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What are the traditional folklore of China?

Chinese folklore, in the world is also the most diverse and rich.

The accumulation of 5,000 years of civilization in China, and the multi-ethnicity of China's 56 nationalities***, there are countless traditional folklore, and the folklore with local and national characteristics is even more enormous and unparalleled.

Here, try to cite in the modern society, but also by the majority of people understand and take for granted, but also more attention to the typical.

One of the traditional festivals:

1, New Year's Day: Yuan, said the "first"; Dan, said the "day"; "New Year's Day" means that "first day", the meaning of the first of the year.

On this day, all over the country, there will be corresponding local programs, parties and other celebrations, is also a legal holiday in China.

2, New Year's Eve: usually for the lunar calendar Lunar New Year's Eve, also known as the New Year's Eve, such as the year the lunar calendar without the 30th, that is, the 29th.

New Year's Eve is the day before the official New Year's Eve, this day, to paste couplets (some people will be posted on the first day of the New Year), eat dumplings, red envelopes, pay respect to each other, firecrackers, and watch the gala at night, which is China's biggest festival, and after New Year's Eve, is the New Year, that is, the real Chinese New Year, and also the first day of each year that the Chinese people really recognize.

3. The Qingming Festival is preceded by honoring ancestors and sweeping tombs. Dragon Boat Festival to commemorate Qu Yuan, eat total dumplings. Mid-Autumn Festival to eat moon cakes the whole family to enjoy the moon. The first and fifteenth of each month, those who have faith to pay tribute.

Second, the individual human:

1, marriage: to get married to do banquet, please happy car, to the new couple package red envelope, hold a grand wedding ceremony, performances and firecrackers, this is the biggest day in everyone's life.

2, the birth of a child is also every woman, the most memorable in their lives, the birth of a child, full moon, etc., are major days, to do the corresponding celebrations around.

Three, the Chinese people believe in feng shui, and the real feng shui, not superstition, but scientific basis of the Chinese traditional treasures, such a wider range, not to repeat.