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 food 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 gradually develop into setting off firecrackers. After the year of the beast, the family will be safe, so it is called the 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 haunt and the five poisons are 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 (unlike martial arts movies, like singing), and there are knots on the poles. At the same time, people will drink realgar wine, because poisonous snakes and insects are afraid of realgar wine, so drinking realgar wine can be harmless. 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 zongzi made of glutinous rice 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 set up a magpie bridge on the Milky Way for cowherd and weaver girl to meet, but on this night, these two stars can't be seen in the sky. Legend has it that on Qixi night, standing quietly under the grape trellis, you can hear the conversation between the cowherd and the weaver girl. ...