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New Paddy Wine Enjoyed by Hani Nationality

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Every year before the harvest time, the Hani nationality residing in Yuanjiang River region, Yunnan will hold a grand "new paddy wine" ceremony to celebrate plentiful corns and pray for the safety of dwellers and livestock. A lucky day is picked for the ceremony, on which each household will prepare a good feast and the "new paddy wine" for each family member. Everybody shall drink the wine and enjoy the feast to their heart's content.

Drinking Customs on Festivals

The important festivals of a year enjoyed by Chinese are accompanied by corresponding drinking activities, such as the "calamus wine" on Dragon Boat Festival, the chrysanthemum wine on the Double Ninth Festival and the New Year Wine on the New Year's Eve. In some places such as Jiangxi, the local people will gather and drink together upon completion of rice transplantation activity in spring as well as for celebrating a good harvest. So every family gets drunk each time a feast is over. Festivals are days for celebration to Chinese people, in which a gala feast is the best way to express the joy. However, each festival features its own wine and rules of drinking according to different seasons and customs. There are many drinking customs in minority regions too. The drinking customs on big festivals are the most vigorous part in Chinese wine culture and it is also an indispensable part of people's life.

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