What are the main customs of the Spring Festival?

1, New Year's Eve: having a reunion dinner, offering sacrifices and staying up all night for the New Year. People often stay up all night on New Year's Eve, which is called "vigil". On New Year's Eve, the house and the outside should be cleaned up, and the door gods, Spring Festival couplets, New Year pictures, stick grilles and blessings should be posted.

2. Spring Festival: We mainly eat rice cakes, jiaozi, glutinous rice balls, big meatballs, whole fish, wine, apples, peanuts, melon seeds and sweets. Set off firecrackers, give lucky money, visit relatives and friends, send new year gifts, go to ancestral graves, visit flower markets, make fires and many other activities.

3. Lantern Festival: Since ancient times, the custom of Lantern Festival has been based on the warm and festive custom of watching lights. Traditional customs include going out to enjoy the moon, lighting lanterns and setting off flames, liking solve riddles on the lanterns, eating Yuanxiao and pulling rabbit lanterns.

4. Cold Food Festival: 105 Summer to the future, one or two days before Tomb-Sweeping Day. When the first day of the day is a holiday, smoking is forbidden and only cold food is eaten. In the development of later generations, the customs of sweeping, climbing, swinging, cuju, crochet and cockfighting were gradually increased.

5. Tomb-Sweeping Day: Also known as Youth Day, it is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival in China, and it is also one of the most important sacrificial festivals. It is a day to sweep graves and worship ancestors.

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Classification of folk customs:

1, folk customs of material life

(1) Production folklore (primary production of materials such as agriculture, fishery, mining, hunting and breeding)

(2) Industrial and commercial folklore (handicraft, service, commercial and other materials processing services)

(3) Folk customs of life (in terms of material consumption such as food, clothing, housing and transportation)

2. Folk customs of social life

(1) Folklore of social organizations (family, village, community and other organizations)

(2) Festival folk customs at the age of (time frame represented by festivals and activities)

(3) Life customs (birth, birthday, adulthood, marriage, funeral and other aspects of life)

3. Folk customs of spiritual life

(1) Entertainment folklore (games, competitions, social fires, etc.)

(2) Folklore (folk spiritual world represented by worship of gods, legends, stories and proverbs).

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