The custom of the Yi people for the New Year is: 1. Killing pigs during the Chinese New Year: Yi people kill pigs for the Chinese New Year, and every household is generally unwilling to kill other livestock. 2. Barbecue for ancestor worship: cut the representative meat of each part of the pig into pieces, barbecue it in a fire pond, then put it in a wooden plate, add salt, insert bamboo sticks and put a glass of wine in the middle. The men in the host's house will recite scriptures to worship their ancestors in front of the mourning platform and under the eaves in the inner room.

The Year of the Yi nationality is the most solemn traditional festival of the Yi nationality, which is held around the 24th of the lunar calendar 1 1 month. The festival takes a natural village as a unit, and Bimo (the master of inheriting traditional culture among Yi people) or astrologers predict auspicious days. Besides pigs, dragons, cows, chickens and snakes, other dogs, mice, monkeys, tigers, horses and sheep can celebrate the New Year.

Before the Chinese New Year, every household should feed pigs, chop new firewood, grind buckwheat noodles and tofu, prepare new bamboo sticks, new cutting boards, white wine and tobacco leaves, and cut fern grass to dry clothes. This festival lasts for three days. Families who worship ancestral tablets will worship them with oats, boiled eggs and wine on the day before the Lunar New Year.

After breakfast on the first day of the Yi people's New Year's Day, housewives clean up the house, wash utensils, steam rice and cook buckwheat. The next day, women were busy washing sausages and filling sausages, while men went to various houses to drink. On the third day, the housewife cooked frozen meat with trotters, heart and lungs and some meat to prepare for the New Year. In the evening, steamed rice, boiled buckwheat and pork were used instead of the original offerings.