Video of Eating New Year's Goods in Zhetian Township, Anfu County, Jiangxi Province

People in Nanxiang have the custom of eating the New Year Festival, which is an agricultural festival, mostly to celebrate the harvest, hoping for a bumper harvest in the coming year, and to celebrate the festival when the crops are ripe.

Zhetian Village, Anfu County, Jiangxi Province has a new festival every year on June 6th of the lunar calendar. Also known as eating dried skin, it means that after eating today's rich feast of wine and meat, it begins to enter the hot summer season.

On the morning of the festival, families go to the fields to pick new grains and vegetables for cooking and kill chickens for sacrifice. Pay attention to the direction of the steam coming out of the rice cooker: coming out of the east indicates the prosperity of future generations; The emergence from the south indicates a bumper harvest; The appearance from the west symbolizes the smooth hunting; Coming out of the north is a bad omen. After the food is cooked, parents will hold ancestor worship activities to celebrate the harvest and wish the next year a bumper harvest and prosperity.