What are the customs and traditions of the Spring Festival?

The spring festival of agriculture

The spring festival in the new year between the first and fifteenth of the first month, is the ancient traditional festival of agriculture, this festival is actually the real spring, the spring festival of agriculture, implying that next year's wind and rain, the five grain harvest. Folk also have the custom of wearing a "spring chicken" to children in the spring, which implies that they have enough food and clothing, thrive, and good luck.

2, Lantern Lantern

In ancient times, people in order to expel the fear of darkness, will be lit on the day of the first month of the fifteenth lantern, there are exorcism, pray for blessings, praying for the light of the meaning, so the Lantern Festival lamps are also known as "blessing lamps" or "peace lamps Therefore, the lanterns of the Lantern Festival are also called "Prayer lanterns" or "Peace lanterns". In Minnan language "lamp" and "Ding" pronunciation is similar, lanterns are also used to beg for children to add Ding, to seek success, to avoid evil and peace.

3, Dragon Boat Race

May 5 of the lunar calendar is the annual Dragon Boat Festival, very lively, usually folk will organize their own Dragon Boat Race, eat zongzi, drink xionghuang wine, hanging wormwood in the door. "Dragon boat racing" is in the Warring States period on the custom, about the race of the dragon boat legend has a variety of, but figure a good luck, try to upward moral has not changed.

4, Mid-Autumn Moon Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival since ancient times, there have been sacrifices to the moon, enjoy the moon, worship the moon, eat mooncakes, osmanthus flowers, drinking osmanthus wine, and other customs, passed down to the present day, and enduring. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a colorful and precious cultural heritage, with the fullness of the moon signifying the reunion of the people, in order to send thoughts to the hometown and relatives, and to pray for a good harvest and happiness.

5, Chongyang ascend

Chongyang Festival has the custom of ascending the heights, autumn September, high and refreshing, this season can be achieved by ascending the heights, fitness to eliminate the purpose of the disease. And climb high associated with the custom of eating Chongyang cake. High and cake resonance, as a holiday food, the earliest is to celebrate the harvest of autumn grain, happy to taste the new grain intention, and later folk have climbed high to eat cake, take step by step the meaning of good luck.