The Spring Festival customs of the Zhuang people are very unique, why do they dance chickens and cow

For the Zhuang people, it is an auspicious thing to dance chickens and cows during the Spring Festival, and the chickens and cows here are not real cows. China's 56 ethnic groups can have 56 customs during the Spring Festival, and the Zhuang people may attach more importance to the Spring Festival than the Han people. The Zhuang people are simple and kind, believing that the chicken and cow dance can bring good luck, and can also pray for the prosperity of the six animals, they will go to carry water on the day of the Spring Festival, because they believe that the Spring Festival is the first day of the new year, the water on the first day is the cleanest, and picking it back can bring good luck to the family.

The chickens of the dancing chickens are made of wood, not real chickens, and the young men of the dancing chickens carry them from door to door to send New Year blessings. The young people who dance the chickens will sing festive songs, and the blessed family will pluck a few chicken feathers from the wooden chicken and put them in their own chicken coops, in the hope that the six animals will be prosperous in the new year. It is indeed a very interesting and meaningful custom, I think it is rare that the young man who dances the chicken can send blessings from door to door, but the Zhuang people have been continuing this custom.

The cow is made of bamboo, and then wrapped in cloth to resemble a cow, and someone leads it from house to house to pay New Year's greetings. Cow dance is not a person to complete the thing, generally a person leading, a person driving the cow, several people singing around, very lively, the cow to ** to ** to bring good luck, such a custom is indeed to add a lot of excitement and joy to the Spring Festival. On the day of the Spring Festival, the Zhuang people will eat rice dumplings, and on Chinese New Year's Eve, they will make colorful rice bowls, which indicates that the next year will have a bumper harvest of grains and every family will have surplus grain.

On the day of the New Year, the Zhuang people will also go to carry water, and the Zhuang women will add brown sugar to the water on this day, which becomes "smart water". In short, the Spring Festival of the Zhuang people is indeed very happy, and the Spring Festival day is fully arranged, which also shows the fine quality of the diligence of the Zhuang people. I hope that the good customs can be passed down forever.

The chicken dance is carried by young people with two fighting cocks made of wood and wooden claws, playing gongs to each family to celebrate the New Year, and they sing auspicious and humorous chicken dance songs, so that the host family smiles. The master plucked a few chicken feathers from the chicken and stuck them in his chicken coop, praying for the prosperity of the six animals. The cow dance is a delicate "spring cow" performance by people, with the same person supporting the cow's head in front, and one person bending over and arching his back and flicking his tail; Behind it, a man with a plow frame drove the "spring ox"; There are also those who beat gongs and drums and sing spring cow songs, which are mighty and joyful.

The chicken dance is to pray for the livestock to be more prosperous in the coming year, and the cow dance is to make the life of the coming year joyful, which are a kind of yearning and blessing for the good life of the common people.

Dancing chickens and cows add to the festive atmosphere. It is also the pursuit of good things in the new year. The cow dance means a bumper harvest of grains, auspicious wishes, and the chicken dance means the prosperity of the six animals, and the family fat house is moist.

Because this is decided according to the folk customs of the Zhuang people, not only the chicken and cow dance, but also the lion dance, which represents a smooth and prosperous new year and the whole family is safe and sound.

The chicken and cow dance is not a "dance" in the true sense, but a prayer for the prosperity of the six animals by inserting chicken feathers into the chicken, and the cow is a paper-cutting, praying for people's future life.

The Zhuang people dance the chicken and cow to celebrate the arrival of the New Year, to increase the festive atmosphere of the Spring Festival, thus symbolizing the prosperity of the six animals.

Because it is a culture that has evolved over thousands of years of this race, it must be observed.