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What festivals are there in winter? What are the holiday customs in winter?

Winter festivals include: New Year's Day, Spring Festival and Lantern Festival.

Significance of New Year's Day: The Republic of China began in Gregorian calendar 65438+ 10/,which was defined when People's Republic of China (PRC) was founded in 949. Lunar calendar 65438+1 0 1 was defined as "Spring Festival", so New Year's Day is also called "Spring Festival" in China.

Holiday Diet: jiaozi rice cake, pepper, cypress wine, peach soup, Tu Su wine, five coriander and soup cake.

China's holiday customs: offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, hanging Spring Festival couplets, writing blessings, dancing dragon lanterns, setting off firecrackers, observing the New Year and having a reunion dinner.

The significance of the Spring Festival: a traditional festival in China. The Spring Festival generally refers to the first day of the first month, the first day of the year, also known as the lunar calendar, commonly known as "New Year"; However, among the people, the traditional Spring Festival refers to the sacrificial ceremony from La Worship on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month to the 19th of the first lunar month, culminating in New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month. During the Spring Festival, Han people and some ethnic minorities in China will hold various activities to celebrate.

Holiday Diet: Laba porridge, rice cakes, jiaozi spring rolls, Yuanxiao, bean sprouts, fish, Yuanxiao and honeydew melon.

Hot spots: China, North Korea, South Korea, Viet Nam, Singapore, Japan.

Traditional custom: sweeping dust: on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, sweeping house dust.

Shounian: Shounian on New Year's Eve, when the old and new years alternate, it is usually midnight.

Happy New Year: Congratulations to others during the Spring Festival.

Sticking Spring Festival couplets: Every household should choose a pair of red Spring Festival couplets and stick them on the door.

Window grilles and "Fu": Put all kinds of paper cuts on the windows-window grilles, and turn the word "Fu" upside down.

Spring Festival New Year pictures: Black and colorful New Year pictures add a lot of prosperity and joy to thousands of families.

Firecrackers: When the New Year comes, the first thing for every household to open the door is to set off firecrackers.

New year's goods: buy a lot of "new year's goods", Spring Festival couplets, blessings, new clothes and delicious food before the year.

Significance of Lantern Festival: The original meaning is "the night of Shangyuan Festival", because the main activity of Shangyuan Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month is to eat glutinous rice balls and enjoy the moon at night, and the name of the festival later evolved into "Lantern Festival". On the night of Lantern Festival, the streets are decorated with lanterns and people appreciate them. Solve riddles on the lanterns and eating Yuanxiao have become the customs of several generations.

Festival diet: Yuanxiao

Festival custom: Han nationality: Decorate with lanterns, solve riddles on lanterns, play with dragon lanterns, walk on stilts, dance lions, walk with people who are ill, welcome their children, and offer sacrifices to the portal.

Manchu: Like the Han nationality, Manchu people also have the custom of hanging lanterns and eating Yuanxiao.

Bai people: I want to play with dragons and lions, and organize a "Golden Flower Song and Dance Team" to have a Lantern Festival.

Miao nationality: Girls will steal other people's food in groups, only cabbage.

Yi people: Upa festival. A custom activity to celebrate the return from hunting