Chinese traditional festivals have those customs and origins

(The first solar term of the year is "Lichun", which is often called "Playing Spring". Why do they call it that? In the history of our country, there is such a custom that every year on the day of the spring, people put on festival costumes, carrying a big papier-maché ox, singing and dancing on the streets. After the parade, the papier-maché plowing ox carried to the county office of the public hall, by the magistrate personally whip three, meaning: the earth back to spring, hurry to plow. Therefore, people call the spring festival "Playing Spring".)

New Year's Day

January 1

("New Year's Day" first came from the poem "Jieya" by Xiao Ziyun, a Liang scholar of the Southern Dynasty, "New Year's Day of the Four Airs, the First Day of Ten Thousand Lives"). Yuan is the beginning, the first meaning; Dan is a Chinese character, above the "day" means the sun, below the "one" means the horizon. The sun rises over the horizon, symbolizing the beginning of the day. New Year's Day is the first day of the year.

January 1, Gregorian calendar, is recognized as New Year's Day in today's world. China's New Year's Day through the ages, the date is not consistent. Such as the Xia Dynasty is the first day of the first month; the Shang Dynasty in the first day of December; the Zhou Dynasty in the first day of November, and so on. September 27, 1949, the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Association through the use of the "A.D. chronology", will be January 1 as New Year's Day.)

Lunar New Year's Eve

The fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar

(also known as the "Festival of the New Year", i.e., the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. It is an important traditional festival in China. In ancient books, this day is called "on the Yuan", and its night is called "Yuan night", "Yuan Xi" or "Lantern Festival". The name "Lantern Festival" has been used until now. Since the Lantern Festival has the custom of opening and watching the lanterns, it is also known as the "Festival of Lights" in folklore. In addition, there are also eating Lantern Festival, stilt walking, riddles and other customs. China's ancient calendar and the phase of the moon have a close relationship, the fifteenth day of the month, people ushered in the first full-moon night of the year, this day is rightly regarded as an auspicious day. As early as the Han Dynasty, the fifteenth day of the first month was already used as a day to worship the emperor and pray for blessings. Later, the ancients called the 15th day of the first month "Shangyuan", the 15th day of the 7th month "Zhongyuan", and the 15th day of the 10th month "Xiayuan". At the latest, in the early North and South Dynasties, Sanyuan was already a day to hold a grand ceremony. Among the three elements, the first element was the most important. Later, the celebrations of the Middle and Lower Yuan were gradually abolished, while the Upper Yuan has endured.)

Wish Day

February 5

(Wish Day is also known as Make a Wish Day.)

Originated at the beginning of the twenty-first century, unlike other traditional festivals, it is a product of the new era and is rapidly developing and taking shape.

Wish Festival is the fifth day of the second month of the solar calendar every year, on that day there will be a lot of young people will write their wishes on paper, and then hang them on the tree, the higher you hang them, the more likely that the wishes will be realized

Cold Food

The day before the Qingming Festival

(A festival in the old custom, on the day before the Qingming Festival [two days before the Qingming Festival, as one says]. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Prince Chong Er of Jin, who had been dead for many years, returned to his throne [i.e., Duke Wen of Jin] and rewarded his ministers who had died with him, but only Jie Zhi Tui was left out. Jie Zhitui then took his mother to live in seclusion in Mianshan Mountain [now southeast of Jiexiu County, Shanxi Province]. Duke Wen of Jin learned of this and wanted to reward him, so he went to Mianshan Mountain and couldn't find him, so he tried to burn the mountain to force him to come out. However, Jie Zhi Tui insisted on not coming out, and as a result, both mother and son were burned to death. Duke Wen of Jin then stipulated that people should be forbidden to burn rice on this day every year to mourn the death of his mother and son. Later, the custom of eating cold food and sweeping graves on the day of cold food was formed.)

Ching Ming Festival

The eighth day of the second month of the lunar calendar

(Qingming Festival is a traditional festival in China, and the most important festival of worship, a day of ancestor worship and tomb-sweeping. Tomb-sweeping is commonly known as visiting the graves, an activity to honor the dead. Most Han Chinese and some ethnic minorities sweep their tombs on Qingming Day. According to the old custom, when sweeping tombs, people should bring wine, food, fruits, paper money and other items to the cemetery, offer the food in front of their loved ones' graves, then incinerate the paper money, cultivate new soil for the graves, fold a few tender green new branches and stick them on the graves, then bow down and perform rituals and worship, and then eat the wine and food and go home at last. Du Mu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem entitled "Qingming": "The rain falls one after another during the Qingming Festival, and the pedestrians on the road want to break their souls. Where can I find a tavern? The shepherd boy points to the apricot blossom village." It writes about the special atmosphere of Qingming Festival.

The Qingming Festival, also known as the Treading Green Festival, according to the solar calendar, it is between April 4 and 6 every year, which is the time of spring when the grass and trees spit out the green, and it is also a good time for people to go on spring excursions [called trekking in ancient times], so the ancients had the custom of trekking in the Qingming Festival and carrying out a series of sports activities.)

Duanwu Festival

The fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar

(The fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar is the Dragon Boat Festival. Duanwu" was originally called "Duanwu", and "Duan" means "beginning". "Five" and "Wu" for each other as a harmonic and universal. It is an ancient festival in China. China's earliest ancient patriotic poet Qu Yuan was banished by slander, witnessed the growing political corruption in Chu, and could not realize their own political ideals, unable to save the dying motherland, so he threw himself into the Bioluo River to martyrdom. After that, people in order not to make the fish and shrimp eat their bodies, have used glutinous rice and flour into various shapes of cakes into the river, which later became the Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi, fried cake source. This custom has spread abroad.)

The Tanabata Valentine's Day

The seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar

(The evening of the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is known as "Tanabata". China's folklore is that the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden meet on this night at the Bridge of Magpies in the Sky River, and then there are women who wear needles and beg for coquettish things from the Weaving Maiden on this night. The so-called begging for coquettish, that is, under the moonlight to the Vega star with colored thread through the needle, such as can pass through seven different sizes of the eye of the needle, even if it is very "coquettish". Farmer's proverbs say "the seventh day of the seventh month is clear and bright, grinding sickle cut good rice." This is the time to sharpen the sickle for the early rice harvest.)

Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival

(On the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, this day falls in the middle of the autumn season, so it is called "Mid-Autumn Festival". In the evening, the moon is full and the fragrance of laurel, the old custom people see it as a symbol of reunion, to prepare a variety of fruits and cooked food, is a good festival to enjoy the moon. Mid-Autumn Festival also eat moon cakes. According to legend, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, in order to overthrow the brutal Yuan Dynasty, the people wrote the date of the riot on a note and put it in the mooncake filling so as to pass it secretly to each other, calling for an uprising on August 15th. Finally, on this day, a nationwide peasant uprising was baked, overthrowing the corrupt Yuan Dynasty. Since then, the custom of eating mooncakes at mid-autumn has spread even more widely.)

Chongyang Festival

The ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar

(The ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar. China's ancient to nine for the Yang, September 9 is the yin and yang day, so the name "Chongyang". Legend has it that in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ru Nan Huan Ying, heard Fei Changfang said to him, September 9 Ru Nan will have a big disaster, quickly called the family sewing small generation, filled with cornelian cherry, tied to the arm, climbed the mountain, drink chrysanthemum wine, to take refuge. Huanjing this day the whole family mountaineering, home at night, really home chickens, dogs, sheep all dead. Since then, the folk have been in the Chongyang Festival do Cornus generation, drink chrysanthemum wine, hold a temple fair, climb high and other customs. Because "high" and "cake" sound the same, so the Chongyang Festival and eat "Chongyang cake" custom. Wang Wei, a poet of Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem "Remembering the Brothers of Shandong on September 9", which reads: "Being a stranger in a foreign land, I think of my relatives twice as much at festivals. I know from afar where my brothers are climbing up, and I have less Cornus officinalis to plant." The poem records the customs of the time. Because of its sincere feelings, the poem is still popular today.)

National Day

October 1

(October 1, 1949, is the anniversary of the founding of the new China. It should be clarified here that in many people's minds, the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China*** and the State of China was held in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on October l, 1949 with hundreds of thousands of military and civilian participants. In fact, this impression in people's minds is not accurate. Because the ceremony held in Tiananmen Square on October 1, 1949 was the founding ceremony of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China, not the Founding Ceremony. In fact, the "founding" of the People's Republic of China, that is to say, the establishment of the People's Republic of China, had already been announced a week before October 1 of that year. At that time, it was not called the "Founding Ceremony", but the "Founding Ceremony". The date was September 21, 1949, when the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) was held. On that day, Mao Zedong, head of the preparatory committee for the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), announced the birth of a new China in his opening speech at the first session of the CPPCC).

Winter Solstice

Twenty-second day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar

(In ancient times, China attached great importance to the winter solstice, which was regarded as a big festival, and there was a saying that "the winter solstice is as big as a year" and there was a custom of celebrating the winter solstice. The book of han said: "winter solstice yang qi up, jung dao long, so congratulations." People think: after the winter solstice, the day is longer than one day, Yang Qi rise, is the beginning of a cycle of festivals, is also an auspicious day, should be celebrated. The Book of Jin" on the record "Wei Jin winter solstice day by all the countries and bureaucrats to congratulate ...... its instrument subdivided into the first day." This shows the importance of the winter solstice in ancient times.

Now, some places still take the winter solstice as a festival. Northern regions have the custom of slaughtering sheep, eating dumplings and wontons on the winter solstice, while southern regions have the habit of eating winter solstice rice balls and winter solstice long thread noodles on this day. All regions also have the custom of offering sacrifices to the sky and ancestors on this day of the winter solstice.)

Lunar New Year's Day

The eighth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar

(In ancient times, December was called Lunar New Year when sacrifices were made to the gods, and therefore the twelfth month of the lunar calendar was called Lunar New Year. On the eighth day of the first month of the Lunar calendar, the old custom is to drink Laha congee. Legend has it that Siddhartha Gautama attained Buddhahood on this day, so monasteries cook congee for the Buddha every day, and then folk custom until today.)

New Year's Eve

The 30th day of the 12th month of the Lunar Calendar

(The night of the 30th day of the Lunar Calendar is called New Year's Eve. The original meaning of the word "除" is "去" (go), which is derived from "易" [alternate]; the original meaning of the word "夕" is "日暮". The original meaning of the character "夕" is "sunset", which is derived from "night". Therefore, the night of New Year's Eve contains the meaning of "the old year will be removed here, and the new year will be replaced tomorrow". The word "New Year's Eve" means to get rid of the old and bring in the new. New Year's Eve first originated in the pre-Qin period, "by removing". According to "Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals - The Record of the Seasonal Winter", the ancients used to beat drums on the day before New Year's Eve to get rid of "epidemics and plague ghosts", so that the coming year would be free from diseases and calamities. This is the origin of the "New Year's Eve" festival. "New Year's Eve" in ancient times there are many other names, such as in addition to the night, in addition to the year, in addition to the year, in addition to the big, big end and so on. Although there are many names, but it is always the meaning of sending the old to welcome the new, to get rid of the disease and eliminate disasters.)

The Spring Festival

The first day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar

(is the first year of the Lunar Calendar, commonly known as the "big year. The origin of the Spring Festival has a history of about four thousand years in China. It is one of the most lively and grandest traditional festivals in China. Ancient Spring Festival, refers to the twenty-four solar terms in the lunar calendar, "spring" season, after the North and South Dynasties will be the Spring Festival at the end of the year, and refers to the entire spring, when the earth back to spring, everything is renewed, people will take it as the beginning of a new year. In the early years of the Republic of China after the Xinhai Revolution, the first day of the first month of the year was designated as the Spring Festival after the lunar calendar was changed to the Gregorian [solar] calendar. It was not until September 27, 1949, that the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference officially designated the first day of the first month of the new year as the Spring Festival, and many people still call the Spring Festival the Chinese New Year).

Nian: (Everyone often refers to the Spring Festival as "Chinese New Year", but the original meaning of "Nian" is not the same as today's. It is said that in the very ancient times, the word "Nian" was used to refer to the "New Year". It is said that in ancient times, there was the most vicious beast in the world called "Nian". It grew bigger than a camel. It ran faster than the wind and roared louder than thunder. When it came out, it ate people and hurt animals, and people's lives were seriously threatened. In order to punish the "year", the gods locked it into the mountains, only allowed it to come out once a year. People in the long-term practice, found that the "year" has "three fears" - afraid of red color, afraid of loud noise, afraid of fire. So, one year, on the night of the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, people put red paper on the door, and constantly beat the gongs and drums, firecrackers, and light up the house all night long. "Year" came at night to see, bright lights in every house; listen, everywhere the sound of firecrackers, scared it did not dare to enter the village. During the day, it sneaked down the mountain, see still red on the door of every house, everywhere thud, scared it scared, turned around and ran back. Since then, the "year" has not dared to come back, it is said to starve to death in the mountains and old forests. Later on, people turned the prevention of "Nian" and "Nianxuan" into a peaceful and stable New Year. There is no more "Nian", but the custom of celebrating the New Year still remains. Bright red spring couplets, brilliant lights, crisp firecrackers, loud gongs and drums, year after year.)