What are the traditional festivals and customs in China?

China's traditional festivals and customs

1. Spring Festival: The Spring Festival is China's grandest and most lively of an ancient traditional festival. Commonly known as "New Year's Eve". Every New Year's Eve, families get together to eat New Year's Eve dinner together, called "reunion year". Then they observe the New Year's Eve together, talk about the old and the new, and congratulate and encourage each other. When the New Year comes, firecrackers and fireworks will culminate in a festive atmosphere. China's northern regions at this time have the custom of eating dumplings, take "year-end cross" meaning. In the south, it is customary to eat rice cakes to symbolize the high quality of life.

2. Lantern Festival: the night of the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, is China's traditional folk Lantern Festival, also known as the Shangyuan Festival, Lantern Festival. Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the night of the Lantern Festival, the streets and alleys are decorated with lanterns, people enjoy the lanterns, riddles, eat Lantern Festival, has become the custom of generations

3. February 2: Folklore, the second day of the second month of the Lunar Calendar, is in charge of clouds and rain in the sky of the Dragon King raised his head on the day. From then on, rain will gradually increase. China's northern part of the widely circulated "February 2, the dragon raised its head; big warehouse full, small warehouse flow." The folk proverb.

4. Qingming Festival: Qingming is one of the 24 solar terms and a traditional festival with a long history. The day before Qingming is called the Cold Food Festival. The two festivals coincide with the March, bright spring, peach and willow green. During the Qingming Cold Food Festival, there are folk customs such as forbidding fire and cold food, ancestor worship and grave sweeping, and trekking and picnicking. There are also swinging, kite flying, and other traditional activities.

5. Dragon Boat Festival: The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the traditional Dragon Boat Festival in China. Many of the activities of the Dragon Boat Festival are related to the commemoration of Qu Yuan, a great literary figure in China. On this day, families eat zongzi, and dragon boat competitions are held throughout the south. At the same time, the Dragon Boat Festival is also passed down from ancient times, "Health Festival", people in this day sprinkled clean the courtyard, hanging Ai Zhi, hanging calamus, sprinkled with xionghuang water, drink xionghuang wine, radical removal of decay, sterilization and disease prevention. These activities also reflect the fine tradition of our nation.

6. Tanabata Festival: Every year on the seventh day of the seventh month, the world's magpies in the Milky Way to build a magpie bridge, the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden to meet. Every Tanabata will come, Altair and Vega two stars are after all the night through the sky, until the sun rises to retreat, and therefore is also referred to as the parting of the husband and wife on earth will meet.

7. Mid-Autumn Festival: The fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar is the middle of the autumn season, hence the name Mid-Autumn Festival. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, in addition to enjoying the moon, sacrificing to the moon, and eating mooncakes, some places also have activities such as dancing with grass dragons and building pagodas. In addition to mooncakes, various kinds of seasonal fresh and dried fruits are also the delicacies of the Mid-Autumn Night. On this night, people look up to the jade-like moon and naturally look forward to family reunions. People who are far away from their hometowns also take this opportunity to express their nostalgia for their hometowns and loved ones. Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as the "reunion festival".

8. Chrysanthemum Festival: The Chrysanthemum Festival on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar is extremely rich in activities, there are climbing, chrysanthemum appreciation, drinking chrysanthemum wine, eating chrysanthemum cake, dogwood and so on. Chrysanthemum Festival is also the "Festival of the Elderly", the old people in this day or chrysanthemum to cultivate sentiment, or to climb to exercise the physical fitness, to the Sanyu evening added infinite fun.

9. Winter Solstice Festival: Winter Solstice is a very grand festival in ancient China. To this day, China's Taiwan still preserves the winter solstice with nine layers of cake ancestor tradition, to show that do not forget more of the original, the blessing of the reunion of the whole family. In the northern region, there is a custom of slaughtering sheep and eating dumplings on the winter solstice, and the traditional foods in the south include winter solstice rice balls, winter solstice long thread noodles, and so on.

10. Lapa Festival: Lapa Festival is a Buddhist festival. This day is the day Sakyamuni became a Buddha, also known as the "Festival of Success". The most important activity on this day is to eat Laha congee. The earliest Lapa congee is only in the rice porridge with red beans, and later evolved into an extremely complex and elaborate, the main ingredients are white rice, yellow rice, river rice, millet, lingzhi rice and dozens of other kinds of, add walnuts, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, pine nuts, raisins, cinnamon, lily, lotus seeds, etc., boiled all night long, the aroma of the ten-mile drift.