China's seven traditional festivals and their customs ！！！！

There are currently eight major traditional festivals in China, and the following are excerpts of the dates, related customs, and famous lines of related poems for each traditional festival in date order for the owner's reference.

1. New Year's Eve - the 30th day of the 12th month of the lunar calendar (February 2nd). People often stay up all night on New Year's Eve, which is called the "New Year's Watch". On the day of New Year's Eve, not only should the house be cleaned up, but also put up door gods, spring couplets, New Year's paintings, hang door cages, and people change into new clothes with festive colors and patterns. The poems describing New Year's Eve are:

New Year's Eve

Song Wen Tianxiang

Qiankun is empty, the years go to the hall;

The end of the road is shocked by the wind and rain, and the poor side is full of snow and frost.

The life with the years to end, the body and the world to forget;

No more Tusu dream, pick the lamp night is not yet over.

2. Spring Festival - the first day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar (February 3, Gregorian calendar). Chinese New Year customs, generally to eat rice cakes, dumplings, dumplings, meatballs, whole fish, wine, apples, peanuts, melon seeds, candy, tea and dishes; and accompanied by dusting, washing bedding, preparing New Year's goods, posting Spring Festival couplets, posting New Year's paintings (Zhong Kui, the God of the Door), dumplings and sticking paper cuttings, sticking window decorations, posting the word "blessed", pointing candles, light a fire, firecrackers, to the New Year's Eve, to pay homage to the new year, to visit relatives, to send New Year's gifts, on the graves of the ancestors, shopping in the flower market, haunted The Spring Festival is a time of great joy and happiness for the family. The poems describing the Spring Festival include:

Yuan Day

Song Wang Anshi

Banging firecrackers for a year, the spring breeze sends warmth into the TuSu,

A thousand gates and ten thousand tels of sun, always change the new peach for the old symbols.

3. Lantern Festival - the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar (February 17, Gregorian calendar). The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called it "night", and the fifteenth day is the first full moon night of the year, so the first fifteenth of the month for the Lantern Festival. It is also known as the Small New Year's Day, the Lantern Festival, or the Lantern Festival, and is the first important festival after the Spring Festival. China is a vast country with a long history, so the customs of the Lantern Festival are not the same throughout the country, among which eating lanterns, lanterns, dragon dances, lion dances and so on are several important folk customs of the Lantern Festival. The poems describing the Lantern Festival include:

Yuanxi

Song Ouyang Xiu

Last year on the night of the Lantern Festival, the lanterns in the flower market were as bright as day.

The moon reaches the top of the willow, and people meet after dusk.

This year on New Year's Eve, the moon and the lights are still the same.

Not seeing last year's people, tears wet spring shirt sleeves.

4. Qingming Festival - the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar (April 5, Gregorian calendar). The customs of Qingming Festival are rich and interesting, in addition to preaching the prohibition of fire, sweeping the tomb, there are a series of customs and sports activities such as trekking, swinging, kicking Cuju, playing polo, sticking willow and so on. The poems describing the Qingming Festival include:

Qingming

Tang Du Mu

The rain falls one after another during the Qingming Festival, and the pedestrians on the road want to break their souls.

The shepherd boy pointed to the apricot blossom village.

5. Dragon Boat Festival - the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar (June 6, Gregorian calendar). The activities on this day are now gradually evolving into eating zongzi, racing dragon boats, hanging calamus, artemisia, mugwort, fumigating cangzhu, dahuric dahurica, drinking xionghuang wine, tying a hundred rope, making incense horn, sticking five poisons, sticking talismans, releasing the yellow smoke, and eating twelve red. The poems describing the Dragon Boat Festival include:

Duanwu

Tang Wenxiu

The festival is divided into the Dragon Boat Festival since who said, the ancient rumor for Qu Yuan;

Kan laugh at the empty Chu River, can't be washed to straighten the wrongs of the ministers.

6. Tanabata Festival - the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar (August 6, Gregorian calendar). Tanabata Festival is one of the most romantic of China's traditional festivals, and also the most important day for girls in the past. On the evening of this day, women threaded needles and begged for coincidences, prayed for blessings, prayed for activities, worshiped the seven sisters, the ceremony was pious and grand, displaying flowers and fruits, women's red, all kinds of furniture and utensils were beautifully small and delightful. Poems describing the Tanabata Festival include:

The Tanabata Festival

Tang Luoyin

The Nymphaeaceae River of stars in the corner of the sky, a family laughs and sets up a red feast.

It is time to pour out Xie's pearls and guillotines, and to write Tanlang's embroidered articles.

The fragrant tents are clustered in a row, and the golden needles are threaded to pay homage to Cindy.

The copper kettle will tell us that the day will dawn, and we will be disappointed for another year of good times.

7. Mid-Autumn Festival - the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar (September 12, Gregorian calendar). The Mid-Autumn Moon Festival is a very ancient custom in China. The custom of enjoying the moon originated from the moon sacrifice, and the serious sacrifice turned into a light-hearted entertainment. "Folk worshiping the moon" becomes a way for people to long for reunion, happiness and well-being, and to send their love to the moon. A large incense burner is set up, and moon cakes, watermelons, apples, jujubes, plums, grapes and other offerings are placed on the table, of which moon cakes and watermelons are absolutely indispensable. Poems describing the Mid-Autumn Festival include:

Mid-Autumn Moon

Song Su Shi

The twilight clouds are overflowing with cold, and the silver man is turning a jade disk without a sound.

This night is not long enough to be good, but the bright moon will be there next year.

8. Chung Yeung Festival - the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar (October 5, Gregorian calendar). Chrysanthemum Festival has the custom of ascending the heights, the golden autumn in September, the sky is high and cool, this season can be achieved by ascending the heights of the far-away look at the heart, fitness to get rid of the purpose of the disease. This season can achieve the purpose of climbing high and looking far and wide to achieve a relaxed mind, fitness and dispel diseases. Associated with climbing high are the customs of appreciating chrysanthemums and writing poems, inserting dogwoods, and eating Chongyang cakes. The poems describing the Chrysanthemum Festival include:

September 9, Remembering the Brothers of Shandong

Tang Wang Wei

Alone in a foreign land is a foreign guest, every festive season doubly misses the relatives,

Remote to know that the brothers climbed to high places, all over the Cornus fewer than a man.

Note: The calendar dates are in accordance with 2011. Because Chinese traditional festivals are customarily calculated according to the lunar calendar, the calendar dates may vary from year to year.