What is the custom of the Achang people to "eat spring guests" during the Spring Festival?

In the Achang ethnic minority area in western Yunnan, newlyweds who return to their parents’ homes to pay New Year greetings on the second day of the Lunar New Year must end the “spring guest” activity at their parents’ homes during the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. After that, the new daughter-in-law will return to her husband's home from her natal home together with the groom. In the early morning, the mother's family will hold a grand banquet to entertain family relatives, relatives and friends, and to send off the newlyweds. When Spring Guests begin, it is called Chi Chuan Ke; when it ends, it is called Chi Chuan Ke.

Visitors and farewell guests from the family and natal family will be like a wedding, with relatives and friends gathering. Will buy some gifts and money to give to the newlyweds. The parents-in-law gave the children a pair of chickens and a pair of piglets. The parents-in-law supported and trusted the new couple, developed agricultural production means, established a family, and asked them to take them back to their husband's family and live a good life.

Before going out, the newlyweds kowtow in front of the hall and worship their parents and parents-in-law. The elders of the family educate the newlyweds to be united and harmonious, respect the old and love the young, work hard to get rich, and run the family thriftily. Therefore, the countryside during the Lantern Festival is full of new people visiting relatives.

They reluctantly knelt down to worship their beloved homeland, bid farewell to their loving relatives with difficulty, went home with tears in their eyes, reluctantly waved goodbye to the lively Spring Festival, returned to rural life, and began the difficult journey of starting a family and starting a business. , the busy spring plowing and production in the countryside begins!

For the Achang people in western Yunnan, swings are erected and spring lanterns are lit at the beginning of the Spring Festival, which is booming from the first day of the Lunar New Year to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival. In the middle of the Lantern Festival, the autumn festival is being removed, the lanterns are closed, and the lively New Year activities are over.

Workers who go to cities to work must return to the city to work, students studying in rural areas must return to school, and farmers in rural areas must prepare for farming and sowing. The cuckoos in the countryside are calling for spring plowing and production on the branches. The plan for the year lies in spring. Let us start plowing in spring! In the land where everything is renewed in spring, the story of spring begins!