Tell me about my feelings about the Daur folk custom.

Most Daur villages are surrounded by mountains and rivers with beautiful scenery. The yard of the house was built neatly. The tall "street"-shaped straw house gives people a generous and rough impression. Every household is surrounded by fences with various patterns woven with red wicker. The yard layout is rigorous, and stables and cowsheds are generally built far away from the yard to keep it clean and tidy.

The traditional houses of Daur nationality are mostly pine or birch beams, adobe or mud walls, yellow mud inside and outside, covered with grass, with two rooms, three rooms and five rooms. Two rooms, one bedroom in Westinghouse and one kitchen in East Room; There are three or five rooms, with the kitchen in the middle and the living room on both sides. Houses generally face south and pay attention to lighting. Windows are a major feature of Daur houses. There are three connected big kang in the south, north and west of the living room or in the south, east and north, commonly known as "Man Zi Kang". Manzikang has good thermal insulation performance and is an indispensable heating facility for Daur people in winter.

The living room of Daur people is more expensive than the west room. Westinghouse is located on the south kang, where most of the elders live. The son, daughter-in-law and their children live in the north kang or the east room, while the west kang is for guests' daily life. Most of the kang surfaces are covered with reed mats or felt. Nowadays, with the development of economy and the improvement of living conditions, there are more and more brick houses. However, living customs such as using kang are still deeply loved by Daur people.

Holidays and festivals

The main festival is the Spring Festival. The Daur people call the Spring Festival "Agne", which is the biggest festival in a year. In festivals, people wear holiday clothes, visit their families and give gifts to each other. Before the Chinese New Year, every family should be fully prepared to kill pigs and make rice cakes. On New Year's Eve, a crib was filled with all kinds of sundries and lit at night. Old people should throw large pieces of meat and jiaozi into the fire and wish people and animals prosperity. Some people who eat jiaozi on New Year's Eve put a white line in a jiaozi, which means that people who eat this jiaozi can live for 200 years. Some people put copper coins in a jiaozi, and those who eat them say that they will not be short of money in the future. On the first day of New Year's greetings, the new year's greetings will open the pot of the host family as soon as they enter the door, grab the rice cake to show their intimacy, and then eat the pork on the birthday of the pig. Women will give gifts to each other, including tobacco leaves, milk skins, cakes and frozen meat. The Spring Festival will last until the 16th day of the first month.

The 16th day of the first month is "Black Ash Day". On this day, people, especially young people, should smear each other's faces, thinking that the darker they smear, the more auspicious the new year will be. Daur people also celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival and eat moon cakes.

Etiquette folk custom

The Daur nationality has a long history and culture, rich connotation and unique folk culture. Daur folk custom is the true concept and behavior of Daur people in dealing with specific problems in their daily production and life. It has certain stability and typicality, passed down from generation to generation and developed with the changes of social and historical conditions. In the Qing Dynasty, the Daur nationality formed a folk culture based on diversified management of agriculture, animal husbandry, fishing and hunting, which not only retained the ancient folk content, but also improved with the development of social economy, and had the characteristics of folk culture that comprehensively reflected the economic factors of agriculture, animal husbandry, fishing and hunting. This is rare among many ethnic groups, and it is the unique contribution of Daur nationality to human folk culture. By the beginning of the 20th century, the Daur people living in the middle and upper reaches of Nenjiang River still fully maintained their original folk culture, while the Daur people living in other areas, influenced by the changes in living environment and mode of production, maintained their original folk culture, but they have formed a folk culture adapted to the local environment and economic conditions.