Traditional festivals and holiday customs

There are 16 traditional festivals in China, namely Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Land Birthday, Shangsi Festival, Cold Food Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, China Valentine's Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Next Yuan Festival, Laba Festival, Winter Solstice Festival, Cooking Festival and New Year's Eve. Festivals have different meanings, and customs vary from place to place, but there is little difference.

1, Spring Festival refers to the first day of the first month, and people like to celebrate the New Year with good luck.

2. Lantern Festival is the fifteenth day of the month. Lantern Festival is an ancient Valentine's Day. Now people are used to eating Yuanxiao, which means reunion.

3. The land birthday refers to February 2nd when the dragon looks up. This is a very important festival, and men will shave their heads on this day, which is a good sign for the dragon to look up.

Shangsi Festival refers to March 3rd, which was called Daughter's Day in ancient times. You should boil eggs on March 3rd to prevent headaches.

5. Cold Food Festival refers to one or two days before Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as No Fire Festival. People mainly eat cold food.

6. On April 5th every year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, it is the biggest festival to worship ancestors, and sweeping graves is the main activity.

7. Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. This custom is to eat zongzi and race dragon boats.

8. China Valentine's Day is China's Valentine's Day, which is very lively.

9. Mid-Autumn Festival is a ghost festival in China, and it is also one of the festivals for ancestor worship.

10, Mid-Autumn Festival is a big festival for family reunion, and the custom is to eat moon cakes and enjoy the moon.

1 1, and the Double Ninth Festival is China Festival for the Elderly.

12, Next Yuan Festival is one of the festivals to worship ancestors on October 15th of the lunar calendar.

13, Laba Festival is a grand festival in Buddhism and a traditional festival in China. Laba Festival has the custom of drinking Laba porridge.

The winter solstice festival is one of the most important festivals among the 24 solar terms.

15, the festival of offering sacrifices to stoves is commonly known as the festival of small years. Generally, the off-year in the north is 65438+ February 23rd of the lunar calendar, and the off-year in the south is 65438+ February 24th of the lunar calendar. On this day, people will pray for peace to the kitchen god.

16, New Year's Eve, that is, the Spring Festival, is the biggest festival in a year and the most important traditional festival in China. Every family has a family reunion dinner.