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The people in Hmong celebrate the New Year in great joy and merriment. The Hmong people believe the New Year to be a perfect time to take rest from the harvest and start the New Year afresh along with wishing good luck and happiness for the coming year. The most unique feature of the New Year in Hmong is celebrating it with one and all in the society. The wide populaces in Hmong regard the New Year to be a significant part of their celebrations as it fulfills all their wishes.
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The natives of Hmong believe in celebrating the New Year for three days. The wide populaces believed celebrating the New Year for a day would bring them bad luck, as one is an even number. The people in Hmong believed in following the three customs like observing religious rituals, mating amid youthful people and displaying wealth to be the most important aspects of the New Year celebrations.
Hnub peb caug that is the thirteenth and last day of the previous year is a day kept aside for sacred rituals. The people in Hmong believe in the existence of both good and evil spirits. |
Asking for support from the good spirits would keep them happy. Sweeping the house, calling home the spirits and giving the family's money rest for three days would help in keeping away the bad spirits.
The other customs followed to free themselves from the bad spirits are cleaning the houses and placing this dust close to a rope that is joined to a tree in a loop. Jumping in and out of the dirt loop would perplex the bad spirits who attempt to go behind but get baffled and go away. The natives of Hmong follow this custom to get rid of bad spirits that are symbolic of bad luck on New Year.
Playing various games like tops, a related game of badminton and a game called forfeit are a part of the New Year customs in Hmong. Children on New Year specially enjoy these games. The people in Hmong regard the New Year to be the right time for courtship and marriage. Marriages usually are seen taking place between the first and fifteenth of the month. The new moon is believed to be an excellent time for marriage.
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