The customs of traditional Chinese festivals (Spring Festival, Qingming, Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival), and say what the meaning of these customs are

1. Spring Festival: The Spring Festival is one of the grandest and most lively ancient traditional festivals in China. Commonly known as the "New Year". According to China's lunar calendar, the first day of the first month of the year is "the first year of the year, the first month of the first year, the first year of the time", is the beginning of the year. The traditional celebration lasts from New Year's Eve to the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month. On New Year's Eve, families gather together for a New Year's Eve dinner, known as the "New Year's Reunion". Then they observe the New Year's Eve together, talk about the old and the new, and congratulate and encourage each other. When the New Year comes, firecrackers and fireworks will culminate in a festive atmosphere. China's northern regions at this time have the custom of eating dumplings, take "year-end cross" meaning. In the south, it is customary to eat rice cakes to symbolize the high quality of life. Keeping the New Year's Eve up to the day, the joy of posting Spring Festival couplets, banging gongs and drums, lanterns and colorful, to send the old and welcome the new activities lively and extraordinary. In addition, all over the world, there are each other to the door to pay tribute to the New Year, lion dance, play dragon lanterns, perform social fire, flower market, lanterns and other customs.

2. Lantern Festival: the night of the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, is China's traditional folk Lantern Festival, also known as the Festival of Lanterns, Lantern Festival. Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, will continue from the New Year's Eve celebrations to another climax. On the night of the Lantern Festival, the streets and alleys are decorated with lanterns, and people enjoy the lanterns, guess the riddles, and eat the Lantern Festival, which has been a custom for generations

3. February 2: Folklore has it that on the second day of the second month of the Lunar Calendar, it is the day when the Dragon King, who is in charge of clouds and rain in the sky, raises his head. From then on, the rain will gradually increase. Therefore, this day is called "Spring Dragon Festival". In the north of China, there is a widely circulated folk proverb: "February 2, the dragon raises its head; the big barn is full, the small barn flows." The folk proverb.

4. Qingming Festival: Qingming is one of the twenty-four solar terms and a traditional festival with a long history. The day before Qingming is called the Cold Food Festival. The two festivals coincide with March, when spring is bright and bright and the peaches are red and the willows are green. The Cold Food Festival was established to commemorate Jie Zi Tui of the Jin Dynasty in the Spring and Autumn Period, who "burned himself to death without public honor". During the Qingming Cold Food Festival, there are folk customs such as forbidding fire and cold food, ancestor worship and tomb-sweeping, and trekking and picnicking. There are also swinging, kite flying, tug-of-war, cockfighting, wearing willow, fighting grass, playing ball and other traditional activities.

5. Dragon Boat Festival: The fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar is the traditional Dragon Boat Festival in China, also known as the Duan Yang, the fifth, Duan Wu Festival. As early as the Zhou Dynasty, there is "May 5, storage orchids and Mu" custom. Today, however, many of the activities of the Dragon Boat Festival are related to the commemoration of Qu Yuan, a great literary figure in China. On this day, every family will eat rice dumplings, and dragon boat competitions are held all over the south, all related to the mourning of Qu Yuan. At the same time, the Dragon Boat Festival is also passed down from ancient times, "Health Festival", people in this day sprinkled clean the courtyard, hanging moxa sticks, hanging calamus, sprinkled with xionghuang water, drink xionghuang wine, radical removal of decay, sterilization and disease prevention. These activities also reflect the fine tradition of our nation.

6. Tanabata Festival: Every year on the seventh day of the seventh month, the world of magpies in the Milky Way to build a bridge of magpies, the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden can meet. This beautiful legend began in the Han Dynasty and has been passed down from generation to generation for more than a thousand years and has become y rooted in people's hearts. On this day, there is a folk custom of begging the Weaving Maiden. It is usually a competition to see who is more skillful in threading a needle. Therefore, Tanabata is also known as the Beggar's Day or Daughter's Day. Every Tanabata will come, the Altair and Vega two stars are after all night through the sky, until the sun rises to retreat, and thus is also a metaphor for the earth's parting of the couple will meet.

7. Mid-Autumn Festival: The fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar is the middle of the autumn season, hence the name Mid-Autumn Festival. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, in addition to enjoying the moon, offering moon rituals and eating moon cakes, some places also have activities such as dancing with grass dragons and building pagodas. In addition to mooncakes, various kinds of seasonal fresh and dried fruits are also the delicacies of the Mid-Autumn Night. On this night, people look up to the jade-like moon and naturally look forward to family reunions. People who are far away from their hometowns also take this opportunity to express their nostalgia for their hometowns and loved ones. Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as the "reunion festival".

8. Chrysanthemum Festival: The Chrysanthemum Festival on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar is extremely rich in activities, there are climbing, chrysanthemum appreciation, drinking chrysanthemum wine, eating chrysanthemum cakes, dogwood and so on. Chrysanthemum Festival is also the "Festival of the Elderly", the old people in this day or chrysanthemum to cultivate sentiment, or to climb to exercise the physical fitness, to the Sanyu evening added infinite fun.

9. Winter Solstice Festival: Winter Solstice is a very grand festival in ancient China. To this day, China's Taiwan still preserves the winter solstice with nine layers of cake ancestor tradition, to show that do not forget more of the original, the blessing of the family reunion. In the northern region, there is a custom of slaughtering sheep and eating dumplings on the winter solstice, and the traditional foods in the south include winter solstice rice balls, winter solstice long thread noodles, and so on.

10. Lapa Festival: Lapa Festival is a Buddhist festival. This day is the day Sakyamuni became a Buddha, also known as the "Festival of Success". The most important activity on this day is to eat Laha congee. The earliest Lapa congee is only in the rice porridge with red beans, and later evolved into an extremely complex and elaborate, the main ingredients are white rice, yellow rice, river rice, millet, lingzhi rice and dozens of other kinds of, add walnuts, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, pine nuts, raisins, cinnamon meat, lilies, lotus seeds, etc., boiled all night long, the aroma of the ten-mile drift.

11. New Year's Eve: New Year's Eve is the last day of the year, this day, ordinary people try to reunite, the whole family gathered around the

fireplace, drinking and eating food in order to say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new year's meaning, while outdoors is a firecracker sound.

Families spend a cozy last night of the year together