The customs and concepts of traditional festivals in China

The customs and feelings of traditional festivals in China are as follows:

1, Spring Festival: Spring Festival is the most important traditional festival in China, usually celebrated on the first day of the first lunar month. People gather at home, have a reunion dinner, put up Spring Festival couplets, set off firecrackers, pay New Year greetings and so on. The significance of the Spring Festival is to welcome the New Year and pray for peace, happiness and prosperity in the coming year.

Common Spring Festival customs in China include: preparing new year's goods, posting New Year's greetings, offering sacrifices to stoves, dust removal, hanging New Year pictures, stick grilles, upside down pasting blessings, New Year's Eve, setting off firecrackers, wearing new clothes, eating jiaozi, keeping New Year's Eve, dancing dragons, lucky money, eating jiaozi, setting off firecrackers, paying New Year's greetings, watching social fires, walking on stilts, putting lanterns and dancing lions.

Tomb-Sweeping Day: Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the traditional festivals in China. It is usually celebrated in Tomb-Sweeping Day (April 4th or 5th) in the 24th solar term of the lunar calendar. People will visit graves to worship their ancestors, burn paper money and bring flowers. The significance of Tomb-Sweeping Day is to remember his ancestors and express his memory and respect for his deceased relatives.

3. Dragon Boat Festival: Dragon Boat Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, usually celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. People will eat zongzi, race dragon boats and hang mugwort leaves. The significance of the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan and pray for health, peace and happiness.

4. Mid-Autumn Festival: Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, usually celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. People will eat moon cakes, enjoy the moon and like solve riddles on the lanterns. The significance of Mid-Autumn Festival is to reunite and express our thoughts and gratitude to our loved ones.

August 15th of the lunar calendar is the middle of autumn, so it is called Mid-Autumn Festival. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, in addition to enjoying the moon, offering sacrifices to the moon and eating moon cakes, there are activities such as dancing grass dragons and building stupas in some places. Every night, people will look up at the bright moon like jade and look forward to family reunion. Wanderers who are far away from home also take this opportunity to pin their thoughts on their relatives in their hometown. Therefore, Mid-Autumn Festival is also called "Reunion Festival".

Lantern Festival: Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, usually celebrated on the 15th day of the first lunar month. People will eat Yuanxiao, set off fireworks, solve riddles on the lanterns and so on. The significance of Lantern Festival is to celebrate the New Year and pray for happiness, reunion and happiness.