16 Traditional Chinese Festivals and Customs

China's 16 traditional festivals are the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Tanabata Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Chung Yeung Festival, Winter Solstice Festival, New Year's Eve, Lunar New Year's Eve, Dragon Heads Rising, Social Day Festival, Shang Si Festival, Cold Food Festival, Mid-Year Festival, Cold Weather Festival.

1, Spring Festival

Customs: China has a long history of New Year's Eve, in the development of inheritance has formed a number of more fixed customs, many of which are still passed down to the present day, such as doing the New Year's Eve goods, sweeping the dust, posting the New Year's Eve red, New Year's Eve dinner, the New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, dragon and lion dances, worshiping the gods and ancestors, burnt firecrackers, burning fireworks, touring the gods, the race, the New Year's Eve, betting on the boat, praying for blessings, temple fairs, touring gongs and drums, drinking wine on lanterns, enjoying lanterns and other customs.

2, Lantern Festival

Customs: Because the Lantern Festival has the custom of opening lanterns and watching lanterns, the folk are also known as the "Lantern Festival". Lantern Festival is mainly a series of traditional folk activities such as lanterns, eating dumplings, riddles, fireworks. In addition, many places Lantern Festival also added a dragon lantern, lion, stilt walkers, rowing dry boat, twisting rice-planting songs, playing drums and other folk performances.

3, Qingming Festival

Customs: First, to honor ancestors, the end of caution; the second is trekking excursions, close to nature. Qingming is an important time for traditional society to unite the festival and the festival, the festival is "heavenly time", which is purely natural time, and the festival is "human time", which is a social and cultural time choice, fully reflecting people's "unity of heaven and man" view of nature. It is a social and cultural choice of time, fully reflecting people's "unity of heaven and man" view of nature. Qingming ritual culture fully embodies the Chinese people to honor their ancestors, the human spirit of caution.

4, Dragon Boat Festival

Customs: eating zongzi is a traditional Chinese folk custom. Zongzi, also known as "corn", "zongzi", "tube zongzi", its long history, a variety of patterns.

5, Tanabata

Customs: Tanabata is the world's earliest love festival, Tanabata night sitting watching the Altair and Vega star, visit the girlfriends, worship the Vega, praying for marriage, cut female red, begging for blessings and so on, is the traditional Chinese folk Tanabata customs. In ancient times, countless sentimental men and women in the world would pray to the starry sky for their marriages to be fulfilled on this night.

6, Mid-Autumn Festival

Customs: Mid-Autumn Night, the moon is full of cinnamon, the old custom of people see it as a symbol of reunion, people will be prepared with a variety of fruits and cooked food, especially mooncakes, eating mooncakes, etc., while the moon in the courtyard to enjoy the moon. In some places, there are also osmanthus flowers, drinking osmanthus wine, burning lanterns, riddles, burning towers to play with the rabbit, and so on.

7, Chongyang Festival

Customs: In ancient times, the folk in the Chongyang Festival have climbed high to pray for blessings, autumn tours to enjoy chrysanthemums, wear dogwood, sacrifices to the gods and ancestors, and feasts to seek longevity and other customs. Since then, it has added the connotation of honoring the elderly, enjoying feasts and honoring the elderly on the day of the Chrysanthemum Festival. The two important themes of today's Chrysanthemum Festival activities are to enjoy the autumn and to be grateful to the elderly.

8, winter solstice

Customs: many areas in the winter solstice this day has the custom of sacrificing to the ancestors, and now there are still some places in the winter solstice this day to celebrate the festival. Families offer their family tree, ancestor statues and tablets to the upper hall of their homes, set up tables for offerings, incense burners, offerings and so on. At the same time, some places also worship the gods of heaven and land, bowing to the gods, in order to pray for the coming year, the wind and rain, the family and all things happy.

9. New Year's Eve

Customs: New Year's Eve is mainly characterized by the customs of posting New Year's red, New Year's Eve dinner, New Year's money, resignation, and observance of New Year's Eve. New Year's Eve, the whole family together to eat "reunion dinner", there is a family reunion New Year's flavor, the folk custom of the New Year's Eve is mainly manifested in the New Year's Eve lights all night. New Year's Eve, home and outside not only to clean up, but also to paste the god of the door, paste the Spring Festival couplets, paste the New Year's paintings, hang the door cage, people change into new clothes with festive colors and patterns.

10, Lahai Festival

Customs: Lahai main custom is to "drink Lahai congee", bubble Lahai vinegar. China's history of drinking Laha congee, has been a thousand years.

11, Dragon Head Raising

Customs: Due to the overlap of the festival, some areas in the south, "February 2" both the Dragon Head Raising Festival customs and customs of the festival, such as in Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and other regions, "February 2" more than the festival of the community! The main sacrifice of the dragon in the "dragon fly day" of the Duanyang.

12, social festival

Customs: also known as the land birth, is an ancient Chinese traditional festival, social day is divided into spring and autumn social. Ancient times of the social day festival based on the dry calendar to set, and later because of the calendar changes to the lunar calendar to set the festival. In ancient times, the god of the land and the place where the god of the land was worshipped were called "She", and according to the folk custom in China, every time when it was time to sow or harvest, the farmers would pray to or reward the god of the land.

13, on the Si Festival

Customs: commonly known as March 3, is a traditional festival of the Han Chinese people, the festival in the Han Dynasty before the first half of March, Si Day, and then fixed in the summer calendar on the third day of March. The history of the festival has a long history, in the ancient times on the Si has become a large-scale folk festival, spring and Jingming, people out of their homes, set in the water, held to remove the ominous purification ceremony.

14, Cold Food Festival

Customs: the custom of changing the fire, in the pre-Qin has. During the Cold Food Festival, no fire is allowed and only cold food can be eaten. The Cold Food Festival consists of two elements, one is the official ceremony of changing the fire, and the other is the folk ban on fire and cold food.

15, Zhongyuan Festival

Customs: folk customs known as the half of the seventh month, the fourteenth day of the seventh month, ancestor worship festival. July is auspicious month, filial piety month, half of July is the folk early fall to celebrate the harvest, pay thanks to the earth's festival, there are a number of crops ripe, the folk routinely worship ancestors, with new rice and other offerings, to the ancestors to report the fall into. The festival is a cultural tradition of remembering one's ancestors, and its cultural core is to honor one's ancestors with filial piety.

16, Cold Clothes Festival

Customs: the first day of the tenth lunar month, also known as the "October Morning", Cold Clothes Festival is popular in the northern part of China, many northern people will be in this day to sweep, to commemorate the death of loved ones, so-called send Cold Clothes. At the same time, this day also marks the arrival of winter, so it is also for parents and loved ones and other people concerned about the day to send cold clothes.