She people celebrate the New Year by weaving colorful ribbons and doing housework!

She people celebrate the New Year by brewing glutinous rice wine (commonly known as "New Year wine"), wearing new clothes, and making rice cakes. Rice cakes symbolize good luck and a sweet life in the new year. There is a saying in She villages: "Glutinous rice cakes are round and round, and sesame rice cakes are sweet and sticky." In some places, people eat some rice cakes on New Year's Eve and put the rest in the granary until after the Lantern Festival, which means "having food and surplus." Eating at midnight is called "crossing the year." A big log is placed in the fire pit and left to burn until the first day of the new year, which is called "crossing the year fire." On the first day of the new year, men knock on bamboo boards to ward off disease and disaster. Housewives fetch new water, and children "shake bamboo." During the Spring Festival, She men make straw sandals and do housework to show respect for women. Girls are busy weaving colorful ribbons, which carry the blessings of the She ancestors and symbolize wealth, prosperity, and peace. On the eighth day of the first lunar month, commonly known as "Shangshiri," She people worship their ancestors in their ancestral halls and sing praises of the extraordinary experiences of Panhu King. During the festival, She villages also hold singing contests, "size" games, mountain climbing competitions, and swing games.