What are the customs and meanings of traditional festivals?

The customs and meanings of traditional festivals;

Spring Festival:

Spring Festival is the first day of the first lunar month, also known as lunar calendar, commonly known as "Chinese New Year". This is the biggest and most lively traditional festival in China. The Spring Festival has a long history, which originated from the activities of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors in the beginning and end of the Shang Dynasty. According to the China lunar calendar, the first day of the first month is called Yuanri, Chen Yuan, Jacky, Yuanshuo and New Year's Day. , commonly known as the first day of the first month, spread to the Republic of China.

Change to Gregorian calendar. January 1st of the solar calendar is called New Year's Day, and January 1st of the lunar calendar is called Spring Festival. The Spring Festival is coming, which means that spring is coming, everything is renewed, vegetation is renewed, and a new round of sowing and harvesting season is about to begin. Before the Spring Festival, we should prepare new year's goods, buy new clothes and paste Spring Festival couplets. The Spring Festival is a time for family and friends to get together. This is a happy and peaceful festival, and people celebrate New Year's Eve.

The northern region has the custom of eating jiaozi on New Year's Eve, while the southern region has the habit of eating rice cakes on New Year's Eve. Fireworks are set off during the Spring Festival, and relatives and friends are visited. In some places, there are customs such as ancestor worship, lion dancing, dragon lantern playing, community fire, visiting flower markets and temple fairs. It was not until after the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month that the Spring Festival really ended.

Lantern Festival:

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the first full moon night in a year, which is a traditional festival in China-Lantern Festival. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called the night "dawn", so the fifteenth day of the first month was called the Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, also known as the Lantern Festival. According to the folk tradition in China, on this bright night, people light thousands of lanterns to celebrate.

Going out to enjoy the moon, lighting and setting fires, enjoying lantern riddles, eating Yuanxiao, family reunion and celebrating festivals are all enjoyment. In many local festivals, traditional folk performances such as playing dragon lanterns, playing lions, walking on stilts, rowing dry boats and dancing yangko, and playing Taiping drums have also been added. This traditional festival, which has been passed down for more than two thousand years, is not only popular on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, but also celebrated every year in areas where overseas Chinese live in concentrated communities.