What are the traditional Chinese festivals?

The 12 traditional Chinese festival customs are:

1, Spring Festival customs, New Year's Eve dinner:

New Year's Eve dinner, also known as the New Year's Eve dinner, New Year's Eve dinner, etc., refers to the end of the year New Year's Eve of the whole family dinner. New Year's Eve dinner originated from the ancient end of the year ritual rituals, worship gods and ancestors after the reunion dinner. Lunar New Year's Eve dinner is the highlight of the year before, not only colorful, but also very meaningful. Before eating the New Year's Eve dinner, the gods and ancestors are worshipped, and the meal is served only after the worship ceremony is completed.

2, Qingming Festival customs, trekking:

Chinese folk have long maintained the Qingming trekking habits, trekking customs have a long history. During the Qingming period is the spring breeze, spring season, when everything is budding, spring excursions in the field has long been a custom.

3, Chrysanthemum Festival customs, sunshine autumn:

Chrysanthemum Festival is the best time to enjoy the autumn, some mountain villages in southern China has retained the "sunshine autumn" features. Go to the countryside to enjoy folklore, see the sunshine autumn, has become a fashion of rural tourism. "Sunshine autumn" is a typical agricultural phenomenon, with strong regional characteristics.

4, the Mid-Autumn Festival customs, enjoy the moon:

The Mid-Autumn Festival custom of enjoying the moon originated from the moon festival, the serious rituals into a relaxed entertainment. It is said that the moon is the closest to the earth on this night, and the moon is the largest, roundest and brightest, so there has been the custom of drinking and enjoying the moon from ancient times to the present.

5, Zhongyuan Festival customs, ancestor burning paper:

Middle of the year ancestor burning wrapping paper. To be a stack of paper money, sealed into a small seal, written above the recipient's name and name, the number of seals received, the name of the person and the time. Popular legend has it that on July 15, the ghost gate is closed, each family should "send children to the orphans".

6, Tanabata customs, fighting:

The Tanabata fighting, the determination of the fighting coquettish "divination coquettish" method, there are mainly "through the needle begging coquettish", "happy spider should be coquettish! ", "moon piercing needle", "lose coincidence", "orchid night fight coincidence" and "throw needle check coincidence " and several other forms.

7, Dragon Boat Festival customs, rowing dragon boat:

Rowing dragon boat is a multi-people collective pick paddle race, is the main custom of the traditional Han Festival Dragon Boat Festival, originated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, initially the Chinese people to dispel diseases and prevent epidemics of the festival, Wu and Yue of the land in the Spring and Autumn period before the Dragon Boat Race on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar in the form of the custom of tribal totem rituals; After the poet Qu Yuan passed away on this day, it has become the Chinese Han people to commemorate the Qu Yuan's traditional festivals and customs.

8, cold food festival customs, worship ancestors:

Cold food festival tomb sweeping ancestor in the North and South Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty was regarded as a "wild festival". Tang Dynasty into the "Kaiyuan Rites" "Volume 87 - Wang Gong following the worship and sweeping" in the official recognition and advocacy of one of the auspicious rites. Later, it evolved into the royal tomb; the government sacrificed to the temple of Confucius and the sages; and the people visited the graves.

9, on the Si Festival customs, sacrificing to the heir sacrifice:

In the Si Festival activities, the main activity is to sacrifice to the heir sacrifice, that is, the management of marriage and fertility of the God. The High-requesting Sacrifice, also known as the Suburban Sacrifice, gets its name from the fact that it is offered in the countryside. Through this witchcraft activity, people get rid of disasters and evil spirits, and pray for fertility. Therefore, the festival is also a festival of courtship and fertility.

10, the day of the social customs, sacrificial stove:

Social Day Festival sacrificial stove is a grand festival of the ancient people. The emperor went to the "king of the community" sacrifice pray for abundance, but also to feast on the group of ministers. The people then collectively worshiped the god of their village.

11, Dragon head custom, shaving:

Dragon head day shaving is called shaving "head of joy", by the dragon head of the auspicious time, bless the children healthy growth, grow up to excel; adult haircut, the old and welcome the new, hoping to bring good luck, the new year smoothly.

12, Lantern Festival customs, lanterns:

Lanterns is a traditional Lantern Festival customs, began in the Western Han Dynasty, flourished in the Sui and Tang dynasties. After the Sui and Tang dynasties, the wind of lights prevailed, and inherited in later generations. And the first month of the 15th, and is the annual lantern fireworks climax. So the Lantern Festival is also known as the "Festival of Lights".