Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - The 24 Solar Terms - Customs and cultural characteristics of Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese Valentine's Day, Mid-Autumn Festival and Double Ninth Festival.

Customs and cultural characteristics of Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese Valentine's Day, Mid-Autumn Festival and Double Ninth Festival.

Custom culture of the Spring Festival: the custom of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors prevails in the southern coastal areas, and the ancient customs are inherited. During the Spring Festival, there are many grand activities, such as offering sacrifices to heaven and earth, welcoming the jubilee and praying for the New Year. Spring Festival is the most important and culturally significant festival in China, and it is also an important internal driving force to promote industrial economy and domestic consumption. With the rapid growth of the national economy and the continuous improvement of the disposable personal income of residents, the consumption of Spring Festival has also developed from the traditional purchase of new year's goods to the new year's goods with the characteristics of the times.

Customs and culture of Lantern Festival: The longest Lantern Festival in China's history is connected with the Spring Festival. It is very lively during the day and lights are lit at night, which is very spectacular. Especially the exquisite and colorful lights make it the climax of entertainment activities during the Spring Festival. In the Qing Dynasty, dragon and lion dances, roller boating and walking on stilts were added.

The content of "hundred plays" such as stilts and yangko is only shortened to four to five days. The traditional festival customs in China have adapted to the comprehensive needs of the broad masses of people in China in material, spiritual, ethical and aesthetic aspects. In terms of material life, traditional festivals in China have many unique foods in different festivals.

Tomb-Sweeping Day's customs and culture: In addition to visiting graves, it has absorbed a series of folk sports activities such as swinging, cuju, polo and willow planting in the historical development. Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the important "eight festivals a year" in China. As a festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day is different from pure solar terms. Solar terms are signs of phenological changes and seasonal order, while festivals contain spiritual beliefs and customs.

Customs and culture of Dragon Boat Festival: hanging wormwood, drinking water at noon, taking Mulan soup, smoking Atractylodes rhizome, eating zongzi and roasting dragon boats. Performing traditional folk activities during the Dragon Boat Festival can not only enrich people's spiritual and cultural life, but also inherit and carry forward traditional culture.

Tanabata custom culture: Seeking cleverness on Tanabata, seeking cleverness with needles, and liking spiders. Among the Qixi customs, the longest and widest one is "begging for cleverness". The ancients attached great importance to the annual begging custom. On Qixi night, girls and women should take out seasonal fruits prepared in advance to worship the bright moon.

Customs and culture of Mid-Autumn Festival: Botou City and Nanpi County go to their ancestral graves with fruits, bacon, wine and money on July 15. It is called "recommending new things" to hold a hemp valley to a field stalk. The Mid-Autumn Festival in Guangping County offers fresh food to worship ancestors, and prepares fruits and vegetables and steamed sheep for grandchildren, which is called "sending sheep". On July 15, Qinghe County went to the grave to pay a sacrifice and offer steamed sheep to her daughter.

Customs and culture of Mid-Autumn Festival: The custom of enjoying the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival is very popular in the Tang Dynasty. Sacrifice the moon, admire the moon and admire Yue Bai.

The custom and culture of the Double Ninth Festival: In the process of historical continuation, the Double Ninth Festival not only incorporates many folk customs, but also incorporates many cultural connotations. There are many folk activities and rich cultural connotations. According to the existing literature, as early as the Warring States period, there were folk customs such as offering sacrifices, climbing mountains and drinking chrysanthemum wine during the Double Ninth Festival.