The custom of traditional festivals in China: Spring Festival and Lantern Festival.

Customs of the Spring Festival: The customs of the Spring Festival mainly include buying new year's goods, sweeping the dust during the Spring Festival, posting Spring Festival couplets on stick grilles, posting auspicious words upside down, and giving lucky money to the younger generation. More importantly, the Spring Festival can be a family reunion.

One of the oldest customs during the Spring Festival is setting off firecrackers. Firecrackers filled with gunpowder only appeared in the late Tang Dynasty and early Song Dynasty, that is, 1000 years. However, the custom of setting off firecrackers has been around for more than 2000 years. Firecrackers are called firecrackers because before the invention of gunpowder, people really used fire to burn bamboo, which would burst when heated. It was called firecrackers in ancient times. The Tang dynasty called this kind of thing a blasting stick.

Another time-honored custom is to eat jiaozi on New Year's Day. The Book of Rites written in the Han Dynasty records: "The second meal and the first meat are all bait and fried." This is the embryonic form of jiaozi, more than 2,000 years ago. In addition, there are two kinds of Spring Festival foods that appeared almost simultaneously with jiaozi, both of which have a history of nearly 2,000 years. They originated from the Lantern Festival in the Han Dynasty and the rice cakes that appeared in the Southern and Northern Dynasties.

Customs of Lantern Festival: eating Yuanxiao, watching lanterns, solve riddles on the lanterns and so on. Eating Yuanxiao is also called eating dumplings, and Yuanxiao is dumplings. Their practices are different in composition and style, but the meaning of eating Yuanxiao is the same. It means a happy reunion and the days are getting more and more prosperous.

During the reign of Yong Ping in Han Dynasty (AD 58-75), when Ming Chengzu advocated Buddhism, it happened that Cai Cheng returned from India to seek Buddhism, saying that it was an auspicious day to participate in Buddhism when monks gathered to pay tribute to relics on the fifteenth day of the first month in Mohamad, India. In order to carry forward Buddhism, Emperor Han Ming ordered "burning lamps to show Buddha" in the palace temple on the 15th night of the first month.

Since then, the custom of putting lights on the Lantern Festival has spread from being held only in the court to the people. That is, on the fifteenth day of the first month, both the gentry and the people hang up lights, and the urban and rural areas are brightly lit all night.