What are some brief introductions about the origin and customs of traditional festivals?

1, New Year's Eve (the last day of the twelfth lunar month)

Have a reunion dinner, sacrifice, and stay up late for the New Year. People often stay up all night on New Year's Eve, which is called "vigil". On New Year's Eve, the house and the outside should be cleaned up, and the door gods, Spring Festival couplets, New Year pictures, stick grilles and blessings should be posted. People put on new clothes with festive colors and patterns.

2. Spring Festival (the first day of the first month)

Eat rice cakes, jiaozi, glutinous rice balls, meatballs, whole fish, wine, apples, peanuts, melon seeds, sweets and so on. Many activities, such as setting off firecrackers, giving lucky money, visiting relatives and friends, giving new year gifts, visiting ancestral graves, visiting flower markets, making fires, etc., are very enjoyable.

3. Lantern Festival (15th day of the first month)

Since ancient times, the custom of Lantern Festival has been based on the warm and festive custom of watching lanterns. Traditional customs include going out to enjoy the moon, lighting lanterns and setting off flames, liking solve riddles on the lanterns, eating Yuanxiao and pulling rabbit lanterns. In addition, in many places, traditional folk performances, such as playing dragon lanterns, playing lions, walking on stilts, boating, yangko dancing and playing Taiping drums, have all joined the Lantern Festival.

4. Cold Food Festival (the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day)

105 solstice is one or two days before Tomb-Sweeping Day after the winter in the summer calendar. When the first day of the day is a holiday, smoking is forbidden and only cold food is eaten. In the development of later generations, the customs of sweeping, climbing, swinging, cuju, crochet and cockfighting were gradually increased. The Cold Food Festival lasted for more than 2,000 years and was once called the largest folk festival in China. Cold Food Festival is the only traditional festival named after food customs in China.

5. China Valentine's Day (the seventh day of the seventh lunar month)

Some places in Guangxi have the custom of storing water on Tanabata. According to folklore, on the morning of July 7th, fairies will go down to the world to take a bath, and their bath water can ward off evil spirits, cure diseases and prolong life. Therefore, people go to the river to get water on the morning of Tanabata, and then bring it back and put it in a new urn for future use. If there are sickly children at home, parents often tie a red rope into seven knots on this day and wear it around the child's neck, praying for God to bless the child's health and longevity.