The end of traditional festival customs

Spring Festival: Reunion and New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve is the eve of the Spring Festival, also called New Year's Eve. There is a legend: in ancient times, there was a fierce monster named Xi who came out at the end of the year to hurt people. Later, people knew that Xi was most afraid of red and sound, so on the night of New Year's Eve, every household posted red couplets on New Year's Eve and set off firecrackers to drive away animals, so as to realize the peace of the New Year. This custom has been passed down to this day, and New Year's Eve is called New Year's Eve. This day is a day for people to eat, drink and be merry. Northerners make jiaozi and southerners make rice cakes. On New Year's Eve, the whole family eats a "reunion dinner" together, which smells like a family reunion in the New Year.

Mid-Autumn Festival: originated from the activities of offering sacrifices to the moon to welcome the cold.

The Mid-Autumn Festival on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month originated from the ancient activities of offering sacrifices to the moon to welcome the cold. As a festival, it was formed in the Western Han Dynasty and enjoyed the moon in the Jin Dynasty. It was officially named the Mid-Autumn Festival in the Northern Song Dynasty and has been enduring for a long time. This is the second largest traditional festival in China after the Spring Festival. The full moon in Mid-Autumn Festival symbolizes reunion, so it is also called "Reunion Festival". On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, there is a custom of "reunion" in most parts of our country, that is, flipping a small cake symbolizing reunion and similar to moon cakes. After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the elders in the family divided the cake into pieces according to the number of people, one for each person. If someone is not at home, a copy will be left for them to show family reunion.

Dragon Boat Festival: It has a history of more than 2,000 years.

The Dragon Boat Festival is also called Dragon Boat Festival and Duanyang. According to folklore experts, the Dragon Boat Festival began in China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and has a history of more than 2,000 years. There are three theories about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, which are in memory of Qu Yuan, Wu Zixu and Cao E, the filial daughter of the Eastern Han Dynasty. As a traditional festival, China has various folk activities to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival. Common customs include dragon boat racing, eating zongzi, wearing sachets, inserting mugwort leaves and calamus, among which eating zongzi is the most common.

Qingming: the day of ancestor worship and grave sweeping.

Tomb-Sweeping Day has a history of more than 2,500 years in China, and Tomb-Sweeping Day was originally a solar term representing phenology. Later, due to the close time between Qingming and cold food, according to the ancient saying that "the 16th day of the winter solstice is Qingming", cold food was the day before Qingming, so the ancients often extended cold food to Qingming. Sacrificing ancestors and sweeping graves is the core content of Tomb-Sweeping Day custom in the Central Plains.