variety of New Year's customs have been derived from all over the country, which are very different from north to south, each with its own characteristics. Although the customs are different from place to place, preparing New Year's goods and giving New Year's gifts are almost the "must-haves for the New Year" across the country.

Purchasing New Year's goods, including eating, wearing, wearing, using, pasting (New Year's red), giving (New Year's greetings) gifts, etc., are collectively called "New Year's goods", and the process of purchasing New Year's goods is called "New Year's goods".

4. Ancestor worship: The most important thing in the New Year is ancestor worship, which is also a traditional custom of the Chinese. Due to the cultural differences in each place, the form of ancestor worship in each place is also different, some are to go to the field to sweep the tomb, some are to worship in the ancestral hall, no matter what the form, this is to commemorate the ancestors.

5. Youshen. It is also known as the camp god and the old man, that is, the idol of the god is invited out of the temple to patrol the Hongchen in the community, which has the folk meaning of driving away evil spirits in the pure land, protecting the peace of the realm, and praying for a good harvest. During the Spring Festival every year, in chronological order, each village and town takes turns to hold folk activities to travel to the gods, the scene is lively and extraordinary, praying for the peace of the country and the people in the coming year, the wind and rain are smooth, and the brothers are pressed to tease the evil and the disaster, and everything is auspicious.