Traditional Festival Culture in China

China is a country with a strong festival culture atmosphere, and many traditional festivals with a long history are still celebrated and followed by people. In our country, there are many festivals throughout the year, which come in turn. Now, let's start with the Lunar New Year and get to know the order of traditional festivals in China.

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Spring Festival-On the first day of the first lunar month, people are used to eating rice cakes, jiaozi, glutinous rice balls and various delicious dishes. Accompanied by many activities, such as dust removal, bedding washing, preparing new year's goods, pasting Spring Festival couplets, pasting New Year's pictures (door god Zhong Kui), pasting paper-cuts, stick grilles, pasting blessings, lighting candles, setting off firecrackers, giving lucky money, visiting relatives, sending new year's goods, visiting ancestral graves, visiting flower markets, and building social fires. It's a happy family reunion.

Lantern Festival-The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called it "Xiao", and the fifteenth day was the first full moon night in a year, so it was called the Lantern Festival. Also known as the first lunar month, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival, it is the first important festival after the Spring Festival. The customs of Lantern Festival are different all over the country, among which eating Yuanxiao, enjoying lanterns and dancing dragons and lions are more common.

Tomb-Sweeping Day —— On the third day of the third lunar month, in addition to forbidding fire, offering sacrifices and sweeping graves, Tomb-Sweeping Day also has a series of folk sports activities such as hiking, swinging, playing cuju, playing polo and inserting willows.

Dragon Boat Festival-The activities on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month mainly include eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, hanging calamus, wormwood, wormwood, smoked Atractylodes macrocephala, angelica dahurica, drinking realgar wine, tying white lock seeds, making fragrant grooves, sticking five poisons, sticking symbols, putting yellow tobacco seeds and eating twelve red.

China Valentine's Day-China Valentine's Day, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, is one of the most romantic festivals in China, and it is also the most important day for girls in the past. On this evening, women put on needles to pray for Fu Lushou. On the seventh day, the ceremony was pious and grand, with flowers, fruits, needles and thread, and all kinds of furniture and appliances, exquisite and attractive.

Double Ninth Festival-There is a custom of climbing on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month. In autumn and September, the sky is crisp, and climbing high in this season can achieve the purpose of relaxing body and mind, keeping fit and getting rid of diseases. There are also customs such as appreciating chrysanthemums and making poems, inserting dogwood, drinking chong yang wine and eating Chongyang cake.

Winter Solstice Festival-Gregorian calendar 65438+February 22nd or 23rd, China attached great importance to the winter solstice in ancient times. There is a saying that the winter solstice is as big as a year, and there is a custom to celebrate the winter solstice. The northern region has the custom of slaughtering sheep and eating jiaozi and wonton on the winter solstice, while the southern region has the custom of eating glutinous rice balls and long noodles on the winter solstice. There is also the custom of offering sacrifices to heaven and ancestors on the winter solstice in various regions.

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