The origins and customs of traditional festivals The origins and customs of traditional festivals

Origin: the origin of the ancient traditional festivals and ancient primitive beliefs, sacrificial culture, as well as the sky, the calendar and other human and natural cultural content.

Customs: the Spring Festival during the New Year's red, the New Year's Eve, eat New Year's Eve dinner, New Year's Eve, and so on everywhere, but because of the different customs, the nuances and their own characteristics. Spring Festival folklore in various forms, rich in content, is the essence of the Chinese people's life and culture of the concentrated display.

2, Lantern Festival

Origin: the formation of the Lantern Festival has a long process, according to general information and folklore, the first fifteen days of the first month in the Western Han Dynasty has been attached importance to the Han Emperor's first month "on the night of the Xin," in the Ganquan Palace to worship the "Taiyi" activities, by later generations. The activities of the first month of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty "on the night of Xin" in Ganquan Palace to sacrifice to "Taiyi" is regarded as a precursor of the first month of the fifteenth day of sacrifice to the gods.

Customs: the length of the festival, the Han Dynasty is only one day, to the Tang Dynasty has been three days, the Song Dynasty is up to five days, the Ming Dynasty is from the eighth light, until the night of the seventeenth day of the first month before the lights fall, is the longest in Chinese history of the Festival of Lights, and the Chinese New Year, daytime for the city, bustling, night lights, spectacular.

3, Qingming Festival

Origin: Qingming Festival has a long history, originating from the ancient times of ancestral beliefs and spring festival rituals.

Customs: The Qingming Festival in the historical development of the integration of the cold food festival ban on fire, cold food customs. Legend has it that the Cold Food Festival was established in the Spring and Autumn Period in honor of Jie Zi Tui, a loyal and righteous minister of the State of Jin, and in folklore, the Cold Food Festival is related to Jie Zi Tui.

4, the Mid-Autumn Festival

Origin: The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the worship of the celestial phenomena, evolved from the ancient times of the Autumn Eve moon festival.

Customs: On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is a custom of burning lamps to help the moon. Nowadays, the area around Hubei and Guangdong still have tile stacked tower on the tower of the festival custom of burning lamps. In the south of the Yangtze River, there is the custom of making lantern boats

5, Chongyang Festival

Origin: The origin of the Chongyang Festival can be traced back to the ancient times. Legend has it that Chongyang was the epoch of Yuan Di's attainment of Taoism.

Customs: In the course of its history, the Chongyang Festival has incorporated many folkloric events and cultural connotations, making it a traditional Chinese festival that combines a variety of folklore into one. The celebration of Chrysanthemum Day usually includes activities such as traveling to enjoy the scenery, climbing up to the top, viewing chrysanthemums, picking Chinese herbs, inserting dogwoods, holding a banquet for the elderly, eating Chrysanthemum cakes, making medicinal wine, drinking chrysanthemum wine, and so on.