Gelao people eat new year's goods; Gelao people eat new year's goods.

On the first day of New Year's Day, the Gelao people in Chayuan Township, Jinsha County, Guizhou Province invited people from their neighbors to inspect their promising fields, and then chose a flat land with good scenery to hold a harvest celebration.

The first maturity of crops is the season for the Gelao people to eat new year's goods, and the time for eating new year's goods varies from place to place. Before the Spring Festival, men and women dressed up on the ridge near the village to pick rice and barnyard grass. The next day, they turned rice and barnyard grass into rice grains and collectively slaughtered 1 cow. On the morning of the third day, rice steamed with new rice grains and cooked beef were sacrificed to ancestors to commemorate their pioneering work. After the sacrifice, everyone shared the sacrifice. The rest of the beef was taken back to every household. The fourth time, put them on the upside-down dustpan, and serve new rice for their ancestors, and then the whole family will eat it together. In some places, six hanging ears are hung on both sides of the hanging board at the corner of the stove, and sticky rice grass is padded on the board. There are glutinous rice stalks and a few small stalks with a diameter of about one and a half feet on the grass. On the left are planks made of stalks, on the right are planks such as plows, rakes and cows, and on the big stalks are bowls, chopsticks and wine glasses. According to generations, incense paper is burned to bow down. In some places, new eating activities last for three days. The afternoon before, families provided food to families in the valley; The next afternoon, the whole village gathered in the field to collect grain, and everyone began to bake the new grain into rice. grinding bean curd slaughtered the cows and ate them collectively in the village bazi after offering sacrifices to the grain gods. On the afternoon of the third day, we will have another leftover meal. Most of the grain used to eat new year's goods is collected from the fields they cultivate.

The main project of the activity is to carry out the traditional egg-beating competition. Eggs are balls made of bamboo sticks. Regardless of gender, age and age, the competition is divided into several teams according to the number of participants, but the number of each team must be equal. There are two ways of competition: fixed-distance fighting and non-fixed pursuit. In the duet, one side hits the ball at the other side with his hand, and the other side pushes it back with his hand, and the eggs fly back and forth in the air. If one side hits the ball on the other team; The beaten party is negative, and the negative party gives the other party an egg. The winner is the one who eats eggs twelve times. Chase or serve by hand, let it fly in the air. If the ball falls anywhere, it is convenient to retreat immediately. At this time, the opposing team will quickly chase to the landing point and continue to serve and chase the ball. You come and go on both sides, you retreat and I enter until the ball hits the other side's bottom line. In the evening, the Gelao people invited their neighboring relatives and friends to their home, drank wine and ate new rice, and the two sides celebrated the harvest together.