What are the customs activities every year? Brief introduction of annual customs activities

1, New Year's Day: The first day of the first month is the beginning of the year, month and day of the lunar calendar, which is the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar; Because it is the first Shuori, it is also called "Yuanshuo". Spring Festival, commonly known as Chinese New Year, is the most important and grand traditional festival in China. The main folk activities include New Year greetings, setting off firecrackers, posting Spring Festival couplets and giving lucky money.

2. Lantern Festival: Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities such as watching lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, solve riddles on the lanterns and setting off fireworks. In addition, folk performances such as playing with dragon lanterns, playing with lions, walking on stilts, rowing on dry boats, dancing yangko and playing Taiping drums have been added to the Lantern Festival in many places.

Ciba: Ciba is a very popular custom in China. In the past, almost every kitchen had a kitchen god. People call this god "the Bodhisattva who commands life" or "the stove commands life". According to legend, he was sealed by the Jade Emperor as the "Nine-day East Chef Commanding the Kitchen Palace", responsible for managing the kitchen fires of various families, and was worshipped as the patron saint of the family.

4. Sticking Spring Festival couplets: Spring Festival couplets are also called door couplets, spring stickers, couplets, couplets, peaches and so on. They depict the background of the times and express good wishes with neat, dual, concise and delicate words, which are unique literary forms in China. Every Spring Festival, no matter in urban or rural areas, every household should choose a pair of bright red Spring Festival couplets and stick them on the door to add festive atmosphere to the festival.

5. Shounian: The folk custom of Shounian is mainly manifested in turning on the lights all night on New Year's Eve. Keeping the year is called "lighting the year", which means that every room should be brightly lit all night, which is called "lighting the year".

6. Happy New Year: An important activity of the Spring Festival is to go to relatives and friends' homes and neighborhoods to celebrate the New Year, formerly known as Happy New Year. The wind of the Han people's New Year greetings began in the Han Dynasty. It was very popular after the Tang and Song Dynasties, and some people can express their congratulations with famous cards without going in person. It was called "thorn" in the Eastern Han Dynasty, so the business card was also called "famous thorn". After the Ming Dynasty, many people put up a red paper bag at the door to collect famous posts, which was called "Menben".