What are the main festivals of the Han nationality?

Traditional festivals of the Han nationality mainly include La Worship, offering sacrifices to stoves, Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, social day, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese Valentine's Day, Mid-Autumn Festival and Double Ninth Festival.

Among festivals, the Spring Festival is the grandest. Celebrating the "Spring Festival", also known as the Chinese New Year, is a traditional festival of the Han people for thousands of years, and it is also the most grand festival in a year. During the Chinese New Year, there will be vigils on New Year's Eve and New Year's greetings on the first day of the lunar new year.

The Han nationality is dominated by agriculture, with wheat, corn and rice as staple foods, supplemented by vegetables, bean products and non-staple foods such as chicken, fish, pigs, cattle and mutton. Tea and wine are traditional drinks.

People who live on rice are used to making rice into different foods such as rice, porridge or rice noodles, rice cakes, glutinous rice balls, zongzi and rice cakes. People who live on wheat are used to making steamed bread, noodles, flower rolls, steamed buns, jiaozi, wonton, fried dough sticks, spring rolls, fried cakes, pancakes and so on. Paying attention to and being good at cooking is a major dietary feature of the Han nationality.

Through long-term practice, the Han people in different regions have adopted cooking methods such as frying, roasting, frying, steaming, roasting and cold salad, forming different local flavors. Guangdong cuisine, Fujian cuisine, Anhui cuisine, Shandong cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Hunan cuisine, Zhejiang cuisine and Jiangsu cuisine are famous at home and abroad.

Reference source Baidu Encyclopedia-Han nationality