Miao Year is the most solemn traditional festival of Miao nationality, which is popular in Miao nationality inhabited areas in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture of Guizhou and Rongshui Miao Autonomous County of Guangxi. Due to different regions, the date of seedling year is different, but it is usually held after millet is put into storage.
Miao custom
In the first few days of Miao Year, every household should clean the house and actively prepare new year's goods, such as making rice cakes, brewing rice wine, making tofu, making bean sprouts, and generally killing pigs, cattle and sheep. Miao people have rich New Year's Eve dinners, paying attention to "all seven colors" and "all five flavors", making "Nianba" with the best glutinous rice and giving banquets to each other. Wealthy families have to make sausages and blood tofu, sew new clothes for their families and so on.
On Miao New Year's Eve, the whole family will have a New Year's Eve dinner at home, and they won't open the door until midnight to set off firecrackers to welcome dragons into the house. At dawn, every household is presided over by the elders at home to worship their ancestors. After breakfast, young and middle-aged men pay New Year greetings to their neighbors, which is called "Duiyang" in Miao language to express congratulations on a happy New Year.
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Leishan Miao Year Activities
On the second day of the lunar new year, there are some taboos at home, such as: don't go out to fetch water, don't go up the mountain to cut wood and grass; Don't sweep the floor; Women do not do needlework; In some areas, women do not cook and are replaced by men; Men don't go out to pick up dung, etc. Men and women in Miao villages usually get married in Miao years.
From the fourth day. Some elderly men and women also visit relatives and friends with wine, meat and glutinous rice cakes. , or are busy receiving guests at home; Some young men and women either dance in blowing sheng in their respective villages, or dance in bronze drums for bullfighting; Or young men go to other villages to "tour", where men and women sing and pour out their love.
Miao people's annual activities
Miao festival activities include Lusheng dance, field jumping, New Year jumping, moon jumping, bullfighting, horse racing and stepping on Huashan Mountain. It usually ends in about 9 days.
The year of Miao nationality is the day of Chen (dragon), Mao (rabbit) or ugly (ox) in September, October or November of the lunar calendar.