What are the Chinese folklore

China's folklore is to stay up for the New Year's Eve, rowing dragon boats, playing dragon lanterns, stilt walkers, posting Spring Festival couplets, posting New Year's paintings, worshiping the seven sisters, begging for money, etc., specifically introduced the following kinds of:

1, rowing dragon boats

Rowing dragon boats is an important customary activity of the Dragon Boat Festival, with a long history, it is a collective multi-people paddle race, it is very popular in the coastal areas of the southern part of our country and it is popular among the people in different countries after spreading out of the country and forming an international competition.

2, playing the dragon lantern

Playing the dragon lantern, also known as the dragon dance, dragon lantern dance, is China's unique traditional folk entertainment. From the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival, China's urban and rural areas have the custom of playing dragon lanterns. After thousands of years of inheritance and development, the Dragon Lantern Dance has become a form of lively, beautiful performance, with a romantic traditional dance.

3, stilt-walking

Stilt-walking is one of the traditional folk activities in China. Stilt-walking is commonly known as binding wood feet, also known as "stilts", "stepping on stilts", "tie high feet", "walking high legs", is a popular folk dance in the north of China. It is a kind of mass skill performance that prevails in the northern folk of China, and it is performed in some folk festivals by dancers with long wooden stilts tied to their feet.

4, posting spring couplets

Every Spring Festival, whether urban or rural, families have to pick the beautiful red spring couplets posted on the door, to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, and increase the festive atmosphere. Another source of Spring Festival couplets is the Spring Festival stickers, the ancients in the Spring Festival more stickers "Yichun" two words, and gradually developed into Spring Festival couplets, expressing the Chinese working people a kind of warding off evils and disasters, and to welcome the good wishes of the auspicious and blessed.

5, begging

Begging for coincidence

Begging for coincidence, China's custom of the year, is a custom of the seventh sister birthday (July 7). The first day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar to the night of the seventh month (seven days and eight nights), wearing a new dress of young girls in the courtyard to the Vega star to beg for wisdom, known as "begging for coquettish".

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