How do you spend the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival?

1, time

The first day of the first lunar month begins.

2. Custom

(1) Post Spring Festival couplets: Every Spring Festival, no matter in urban or rural areas, every household should choose a pair of red Spring Festival couplets and post them on the door to add festive atmosphere to the festival.

(2) Posting New Year pictures: It is also common to hang New Year pictures in urban and rural areas during the Spring Festival. Thick black and colorful New Year pictures add a lot of prosperous and joyful festive atmosphere to thousands of families.

(3) Visiting temple fairs: Visiting temple fairs is one of the folk activities during the Spring Festival. Guangfu Temple Fair and Beijing ditan temple fair are also called the two major temple fairs in China. Covers the puppet show, China stunt, Wulin Congress, Lantern Festival and other theme activities. It contains rich contents such as blessing culture, folk culture, food culture, business and leisure culture.

Second, Lantern Festival.

1, time

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

2. Custom

Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities, such as watching lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, solve riddles on the lanterns and setting off fireworks. In addition, in many places, traditional folk performances, such as playing dragon lanterns, playing lions, walking on stilts, boating, yangko dancing and playing Taiping drums, have all joined the Lantern Festival.

Third, Tomb-Sweeping Day.

1, time

Gregorian calendar around April 5.

2. Custom

Tomb-Sweeping Day is rich in festivals and customs. Grave-sweeping and hiking are two major themes of etiquette and custom in Tomb-Sweeping Day. The two traditional themes of etiquette and custom have been passed down in China since ancient times and have never stopped.

Fourth, Dragon Boat Festival.

1, time

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month.

2. Custom

(1) Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional custom of the Chinese nation since ancient times. Zongzi is a kind of praise. "Qi" is a tribute to the gods and ancestors in festivals. There are many kinds of qi, and different festivals will make different qi. It is an ancient custom to make Qi sacrifice to gods and ancestors.

(2) Dragon boat rowing has a long history, and it is a multi-person collective rowing competition. The dragon boat race is divided into several parts, such as inviting dragons, offering sacrifices to dragon gods, Youlong and collecting dragons. Before the dragon boat race, a grand sacrifice ceremony is usually held. One is to invite dragons to worship the gods. Before the Dragon Boat Festival, you should choose an auspicious day to come out of the water, and after offering sacrifices to the gods, you should install a dragon head and a dragon tail, and then prepare for the race.

Verb (abbreviation for verb) Mid-Autumn Festival

1, time

The fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month.

2. Custom

Since ancient times, Mid-Autumn Festival has had folk customs such as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes, playing with lanterns, enjoying osmanthus and drinking osmanthus wine. It has been circulating for a long time.

Sixth, the Double Ninth Festival

1, time

The ninth day of the ninth lunar month.

2. Custom

In ancient times, there were folk customs such as climbing mountains to pray for blessings, enjoying chrysanthemums in autumn, wearing dogwood, drinking alcohol to worship ancestors and praying for longevity. Inherited to modern times, it has increased the connotations of respecting the elderly, feasting on Double Ninth Festival, and being grateful for respecting the elderly.

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