Han folk information

Sitting ceremony: Sitting upright is a sitting posture handed down from the ancient Han nationality. The action is to put your hips on your ankles, keep your upper body straight, and put your hands on your knees regularly. Dignified figure, don't look askance. The modern sitting method of sitting on a stool with feet hanging down was not a formal sitting method before the Northern and Southern Dynasties, but it came from the western countries at that time, which was called Hu Sitting at that time.

2. Marriage customs

The traditional wedding of Han nationality is an important part of China culture. The ancients thought dusk was auspicious, so they would get married at dusk; To this end, the etiquette of husband and wife combination is called "faint ceremony".

Faint ceremony is one of the five ceremonies, and it is the second milestone in life after the male crown ceremony or the female ceremony. The wedding ceremony of China traditional wedding dress China can be divided into three stages, namely "engagement" and formal wedding ceremony, namely "marriage" or "marriage" ceremony, which means the wedding ceremony of husband and wife, and it is "adult ceremony", "adult ceremony" or "adult ceremony", which shows the roles played by men and women after marriage. In China's traditional marriage customs, premarital ceremony and formal wedding are the main procedures. these

3. Mourning custom

The old tradition of Han funeral is to pay attention to heavy burial, which is mixed with many superstitious customs. Coffin burial has been popular in Han nationality since ancient times, and the funeral is grand and divided into three stages: burial, burial and burial. The ancient custom of offering sacrifices was gradually replaced by pottery figurines. In modern times, people are buried with paper figures.

After the funeral, there are memorial ceremonies for the seventh, seventh, centenary and anniversary, and the memorial tablet belongs to the ancestral hall, which has changed from a ceremony for people at the funeral to a ceremony for "ghosts" and "ancestors". In addition, the Han nationality also has the custom of "returning to burial", that is, transporting the bodies that died in other places back to their original places.

4. Eating habits

The Han nationality is dominated by agriculture, with wheat, corn and rice as staple foods, supplemented by vegetables, bean products and non-staple foods such as chicken, fish, pigs, cattle and mutton. Tea and wine are traditional drinks.

People who live on rice are used to making rice into different foods such as rice, porridge or rice noodles, rice cakes, glutinous rice balls, zongzi and rice cakes. People who live on wheat are used to making steamed bread, noodles, flower rolls, steamed buns, jiaozi, wonton, fried dough sticks, spring rolls, fried cakes, pancakes and so on.

Paying attention to and being good at cooking is a major dietary feature of the Han nationality. Through long-term practice, the Han people in different regions have adopted cooking methods such as frying, roasting, frying, steaming, roasting and cold salad, forming different local flavors. Guangdong cuisine, Fujian cuisine, Anhui cuisine, Shandong cuisine, Sichuan cuisine, Hunan cuisine, Zhejiang cuisine and Jiangsu cuisine are famous at home and abroad.

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traditional festival

There are many festivals of Han nationality, mainly Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Lantern Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and so on. Celebrating the "Spring Festival", also known as the Chinese New Year, is a traditional festival of the Han people for thousands of years, and it is also the most grand festival in a year. During the Chinese New Year, there will be vigils on New Year's Eve and New Year's greetings on the first day of the lunar new year.

Traditional festivals of the Han nationality mainly include La Worship, offering sacrifices to stoves, Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, social day, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese Valentine's Day, Mid-Autumn Festival and Double Ninth Festival. Among festivals, the Spring Festival is the grandest.

The Han nationality is the main ethnic group in China, a descendant of the ancient Huangdi and Yan Di tribes, and a descendant of the Chinese nation. "Han" originally refers to Tianhe and Yinhe. The Book of Songs says: "Where there is Han, there is light in prison." Han people are used to calling themselves Han people, because the Han Dynasty in China used to be called "Huaxia" or "Zhu Xia".

No matter in politics, military, philosophy, literature, history, art and many other aspects, or in the field of natural science, the Han nationality has created many brilliant achievements.

Since ancient times, the Han people have adopted an inclusive attitude towards various religious beliefs. Fate worship and ancestor worship are the main traditional concepts of Han religion. For thousands of years, Confucianism, which focuses on benevolence and attaches importance to ethical education, has had a far-reaching impact on the Han nationality.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia Han nationality