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Lunar custom in traditional festivals

the Spring Festival; Chinese New Year

That is, the summer (lunar) year.

Time: the first day of the first lunar month in a narrow sense, and the first to fifteenth day of the first lunar month in a broad sense.

Custom: Set off firecrackers and paste Spring Festival couplets to eat jiaozi.

the Lantern Festival

Time: the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Custom: Because Lantern Festival has the custom of displaying and viewing lanterns, it is also called "Lantern Festival" among the people. In addition, there are customs such as eating Yuanxiao, walking on stilts, solve riddles on the lanterns, dragon dancing, watching lanterns and lion dancing.

Dragon Boat Festival

Time: the fifth day of the fifth lunar month

Custom: Hanging clocks and statues, hanging branches of mugwort leaves, calamus and banyan trees, dragon boat races, eating zongzi, swimming in all diseases and wearing sachets.

Qixi Festival

Time: the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.

Custom: Women weave girls on Qixi night and other customs. Influenced by western countries, more and more couples in China regard that day as Valentine's Day in China. Men and women will exchange gifts or go out on dates.

Mid-Autumn Festival

Time: August 15th of the lunar calendar.

Custom: People will prepare all kinds of fruits and cooked food, especially moon cakes, and enjoy the moon in the yard while eating moon cakes.

Double Ninth Festival

Time: the ninth day of the ninth lunar month

Custom: Every Double Ninth Festival, people will think of Wang Wei's "Being in a foreign land, I miss my family more often during the festive season". I know from a distance where my brother climbed, and there is one person missing from the dogwood. "This poem. Since ancient times, the Double Ninth Festival has been a day when people respect the old and love the young, miss their parents and long for reunion.