What are the customs and legends about celebrating the New Year?
The legend of the Spring Festival
According to legend, in ancient China there was a monster called "Nian" with long tentacles on its head and it was extremely ferocious. "Nian" lives deep under the sea all year round, only climbing ashore every New Year's Eve to devour livestock and harm people. Therefore, every New Year's Eve, people in villages and villages help the old and young to flee to the mountains to avoid the harm of the "Nian" beast. One New Year's Eve, an old man came begging from outside the village. The villagers were in a hurry and panic. Only an old woman in the east of the village gave the old man some food and advised him to go up the mountain quickly to avoid the "Nian" beast. The old man stroked his beard and said with a smile: "If grandma lets me stay at home all night, I will definitely take care of him." Drive the Nian beast away." The old woman continued to persuade, but the begging old man smiled and said nothing.
At midnight, the "Nian" beast broke into the village. It found that the atmosphere in the village was different from previous years: at the east end of the village, the old woman lived in her husband's house, with red paper on the door and brightly lit candles in the house. The "Nian" beast trembled all over and let out a strange cry. As he approached the door, there was a sudden "bang bang bang bang" explosion in the courtyard. "Nian" trembled all over and did not dare to move forward. It turns out that "Nian" is most afraid of the color red, fire and explosions. At this time, the door of my mother-in-law's house opened wide, and an old man wearing a red robe was seen laughing in the courtyard. "Nian" turned pale with fright and ran away in embarrassment.
The next day was the first day of the first lunar month, and the people who had returned from the refuge were surprised to see that the village was safe and sound. At this time, the old woman suddenly realized and hurriedly told the villagers about the beggar's promise to the old man. This incident quickly spread in the surrounding villages, and people all knew how to drive away the "Nian" beast. From then on, every New Year's Eve, every family puts up red couplets and sets off firecrackers; every household lights up candles and watches the New Year's Eve. Early in the morning on the first day of the Lunar New Year, we also visit relatives and friends to say hello. This custom spreads more and more widely and has become the most solemn traditional festival among Chinese people.
Spring Festival customs in various places - Shandong
Confucius New Year Festival
There are some differences between the Confucius New Year Festival and the folk,
Laba. All Laba activities revolve around Laba porridge. Many people need to be arranged to make porridge, and the fire-burning households among the "households" come specifically to light the fire on this day. A big pot was set up, and the porridge was poured into many jars. There are two types of Laba porridge: one is thick and is given to the errands. The porridge is filled with rice, meat slices, cabbage, tofu, etc. When drinking the porridge, one is given a pound of steamed buns; the other is thin and is made with barley. It is made from benevolence, cinnamon, lotus seeds, lily, chestnuts, red dates, red cowpeas, glutinous rice, etc., and the "porridge fruit" carved from hawthorn is placed on the porridge noodles. This kind of porridge is for the inner house, the family and the superiors. There are many incense courtyards outside the Confucius Mansion, and they all send nuns to ask for porridge and "pot rice" on Laba day.
As 30 is approaching, the most lively scene of the Confucian New Year activities, "Steaming Zhuang", occurs. "Steaming Zhuang" means steaming various steamed buns, dumplings, and cakes for the New Year. At this time, the "fire-burning household" came again to light the fire and steam all kinds of steamed buns.
Making dumplings all night long on New Year’s Eve. Lamps and sandalwood powder were burned everywhere in the house, carpets were laid, colorful sheds were set up in the yard, and colorful ribbons were pulled. In the afternoon, I went to the main hall to salute, and after dinner, I went to the ancestral temple to say goodbye. Adults give "New Year's money" to their children. They put it in a red paper bag with the words "Longevity" written on it and place it next to the child's pillow. Each person prepares a cloisonné food box, which contains Ruyi, Small persimmons, oranges, etc.
On New Year's Eve, Duke Yan would personally go to Anhuai Hall to make offerings and worship the white-bearded old fairy. It is said that all the elves and ghosts in the Confucius Mansion are under the control of this old white-bearded fairy.
After midnight all people get up to worship the gods of heaven and earth. In the yard of the front room, a "Heaven and Earth Tower" was built with mats. Facing each direction, east, west, south, north, northeast, southwest and northwest, a table is placed. On the table is placed the tablet of the god. On the middle table is the tablet of the god of heaven and earth. Next to the "Heaven and Earth Tower", a "celestial pole" is erected, and the "sky lantern" is lit day and night, and has been lit for half a month.
When I wake up on the morning of New Year's Day, I don't speak for a while and touch the contents of the food box and the New Year's money with my hands. After getting up, worship the temple, the ancestral hall, and receive New Year greetings from servants. My family came to Confucius Mansion to pay New Year greetings. In the afternoon, the local "Dragon Lantern Festival" lion dance and other performances came to the Confucius Mansion, and the servants and "fireworks dealers" of the Confucius Mansion set off fireworks to celebrate the New Year.
Ningyang County
Eating wontons on New Year's Day in Ningyang County is called "filling the warehouse". In Huang County and Penglai area, people who get up early on New Year's Day must eat up the wontons.
The sacrifices included soup, rice, sugar melon and sugar cakes, and the horse was fed with fragrant glutinous rice and stir-fried beans in a bowl of water. The man prays to you with words to curb evil and promote good. Women in the inner room clean the stove, paint it with pure mud, burn incense and worship silently.
Every December, within the 19th, 20th, 21st, and 224th day, the Qintian Supervisor will select the auspicious date, seal it as usual, and announce it to the world, and all people will implement it. Public holidays. Since then, the Liyuan Theater has been closed on a certain date, with eight groups performing together, and the show will start on New Year's Day next year. Children who go to school will also be given a break by their school teachers after the "sealing", which is called "school year break".
The 25th to New Year's Eve is said to be "the days of chaos". "Twenty-seven, wash away the guilt, twenty-eight, wash away the sloppiness."
At the end of the year, throw away the leftover medicines for a year outside the door, and burn the collected prescriptions together. , this is called "losing all diseases".
Burn pine branches, cypress leaves, atractylodes, and auspicious pills in the furnace, which is called "simmering the year".
The day before New Year's Eve is called "Little New Year's Eve". There is a banquet at home, and people call it "Farewell New Year" when people come and visit. Burning incense outdoors is called "Heavenly Incense" and usually takes three days.
There are a lot of old people on New Year’s Eve
On New Year’s Eve, people go out and mend their robes and coats to visit relatives and friends, which is called "saying goodbye to the New Year." When family members bow to their elders, it is also called "Farewell to the New Year". Newlyweds must go to their father-in-law's house to say goodbye, otherwise it would be disrespectful.
On New Year's Eve, sesame straw should be sprinkled on every walk from the courtyard to the front door. This is called "stepping on the New Year".
On New Year’s Eve, it’s the first night of the night, with torches glowing outside the door and firecrackers ringing. There are clusters of carriages and carriages. All the officials came to the court to congratulate the New Year. At this time, the sound of firecrackers was like waves and thunder, spreading throughout the government and the public all night long. It is also mixed with the sound of rattles, melon seeds being sold to relieve boredom, glutinous rice wine being sold in ice cups, osmanthus head oil being sold to shake the sweethearts, and vegetable fine powder being sold, which is comparable to the sound of firecrackers. It is really nice to hear. "In the home of the native people, new clothes and hats are worn, and sacrifices are made to gods and ancestors; after burning germanium and silk, the Meishuang family worship together, offer pepper plates, pour cypress wine, close steamed cakes, and sip powder soup. When going out to welcome the occasion, go to the medicine window, If you meet relatives and friends on the road, you will give them a gift and then wish them: "Blessings in the new year." "As for the entertainment utensils, there are carved flowers and fruits for tea, assorted hot pot dishes, soups with goose fat, pork steamed buns, glutinous rice cakes, and yellow millet; for wine and food, pickled chicken, bacon, and pickled herons and phoenix fish are used. , pheasant claws, deer and rabbit breasts; fruits include pine nuts, hazelnuts, peach, apricot and melon kernels, chestnut jujube branches, hawthorn cakes, green branch grapes, Baizigang durians, Qiubo pears, Pingbo fruits, lion tangerines and phoenix oranges, Orange slices and Yangmei are mixed with the delicacies of the sea and the mountains. Even if you are not close to each other, you will still have to drink three glasses of wine to celebrate the occasion. "As the saying goes, it is better to visit thousands of families during the new year. Sitting together as a family, while the four horses are noisy and happy all day long, it can be said to be a momentary victory."
The New Year's meal is made of gold and silver rice, with pine and cypress branches inserted on it, and decorated with money, dates, chestnuts, longan, and fragrant branches. It can only be removed after breaking five. (Called "New Year's rice") Take the larger pine and cypress branches, put them in a vase, and decorate them with ancient coins, ingots, pomegranate flowers, etc. to become a "money tree".
Thread colorful ropes into a dragon shape and place them at the foot of the bed, which is called "lucky money". What elders give to children is also called "New Year's money", and the "stickers" used to withdraw money from money shops are called "notes". Every New Year's Eve, when a wealthy family exchanges silver for money, it is written on colored paper, which is called "red ticket". It means gorgeous and auspicious.
Anyone who sells flowers calls Xunzhi flowers Tang flowers. "Every New Year, we give gifts to each other. The peonies are in bloom, the kumquats are yellow, the house is full of fragrance, the warm fragrance is fragrant, and the beauty of spring is all in one place." So people also call it "Tanghua".
Hanging Qian is to use auspicious words engraved on red paper with a long ruler and stick it in front of the door to complement the peach charms. Those with figures of the Eight Immortals on them were hung in front of the Buddha. It is mostly used by thousands of households, but less used by aristocratic families. The yellow paper is three inches long and the red paper is more than an inch long. It is a "small hanging thousand" and is used by shops.
Every New Year's Eve, a long table is placed in the atrium to offer 100 percent. One hundred percent, it is the whole divine picture of the heavens. Before "hundred percent", one layer of honey offerings is displayed, which is called "full offering". The inscriptions on the offering include the Eight Immortals, pomegranates, ingots, etc., which are called "flowers for the Buddha". When it is time to receive the gods, the 100% will be burned, and then incense will be burned until the Lantern Festival. This is what people often call the "Heaven and Earth Table".
Entering every household on the first day of the first lunar month
On the first day of the first lunar month, we get up at five o'clock, burn incense, and set off paper cannons. On this day, they visit each other, regardless of their status, and run back and forth for several days, which is called "New Year's Eve". Things to eat, such as: Pepsi Lucky Box, made of persimmons, lychees, longans, chestnuts, ripe dates, etc.
On the first day of the lunar month, we offer sacrifices to gods and ancestors. We keep cutting paper for more than ten feet and offer it in front of our ancestors, which is called "Qianzhang" and burned.
In the first ten days of the first lunar month, New Year's greeters come to the door, shout for greetings, send business cards, and leave in a hurry. Most of them do not need to meet the host.
The first to fifth days of the first lunar month are commonly known as "Powu". According to the old custom, it is necessary to eat "water dumplings" for five days. In the north, it is called "boiled dumplings". Nowadays, some people only eat it for three or two days, and some eat it every other day, but there is no one who doesn’t eat it. This is true from the prince's mansion to the small households in the streets, even when entertaining guests.
The lanterns of the first month have always been concentrated on the "Liubu" inside the front door, called "Liubu lanterns", and the lanterns of the "Ministry of Industry" are the most praised. Ice lanterns, birds and animals, and all kinds of things in the world are made with great craftsmanship.
The lantern market used to be concentrated in the East and West Fourth Archways, but later moved to Langfang Toutiao.
Every New Year's Day to the 16th day of the new year in Liulichang, department stores gather, with glazed lamp screens, thousands of hanging canopies, jade shafts and toothpicks, thousands of doors connected, books filling the buildings, and treasures filling the streets. There is also "the Qin Pavilion and the Chu Pavilion are dedicated to music and singing, and the ladies and gentlemen travel in BMWs and fragrant cars." It is also a scene during the New Year Festival in Old Beijing.
Spring Festival customs in various places - Shanghai
Go out of the house on the first day of the new year to beg for food for your parents. There is also a kind of beggar commonly known as "beggar". The way they beg is funny. Some beggars wrap cabbage heads in red paper and hang them on bamboo poles. Whenever they go to a house, they say that the cabbage heads have arrived and business is good, and they beg for alms. This is called "giving cabbage heads". Some make cow-like shapes out of paper and bamboo silk, and go to their homes saying good and auspicious words in order to ask for alms. This is called "spring-sending cows"; some hold a holly or cypress branch and hang some small things on the branch. The ancient coin behind the bell means that in the new year, the family will be like a money tree, with financial resources rolling in. This is called a "money tree"; some beggars wear Buddhist robes and masks of gods, disguised as the God of Wealth and Bodhisattva. People run and dance wildly in each house to signal the arrival of the Bodhisattva, the God of Wealth. This is called "Dancing for the God of Wealth". Although the Chongming people lived in poverty in the old society, they were still kind to these beggars and gave them some dry food and other food. After liberation, these business methods have long since disappeared.
On the early morning of the second day of the Lunar New Year, all shops and craftsmen burn incense to worship the gods, which is called the "Shaoli Festival". At ten minutes at noon, the shopkeepers also entertain the shopkeepers with wine and pray for a prosperous business in the new year. The fifth day of the Lunar New Year is said to be the birthday of the God of Wealth. Shops in the streets and alleys are open for business. On this day, every family eats wontons at noon to show their wealth. In addition, there is a wooden head show (now called puppet show) in the countryside. From the first to the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, families visit relatives and friends, wish each other a happy New Year and give each other gifts. During this period, the incense in various temples is much more prosperous than usual. Especially on the morning of the first day of the new year, there are many people going to the temples to burn incense and worship Buddha, and it is especially early. They have to rush to burn incense. Shou'an Temple outside the city and Guangfu Temple in Zhongxing Town are the busiest. place.
Lantern Festival
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, commonly known as the first half of the first lunar month. People regard the fifth to twentieth day of the first lunar month as the Lantern Festival. In the old days, before the Lantern Festival, every household used glutinous rice flour to make cakes of various shapes, some shaped like ancient silk balls, silver, and others shaped like chickens, ducks, carp, cotton bolls, corn, peaches, rice piles, etc. . At noon on the first half of the first lunar month, every family eats wontons. In the afternoon, people also use these foods as sacrifices to worship their ancestors on their graves and to pay homage to their fields. In the evening, people gather in groups or carry lanterns of different shapes and throw fireballs. Then cross the third bridge and have fun. The custom of lighting lanterns at half-time of the first lunar month is very popular. The shapes of lanterns include rabbit lanterns, carp lanterns, pentagon-shaped lanterns, etc. The place where the lanterns are hung also has local flavor, such as arranging many red lanterns in a glyph or various shapes, lighting candles inside the lanterns, and hanging them high on bamboo poles. This is called "pulling out the red lantern". A bamboo pole is inserted between the east and west of every ditch in the countryside, and then a red lantern is hung. At night, when a candle is lit, it suddenly seems like day. When you climb up and look at it, it's... It’s beautiful. It’s called hanging lanterns. It’s tied into a colorful building at the entrance of the bridge, and it’s covered with all kinds of strange lanterns. It’s very charming here at night.
In addition, on the night of the Lantern Festival, there are many activities such as horse lanterns, playing lions, swaying wealth, inviting Sanniangniang, and Lantern Festival girls.
As the saying goes: "Everyone has to find his own way out". After the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, the celebrating people returned to their respective industries. At this point, the Spring Festival activities are over. After liberation, the celebration of the Lantern Festival tended to be simplified, but the customs of eating wontons, making silk dumplings, and playing with lanterns with children still existed and were given new meanings. Especially on the streets of the county, colored lanterns were hung and fireworks were set off on the night of the Lantern Festival. It attracted many men, women and children, some of whom went out to watch the lanterns on the streets. The unique fireworks, brilliant and colorful, illuminate the night sky of the Lantern Festival with various colors, which symbolizes the growing prosperity of the motherland.
For more than a thousand years, our ancestors have lived and multiplied in this beautiful land. In their long-term production activities and daily life, they gradually formed various customs with strong local characteristics. Habit. These customs and habits embody the pursuit and yearning of our ancestors for a better life, and reflect their excellent qualities of simplicity, diligence and thrift. Of course, there are also some backward and ignorant contents on the other side of traditional customs. With the development of production and the progress of society, people's traditional customs have also moved from barbarism to civilization, and from ignorance to science. With the development of civilization and the advancement of science, some of the old customs contained in this article have been abandoned, while others have been injected with new content and have been inherited and carried forward. Today, at the turn of the century, we must be committed to building new socialist customs, intensify the construction of socialist spiritual civilization, and ensure the smooth progress of socialist modernization. When celebrating traditional festivals, we must not forget to establish new customs and break old customs. It is the conscious behavior of each of us to make our due efforts in the construction of socialist spiritual civilization.
Spring Festival customs in various places - Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang
New Year's customs in the Northeast
The Spring Festival is the most solemn festival in China, and there are many ancient customs passed down from generation to generation. In the Northeast, there are a lot of things to pay attention to.
In the old days, almost all celebrations to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year, and to pray for blessings and good fortune were held on New Year’s Eve. The whole family has to put on new clothes.
First of all, the whole family worships their ancestors together, burns incense and holds candles, displays the offerings, respects the elders and the younger, and kowtows to the three generations of the clan to express their farewell to the new year. Afterwards, a family dinner was held, with the elders sitting at the head of the table and the juniors sitting in groups, which meant "reunion". The rice and fruits must be abundant to make people feel fulfilled, which indicates that they will have plenty of food and clothing and a prosperous career in the coming year.
This meal is the first taste of New Year dishes, and can be served with both meat and vegetables. Usually, braised pork, stewed mutton, rice noodles, braised elbow strips, Yuanbao pork, Nanjian meatballs, Sixi meatballs, chicken jelly, fish jelly, pork jelly, bean paste, black bean curd and mustard dumplings , spicy mustard greens, fried pickled melons and other New Year routine dishes.
During the banquet, young and old wished each other well, brothers exchanged cups and cups, and enjoyed family happiness. After the meal, the children scattered sesame straws all over the courtyard, and people walked on them, making a rattling sound, which is called "stepping on the New Year"; then they lit up the spring lanterns hanging indoors and outdoors, illuminating the New Year pictures and spring strips on the walls. , the indoor and outdoor lights are brilliant.
On the "Heaven and Earth Table" is a large yellow paper with color printing of "Eighteen Buddhas of the Three Realms and Three Realms" or "100 copies" (album of images of the gods of heaven and earth), with large cakes, honey offerings, noodles Fresh fruits, vegetables, rice cakes, and New Year rice are offered as offerings, and red candles with gold characters and meridian incense are placed high to welcome the blessings of the gods from the lower realms.
In order to cherish the passing years, men, women and children of all ages must stay up all night and engage in different entertainment activities, which is called "watching the year old". Children have always played as they pleased, playing diabolo, spinning tops, twisting official promotion pictures, throwing dice, playing cow cards, playing glass trumpets, harmonicas, playing shadow players, lighting revolving doors, playing "Didi of Gold", "Rat Shit", "Yellow smoke brings guns"...the old ladies sit together to play cards, mahjong, and Shihu.
The entertainment is supplemented with fresh fruits, candies, dried fruit mix, warm fruits, fried red fruits, candied crabapples, etc. You can eat and play while enjoying it until you "connect with the spirit".
At midnight, the sound of firecrackers one after another shook the night sky. "The sky is covered with silver flowers and rust, and the streets are filled with smoke." Every family gathers in front of the heaven and earth table to burn incense, bow, and offer vegetarian dumplings to welcome the gods to the lower world.
After the ceremony is completed, it is announced that the old year is gone and the new year is coming. This is the solemn moment of "five watches are divided into two years". The whole family wishes each other "New Year", and the younger generation will go to the hall to kowtow to the elders to pay New Year greetings. The elders will introduce "New Year's money" to the underage children one by one.
Finally, the whole family eats a meal of vegetarian dumplings, which are called "Wuguang dumplings" and "Reunion dumplings".
Among the hundred and ten dumplings, only one has a coin. It is said that the person who eats this dumpling will have good luck in the year.
Nowadays, Northeastern people still retain many ancient traditional customs when celebrating the New Year.
The Manchu Spring Festival
The traditional festivals of the Manchu people are basically the same as those of the Han people. The so-called "the old customs of the Manchu and Han people are different from the old customs of the provincial people. They have been assimilated over time and have become similar" ( "Fengtian Tongzhi" Volume 98). However, "the old customs of Manchu and Han are different", and Manchu New Year's Day has special customs.
Spring Festival: Before the festival, make the traditional Manchu cake ---- Saqima, post couplets, window grilles, hanging notes (red, yellow, blue and white according to the flags), the word "Fu" (Shenyang) There is a peach wood printing board with the word "Fu" printed on it in the house of Guerjia, Liaobinta Village, Xinmin County, Xinmin City. The Manchu people like to wear purses. Before the Spring Festival, the palace would routinely reward princes and ministers with purses "for peace and security every year", and people also gave them to each other. On the afternoon of New Year's Eve and on the morning of New Year's Day, ancestors and gods are worshiped. On New Year's Eve, it is necessary to receive the gods. After receiving the gods, place a crossbar at the door to prevent ghosts from entering. Door gods are also hung on New Year's Eve to ward off evil spirits and avoid ghosts. This is the result of absorbing the customs of the Han people. Door gods are roughly divided into "Jiang Gate God", "Fulu Door God", "Panzi Door God", "Doll Door God" and so on. Today, there is a palace door god hidden in the Forbidden City in Shenyang. On New Year's Eve, "sacred paper" is distributed, and then the younger men go to each family in the clan to "say goodbye to the New Year." At midnight on New Year's Eve, every family eats dumplings and puts a few copper coins secretly into the dumplings. Those who eat them will be "good luck all year round." Firecrackers are set off to welcome the gods and bid farewell to the New Year. On New Year's Eve, lantern poles and tall red lights are erected in every courtyard, and they remain on every night from New Year's Eve to the sixth day of the lunar month. "Sky lanterns" were hung in the palace on the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month and turned on every evening until the third day of the second lunar month of the following year.
On New Year's Day, commonly known as the first day of the Lunar New Year, everyone gets up early, wears new clothes, and congratulates each other on the New Year, which is called "New Year greetings."
Eating dumplings is called "Chai Yuanbao", a fun take on the Manchu Spring Festival
The Manchu Spring Festival was called "New Year's Day" in ancient times, and "Aniye Nengye" in Manchu. It is a grand traditional festival of the Manchu people. It is held every year on the first day of the first lunar month. The festival usually lasts for three to five days, but in some areas in the old days it was extended to the 15th day of the first lunar month. Popular in Manchu areas all over the country.
The Manchu Spring Festival originates from Han customs. After Nurhaci established the Hou Jin regime, he launched troops into the Liaoyang and Shenyang areas in the third year of Tianming (1618). Under the influence of the Han economy and culture, the development of Manchu society underwent great changes. Especially after Huang Taiji came to the throne, the Qing army entered Shanhaiguan and established its capital in Beijing in the first year of Shunzhi (1644). A large number of Manchu residents moved to the pass and lived together with the Han people. They exchanged and influenced each other economically and culturally, and had a close relationship. As time went by, many customs and cultures of the Han people were absorbed by the Manchu people, and the Spring Festival became a traditional festival with different customs between the Manchu and Han people.
Before the festival, people actively buy New Year's goods, clean their courtyards, post couplets, hang notes (also known as hanging flags), window grilles and blessing characters, steam rice cakes, and bake sticky spoons. At midnight on the first day of the Lunar New Year, every household sets off firecrackers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. At the same time, people place offerings under the ancestral panel on the west wall of their home, light Tatar incense, worship their ancestors, and pray to the gods to bless the whole family in safety and everything goes well in the new year. At the beginning of the new year, the whole family gathers together to eat reunion dumplings, commonly known as "stuck ingots." When the dumplings are being cooked, the owner of the house will shout: "Have you woke up?" Others reply at the same time: "Get up!" They compare the dumplings floating from the bottom of the pot to the rising of life. Then let the child climb up the cabinet and jump three times to indicate "jump high" in the new day.
On this day, younger generations have to kowtow to their elders to pay New Year greetings (in the old days, women knelt down and caressed their temples). Parents have to give their children money to watch the New Year. Close relatives of the clan also want to pay New Year greetings to each other, and relatives and friends are invited to feasts to talk about old times and make new ones together. Boys set off fireworks and firecrackers in groups, play with wooden sledges, or skate happily; girls and young women dress in costumes and play with Galaha (toys made from pig or cow knee joint bones).
Singing and dancing are an important part of festival activities.
According to the records of "Bohai Kingdom": the officials and the people gathered together to have fun when they were old, and they ordered good singers and dancers to go forward for several generations. The ladies and gentlemen followed each other, and even sang in harmony with each other, whirling gracefully, and the name was "Ta Zhui". To chase is to walk on stilts. To this day, this custom is still followed. From the first to the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, people gather together to sing, dance, walk on stilts, and have fun. In some places, young people even spontaneously organize performance teams to perform in villages and villages to celebrate the New Year, and the festive atmosphere is more intense.
During the New Year, the Manchus are accustomed to making "Saqima" with raw materials such as refined powder, eggs, sugar, sesame, green and red, and melon kernels. It is beautiful in color, fragrant and delicious, and is a unique and favorite dish An ethnic holiday treat.