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Traditional festival customs

Traditional holiday customs include: Spring Festival custom, New Year's Eve dinner, Tomb-Sweeping Day custom, outing, Double Ninth Festival custom, autumn sunbathing and Mid-Autumn Festival custom, moon viewing and Mid-Autumn Festival custom, and burning paper to worship ancestors.

1, Spring Festival custom, New Year's Eve dinner

New Year's Eve, also known as New Year's Eve, reunion dinner, etc. , especially the family dinner on New Year's Eve at the end of the year. The New Year's Eve dinner originated from the ancient ritual vessels at the end of the year, and it is a reunion dinner after offering sacrifices to the gods and ancestors. New Year's Eve is the highlight of the year, which is not only colorful, but also very interesting. Worship the gods and ancestors before the reunion dinner, and eat after the worship ceremony.

2, Tomb-Sweeping Day customs, outing.

China folks have long maintained the custom of Tomb-Sweeping Day's outing with a long history. The Qingming Festival is a season when the spring breeze is proud and full of spring. When everything is in bud, it has long been a custom to go for an outing in the wild.

3, Double Ninth Festival custom, basking in autumn

The Double Ninth Festival is the best time to enjoy autumn, and some mountain villages in the south of China still have the characteristics of basking in autumn. Going to the countryside to appreciate the folk customs and watch the autumn sun has become a fashion in rural tourism. Sunbathing in autumn is a typical agricultural custom phenomenon with strong regional characteristics.

4, Mid-Autumn Festival custom, enjoy the moon

The custom of enjoying the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival comes from offering sacrifices to the moon, and serious sacrifices have become relaxed pleasures. It is said that the moon is closest to the earth that night, and it is the largest, roundest and brightest, so there has been a custom of drinking and enjoying the moon since ancient times.

5, Mid-Autumn Festival custom, burning paper to worship ancestors.

The Central Plains burned paper to worship ancestors. That is, a stack of paper money is sealed in a small envelope, and the name and title of the recipient, the number of envelopes received, and the name and time of the silk changer are written on the envelope. It is said that the Gate of Hell was closed on July 15, and all families hoped that Shigu would send their children.