New Grain Wine of the Hani Ethnic People
Each year, before the autumn harvest, the Hani nationality, who live in Yuanjiang of Yunnan Province, holds a sumptuous ceremony of "drinking new grain wine" to celebrate joyously bumper grain harvest and safety of people and livestock according to traditional customs.
The"New Grain Alcohol" refers to a kind of home-made wine. The locals will pick up a handful of grain about to be ripe from the fields and hang it upside down at the edge of a fence made of thin bamboo strips praying for a good harvest. One hundred and ten grains from the strip will be removed, some being fried into pop-grain and some being marinated in wine source in a bottle.
An auspicious day will be selected for drinking the "new grain wine". On that day, every household prepares sumptuous meals and everyone in the family, young and old, without exception, will have several mouthfuls of the "new grain wine". Everyone should drink wine and have meal to their heart's content at the dinner table.
Drinking Rites on Other Festivals
- "New Year Wine" of the Korean Nationality
- Drinking Rites on the Wedding Ceremony
- Top - or Back to - Chinese Alcohol
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