A brief introduction to the customs of traditional Chinese festivals

Introduction of traditional Chinese festivals A brief introduction to the customs of traditional festivals

1, Spring Festival

Spring Festival is the traditional Chinese New Year in the Chinese character culture circle, commonly known as the "Nianzhi", traditionally known as the New Year, the New Year, the New Year, but also known as the oral year of the old age, the celebration of the New Year, the New Year, the Chinese nation's grandest tradition! The festival is the most important traditional festival of the Chinese nation.

Holiday Customs

During the Spring Festival, the Han Chinese and some ethnic minorities hold various celebrations. These activities are mainly to worship ancestral gods, ancestors, get rid of the old and bring in the new, welcome the Jubilee and pray for a good year, in a rich and colorful form, with strong characteristics of each ethnic group. Influenced by Chinese culture, some countries and nationalities belonging to the cultural circle of Chinese characters also have the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival. On the day of the Spring Festival, people return home as much as possible to reunite with their loved ones and express their eager anticipation for the coming year and their good wishes for the new year. The Spring Festival is not only a festival, but also an important carrier for Chinese people to release their emotions and satisfy their psychological demands, and it is the annual carnival of the Chinese nation and the eternal spiritual pillar.

2, Lantern Festival

The Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, also known as the "Lantern Festival" (LanternFestival), on the Yuan Festival, the small first month, the Lantern Festival, or the Lantern Festival, is the first important festival after the Spring Festival, China is also the Chinese character cultural circle of the region and the overseas Chinese people. It is the first major festival after the Spring Festival, and is one of the traditional festivals in China, as well as in the Chinese cultural circle and among overseas Chinese.

Customs of the festival

The duration of the Lantern Festival and its customary activities have been extended and expanded with the development of history. In terms of the length of the festival, the Han Dynasty 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 of the light, is the longest in Chinese history, and the Spring Festival, the daytime for the city, bustling, night lights, spectacular. Especially the delicate, colorful lights, making it the climax of the entertainment activities during the Spring Festival. To the Qing Dynasty, and increased the dragon dance, lion dance, running boats, stilt walkers, twisting rice-planting songs and other "hundred theater" content, just shorten the festival period of four to five days.

3, on the Si Festival

On the Si (sì) Festival, commonly known as the third of March, the ancient name on the Si Festival, is a festival to commemorate the Yellow Emperor. Legend has it that the third of March is the birth of the Yellow Emperor, the Central Plains since ancient times, "February 2, the dragon carries the head; March 3, born Xuanyuan" said. After the Wei and Jin Dynasties, on the Si Festival was changed to March 3, followed by future generations, and then became the Han Chinese waterfront feasts, countryside tour of the spring festival.

Customs

The festival originated from the witchcraft activity of orchid soup to ward off evil spirits, in which orchids were used as spirits. Orchid grass has the characteristic of aroma, the ancients in the major ceremonies held before the gods, must be preceded by fasting, including the use of the best bath at that time - orchid soup bath, which has a vivid depiction in the Chu speech. Sacrifice to the gods must be fasting, fasting must be bathing, bathing with orchid soup, the difference only lies in the orchid bath is personal behavior, more indoors, and can be implemented at any time, purification of purification is a collective activity, must be in the riverside, and must be held at regular intervals.

4, Cold Food Festival

Cold Food Festival, also known as the "anti-smoking festival", "Cold Festival", "Hundred and Five Festival", in the summer calendar, after the winter solstice one hundred and five days, before the Qingming Festival. One or two days before the Qingming Festival. Ancient people used different trees to drill fire due to different seasons, and it was customary to change the seasonal fire. And every time after the change of fire, we have to get a new fire. Before the new fire, it was forbidden to make fire, which was a big event at that time.

Holiday Customs

Cold Food Festival customs, there are graves, picnics, cockfighting, swinging, playing the carpet, pulling hooks (tug of war) and so on. Among them, the custom of visiting the graves is very old. In China, spring festivals used to be held on the cold food festival until it was changed to the Qingming Festival. However, in Korea, the tradition of spring festival on the day of cold food is still retained.

5, Qingming Festival

Qingming, one of the twenty-four solar terms in the lunar calendar. Every year around April 5 when the sun reaches 15 ° of the yellow longitude began; "the moon order seventy-two wait collection": "March Festival ...... things to this point, are to clean and clear carry on." Therefore, the Qingming Festival is always in the calendar April 4, April 5, April 6, one of three days.

Customs

Swinging, cuju, trekking, kite flying, tomb sweeping, willow, shooting willow, cockfighting, silkworms and flowers will be.

6, Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival (DragonBoatFestival or DoubleFifthFestival), also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, in Hubei, Hunan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Dragon Boat Festival is divided into the big Dragon Boat Festival and small Dragon Boat Festival. The small Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, and the big Dragon Boat Festival is the fifteenth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year.

Customs

The Dragon Boat Festival, is a traditional habit of the Chinese people for more than two thousand years, due to the vast area, many ethnic groups, coupled with a number of stories and legends, so not only produced a number of different names of the festival, but also has a different custom around. Its content is mainly: the daughter back to his mother's home, hanging Zhong Kui statue, welcome the ghost ship, hide afternoon, post afternoon leaf charm, hanging calamus, wormwood, swim in a hundred diseases, Pei Xiangbao, ready to sweet, dragon boat race, martial arts, batting, swinging, to the children coated in xionghuang, drinking xionghuang wine, calamus wine, eat five poisonous cakes, salted eggs, zongzi and seasonal fruits, and so on.

7, Tanabata Festival

Tanabata Festival, also known as Beggar's Nest, Seven Coincidence Festival or Seven Sisters Birthday, originated in China, is the Chinese region, as well as some of the Han cultural influence of the traditional festivals of the East Asian countries, the night of the seventh month of the seventh lunar calendar, or the night of the sixth of the seventh month of the night of the women in the courtyard of the Weaving Maiden star begging Zhi Qiao, it is known as the "Begging for coquettishness". Its origins in the worship of nature and the women's needle begging, after being given the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden so that it has become a symbol of the festival of love.

Customs

Begging for coquettishness by threading a needle, spider, casting a needle to check coquettishness, planting a seed, offering "grinding and drinking music", worshiping the Weaving Maiden, worshiping the Kuixing, sunshine books, sunshine clothes, congratulations on the birthday of the cow, eating coquettish fruits, etc.

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8, Zhongyuan Festival

Zhongyuan Festival, commonly known as the Ghost Festival, Shi lone, half of the seventh month, the Buddhist called Bon Festival. With New Year's Eve, Qingming Festival, Chongyang Festival is a traditional Chinese festival of ancestor worship, but also popular in the countries of the Chinese character cultural circle of traditional cultural festivals.

Holiday customs

On the Mid-Yuan Festival, there is the custom of releasing river lanterns and burning paper ingots.

9, the Mid-Autumn Festival

The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, August Festival, August Meeting, Chasing the Moon Festival, Playing with the Moon Festival, Moon Worship Festival, Daughters' Festival, or Reunion Festival, is a traditional cultural festival popular in many ethnic groups of China and the countries of East Asia, the time of the 15th of the eighth month of the Chinese lunar calendar; because of the value of the three half of the Autumn Festival, so the name, and there are some places in the Mid-Autumn Festival in the sixteenth month of the eighth. Mid-Autumn Festival began in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Song Dynasty, to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, has been on a par with New Year's Day, becoming one of the main festivals in China.

Customs

Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has been characterized by the customs of offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, worshipping the moon, eating mooncakes, enjoying osmanthus flowers, drinking osmanthus wine, and so on, which have been passed down to the present day and are still uninterrupted. The Mid-Autumn Festival has become a colorful and precious cultural heritage, with the fullness of the moon signifying the reunion of people, as a token of longing for one's hometown and relatives, as well as praying for a good harvest and happiness. Mid-Autumn Festival and Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival, Qingming Festival and known as China's four major traditional festivals.

10, Chung Yeung Festival

Chung Yeung Festival (also known as: Old People's Day), on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar every year, is a traditional festival of the Han Chinese people, because the "I Ching" in the "six" as the number of yin, the "nine" as the number of yang, the ninth month of the ninth day, the sun and the moon and the sun, two nine and nine. The sun and the moon and the sun, the two nine overlap, so it is called Chung Yeung, also known as Chung Kau. Chongyang Festival has been formed as early as the Warring States period, to the Tang Dynasty, Chongyang was officially designated as a folk festival, and has since been inherited by successive dynasties.

Customs of the Festival

The customs of the Chongyang Festival include: enjoying autumn, ascending to high altitude, eating Chongyang cakes, enjoying chrysanthemums, drinking chrysanthemum wine, and wearing cornelian cherry.

11, Cold Clothes Festival

Cold Clothes Festival, also known as the October Morning, Ancestor Festival, Hades Festival, Ghosts Day, is a traditional Chinese festival of sacrifice, and the spring of the Ching Ming Festival, on the Si Festival, the autumn festival of the Yuan Festival, and is known as the four major "ghosts" of the year.

Holiday customs

Cold Weather Festival customs: offer sacrifices.

Since ancient times in China, there has been the custom of paying tribute to ancestors at the time of the new harvest to show filial piety and honor and not forgetting one's roots. On the first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, sacrifices are made to the ancestors, both at home and at the tomb, both in the south and in the north.

12, the next Yuan Festival

The next Yuan Festival is a traditional Chinese folk festival, the fifteenth day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, also known as the "next Yuan Day", "next Yuan". The origin of the festival is related to Taoism. Taoism has three officials, the Heavenly Official, the Earthly Official, and the Water Official, which are said to be the Heavenly Official who gives blessings, the Earthly Official who forgives sins, and the Water Official who solves problems. The birthdays of the three officials are the fifteenth day of the first month, the fifteenth day of the seventh month and the fifteenth day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, and these three days are known as the "Festival of the Upper Yuan", the "Festival of the Middle Yuan" and the "Festival of the Lower Yuan". The Festival, is the water officer to solve the Yanggu Emperor to solve the problem, commonly known as the day.

Customs

Next Yuan Festival customs: repairing the Jiao-festival, enjoy the ancestors, praying to the gods, Putian folk

13, Lapa Festival

Lapa Festival, commonly known as "Lapa", the traditional Han Chinese festival, the folk have eaten "Lapa porridge", bubble Lapa congee, "Lapa", "Lapa", "Lapa", "Lapa", "Lapa", "Lapa", "Lapa", "Lapa", "Lapa", "Lapa" and "Lapa". ", bubble Lahai garlic (some places is "Lahai rice") custom. In Henan and other places, Lahai congee, also known as "everyone rice", is to commemorate the national hero Yue Fei, a holiday food customs.

Holiday customs

Lapa customs: rituals, food Lapa congee and so on.

14, the winter solstice

The winter solstice, also known as the "winter festival", "long solstice festival", "sub year", etc., is an important festival in the Chinese lunar calendar, but also a traditional festival of the Chinese people. Winter Solstice is an important festival in the Chinese lunar calendar and a traditional festival of the Chinese nation. The winter solstice is one of the earliest of the twenty-four solar terms, originating in the Spring and Autumn period; in ancient China, the sun was observed using an earth gui to determine the winter solstice, which occurs between December 21 and 23 on the Gregorian calendar each year.

Holiday Customs

Winter Solstice Customs: Rituals. It is customary to eat mutton in some places.

15, Zaosai Festival

The twenty-third day of the lunar month for the traditional Han Festival Zaosai Festival, also known as the folk "cross the year", "Xiaonianxia", "Xiaonian".

The festival is also known as the "Nian", "Xiaonianxia", "Xiaonian".

Holiday customs

Zaos Festival customs: sacrifice "Zaoshen"

16, New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve, also known as New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, the year in addition to the year, and so on. It is the last night of the Lunar New Year (December) every year. In addition, that is, the meaning of the removal; Xi, refers to the night. New Year's Eve is also the festival of the resignation of the old and the welcome to the new, the beginning of a new year, the renewal of all things. Along with Qingming Festival, Zhongyuan Festival and Chongyang Festival, it is a traditional Chinese festival of ancestor worship and a traditional cultural festival popular in the countries of the Chinese character culture circle.

Customs of the festival

New Year's Eve dinner, posting Spring Festival couplets, window decals, sticking lucky charms, posting New Year's paintings, and lighting firecrackers

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