local folk customs: (for reference)

1. Tibetans

Every nation has its own unique culture and living habits. Tibetans are an ancient and enthusiastic nation, and in the long history, they have also formed their own living habits and taboos in life.

1. When two friends meet after a long separation greet each other or chat, you can't put your hand on each other's shoulders.

2. You can't step over or step on other people's clothes, or put your own clothes on other people's clothes, let alone cross people.

3. Women should not hang clothes, especially pants and underwear where everyone passes by.

4. Don't whistle or cry loudly in the house.

5. When the family is away from home and the guests have just left, you can't sweep the floor or take out the garbage at noon, after sunset and on the first day of the Tibetan New Year.

6. Outsiders are not allowed to mention the name of the deceased in front of his relatives.

7. Work that should be done this year can't be done next year, such as twisting wool, knitting sweaters, carpets, etc.

8. At dusk, you can't go to people's homes casually, especially when people will have pregnant women who have given birth, newly-born women or seriously ill patients, and strangers can't go.

9. After noon, you can't take out any property at home.

1. A stranger can't talk loudly when he goes to mountains and cliffs and canyons that you have never been to.

11. Do not cross or step on eating utensils, pots, pans, etc.

12. There are two people at home who go out at the same time and go in opposite directions. They can't go out at the same time. They must go out back and forth and the time of going out should be separated.

13. Women can't comb and wash their hair at night, and they can't go out with their hair covered.

14. When using a broom and dustpan, you can't pass them directly by hand. You must put them on the ground first, and then another person will pick them up from the ground.

15. Whenever relatives and friends visit your home or visit you, they will give you some buttered tea or highland barley wine as gifts. When guests leave, they can't leave everything empty, so they must leave some in it or put something of their own.

16. A chipped or cracked bowl cannot be used for eating or pouring tea for guests.

II .. Yi Nationality

Yi Torch Festival, that is, the Year of the Yi Nationality. In the eyes of Yi people, fire symbolizes light, justice and prosperity, and symbolizes a powerful force that can destroy all evil. Torch Festival is a festival of joy, love and happiness for Yi people.

III. Hong Kong customs

The Lunar New Year is a traditional grand festival in China, and I believe everyone in China knows it. However, celebrating the Lunar New Year in Hong Kong is totally different from the traditional ones in terms of customs and atmosphere.

In recent years, few Hong Kong people have traditionally posted Spring Festival couplets and New Year pictures at home during the Lunar New Year. Instead, they have posted "prosperous business" and "safe entry and exit" in some shops or homes. Even so, the original intention of posting Spring Festival couplets and New Year pictures is the same as that of posting Spring Festival couplets and New Year pictures. I hope everything will be smooth and safe in the coming year.

In addition, lion dances and dragon lanterns will also appear in some villages and villages in the New Territories, and it is difficult to see large-scale lion dances and dragon lanterns on the streets of urban areas in the New Year. As for setting off firecrackers and firecrackers, it is forbidden in Hong Kong. However, since 1982, a grand fireworks show has been held in Victoria Harbour every year on the second night of the Lunar New Year, which has been a program to welcome the Spring Festival for more than ten years.

Hong Kong is known as a "gourmet paradise", and there are many customs about eating during the Spring Festival. Most families will also have a "reunion dinner" during the Spring Festival, which is usually held at home, and the whole family will get together and enjoy dinner on New Year's Eve. The first choice for a big program after dinner is believed to be visiting the flower market. During the Lunar New Year, there are many fairs in Hong Kong and Kowloon, among which the flower market in Victoria Park is the largest and most lively. Hong Kong people are used to visiting the flower market after dinner, and on New Year's Eve, people are crowded with each other, and everyone will celebrate the festival together.

The happiest thing about spending the Lunar New Year in Hong Kong is to collect "profit" children. During the Spring Festival, laughter can be heard everywhere. "Li" was originally a "good thing", which was based on good luck and good intentions, and it also became an indispensable custom with relatives during the Spring Festival.

iv. Macao customs

Macao customs are unique. "Xie Zao" is one of the most traditional China customs preserved in Macau. On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, people in Macao called it "Xie Zao". According to the tradition of China, Macao people also use candy for the kitchen god, saying that it is to paste the mouth of the kitchen god with sugar, so as not to speak ill of him before the Jade Emperor. I saw a picture of Santa Claus on the stove of a Macao family in Flower Street, Macau. Strangely, the picture of Santa Claus was affixed with a couplet saying "Heaven speaks good things, and it is good luck to return home".

The Chinese New Year in Macau begins on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, when the word "easy to send" is pronounced in Cantonese. Most business owners treat their employees to a "reunion dinner" at the end of this year to show their prosperity and good luck. The annual flavor of Macao can be truly felt from the 28th day of the twelfth lunar month.

5. Taiwan Province Spring Festival customs

The Spring Festival is a traditional folk festival with a long history and the most grand ceremony for the Chinese nation. In Taiwan Province, which is separated from Fujian Province by water, its history, culture, customs, living habits, kinship and so on all come down in one continuous line with the mainland of China, especially in southern Fujian, so the Spring Festival customs of the people on the island are naturally similar to those of the mainland of China.

Because the ancestors of Baodao residents (mostly Minnan and Hakkas) went to Taiwan for development, it is a long time ago and has experienced many vicissitudes, and the Spring Festival customs there have gradually formed some unique patterns and colors.

6. Interesting customs of the Spring Festival in Jiangsu

In addition to posting Spring Festival couplets, hanging New Year pictures, observing the New Year, dancing lions, and paying New Year greetings, Jiangsu folks have some unique customs, which are now compiled for readers.

Suzhou people put cooked water chestnuts in their meals on New Year's Eve, and dig them out when eating, which is called "digging gold ingots". When friends and relatives come and go, they should put in two green olives when making tea, which is called "drinking gold ingot tea". Congratulations on making a fortune.

On the morning of the first day of the New Year, Wujin people hung the portrait of their ancestors in nave, offering them tea fruits and rice cakes, and the whole family paid New Year greetings in turn, which was called "worshipping the shadow of God." They are not allowed to sweep the floor from home, for fear of sweeping out the "wealth" and "wishful thinking", they can only sweep from the outside to the inside.

Jiangning people have the custom of "beating the God Drum" during the Spring Festival. The flag opens the way, and the gongs and drums players beat drums all over to add fun. On the third day, "playing the night drum", the seventh day, "playing the seventh drum" and the thirteenth to fifteenth day, the atmosphere is warm.

Nantong people have the custom of planting sesame stalks, holly and cypress branches at home or in front of the hall, which means that life is blooming day by day and green all the year round.

Huaiyin people also have the custom of "roasting the head wind" for their children on the sixth day. At night, I took my children to the field to light torches to drive away the pathogenic factors for them. While roasting, I sang: "Roast my head, wake up, roast my feet, keep my steps straight, roast my belly without diarrhea, and roast it all over my body, and the disease will never be seen."

on the eighth day of the eighth lunar month, fishermen in Wuxi have the habit of going to the Western Hills by boat to worship the Yuwang Temple, praying for the protection of the water gods and offering sacrifices to the Aojing Buddha, which is called "going up?" After the demolition of Yuwang Temple, this custom gradually became indifferent.

during the spring festival, there are still many taboos in the old customs in Jiangsu, such as not moving scissors on the first day of the new year to avoid a dispute between words and tongues; Don't move the kitchen knife to avoid being killed; Don't eat porridge, afraid of going out in the rain; Don't sweep the floor, afraid of sweeping away the wealth and so on. With the popularization of scientific knowledge, many unscientific customs are gradually forgotten; Healthy and beneficial entertainment and leisure activities have continued.

VII. The custom of the Spring Festival in Guilin is from "New Year's Eve" to New Year's Eve

The Spring Festival has entered the urban and rural areas of Guilin at : on December 24th of the lunar calendar. From the 24th to 3th of the twelfth lunar month, people are busy buying new year's goods and cleaning the interior and exterior of the house to greet the New Year cleanly. There are many kinds of traditional foods for festivals, and they contain beautiful wishes: steamed rice cakes on the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, which are sweet, successful, meaty and well-prepared. After eating rice cakes (high), life and work in the new year are thriving and rising step by step.

At the dinner on New Year's Eve, people like family reunion, and there must be "Yuan Zi" and "Joy" in the dishes, which means reunion and joy.

the customs of ethnic minorities in China during the Spring Festival

China is a multi-ethnic country, with 55 ethnic minorities besides the Han nationality. Although they have different languages, scripts, lifestyles and customs, most of them celebrate the Spring Festival as a major festival of their own nation.

8. Daur nationality: The annual height is high

The Daur nationality in the north has the habit of paying New Year greetings. During the Spring Festival, people wear festive costumes and visit each other to congratulate each other. Every family has steamed cakes, and as soon as New Year visitors enter the door, the host treats them with steamed cakes. "Gao" is homophonic with "Gao" in Chinese, and treating each other with cakes means that their living standards will be further improved in the new year. During the festival, the Daur people also held songs and dances and sports activities, which lasted for half a month.

Nine. Mongolians: There is endless wine and meat

It is a different scene for Mongolians in the north to celebrate the Spring Festival. Before the festival, every household prepared rams, various dairy products and several jars of wine. On New Year's Eve, people put on beautiful Mongolian robes, and the whole family sat in the middle of the yurt to welcome the new year. Start drinking and eating at midnight. As a rule, you should eat more and drink more. The more wine and meat you have left, the better. This symbolizes that there is no shortage of wine and meat in the new year. On the morning of the first day of junior high school, men and women dressed in all kinds of costumes mounted on horses and rushed to "Haote" (villages and towns) in groups of three or five, stringing yurts one by one. When stringing bags, you should first kowtow to your elders, and then the son-in-law of the host family will toast the guests who come to string bags, and people will sing and dance.

X. Zhuang Nationality: Welcome Heroes

The Zhuang nationality living in the south of China calls the Spring Festival "New Year's Day". On this day, people should congratulate each other no matter who they meet when they go out, thinking that this year can be auspicious. There is also a custom of old age among the Zhuang people, which is called "Chilijie" by the Zhuang people. The "Eating Festival" is on the 3th of this month. It is said that more than 1 years ago, a peasant armed force of the Zhuang nationality returned triumphantly after fighting against foreign invaders. At this time, the Spring Festival has passed. In order to welcome them, the Zhuang people celebrated the Spring Festival for them on the 3th of this month.

11. Buyi people: Girls are the first to carry water

Buyi people living in the southwest frontier of China stay up all night every New Year's Eve. At dawn, the girls are scrambling to fetch water outside the house. Whoever picks up the first load of water is the most hardworking girl. The Jingpo people there like to hold shooting activities before the Spring Festival, and the girls are the organizers and referees of this activity. They hung the embroidered purse on the bamboo pole with thread and swayed from side to side in the top of the tree, asking the young man to shoot. The girls will give the wine as a prize to whoever shoots the purse first. A purse usually contains a coin, some millet and some decorative beads as a symbol of happiness.

12. Hani people: Swing

A few days before the Spring Festival, the villages where Hani people live are already full of excitement, and women are busy making poo. Baba is a cake made of glutinous rice. The boys are busy chopping bamboo up the mountain and preparing to set up a swing. The swings there are more than ten meters high, and the Hani people, regardless of sex, age and age, love to swing. During the festival, everyone wears their favorite clothes to swing, showing a lively and harmonious holiday scene everywhere.

XIII. Dai people: throwing chaff bags

Young men and women of the Dai people love the game of throwing chaff bags. During the Spring Festival, boys and girls throw chaff bags at each other to see who can catch them. After playing for a certain time, the girls quietly grabbed the broadsword, baotou cloth or tied horse worn by the young man and ran home. If the young man has feelings, follow him. When parents saw their daughter coming back with a headcloth and a fine horse, they gave a banquet.

In addition, April 13th every year is the Dai New Year, and it is also the most solemn festival of the Dai people-the Water Splashing Festival. They regard water splashing as a symbol of exorcism and decontamination, and also regard this day as the most beautiful and auspicious day.

14. Gaoshan people: "Surround the stove"

Gaoshan people who live in Taiwan Province Province, China, have a different taste during the Spring Festival. On New Year's Eve, a family, old and young, sit around a round table with hot pot for dinner, which is called "around the stove". Women who usually don't drink at all should also take a symbolic sip of wine as a sign of good luck. Vegetables eaten around the stove need not be cut with a knife. After washing, they should be cooked with roots, indicating that they wish their parents a long life. If someone in the family goes out, you should also leave a seat vacant and put this person's clothes on the empty seat to show that the whole family misses him.

XV. Manchu: The Manchu people are divided into "red, yellow, blue and white". During the Spring Festival, people with red flags put up red flags, people with yellow flags put up yellow flags, people with blue flags put up blue flags and people with white flags put up white flags. These flags are beautifully patterned and brightly colored, symbolizing the auspicious beginning of the year.

During the festival, boys set off firecrackers in groups, or ride home-made wooden sledges and swish on the hills and the ice. Girls and young daughters-in-law wear newly-made flowery clothes, and in groups of three or five, they play galaha (knee bones of pigs or cows) in partnership. From the evening of the first day to the fifth day, people also voluntarily organize to dance the yangko to celebrate the New Year. The yangko team with strong lineup not only dances in the village, but also dances in other villages. The onlookers are often so happy that they forget fatigue and cold. There are even enthusiastic audiences-they follow the yangko team from village to village and don't return until dawn.

16. Bai nationality: "Let Gao Sheng rise"

During the Chinese New Year, Bai compatriots in Yunnan have a celebration called "Let Gao Sheng rise". The so-called "soaring" is to use the whole big bamboo and put gunpowder in the bamboo joints. After lighting, the whole big bamboo can collapse into the sky and become a veritable "soaring". In some areas, Bai compatriots, like Miao and Zhuang people, have "throwing hydrangeas" from the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival. Anyone who can't catch the hydrangea should give the other party a souvenir. Those who miss the ball many times and can't redeem the souvenir show that they accept the other party's love.

XVII. Dong people: Lusheng Club

During the Spring Festival, a mass activity of "Playing Dong Year" (also called Lusheng Club) prevailed among Dong compatriots in Guizhou and Hunan. This activity is similar to the "group worship" of the Han nationality, but it is more joyful and enthusiastic than the "group worship". This kind of activity is usually held by two villages. The two teams formally held a Lusheng Song and Dance Competition in the square. At this time, the audience of the two villages danced and enjoyed themselves with the music.

XVIII. Yi people: Tiaohu

The Yi people in Maidichong, Shuangbai County, Yunnan Province have a special custom of "Tiaohu Festival" during the Spring Festival. On the eighth day of the first month, adult men in the village gathered at the site of the earth temple behind the village to kill dogs and offer "Mi Si" ("Mi" means soil, "Si" means master, and Mi Si means land god), and then the village. Eight villagers dressed up as tigers and danced. The "tigers" had towering ears, thick tails and tiger stripes all over their bodies. They drew a Chinese character "Wang" on their foreheads and hung a big bronze bell around their necks, which was majestic. After "Bimo" said a farewell ceremony and invited the tiger god, the tiger king led all the tigers into the village. During the whole Tiger Jumping Festival, the whole village, men, women and children, were immersed in a joyful atmosphere of welcoming tigers, sending tigers, watching tigers jump and driving away evil ghosts. The local people were convinced that only through the annual traditional jump.