De 'ang people also celebrate the Water-splashing Festival, which is held on the seventh day after Tomb-Sweeping Day. Besides the water-splashing blessing and elephant-foot drum dancing, the most distinctive custom of De 'ang people's Water-splashing Festival is to wash hands and feet for their elders. At that time, the younger generation of young people in each family should prepare a pot of hot water and put it in the center of the hall, invite their parents and other elders out to sit in the hall, kowtow to them, and ask them to forgive their filial piety in the past year. The elders should also review what they have not done enough to set an example for the younger generation in the past year. Then, the younger generation washed their hands and feet for their elders, and wished each other a harmonious and hardworking atmosphere in the coming year. If parents die, brothers, sisters, sister-in-law and brother-in-law will become the objects of washing hands and feet.

This custom comes from an ancient legend: A disobedient son was working on the mountain on the seventh day after Tomb-Sweeping Day. When he saw the scene of young birds feeding back, he realized something and decided to treat his mother well. At this time, his mother was coming to the mountain to deliver food for his son and accidentally slipped. Her son came to help her, but she thought his son was coming to beat her and bumped into a tree. My son was so regretful that he cut down the tree and carved it into a statue of his mother. Every year on the seventh day after Qingming Festival, he washed the statue in warm water sprinkled with petals. Later it evolved into a custom.

Tibetans

Every ethnic group has its own unique culture and living habits. Tibetans are an ancient and enthusiastic ethnic group. 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. 3. 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.

On New Year's Eve, observing the new year and visiting the flower market are two important events for Macao people to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. Shousui is playing mahjong, watching TV, catching up and chatting, and enjoying family happiness; Probably influenced by Christmas and Valentine's Day in the West, people in Macao also rushed to buy some auspicious flowers and trees to welcome the New Year, which has now become a Macao custom. Macao holds a flower market on Lunar New Year's Eve, mostly peach blossoms, daffodils, potted bamboos and potted oranges. The flowers are rich and prosperous, wishing peace, and the flowers are auspicious for the bright future of the New Year. The flower market in Macao has been held for three days, which has brought endless comfort to Macao people who have been running around for a year.

On the Spring Festival, Macao people pay attention to "benefiting the market", and "benefiting the market" is a red envelope. On this day, when the boss meets the employees, the elders meet the younger generation, and even the married people meet the unmarried people, they get "benefiting the market". "Li Shi" is pure and crisp to show good luck. Macao people call the second day of New Year's Day "opening the year". The custom is to have a "New Year's Eve" meal, which must contain Nostoc flagelliforme, lettuce and carp in order to make money and profit. From the "New Year" day, the Macao government will allow civil servants to "gamble" (gamble) within three days. After the "New Year", Macau has completely returned to the traditional Chinese New Year custom in China. Until the Lantern Festival, it was also a fireworks festival, playing with dragons and lions, and was in high spirits.

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. Guilin Spring Festival customs

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The Spring Festival is stepping into the urban and rural areas of Guilin at : on December 24th of the lunar calendar. This day is the "New Year's Eve" of Guilin people, that is, "to spend a new year". On New Year's Day, people kill dogs and ducks to celebrate the Spring Festival. The sound of firecrackers on this day, with people's wish to send the Kitchen God "God speaks good things", crackled and spread to Gao Yu. People think that the Kitchen God is the head of the family, and it is in charge of the family's good and evil, good and bad, good and bad, so every year, it is necessary to send the Kitchen God to heaven to explain to the Jade Emperor, so as to save the whole family from disaster. The ceremony of offering sacrifices to the kitchen stove is mostly done by the elders in the family. They put candy on the kitchen stove to offer sacrifices to the kitchen god, praying that the kitchen god "speaks good things in heaven and brings good luck to the world". Sacrificing the kitchen god with candy aims to make the candy "stick" to the mouth of the kitchen god and make his sweet mouth say good things. After the night falls on New Year's Eve, firecrackers will be set off to receive the Kitchen God. This is the ancient custom of "celebrating the New Year" in Guilin. Now, even setting off firecrackers is only a ceremony of the remains of the ancient custom.

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 their houses 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 to have a family reunion. There must be "Yuan Zi" and "Joy" in the dishes, which means reunion and joy. This night, people are empty, and they are all staying at home. When guarding the old age, we should burn the charcoal fire in the brazier to symbolize the prosperity of life. When zero o'clock arrives, the young and old are beaming and greet the New Year with the sound of firecrackers. This happy sound is heard one after another, until it is still late at night, people are still awake, and the fire is still on. Even if they want to have a rest, they will still not forget to snuggle the fire in the brazier, leave the fire and light a good fire tomorrow morning. The fire in the New Year is like human life. It is a good sign of wealth and prosperity in the New Year. People's feelings for fire are so deep, perhaps because fire has brought civilization and warmth to mankind. Loving fire is like loving your own life, especially in the New Year.

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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. And the young man