What are the customs of traditional festivals in China?

1, Spring Festival: Every family gets together to have a New Year's Eve dinner, which is called the "reunion dinner". They celebrate the new year together, catch up with the old and talk about the new, and congratulate and encourage each other. There are also some customs, such as visiting each other's homes to express New Year greetings, dancing lions, playing dragon lanterns, performing social fires, visiting flower markets and enjoying the Lantern Festival.

2. Lantern Festival: Lantern Festival is also called Shangyuan Festival and Lantern Festival. On the night of Lantern Festival, the streets are decorated with lanterns, and people enjoy lanterns, solve riddles on the lanterns and eat Yuanxiao, which has become a custom passed down from generation to generation.

3. Tomb-Sweeping Day: Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the 24 solar terms, and there are customs such as forbidding fire and cold food, worshipping ancestors and sweeping graves, and hiking.

4. Dragon Boat Festival: Dragon Boat Festival is also called Duanyang Festival, Chongwu Festival and Dragon Boat Festival. On this day, every household will eat zongzi, and dragon boat races will be held everywhere. At the same time, the Dragon Boat Festival is also a "health festival" handed down from ancient times. On this day, people sweep the courtyard, hang branches of Artemisia argyi, hang calamus and sprinkle realgar wine to remove rot, sterilize and prevent diseases.

5. Mid-Autumn Festival: On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, in addition to enjoying the moon, offering sacrifices to the moon and eating moon cakes, there are activities such as dancing grass dragons and building stupas in some places.

Headed by the centennial festival, the Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation. Influenced by China culture, some countries and regions in the world also have the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival. According to incomplete statistics, nearly 20 countries and regions have designated the Spring Festival in China as a legal holiday in all or part of the cities under their jurisdiction. Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. The folk custom of Spring Festival was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.