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What are the traditional festivals and customs in China?

Traditional festivals in China include New Year's Eve, Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. The specific customs are as follows:

1, New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve, also known as New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve and so on. , refers to the last night of the twelfth lunar month (December) every year, there are customs such as eating New Year's Eve, posting Spring Festival couplets and giving lucky money.

2. Spring Festival

Spring Festival is the Lunar New Year, commonly known as "Chinese New Year Festival". China people have celebrated the Spring Festival for more than 4,000 years. The Spring Festival is the most solemn festival of the Chinese nation, and there are customs such as greeting the New Year and setting off firecrackers.

3. Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaoyuanyuan Festival, Yuanxi Festival or Lantern Festival, is the first important festival after the Spring Festival. There are customs such as eating Yuanxiao, playing lanterns and solving riddles on lanterns.

4. Tomb-Sweeping Day

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the picnic festival, has the customs of sweeping graves and hiking at the turn of mid-spring and late spring, that is, from winter to the next 108.

5. Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival and Dragon Boat Festival, is popular in China and other countries in the cultural circle of Chinese characters, and there are customs such as rowing dragon boats and eating zongzi.

6. Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Mid-Autumn Festival and Reunion Festival, began in the early Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it had become one of the major festivals in China, enjoying the moon and eating moon cakes.

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