1, Spring Festival. During the Spring Festival, Zunyi people have the custom of killing pigs, sweeping dust and making rice cakes. Every household will put up red Spring Festival couplets and buy new year's goods, such as chicken and fish. Chicken symbolizes good luck, and fish symbolizes more than a year. On New Year's Eve, the family will sit around for dinner and stay awake until the early hours of the morning to ward off evil spirits and welcome the New Year.
2. Dragon Boat Festival. Zunyi people have the custom of hanging calamus and wormwood on the lintel during the Dragon Boat Festival. Children will wear sachets and monkeys, or tie copper coins and garlic heads to their chests to ward off evil spirits and diseases. In addition, during the Dragon Boat Festival, people will pick zongzi wrapped in zongzi leaves to offer sacrifices to ancestors and Qu Yuan.
3. Mid-Autumn Festival. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, the family will get together and worship their ancestors with melon and fruit moon cakes, and then enjoy the moon and catch up with the past while eating.
4. In addition, there are other rich traditional customs in Zunyi area, such as the Gelao people's ancestor worship, the New Year Festival, the Liuhe Festival, and the Buyi people's June 6th Festival. These customs reflect Zunyi's profound cultural heritage and colorful ethnic customs.