What are the holiday customs?

Spring Festival is the first day of the first lunar month, also known as lunar calendar (Lunar New Year), commonly known as "Chinese New Year", and it is the most grand and lively ancient traditional festival of the Chinese nation.

Spring Festival custom: On the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month, we should stick a door-keeper, a Spring Festival couplets, the word "Fu", cut window grilles, hang colorful flags, steam rice cakes, eat jiaozi, set off firecrackers, observe New Year's Eve, and wish each other a happy New Year on the first day of the New Year.

Today, the long history makes the Spring Festival a traditional festival symbolizing the unity, happiness and hope of the people of China.

2. Lantern Festival

The Lantern Festival is a traditional festival of China people on the 15th day of the first lunar month every year. Lantern Festival is named because its festival activities are held on the fifteenth night of the first month of each year.

The custom of Lantern Festival includes watching lanterns and playing drums in the New Year to welcome Ce Shen and solve riddles on the lanterns.

The custom of eating Yuanxiao began in the Song Dynasty. Yuanxiao is a kind of jiaozi, which is a solid or stuffed jiaozi made of glutinous rice flour. You can eat soup, stir-fry it or steam it.

3. Tomb-Sweeping Day

In March and April, the most important festival in China's traditional customs is "Tomb-Sweeping Day", which takes place around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar. It is very popular in most parts of China.

Tomb-Sweeping Day folk activities include forbidding fire and eating cold food, sweeping graves and hiking, arranging flowers with willows, swinging, cuju (playing football), flying kites, tug of war and playing polo.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a festival because of the customs of cold food, fire prohibition and grave sweeping. Since the Western Zhou Dynasty (about 1000 BC), there has been the custom of sweeping graves or offering sacrifices to ancestors in front of graves.

4. Dragon Boat Festival

In China, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival. The word "Duan" means "the beginning" and "Dragon Boat Festival" means "the fifth day". According to the calendar, May is the noon month, so the Dragon Boat Festival has gradually evolved into the Dragon Boat Festival. The Chronicle of Yanjing records: "The fifth day of May is the fifth day of May, and the transliteration of the word is also covered."

During the Dragon Boat Festival, there are many customs all over China. On this day, every household hangs bells, leaves of wormwood and calamus, fights a hundred herbs, drives away five poisons, races dragon boats, eats zongzi, drinks realgar wine and wears sachets.

5. Chinese Valentine's Day

Also known as Beggars' Day and Girls' Day. Legend has it that it originated from the myth that cowherd and weaver girl met on the bridge. According to the Chronicle of Jingchu: "July 7th is the night when Petunia and Weaver Girl get together. In the evening, another woman tied a colorful building, wore a seven-hole needle, or used gold, silver and jade as a needle, and the old fruit was clever in court. " This kind of begging is not only a fun way to play, but also a hope for ingenuity and luck.

The most common custom of Valentine's Day in China is that young women engage in various begging activities on the night of the seventh day of July. Most of the ways to make fun of girls are to make small items and put some melons and fruits to make fun of them.

6. Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festival in China. It is the second largest traditional festival after the Spring Festival. August 15th of the lunar calendar is the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival in China. According to the interpretation of ancient Chinese calendar, August is the second month of autumn, which is called "Mid-Autumn Festival", and August 15th is in the middle of the Mid-Autumn Festival, so it is called "Mid-Autumn Festival". The full moon in Mid-Autumn Festival symbolizes reunion, so it is also called "Reunion Festival".

According to legend, the custom of eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Tang Dynasty. When Emperor Taizong and his ministers celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival, he pointed to the bright moon in the sky with a round cake presented by a Tibetan businessman and said with a smile, "We should invite toads with Hu cakes."

Immediately, officials shared Hu cakes, and the custom of eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival began. China people have always regarded family reunion, family reunion and family reunion as extremely precious. The Mid-Autumn Festival has placed people's hope of "family reunion".

7. Double Ninth Festival

The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is an ancient traditional festival in China-the Double Ninth Festival. The ancients in China regarded nine as the number of yang, and on the ninth day of September, two yang was heavy, so it was called "Chongyang". Double Ninth Festival, also known as "Old People's Day".

Mountain climbing on the Double Ninth Festival is the main custom of this festival. There are also customs such as inserting dogwood, drinking chrysanthemum wine and eating double ninth festival cake. Cornus officinalis, also known as Moongum, is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine plant with strong smell. The ancients in China thought that folding it with a plug could prevent evil spirits from invading. After smoking, you can avoid insect bites. At this time when the "hundred-legged insect is dead but not stiff", it is in line with traditional hygiene habits to smoke her to avoid it, just like smoking realgar on the Dragon Boat Festival.