Activities vary in different regions. Generally they include New Year greetings, family reunion dinner, offering sacrifices to ancestors, setting off firecrackers, putting up couplets on door-frames, eating New Year cakes made of glutinous rice flour and dumplings, Dragon and Lion Dances, Yangko Dance, walking on stilts, displaying festive lanterns, erecting green pine trees (Bai), swing contests(Naxi), sledge demonstrations (Manchu) and Chongtang Dance (Zhuang )

Kuota Festival
(spring Festiva
l in Lahu language)
Lahu1st-15th day of the 1st month, divided into three periods:1st-4th days, 8th-9th days, 13-15th days
Southern Yunnan
Extending New Year greetings from village to village, welcoming fresh water, family reunion dinner, Lusheng Dance

Baijie
Festival
Mongolian
1st day of the 1st month
Inner Mongolia
,Xinjiang
,Liaoning,Jilin,
Heilongjiang,
Gansu, Qinghai
Staying up all night on New Year's Eve, putting up couplets written in Mongolian on door-frames, New Year greetings, praying at a lamasery offering sacrifices to ancestors, chanting scriptures at temples, dancing, singing, horse-racing

Huashan
(Flower Mountain)
Festival
Miao
Various times in different egions:1st-6th days of the 1st month; last in the 5th, 6th and 8th months Yunnan's Pingshan, central and northwestern Guizhou, southern Sichuan
Stepping Over the Flower Mountain, male and female singing in antiphonal style, Lusheng Dance, bull-fighting, Lion Dance, pole-climbing

Bairiwang
Festival
Bai
13th-19th days of the 2nd month
Lanping, Lushui and Weixi in Yunnan
Stetting up lucky poles, Guozhuang Dance, fairs

Sisters
Festival
Miao
Various times in different areas but usually 13th or 15th day of the 2nd month or 13th day of the 3rd month Shibing, Leishan,Majing and Kaili in Guizhou
Mountain climbing, horse-racing, Lusheng Dance, bird-fighting,