What are the customs of traditional festivals in China?

The customs of traditional festivals in China include New Year's Eve, Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Cold Food Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day.

1, New Year's Eve: having a reunion dinner, offering sacrifices and staying up late for the New Year. People often stay up all night on New Year's Eve, which is called "vigil". On New Year's Eve, the house and the outside should be cleaned up, and the door gods, Spring Festival couplets, New Year pictures, stick grilles and blessings should be posted.

2. Spring Festival: We mainly eat rice cakes, jiaozi, glutinous rice balls, big meatballs, whole fish, wine, apples, peanuts, melon seeds and sweets. Many activities, such as setting off firecrackers, giving lucky money, visiting relatives and friends, giving new year gifts, visiting ancestral graves, visiting flower markets, making fires, etc., are very enjoyable.

3. Lantern Festival: Watching lanterns, eating Yuanxiao and walking on stilts, solve riddles on the lanterns. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called it "Xiao", and the fifteenth day is the first full moon night in a year, so the fifteenth day of the first month is called the Lantern Festival.

4, Cold Food Festival: Do not smoke, only eat cold food. In the development of later generations, the customs of sweeping, climbing, swinging, cuju, crochet and cockfighting were gradually increased. The Cold Food Festival lasted for more than 2,000 years and was once called the largest folk festival in China.

Tomb-Sweeping Day: Grave-sweeping, hiking, spring breeze blowing in Tomb-Sweeping Day, hiking in memory of ancestors. Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave-sweeping and ancestor-worshipping is conducive to promoting filial piety and affection, awakening family memories, and promoting the cohesion and identity of family members and even the nation.