The welcoming ceremony of the Bouyei people in Southwest Guizhou, Puan Xizhai is full of New Year's flavor

2024 New Year is coming, a colorful Guizhou tour, if you go to the charming Southwest Guizhou, you will definitely have the opportunity to experience their New Year's celebration customs. It's eye-opening to personally experience the colorful customs of the Bouyei people. 🚩Southwest Guizhou Puan County Xizhai Village 📅The night before New Year's Day, free travel to Puan County Xizhai Village. Located in the deep mountains, the most famous here is the Puan red tea field. This is also the site of CCTV's Spring Festival Gala. The locals are mainly Bouyei and Miao people. The locals dressed up and gathered in the village market that night. Not only are there local special foods, but also very lively. There are also minority girls in different costumes. Very enthusiastic to take pictures with Han tourists. The costumes and headwear are very beautiful. In the evening, the Bouyei people who can sing and dance in the village, as well as the performance of ethnic musical instruments and the chorus of ethnic dialects. 🔥The most shocking and festive thing that night was the dragon lantern dance around the bonfire and dancing in circles. Under the night, only the village market was bustling and lively. 🌛At the end of the twelfth lunar month, every household will smoke meat, fill sausages, roast wine, make glutinous rice cakes, rice flowers, and also sew new clothes and handkerchiefs. On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, they will send the kitchen god with maltose and other fruits. In addition, they will also invite the teacher to write couplets, paste door gods and New Year pictures. 🧨On New Year's Eve, the whole family will sit around the stove, first worship the ancestors and the world, and then the whole family will bless each other, eat reunion dinner, and stay up all night. On the first day of the new year, the girls will rush to the river to carry water. Whoever carries the water back first is the most diligent and happiest person, and this also predicts a bumper year. On the first day, make colored lanterns at home, light them all together in the evening, and hang them at the front door. After the first day, people start to visit each other to celebrate the New Year. Young men and women make appointments to 'rise the table', express their love with singing; or gather together to dance 'Da Huabao' accompanied by the sound of suona, moon guitar, flute, sister flute, bronze drum and other musical instruments. 🅿️Parking in the village is not very convenient, free. There is also a market in the evening.