Time and custom of national traditional festivals

1, Spring Festival, the first day of the first lunar month.

Customs: Chinese New Year has a long history, and some relatively fixed customs have been formed in the process of inheritance and development. Many of them have been passed down to this day, such as holding new year's goods, sweeping dust, posting New Year's greetings, celebrating New Year's Eve, dancing dragons and lions, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, temple fairs, and enjoying lanterns.

2. Lantern Festival, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Custom: Because of the custom of hanging lanterns and watching lanterns on the Lantern Festival, it is also called lanterns among the people. Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities, such as watching lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, solve riddles on the lanterns and setting off fireworks.

3, the dragon looks up, February 2 of the lunar calendar.

Custom: children have their hair cut on the second day of February, which is called shaving. When the dragon looks up, it will bless the children to grow up healthily and get ahead when they grow up. Adults get haircuts, say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, hoping to bring good luck and a smooth new year. There is a saying that on February 2, dragons look up and adults and children have to shave their heads.

4. Social Day Festival, February 2nd of the lunar calendar.

Custom: February 2 is the Christmas of the landowner, also known as the God of fortitude. In the south of China, it is the birthday of the earth god, which is called the birthday of the earth god to warm his life. In Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and other regions, the land gods are generally sacrificed on February 2. In some places, there is a custom of holding land fairs: every family raises money to celebrate the birthday of the land god, burns incense and sacrifices at the land temple, beats gongs and drums and sets off firecrackers.

5. Tomb-Sweeping Day, around April 5th, Gregorian calendar, after the vernal equinox 15.

Customs are summarized into two major festivals and traditions: one is to respect the ancestors and be cautious to the end; The second is outing and getting close to nature. It is an important function of Qingming etiquette and custom culture to be cautious in ancestor worship ceremony and enjoy the fun of spring in outing, cultural inheritance and physical and mental adjustment.

6. Dragon Boat Festival, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.

Custom: Rowing dragon boats, hanging branches of mugwort, calamus and fig, eating zongzi and drinking realgar wine.

7. Valentine's Day in China falls on the seventh day of the first lunar month.

Custom: Valentine's Day in China is the earliest love festival in the world. On Qixi night, people sit and watch the morning glory and the weaver girl, visit close friends in the boudoir, worship the weaver girl, pray for marriage, learn embroidery, beg for good luck and pray, and so on. Valentine's Day in China originated in China, and it is also celebrated in some Asian countries influenced by China culture, such as Japan, Korean Peninsula and Viet Nam.

8. Mid-Autumn Festival, August 15th of the lunar calendar.

Custom: Mid-Autumn Festival night, full moon in Gui Xiang. In the old customs, people regard it as a symbol of reunion. People will prepare all kinds of fruits and cooked food, especially moon cakes, and enjoy the moon in the yard while eating moon cakes. In ancient times, in Guangdong, people had the custom of worshipping the Moon Mother on the evening of August 15th.

9. Double Ninth Festival, the ninth day of the ninth lunar month.

Customs: In the Double Ninth Festival, there were ancient customs such as climbing high to pray for blessings, enjoying chrysanthemums in autumn, planting dogwood, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, and holding birthday banquets. So far, it has added the connotation of respecting the elderly, feasting on the day of Chongyang, and being grateful for respecting the elderly. Climbing mountains and enjoying autumn and giving thanks and respecting the elderly are two important themes of today's Double Ninth Festival.

10, winter solstice festival, solar calendar1February 2 1 day or 22nd.

Custom: Many areas have the custom of offering sacrifices to the heavens and ancestors from the winter solstice, and some places celebrate this festival from the winter solstice. Every family provides genealogy, ancestor statues, memorial tablets, etc. In the upper hall of the home, an altar, incense burners and offerings are placed. In some places, while offering sacrifices to ancestors, they also offer sacrifices to gods, land gods and deities, so as to make the next year's weather favorable and the family prosperous.

1 1, Laba Festival, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.

Custom: The ancients had a tradition of offering sacrifices to ancestors and gods and praying for a bumper harvest. In some areas, they have the custom of drinking Laba porridge. According to legend, the eighth day of December is also the day when Buddha Sakyamuni became a monk and became a Taoist. It is called Magic Weapon Festival and is one of the grand festivals in Buddhism.

12, off-year, more than one day.

Custom: Due to local customs, the days called off-year are different. During the off-year period, the main folk activities include sweeping dust and offering sacrifices to stoves. In the early and middle Qing Dynasty, the sacrificial furnace was always the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, at least until the Qianlong period.

13, New Year's Eve, the last day of the lunar calendar, that is, December 29th or 30th, January 29th and 30th.

Customs: New Year's Eve mainly includes new year's eve, new year's eve, lucky money, resignation, keeping the old age and other customs. On New Year's Eve, the whole family has a reunion dinner together, which smells like family reunion in the New Year. The folk custom of keeping old is mainly manifested in turning on the lights all night on New Year's Eve. Old fire originated from the need of exorcism in ancient times. On New Year's Eve, people should not only clean their homes and outside, but also put up door gods, Spring Festival couplets and hang door cages. People will put on new clothes with festive colors and patterns.

New Year's Eve is extremely important for China people. On this day, people are ready to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and have a family reunion dinner. . Eating New Year's Eve in 2008 is the most lively and happy time for every household in the Spring Festival. On New Year's Eve, a table of rich New Year's dishes, the whole family get together, sit around the table and have a reunion dinner.

Baidu Encyclopedia-China Traditional Festival