What are the customs of ethnic minorities to eat during the Spring Festival?
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Asked on:Apr 02, 2026 03:30 AM
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Apr 02, 2026
Mongolian
The Spring Festival is called "White Festival" and the first month is called "White Moon". On New Year's Eve, during the New Year's Eve, the family sits around the stove in the yurt. After offering the "New Year's Eve wine" to the elders, they feast on roasted lamb legs and boiled dumplings.
Taiwan Gaoshan tribe
There is a custom of eating "perennial vegetables" during the Spring Festival. Perennial vegetables, also called "mustards," are plants with long stems and leaves and a slightly bitter taste. Eating this vegetable is a sign of long life. Some people add long vermicelli noodles to perennial dishes to symbolize immortality.
Manchu
New Year's Eve dinner is the most exquisite. The New Year's Eve family banquet is very sumptuous and grand. The staple food includes dumplings made of glutinous rice flour or flour, barbecue, bean buns, etc.; traditional New Year dishes include delicious blood sausage, boiled white meat and the unique sauerkraut and white meat. Fish, which symbolizes "abundance of auspiciousness", is indispensable. At the end of the day, there is also a meal of fresh meat dumplings to send off the old and welcome the new.
Guangxi Zhuang
It is customary to cook a full day's meal on the New Year's Eve on the night of New Year's Eve to indicate a more abundant harvest in the coming year. This kind of rice is called "Zongba", sometimes up to one foot long and weighing five or six kilograms. During the Spring Festival, there are singing and dancing competitions. Young guys take this opportunity to find the girl they love.
Lahu people in Yunnan
Every New Year's Eve, glutinous rice cakes are made, and one pair is particularly large, which is said to symbolize the sun and the moon, and is used to pray for good weather and abundant fruits in the new year.
Dong people
Early in the morning on the first day of the Lunar New Year, a few big and fat carp are brought from the pond, fried, fried, roasted and stewed before being put on the table, along with a plate of fragrant pickled fish. The whole table is mainly made of fish. The Dong people believe that eating fish during the Spring Festival heralds good fortune in the new year, including abundant fish, abundant harvests, and extra money and food.
Bai people in Dali, Yunnan
As soon as the New Year's Eve watch is over, young men and women gather in groups to fetch water, and then use the fresh water to make rice krispie sugar water. Everyone competes to drink it, hoping that in the new year, their lives will be like sugar and honey, and they will be happy and happy.
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