Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional festivals - What is custom?

What is custom?

Custom is habit. In the old society, there were many taboos between urban and rural residents, which were manifested in all aspects of people's behavior. There are reasonable taboos, but most of them are feudal superstitions. Custom refers to ethos, etiquette, habits, etc. Evolved from a specific region and a specific population. Time-honored customs and customs. Individual or collective traditions, inherited fashions, manners and habits.

The custom of traditional festivals in China is New Year's Eve (having a reunion dinner, offering sacrifices, staying up late to watch the New Year); Spring Festival (having a family reunion dinner, watching the Spring Festival party, setting off firecrackers, giving lucky money, paying New Year's greetings, visiting relatives, sending new year's goods, visiting ancestral graves, visiting flower markets, and making a social fire); Lantern Festival (watching lanterns, eating Yuanxiao, walking on stilts, riddles); Dragon Boat Festival (eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, inserting mugwort leaves on the door); Mid-Autumn Festival (enjoying the moon and eating moon cakes); Tomb-Sweeping Day (sweeping graves, hiking); Double Ninth Festival (climbing high and inserting dogwood); Winter solstice (eat jiaozi, eat glutinous rice balls and drink mutton soup); Laba Festival (eating Laba porridge, Laba garlic and Laba noodles) and so on.