China's traditional festivals and holiday customs

China's traditional festivals are: the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Tanabata Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Chongyang Festival, Winter Solstice Festival, New Year's Eve, Lapa Festival.

1, Spring Festival.

Customs: China has a long history of New Year's Eve, in the development of inheritance has formed a number of more fixed customs, many of which are still handed down to the present day, such as the New Year's Eve, sweeping the dust, sticking the year red, New Year's Eve dinner, keep the New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, dragon and lion dances, worshiping the gods and ancestors, burnt firecrackers, burning fireworks, touring the god race, the New Year's Eve, betting on the boat, praying for blessings, the temple fair, touring the gongs and drums, the lights on the wine, enjoy the The custom is to worship the gods and ancestors by burning firecrackers and fireworks, and to visit the gods in the annual festival.

2. Lantern Festival.

Customs: The Lantern Festival is also known as the "Festival of Lights" because of the custom of opening and watching lanterns. Lantern Festival is mainly a series of traditional folk activities, such as lanterns, eating dumplings, riddles, fireworks and so on. In addition, the Lantern Festival in many places has increased the number of dragon lanterns, lions, stilt walkers, rowing boats, rice-planting songs, playing drums and other folk performances.

3, Qingming Festival.

Customs: Customs are rich, summarized in two major traditions of the festival: one is to honor the ancestors, the end of the prudent to catch up with the past; the second is to trekking excursions, close to nature. In the ancestor worship rituals to pay careful attention to the end of the distant future, in the trekking picnics to enjoy the fun of spring, cultural heritage and physical and mental adjustment is the important function of the Qingming ritual culture.

4, Dragon Boat Festival.

Customs: eating zongzi: festive diet Dragon Boat Festival food zongzi, is a traditional Chinese folk custom. Zongzi, also known as "corn", "zongzi", "tube zongzi", its long history, a variety of patterns. "Ai leaf fragrance, fragrance full of hall; peach branch inserted in the gate, go out and look at the wheat yellow; here Duanyang, there Duanyang, everywhere Duanyang."

5. Tanabata Festival.

Customs: Tanabata is the world's earliest love festival, Tanabata night sit and watch Altair and Vega star, visit the girlfriends, worship the Weaving Maiden, praying for marriage, cut the female red, begging for blessings, etc., is the traditional Chinese folk Tanabata customs. In ancient times, countless loving men and women in the world would pray to the stars for their marriages to be fulfilled on this night.

6, Mid-Autumn Festival.

Customs: On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the moon is full and the fragrance of laurel is fragrant, which is regarded as a symbol of reunion in the old custom, and people will prepare all kinds of melons and fruits and cooked food, especially mooncakes, and eat mooncakes and other mooncakes while enjoying the moon in the courtyard. The interpretation of the word "autumn" is: "the crops are ripe in the fall". In the middle of August, crops and various fruits ripened one after another, and in order to celebrate the harvest and express joy, the day of "Mid-Autumn" was celebrated as a festival.

7, Chongyang Festival.

Customs: In ancient times, folk in the Chung Yeung Festival have climbed to pray for blessings, autumn tour to enjoy chrysanthemums, wear dogwood, God and ancestor worship and feasts to seek longevity and other customs. Since then, it has added the connotation of honoring the elderly, enjoying feasts and honoring the elderly on the day of the Chrysanthemum Festival. The two important themes of the Chrysanthemum Festival today are the appreciation of the autumn and the thanksgiving and respect for the elderly.

8, winter solstice.

Customs: many regions in the winter solstice this day has the custom of sacrificing to the ancestors, and now there are still some places in the winter solstice this day to celebrate the festival. Families put their family tree, ancestor statues, tablets, etc. in the upper hall of their homes, set up tables for offerings, incense burners, offerings and so on. At the same time, some places also worship the gods of heaven and land, bowing to the gods, in order to pray for the coming year, the wind and rain, the family and all things happy.

9, New Year's Eve.

Customs: New Year's Eve is mainly characterized by the customs of posting the New Year's Red, New Year's Eve dinner, New Year's Eve money, resignation, and New Year's Eve observance. New Year's Eve, the whole family together to eat "reunion dinner", there is a family reunion flavor of the New Year. The main folk custom of New Year's Eve is to keep the lights on all night long. The New Year's fire originated from the need to drive away evil spirits in ancient times. New Year's Eve, in addition to the New Year's Eve fire, there is also "light the year" custom, that is, the New Year's Eve, all the lamps and candles.

10, Laha Festival.

Customs: Lahai main custom is to "drink Lahai congee", bubble Lahai vinegar. China's history of drinking Laha congee, has been a thousand years. "Lahai" for the Buddhist festival, after the evolution of generations, only gradually become a household name of the folk festival. Legend has it that on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, Siddhartha Gautama became enlightened by seeing a star at night. Therefore, Lapa Festival is also known as the "Dharma Treasure Festival", "Buddha became the festival", "into the road will be" and so on.