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What are the customs of traditional festivals?

1, New Year's Eve: also known as New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, etc. It is the last night of the twelfth lunar month (December) every year, and there are customs such as staying up all night, observing the new year, putting up gates, putting up Spring Festival couplets, putting up New Year pictures and hanging lanterns. This is a traditional festival in China.

2. Spring Festival: The Spring Festival, commonly known as "New Year's Day", is traditionally called New Year's Day, New Year's Day, Tianla, and New Year's Day. It is also known verbally as New Year's Day to celebrate New Year's Day and New Year's Day. It is one of the four traditional festivals in China. The Spring Festival is the most lively traditional festival in our country. Its main contents include worshipping gods, offering sacrifices to ancestors, saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, praying for a bumper harvest, and being happy and peaceful.

3. Lantern Festival: Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival, falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month every year. 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: The Cold Food Festival was held one or two days before Tomb-Sweeping Day, and it is the only traditional festival named after food customs in China. The main customs of the Cold Food Festival are smoking ban, sweeping the floor, jogging, swinging, cuju, hooking and cockfighting.

5. Tomb-Sweeping Day: Tomb-Sweeping Day is also called Youth Day, which is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the four traditional festivals and one of the most important festivals in China. This is the day to visit the graves and worship the ancestors. Traditional customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day include hiking and grave-sweeping, as well as activities such as banning fire, swinging, cuju, playing polo and inserting willows.

6. Dragon Boat Festival: Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. It is one of the four traditional festivals in China, and it is also a festival for China to commemorate the great poet Qu Yuan. The main customs of the Dragon Boat Festival include making zongzi, hanging wormwood and calamus, rowing dragon boats, worshipping elephants with nine lions, dragon swimming, bathing in the Dragon Boat Festival and so on.

7. Mid-Autumn Festival: The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival, is one of the four traditional festivals in China on August 15th of the lunar calendar. The Mid-Autumn Festival in China began in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty. It is also a traditional festival for overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia and East Asia. The traditional customs of Mid-Autumn Festival mainly include offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, Yue Bai, eating moon cakes, enjoying osmanthus flowers and drinking osmanthus wine.

8. Double Ninth Festival: Double Ninth Festival, also known as the Festival for the Elderly, is a traditional festival in China, which falls on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month every year. It is to advocate the whole society to establish an atmosphere of respect, care and help the elderly. The traditional customs of the Double Ninth Festival include enjoying autumn, climbing mountains, enjoying chrysanthemums, inserting dogwood, eating double ninth cake and drinking chrysanthemum wine.

9. Laba Festival: Laba Festival, commonly known as "Laba", is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. This is a traditional festival to worship ancestors and gods and pray for a bumper harvest. The main customs are ancestor worship and drinking Laba porridge.