What are the folk customs of the Han nationality?

1, marriage customs

The wedding ceremony of China traditional wedding dress China can be divided into three stages, namely "engagement" and formal wedding ceremony, namely "marriage" or "marriage" ceremony, which means the wedding ceremony of husband and wife, and it is "adult ceremony", "adult ceremony" or "adult ceremony", which shows the roles of men and women after marriage. In China's traditional marriage customs, premarital ceremony and formal wedding are the main procedures. these

2. Funeral

The main color of traditional funerals in China is white, so it is also called "white event", as opposed to "red event". With the belief and economic situation of the deceased, the whole process is often mixed with related Buddhist, Taoist or Feng Shui rituals.

3. Traditional festivals

There are many festivals of Han nationality, mainly Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Lantern Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and so on. Celebrating the "Spring Festival", also known as the Chinese New Year, is a traditional festival of the Han people for thousands of years, and it is also the most grand festival in a year. During the Chinese New Year, there will be vigils on New Year's Eve and New Year's greetings on the first day of the lunar new year.

4. Eating habits

The Han nationality is dominated by agriculture, with wheat, corn and rice as staple foods, supplemented by vegetables, bean products and non-staple foods such as chicken, fish, pigs, cattle and mutton. Tea and wine are traditional drinks.

5. Don't shave your head for the first month.

Most Han people don't shave their heads in the first month. It is said that shaving your head in the first month is a "dead uncle". This reason is related to shaving and changing clothes in Qing Dynasty. The rulers of the Qing Dynasty asked the Han people to shave their rat tails like Manchu people. Since ancient times, the Han people have said that "they wear leather clothes, and their parents suffer". People don't shave their heads easily except Buddhists. This practice aroused strong resistance from the Han people.

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