Four Traditional Chinese Festivals

I. Spring Festival

The grandest festival in China is the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival is the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, and also includes the days after the first day of the first month. It is a traditional Chinese folk New Year festival. It is celebrated by the Chinese Han, Zhuang, Buyi, Gelao, Yao, Jing, and Korean ethnic groups, as well as Chinese living overseas. Countries such as North Korea, South Korea and Vietnam also have a tradition of celebrating the Spring Festival.

The Spring Festival is the most joyous festival of the year. At the beginning of the New Year, ancient people held pilgrimages on this day to welcome the gods and worship their ancestors, to divine the climate, to pray for a good harvest, and to engage in various recreational activities. Over time, the celebration of the time to extend back, celebrate the content of the gradual enrichment.

The main content of the celebration:

1, the small year. The time is on the twenty-third or twenty-fourth day of the Lunar New Year. Legend has it that on this day, Mr. Zao will go to heaven to report on the situation on earth. Folk worship on this day, in the hope that the king of the stove in the sky to say good things down to the ground to ensure peace.

2, New Year's Eve, commonly known as the New Year. On this day, families get together, eat reunion dinner, drink wine, keep the New Year's Eve, put up door gods and spring couplets, and set off firecrackers.

3, the first day of the first month. Family reunion, and then travel, meet friends and relatives, congratulate each other.

4. The 15th day of the first month, the Lantern Festival. It is the climax and end of the Spring Festival, people eat Lanterns and enjoy lanterns.

2. Qingming Festival

The Qingming Festival is a traditional Chinese festival. China's Han, Zhuang, Korean, Miao and other ethnic minorities celebrate the Qingming Festival. On the day before the Qingming Festival, it is forbidden to cook over a fire and only cold food is eaten, which is called "Cold Food". On the day of the Qingming Festival, graves are swept for ancestors, and the graves of ancestors are weeded out and the earth is added to the graves. After the Song Dynasty, the custom of banning fire on cold food gradually disappeared, Qingming Tomb Sweeping is still popular among the people.

Three, Dragon Boat Festival

Duanwu Festival is popular in Han, Zhuang, Buyi, Tujia and other ethnic minority areas. There are other explanations for the origin of the festival: it is believed that the ancients put May as the evil month, there are many taboos, and thus there are hanging Ai Pu, eat zongzi, drink xionghuang wine and other customs.

Four, Mid-Autumn Festival

"Mid-Autumn Festival" term, first seen in the "Zhou Li". According to historical records, the ancient emperors sacrificed the moon festival for the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the time coincides with the half of the three autumns, so the name of the "Mid-Autumn Festival", "Mid-Autumn Festival" and the beliefs and customs related to the reunion of the activities, so it is also known as "reunion festival", "daughter of the festival", "the festival", "the festival", "the festival", "the festival", "the festival", "the festival". "

The Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as the "Reunion Festival" because of the belief in praying for reunion and related customary activities.

Because the main activities of the Mid-Autumn Festival are centered around the moon, it is also commonly known as the Moon Festival, Moon Festival, Moon Festival, Moon Chase Festival, and Play Festival. "Moon Festival", "Moon Festival", "Moon Worship Festival"; in the Tang Dynasty, the Mid-Autumn Festival was also known as "Duanzheng month". The prevalence of the Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Song Dynasty, to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, has been on a par with New Year's Day, becoming one of the major festivals in China.