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Traditional Chinese Customs and Festivals

1. New Year's Eve - the 29th or 30th day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar

Customs : Eating a reunion dinner, offering sacrifices, and staying up all night to observe the New Year.

2. Spring Festival - the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar

Customs : The Spring Festival is generally characterized by eating rice cakes, dumplings, dumplings, big meatballs, whole fish, fine wine, apples, peanuts, melon seeds, candies and so on; firecrackers, giving New Year's money, New Year's greetings, visiting relatives, New Year's gifts, visits to the ancestors' graves, flower markets, fireworks, and many other activities. It's a great pleasure to be in the family.

1. New Year's Eve - the 29th or 30th day of the 12th month of the lunar calendar

Customs: Eating a reunion dinner, making sacrifices, and staying up all night to observe the New Year.

On New Year's Eve, people often stay up all night, which is called "keeping watch". On the day of New Year's Eve, the house is cleaned and cleaned, and door gods, spring couplets, New Year's paintings, window decals and lucky charms are put on. People change into new clothes with festive colors and patterns.

Traditional Chinese Festivals and Customs

2. Spring Festival - the first day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar

Customs: The Spring Festival is generally characterized by eating rice cakes, dumplings, dumplings, meatballs, whole fish, wine, apples, peanuts, melon seeds and candies, etc.; setting off firecrackers, giving New Year's money, paying New Year's greetings, visiting relatives, sending New Year's gifts, visiting ancestral graves, visiting flower markets, and making a lot of noise. The Chinese New Year is characterized by firecrackers, New Year's money, paying homage, visiting relatives, sending New Year gifts, going to ancestors' graves, flower markets, social fires and many other activities, which are extremely enjoyable.

The Spring Festival is a traditional Chinese festival in which families have a reunion dinner and watch the Spring Festival gala together.

Traditional Chinese Festivals and Customs

3. Lantern Festival - the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar

Customs: Watching lanterns, eating Lantern Festival, walking on stilts, guessing lantern riddles

4. Cold Food Festival - (one day before the Qingming Festival)

Customs : Starting a fire to cook rice, eating cold food

1. New Year's Eve - (December 29 or 30 of the lunar calendar)

Customs : Eating a reunion meal, making sacrifices, staying up all night to observe the New Year's Eve.

On New Year's Eve, people often stay up all night, which is called "keeping watch". On the day of New Year's Eve, the house is cleaned and cleaned, and door gods, spring couplets, New Year's paintings, window decals and lucky charms are put on. People change into new clothes with festive colors and patterns.

Traditional Chinese Festivals and Customs

2. Spring Festival - the first day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar

Customs: The Spring Festival is generally characterized by eating rice cakes, dumplings, dumplings, big meatballs, whole fish, wine, apples, peanuts, melon seeds, candies, etc.; setting off firecrackers, giving New Year's money, paying New Year's greetings, visiting relatives, giving New Year's gifts, visiting ancestral graves, visiting flower markets, and making a lot of noise. The Chinese New Year is characterized by firecrackers, New Year's money, paying homage, visiting relatives, sending New Year gifts, visiting ancestors' graves, flower markets, social fires and many other activities, all of which make it a joyous occasion.

The Spring Festival is a traditional Chinese festival in which families have a reunion dinner and watch the Spring Festival gala together.

Traditional Chinese Festivals and Customs

3. Lantern Festival - the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar

Customs: Watching lanterns, eating Lantern Festival, stepping on stilts, guessing riddles

The first month of the lunar calendar is the first month of the lunar calendar, which is known as the "Lantern Festival" to the ancient people. It is also known as the Small New Year's Day, Yuan Xi or Lantern Festival, and is the first important festival after the Spring Festival. China is a vast country with a long history, so the customs of the Lantern Festival are not the same throughout the country, among which eating lanterns, lanterns, dragon dances, lion dances, etc. are several important folk customs of the Lantern Festival.

Traditional Chinese Festivals and Customs

4. Cold Food Festival - (the day before the Qingming Festival)

Customs: Starting a fire to burn rice, eating cold food

Banning fireworks and eating only cold food. And in the development of later generations gradually added sweeping, trekking, swinging, cuju, pulling hooks, cockfighting and other customs, cold food festival before and after the extension of more than 2,000 years, was once known as the first Chinese folk festival day. The Cold Food Festival is the only one of the traditional Chinese festivals to be named after a food custom.

During this fireless time, people must prepare enough cooked food to survive the day in the cold, i.e. "cold food", hence the name "Cold Food Festival". The cold food festival stretches before and after more than two thousand years, known as the first folk festival.

Traditional Chinese Festivals and Customs

5. Qingming Festival - (around April 5)

Customs: Sweeping tombs, trekking.

6. Dragon Boat Festival - (on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar)

Customs: eating rice dumplings and racing dragon boats.

7. Tanabata Festival - the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar

Customs: threading needles and begging for coquettish objects, praying for blessings and longevity, worshipping the Seven Sisters, and women's scarfing

8. Mid-Yuan Festival: the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar

Customs: releasing river lanterns, offering sacrifices to ancestors, worshipping the dead souls, and burning paper ingots, etc.

9. Mid-Autumn Festival --The fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar.

Customs: enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes

10. Chung Yeung Festival - the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar.

Customs: Climbing to a higher altitude, inserting dogwood.

11. Winter Solstice: December 21, 22 or 23 every year

Customs: Eating dumplings, eating dumplings, drinking mutton soup

12. Lunar Lunar New Year's Day: the eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar

Customs: Eating Lunar congee, Lunar garlic, and Lunar noodles

13. Zaozhi Festival: The twenty-third or twenty-fourth day of the twelfth month of the Lunar New Year on the Chinese lunar calendar

Customs: Removing dust, Eating Zao sugar