The origin and customs of traditional festivals in China (at least 3)

1. Spring Festival-Spring Festival is commonly known as Chinese New Year. It is said that Nian is a monster, and it will eat the grain harvested in autumn at home. At the beginning of each year, Nian beast will come to the world. In order to scare it away, people will burn bamboo to scare it away, and then it will gradually develop into setting off firecrackers. After the Nian beast has passed, the home will be very safe, so it is called China New Year.

2. Dragon Boat Festival-It is said that the fifth day of May every year is the heaviest day of the year. On this day, ghosts will haunt and the five poisons will be rampant. In order to spend this day safely, people will hang calamus and wormwood on the door, because the leaves of calamus are shaped like swords, while the branches and leaves of wormwood are shaped like blowing dust (not like martial arts movies, but like singing), and there are knots on telephone poles. At the same time, people will drink realgar wine, because poisonous snakes and poisonous insects are afraid of realgar, so they can be harmless after drinking realgar wine. As for the custom of eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival, the popular saying is to commemorate Qu Yuan, but it is said that glutinous rice can ward off evil spirits, which may be the reason for eating glutinous rice zongzi on this day.

Tanabata-the seventh day of the seventh lunar month is the day when cowherd and weaver girl meet. It is said that every year on this day, magpies will build a magpie bridge on the Milky Way for the cowherd and the weaver girl to meet, but on this night, the two stars can't be seen in the sky. Legend has it that on the night of Tanabata, standing quietly under the grape trellis, you can hear the conversation between Cowherd and Weaver Girl. ...