China's traditional festivals as well as customs allegory

China's traditional festivals as well as customs are Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and so on.

1. Spring Festival: The first day of the first month of the lunar calendar. The New Year's Eve is celebrated.

2. Lantern Festival: the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. Watching lanterns, eating Lantern Festival, stilt walking, guessing riddles.

3. Qingming Festival: The eighth day of the third month of the lunar calendar. Sweeping tombs and trekking.

4, Dragon Boat Festival: the first day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar

5, Mid-Autumn Festival, August 15

I, Spring Festival

Spring Festival, is the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar? , also known as the lunar year, commonly known as the "New Year". This is one of the grandest and most lively traditional festivals in China.

The history of the Spring Festival is very long, it originated in the Yin Shang period at the end of the year to the gods and ancestral activities. January 1? called New Year's Day, the lunar calendar? January 1? called the Spring Festival.

The Spring Festival is here, which means that spring is coming, everything is recovering, grass and trees are renewed, and a new round of sowing and harvesting season is about to begin. Before the Spring Festival, it is necessary to prepare new year's goods, add new clothes and put up spring couplets.

The Spring Festival is a day of reunion of relatives and loved ones, a joyful and peaceful festival, the New Year's Eve vigil, the northern region in the New Year's Eve has the custom of eating dumplings, and the South has the habit of eating rice cakes on New Year's Eve.

The Spring Festival firecrackers, relatives to see friends, some places there are ancestor worship, lion dance, play dragon lanterns, perform social fireworks, swim in the flower market, temple fair and other customs straight to? The 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar. After the Lantern Festival, the Spring Festival is really over.

Two, Lantern Festival

Every year on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar? , the first full moon night of the year, is the traditional Chinese festival, the Lantern Festival.

The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancient people called the night "night", so it is called? The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. for the Lantern Festival, also known as the "on the Yuan Festival", also known as the Festival of Lights, according to Chinese folk tradition, in this day on the night of the white moon, people have to point up ten thousand colored lanterns, in order to celebrate.

Going out to enjoy the moon, burning lanterns and fireworks, happy to guess the riddles, *** eat Lantern Festival, family reunions, celebrating the festival, a happy and harmonious. Many local festivals have increased the number of dragon lanterns, lions, stilt walkers, rowing boats, rice-planting songs, playing drums and other traditional folk performances.

This traditional festival, which has been passed down for more than 2,000 years, is not only prevalent on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, but is also celebrated year after year in overseas Chinese settlements.

Three, Qingming Festival

Chingming is one of the twenty-four solar terms in China. Once Qingming arrived, the temperature rises, rainfall increases, it is a good time for spring plowing and planting. Therefore, there are "before and after the Qingming, point melon planting beans", "planting trees and forests, not over the Qingming" of the farmers' proverbs.

The Qingming Festival is a traditional festival in China, and also the most important festival of sacrifice, is the day of ancestor worship and tomb sweeping. Tomb-sweeping is commonly known as visiting the graves, an activity to honor the dead.

Most Han Chinese and some ethnic minorities sweep their tombs on Qingming Festival. The Qingming Festival, also known as the Treading Green Festival, is celebrated according to the solar calendar on April 4? to 6 days between, it is the bright spring grass green season, but also is the people spring tour (ancient called trekking) good time, so the ancients have Qingming trekking, and a series of sports activities of the custom.

Four, Dragon Boat Festival

The fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, is a traditional Chinese folk festival - Dragon Boat Festival, which is one of the ancient traditional festivals of the Chinese nation. The Dragon Boat Festival began in China during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, and has a history of more than 2,000 years. Duanwu is also known as Duanwu, Duanyang.

In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival has many other nicknames, such as: Wuzhi Festival, Chongwu Festival, May Festival, Bathing Orchid Festival, Daughters' Festival, Tianzhong Festival, Di La, Poets' Festival, Dragon Day and so on. Although the name is different, but on the whole, the people around the custom of the festival or more than different.

On the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival and legends, there are commemorating Qu Yuan said; commemorating Wu Zixu said; commemorating Cao E said; Wu Yue National Totem Festival said; from the three generations of the summer solstice festival said; the evil month of the bad day to drive away said, and so on.

The Dragon Boat Festival, is the Chinese people more than two thousand years of traditional habits, due to the vast area, many ethnic groups, coupled with many stories and legends, so not only produced a number of different names of the festival, but also has a different custom around.

The contents of the main: daughter back to her mother's home, hanging Zhong Kui statue, welcome the ghost ship, avoiding lunch, the post of the afternoon leaf amulet, hanging calamus, wormwood, swim in a hundred diseases, Pei Xiangbao, ready to sweet, dragon boat races, martial arts, batting, swinging, to the children coated with xionghuang, drinking xionghuang wine, calamus wine, eat five poisonous cakes, salted eggs, zongzi and seasonal fruits and so on,

In addition to superstitious colors of the activities have gradually disappeared, the rest! have been passed down throughout China and neighboring countries to this day. Some activities, such as dragon boat races, have been newly developed, breaking through time and geographical boundaries to become international sporting events.

Mid-Autumn Festival

Every year on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar? , is the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival. It is called Mid-Autumn Festival because it is the middle of the fall season of the year. It is also called "Moon Festival" and "August Festival".

On this night, people look up at the bright moon in the sky, hold banquets to enjoy the moon, and look forward to family reunions. The people who are far away from their hometowns also take this opportunity to express their nostalgia for their hometowns and loved ones. Also known as the "reunion festival".

China's people also have "autumn sunset" custom, that is, to worship the moon god. Mid-Autumn Festival customs are many, the form is also different, but they all send people's infinite love of life and the desire for a better life.