What are the celebrations of the Dong people on the day of the New Festival?

1. According toIt is said that the Dong Eating New Festival is the agricultural festival of the Dong people, and in order to celebrate the harvest and hope for a bumper harvest in the coming year, most of them are held when the crops are ripe. It is the oldest traditional festival of the Dong nationality. This is also a long-term inheritance, probably because of its beautiful meaning.

II"Eating New Festival" is an ancient traditional festival of the Dong people. Prevailing in the north and south, the time and ritual of eating new festivals are not the same, but the different forms reflect the psychology of the people。The festival of Eat New Festival is a tribute to the festival and a synthesis of farming and harvesting.

IIIThe "Eat New Festival" is arranged before the festival, and the women in the family arrange to wash glutinous rice and other things in the order of the second room and the second room. Go home and mix the washed food with salt and salt on the altar, steamed with "fresh water" just taken from the well. On this day, the main dish is fish, and it is also stewed with a bowl of unsalted canned food and melon.

Fourth, "."Eat the new festival" during the festival to open the door of the house, let the ancestors come to eat the new, when the morning is not light, the candlestick in the corridor will be lit, and the whole family will worship the ancestors。After the feast, people go to slaughter animals to entertain the guests. In the celebration of the new festival, there are singing, bullfighting, etc., there are families who support them to commemorate the migration of their ancestors, and they go out with torches and luggage in the middle of the night, imitating the ritual of climbing the mountain.

The new festival of the Dai people is not only to celebrate the harvest, but also to worship the ancestors. On this day, people will worship their ancestors, reflecting the Yi people's faith and respect for their ancestors. It is a traditional culture of etiquette.

This is also the main manifestation of the cultural diversity of the Dai people. It is said that this is a good place that the ancestors introduced. In order to thank the ancestors for their kindness, on the day of the New Year's Day, each family goes to the rice field to pick 3 ears of grain, symbolizing the new grain of the year, and opens the field to catch the fresh carp stocked in the year.

They also prepared glutinous rice, chicken and duck meat, and vegetables that their ancestors loved to eat, hoping that their ancestors would bless them with a bumper harvest of grain that year.

On this day, they eat something particularly fresh, such as the grain that has been produced. And freshly picked fruits.

They must have eaten something new, such as newly produced millet, fresh corn, or newly planted vegetables, all freshly picked.

It may be that there will be a lot of delicious food, everyone will come together to celebrate, and eating the new festival is a festival to eat the latest things.

Eating the new festival must mean eating something new, such as a new harvest of grain or something newly made.

On this day, everyone usually gets together to eat and drink, and cooks a lot of food to eat together, and I think it should be like this.

I don't really know about that, but I think it's going to be a very lively day, and the local folklore is pretty good.

They'll eat some of their local delicacies, right? It's not clear exactly what to eat, but it's definitely local.

I don't know yet, but I personally think it's a very good activity, and I think it's because everyone is praying for blessings.

The traditional festivals of the Dong nationality include the Spring Festival, the Living Road Festival, the New Taste Festival, and the March.

3. Lin Wang Festival, etc.

1. Living Road Festival.

The Living Road Festival is the festival of Dong villages in Guizhou Zhenyuan County, such as Baojing, Baoyou, Baiyan, Longben, Pingming, Milk Pair, Gaokan, Basuo, Gaogou, etc., before the spring ploughing. The festival is held every year on the second day of the first day of the first month from Chinese New Year's Eve to the first month of the first month.

2. Taste the New Festival.

The New Taste Festival, commonly known as the "Eat New Festival", is a traditional festival of the Gelao and Miao, Buyi, Bai and Zhuang ethnic groups in Hunan, Guizhou, Guizhou and other provinces. The time is the seventh day of the seventh lunar month every year. Every year in June and July of the summer calendar, it is held on a different day when the new valley appears.

3, King Lin's Day.

In order to resist the oppression and exploitation of the ruling class, the ancestors of the Dong nationality in history held armed uprisings one after another, producing thousands of unforgettable heroes. "Lin Wang Festival" is the festival of the Dong family in the Zhaimu area of Jinping County to commemorate the hero Lin Kuan of the Ming Dynasty.

4. Sacrifice to the Cow God Festival.

Xinhuang Dong Autonomous County is dominated by Dong, Miao and Hui ethnic groups. The Hui are a people who believe in Islam. The activity of "sacrificing the cow god" is a kind of sacrificial activity shared by Dong and Miao in Xinhuang County.

The reason is that they are all a people who respect cattle. On the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar or the sixth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar, the cow god is worshipped, which is called the "Ox Festival" or "Washing the Ox Body".

5. Reed Festival.

The reed sheng festival is the most common and grand traditional festival in the Miao area, and the main activities of the festival are reed sheng stepping on the hall and racing reed sheng. The reed sheng festival is generally named after the name of the slope meeting (such as the thirteen slopes and Gulongpo).

There are no less than 100 festivals and activities of the Dong nationality in a year, and there are 84 festivals and activities in the Dong nationality area in southeast Guizhou alone. There are festivals that are common to the whole nation, and there are also festivals where one village and one village, one clan and one surname.

Spring Festival, Living Road Festival, New Taste Festival, March.

3. The Linwang Festival, the Bull God Festival, the Reed Sheng Festival, the Flower Cannon Festival, the Great Fog Liang Song Festival, the Forty-eight Zhai Song Festival, the Bullfighting Festival and other festivals will be the most grand.

The ancestors of the Dong people were called "Qianshou" in the pre-Qin literature, and it is generally believed that the Dong people developed from a branch of the ancient Baiyue. The Dong nationality is mainly engaged in agriculture, and agriculture is mainly planted with rice, which has a long history of planting rice, and is also engaged in forestry, and agricultural and forestry production has reached a very high level. The mountains of the Dong region are interspersed with many basins known locally as "dams".

Kill New Year's pigs, make glutinous cakes, make tea, beat tofu, and collect firewood.

Killing New Year's pigs: When it comes to the wax moon, it can be seen that Dong Village has the scene of grinding knives and slaughtering pigs every day. Generally speaking, the killing of New Year pigs should be discussed with every household in the village, because the butcher is limited and must be arranged.

When killing the New Year's pig, some relatives and friends will be invited to have a meal, commonly known as "eating soup", and send 1-3 catties of pork to them, so that everyone can share the joy of the New Year, and at the same time marinate bacon and other New Year's goods.

Glutinous rice cakes: Glutinous rice cakes are round rice cakes made of glutinous rice. Regardless of the number of fields and the number of fields, the Dong families will plant some glutinous rice, harvest and dry it and put it in the wax moon for the use of glutinous rice cakes.

People put the steamed glutinous rice in the "mill" and knead it into a paste with the "hammer" made of wood, often add some wild vegetables, twist it into a round top and flatten it, dye it with pine and cypress branches and leaves, coat it with beeswax, and make it into a round glutinous cake, which means that the family is reunited every year, and after drying, fill the water tank with cool well water and store it for the New Year's consumption.

Make tea: the Dong people like to make all kinds of agricultural products into dry goods after the harvest, the most prominent is to make all kinds of vegetables and fruits into candied fruit, the candied fruit of the Dong nationality in Jingzhou has as many as ten kinds, called "ten kinds of candied fruit", there are winter melon candied fruit, pumpkin candied fruit, pomelo candied fruit, tomato candied fruit and so on. They also steamed glutinous rice, dyed it with red, yellow and green colors and dried it, and fried it in oil before the Spring Festival, which is to make tea.

Tofu: The Dong people have the habit of planting various beans such as soybeans on the ridges, and tofu has become an important dish during the Spring Festival. The ground tofu is fried into small pieces in oil, which can be stored for ten days and a half to prepare nutritious and convenient dishes for the New Year.

Collecting firewood: It's the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year. When getting out of bed, the first thing the male and female hosts do is to go out and pick up a small bundle of firewood and enter the house.

The pronunciation of Xiangxi is firewood and wealth. To gather firewood is to collect wealth. To collect firewood is to collect wealth and interest. After opening the door of wealth, incense will be installed, paper will be burned, green oil lamps will be lit, and tea will be offered, which means that the God of Wealth will be welcomed to the shrine to worship, hoping that the God of Wealth will always stay in their homes.