What are the ancient customs and etiquette

The Spring Festival on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, China's traditional customs of the grandest festival. This festival is the first of the year. Also known as New Year's Day, Yuanzheng, New Year and so on. Folk have pasted spring couplets, dance dragon lanterns, send new year's money, visit friends and relatives, eat a reunion dinner and other customs.

The Lantern Festival on the 15th night of the first month of the lunar calendar, the traditional folk festival. Also known as the first half of the first month, on the Yuan Festival, Lantern Festival. This day to light, release lights, so also known as the "Festival of Lights". In addition to viewing lanterns, eating Lanterns is one of the important customs.

Ching Ming traditional folk festival. Customs include sweeping graves, trekking, swinging, flying kites, and inserting willows and flowers.

Duanwu folk traditional festival. Also known as Duan Yang, heavy afternoon, heavy five. It is generally believed that the festival is related to the commemoration of Qu Yuan.

Mid-Autumn Folklore Festival. Also known as the reunion festival. The main customs include enjoying the moon, sacrificing to the moon, watching the tide and eating moon cakes.

Chiyang folk traditional festival. There are customs such as climbing to see the distance, enjoying chrysanthemums and poems, drinking chrysanthemum wine and inserting dogwoods.

New Year's Eve folk traditional festival. On the evening of December 30 of the lunar calendar, families clean the house, put on a sumptuous dishes, the family reunion to eat "New Year's dinner". This night we stay up all night, or drinking and chatting, or riddles and chess, play and play, known as the "New Year's Eve". Zero o'clock, the crowd scrambled to run out in front of the court fire burning, and in this "year of yuan, the month of yuan, when the yuan" of the "three yuan" when the first three "skyrocket", in order to be first! The first is to be a good example of this.

Cold food traditional Chinese folk festival. Fireworks are strictly prohibited during the festival, and only cold food can be eaten. In the winter solstice after one hundred and five days or one hundred and six days, one or two days before the Qingming.

Begging the traditional folk festival in China. Also known as Maiden's Day or Tanabata.

La Ri China's traditional folk festival. It is an ancient end-of-the-year festival to honor ancestors, worship the gods and celebrate the harvest.

Sitting on the lobby of the north-south position is honored, the inner room by the west side of the east position is honored. In the Historical Records of Xiang Yu (Xiang Yu Ben Ji), there is a saying that "Xiang Wang and Xiang Bo sat facing east. Yawen sat southward". Here, the "south-facing seat" is the most honorable position, and the "east-facing seat" is also a more honorable position.

Feudal Zen ancient emperors sacrificed to the heavens and earth's most solemn rites, mostly by the emperor himself to Mount Tai to preside over. On the top of Mount Tai to sacrifice the sky for the "seal", at the foot of Mount Tai to sacrifice the earth said "Zen".

Bo (Meng) Zhong Shuji brothers line generation in the order of ranking. Bur (Meng) is the eldest, Zhong is the second, uncle is the third, quarter is the fourth.

The taboo said the ancients on the "death" there are many taboo, the main ones are: (1) the son of God, the Queen Mother, the Secretary of the death of princes and lords: princeling, collapse, a hundred years old, a thousand years, Yanxiu, Shanling collapse, and so on. (2) the death of parents: see the back, lonely dew, abandonment, and so on. (3) The deaths of Buddhists and Taoists are referred to as: passing away, seated in a chair, being transformed into a feather, traveling to the immortal world, and passing away. "Immortal death" is now also used to refer to the death of a respected person. (4) The death of a person in general is called: death, long sleep, long death, death, death, death, death, death, old age, death, death, end, and so on.

The eight characters of the birth year, month, day, time of a person's birth, each with a heavenly stem, earthly branch matching, two words for each item, four eight words. Old superstitions believe that according to these eight words, can be deduced a person's fate.

Filial piety and fraternal duty refer to filial piety and obedience to one's parents; fraternal duty refers to respect and obedience to one's elder brother. Confucianism advocates filial piety and fraternal duty for the purpose of maintaining the patriarchal hierarchical order.

SacrificesAncient sacrificial animals, pure color for "?", the body of the whole for "livestock".

Three Sacrifices refers to the ancient sacrificial cattle, sheep, pigs, and later also known as chicken, fish, pigs for the three Sacrifices. A general term for the sacrifices used in the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties.

Family SacrificeAncient ritual of sacrificing to ancestors or family guardian gods in the family temple.

Asahi Ceremony The ancient ceremony of the emperor's court. According to the regulations, the Son of Heaven faced the south; the three dukes faced the north to stand in the east; the ministers and dukes faced the west to stand in the north; the royal family was on the right side of the road gate, facing the south to stand in the east; and the great servants and the subordinates of the great servants were on the left side of the road gate, facing the west to stand in the west.

The courtship was one of the ancient rituals. It was a rite of passage for the lords to meet the Son of Heaven on a regular basis.

Hajj is one of the ancient rituals. It was a ritual for the vassals to meet the Son of Heaven in the Zhou Dynasty.

Handover refers to the ancient etiquette of the host and the guest. One refers to the abdication, i.e., giving up the throne to someone more virtuous than oneself.

Long Greeting This is the ancient etiquette of meeting one another without distinction of honor or inferiority, with the arching hand raised high, from the top down.

ArchAn ancient form of meeting ritual in which the two hands are joined in front of the chest to show respect.

Don't head an ancient form of worship, for the "nine worship" one, commonly known as kowtow. When performing the salute, the head touches the ground and rises. Because of the short period of time that the head touches the ground, it is called tengshou.

Keeping one's head is a kind of worship in ancient times, one of the "Nine Worships". When the salute is performed, the salutatorian bends the knee and kneels on the ground, the left hand presses the right hand, arches the hand on the ground, and the head also slowly reaches the ground. The head must remain on the ground for a certain period of time, with the hands in front of the knees and the head behind the hands. This is the most solemn of the nine rites of worship.

Suwai is an ancient form of kneeling for women. When the salute, both knees on the ground, both hands first to the ground, and then arching hands, while the head down to the hands, so also known as "hand worship".

The empty head is a kind of kneeling ceremony for ancient men. When the salute, both knees on the ground, both hands together, head down to the hand, head and heart level and not on the ground, so it is also known as "worship hand".

Nine worship China's ancient unique to each other to express high respect for the kneeling ceremony.

Kneeling two knees on the ground, straight body, buttocks do not stick to the heels, to show solemnity.

Sitting is the ancient practice of sitting on the ground with the knees on the ground and the buttocks on the heels. In order to show respect for others, the sitting method is quite elaborate.

Seat ancient officialdom seat of honor, very strict. The official high for the honor to live in the upper position, the official low for the inferior in the lower position.

The ancient rituals of sacrificing to the gods of the road and hosting banquets to send off the travelers.

The ancient rituals of sacrifices or major events, beforehand, to bathe, change clothes, live alone, abstain from drinking, in order to show sincerity and respect for the heart, these activities are called "fasting".

Shang right in ancient times, the left and the right indicated a different status. In the Zhou, Qin, and Han Dynasties, the right was superior. The word "left" means to be demoted. For example, in Bai Juyi's "Pipa Xing", "In the 10th year of Yuanhe, I moved to the left to become the Secretary of Jiujiang County".

In ancient times, the left side of the seat was honored, and the left side of the seat was left empty for guests, which was called "virtual left".

Repeating the worship of two successive worship, indicating the ceremonial solemnity.

Worship ancient worship. When performing the rite, both hands are placed on the forehead and kneel down and bow for a long time.

Folding the waist that is, worship. Bow down and worship to show humiliation.

Six RitesThe six formalities and rites of marriage in ancient China, i.e. Na Cai (纳彩), Asking Name (问名), Na Ji (纳吉), Na Zheng (纳征), Inviting Period (请期) and Kissing.

Qin and Jin's goodwill During the Spring and Autumn Period, the rulers of Qin and Jin intermarried with each other for several generations, which was later called "Qin and Jin's goodwill".

Anciently, wives would raise their eyebrows when serving their husbands' meals to show their respect for each other.