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What are the paintings of traditional festivals?

Son, son, don't be greedy. It was a year after Laba. "I believe that most people have heard the first sentence of the nursery rhyme" Busy Year ". The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is Laba Festival. Every year when Laba Festival comes, every household will cook Laba porridge, and northerners will also soak a large jar of Laba garlic. On a cold winter day, drinking sweet Laba porridge and looking at a big pot of chubby garlic soaked in vinegar, I can't help thinking of eating Laba garlic jiaozi on New Year's Eve.

1. Laba Festival

2. Festival of offering sacrifices to stoves (off-year)

"Laba porridge, drink for a few days, Ber Ber Laba three. Twenty-three, candied melon sticks ... "Following the next nursery rhyme of Busy Year, we came to the day of the" off-year "festival on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month.

Kitchen Festival has a long history. As early as the Xia Dynasty, Kitchen God had become a respected god.

According to legend, every year on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the Kitchen God returns to heaven to report to the Jade Emperor, telling the good and evil on earth, which is the basis for the Jade Emperor to reward and punish people. So, on this day, people will worship the Kitchen God at home-give him delicious jiaozi, and in addition, give him honeydew melons made of caramel and flour, so that he can't open his mouth after eating them, and can only simply say "Yes" to the Jade Emperor.

3. Spring Festival

"Twenty-three, candied melon sticks, twenty-four, sweeping the floor, twenty-five, making tofu, twenty-six, cutting meat, twenty-seven, killing chickens, twenty-eight, making noodles, twenty-nine, steaming steamed buns, staying for thirty nights, twisting on the first day of the New Year's Eve, held in jiaozi every year."

The Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation. China people have celebrated the Spring Festival for more than 4,000 years. Although the Spring Festival is on the first day of the first lunar month, the atmosphere of the Spring Festival started very early! The home is clean and bright, all kinds of new year's goods are bought in advance, and red Spring Festival couplets, blessings and window grilles are also attached to the corresponding positions. On New Year's Eve, everyone will have dinner, celebrate New Year's Eve, set off firecrackers and have a lively family reunion. The first day of the first month is the traditional New Year's Day. The younger generation pays New Year greetings to the elders, and the elders give red envelopes. It's really lively and festive!

4. Lantern Festival

The last day of the Lunar New Year is the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month. Lantern Festival is also called Shangyuan Festival, Xiaoyuanxi, Yuanxi or Lantern Festival. The first month is the "Yuan" month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called the night "night", so the first full moon night of the year on the fifteenth day of the first month is called the Lantern Festival. As early as more than 2000 years ago, there was a Lantern Festival in the Western Han Dynasty. Traditional customs include eating Yuanxiao or Tangyuan, solve riddles on the lanterns, going out to enjoy the moon, lighting lanterns and setting off flames.

5. Tomb-Sweeping Day

"There are many rains during the Qingming period, and pedestrians on the road want to break their souls." Every year in the third month of the lunar calendar, at the turn of mid-spring and late spring, that is, the first 108 day after the winter solstice, it is Tomb-Sweeping Day. The date of the Gregorian calendar is April 4th or 5th every year.

The origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day began with the "grave-sweeping" ceremony of ancient emperors and generals, and was later followed by the people, which became a fixed custom of worshipping ancestors and sweeping graves on this day.

6. Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon boat racing, eating zongzi, carrying sachets, hanging wormwood and drinking realgar wine are all traditional customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival every year. Dragon Boat Festival originated in China, and the tribes who worshipped dragon totem in ancient wuyue held a tribal totem sacrifice in the form of dragon boat race on the fifth day of May every year. Later, it is said that Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu in the Warring States Period, was extremely indignant when he learned the news of Chu's national subjugation. On the fifth day of May, people take this day as a day to commemorate Qu Yuan.

7. Chinese Valentine's Day

The seventh day of the seventh lunar month is Valentine's Day in China, also known as Begging for Clevership Festival-this night women have a tradition of begging for cleverness from the Weaver Maid in the courtyard, so it is called "Begging for Cleverness". Later, because of the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, this festival was given a romantic color, and now it is our "Valentine's Day" in China.

8. Mid-Autumn Festival

August 15th of the lunar calendar is the second traditional festival in China, the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The Mid-Autumn Festival began in the early years of the Tang Dynasty and prevailed in the Song Dynasty. Since ancient times, there have been customs such as enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes, enjoying flowers, drinking osmanthus wine and playing with lanterns, which have been passed down to this day and are enduring for a long time.

The full moon symbolizes people's reunion, missing their hometown and relatives, and praying for harvest and happiness. Mid-Autumn Festival is a colorful and precious cultural heritage of our Chinese nation.

9. Double Ninth Festival

Double Ninth Festival, also known as Double Ninth Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, falls on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month every year. It was formed as early as the Warring States period and was officially designated as a folk festival in the Tang Dynasty. The custom of celebrating the Double Ninth Festival generally includes activities such as climbing high and looking far, watching chrysanthemums, inserting dogwood, eating double ninth cake and drinking chrysanthemum wine. From 65438 to 0989, the Double Ninth Festival was designated as the festival for the elderly, which advocated the whole society to establish the atmosphere of respecting, respecting, loving and helping the elderly.

10, winter solstice festival

The solstice of winter brings sunshine, and spring comes again. Our winter solstice festival is the 20th or 22nd of Gregorian calendar 65438+February 265438, which is the shortest sunshine day in the northern hemisphere. During the Zhou and Qin Dynasties, the first month was in winter and November, and the winter solstice was the beginning of the year. It was not until Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty adopted the summer calendar that the first month was separated from the winter solstice, so the "Winter solstice festival" was simply celebrated only after the Han Dynasty. The ancients believed that since the winter solstice, the yang of heaven and earth began to flourish and become stronger, representing the beginning of the next cycle, which is a good day. The most familiar custom in winter solstice is to eat jiaozi and glutinous rice balls!