China Traditional Festivals and Details

Introduction to Chinese traditional festivals: The Spring Festival begins one year, and everything is renewed. The main activities are eating New Year's Eve, offering sacrifices and observing the New Year's Eve. In addition, the first, second and third days of the first month are three days of the New Year's Day, and sacrifices are also required. In these three days, I usually do nothing but cook, and I don't want to say unlucky things. I have to visit my close relatives and distinguished relatives. From the first day to the fifteenth day of the Spring Festival, various activities such as temple fairs, community fires and rural operas are also held in various places, which is the most lively and extravagant festival among traditional festivals. Lantern Festival The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, also known as Yuanxi Festival, Shangyuan Festival and Lantern Festival. In festivals, there are customs such as eating Yuanxiao, watching lanterns, playing social fire and solve riddles on the lanterns. Besides eating Yuanxiao, there are many different eating customs in different places. People in Shaanxi eat "Yuanxiao tea", that is, all kinds of vegetables and fruits are put into noodle soup; Eat jujube cakes in Luoyang and Lingbao, Henan; People in Kunming, Yunnan eat more bean dough.

February 2nd, commonly known as "Dragon Rise", is also called Qinglong Festival, which marks the beginning of agricultural production in a year. Activities include scattering ash to attract dragons, smoking insects, picking vegetables, and avoiding sewing (in case of "damaging longan"). The record of this custom dates back to the Tang Dynasty. As for eating and drinking on February 2 nd, instead of eating and drinking greasy food during the Spring Festival, we should be vegetarian.

Tomb-Sweeping Day sacrifices to sweep the ancestral graves, goes for an outing in the spring, and avoids fireworks.

The Dragon Boat Festival, also called Duanyang Festival, is said to be in memory of Qu Yuan. There are mainly activities such as eating zongzi and racing dragon boats. In some places, such as Qinghai, there are customs such as tying ropes (twisted with five-color silk threads, tied to hands, feet and wrists), inserting willows and wearing sachets to repel insects and pray for good luck and peace.

Qiqiao Festival, also known as Begging for Cleverness Festival, is said to be the day when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet at the Magpie Bridge. In general, the people set up a altar that night, and women begged for cleverness in order to give good women workers. There are also young men and women who love each other, which is also called China's love plot.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is also called the Moon Festival, the Autumn Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the August Festival, the Moon Chasing Festival, the Moon Playing Festival, the Moon Worship Festival, the Daughter's Day or the Reunion Festival. On this day, the whole family is reunited to enjoy the moon and eat moon cakes. Originally, there are "burning incense", "walking the moon", "lighting lanterns", "Mid-Autumn Festival on trees" and "lighting tower lanterns". This festival is paid more attention by overseas travelers, and many ethnic minorities have also celebrated it.

Double Ninth Festival means Double Ninth Festival. The main activities are climbing mountains, enjoying chrysanthemums, drinking, etc., which are quite popular with the elderly, so it is also called "Old People's Day".

October 1st, commonly known as "Ghost Festival" and "Cold Clothes Festival", is also a festival for ancestor worship. As the saying goes, "On October 1st, cold clothes will be sent". On this evening, every family will go to the grave to worship their ancestors. People who can't go to the grave or stay away from home for some reason will draw a circle in the heart of the field or at the crossroads and burn paper money.

Winter Solstice Festival Winter Solstice is a very important solar term and a traditional festival in Chinese lunar calendar. The winter solstice is commonly known as "winter festival", "long solstice festival" and "sub-year-old". The northern region has the custom of slaughtering sheep in the winter solstice, eating jiaozi and wonton, while the southern region has the habit of eating rice balls and long noodles in the winter solstice on this day. There is also the custom of offering sacrifices to heaven and ancestors on the winter solstice in various regions.

Laba Festival People used to call December of the lunar calendar the twelfth lunar month, and the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month the twelfth lunar month or Laba, and treat it as a traditional festival, namely Laba Festival. Many customs related to the twelfth lunar month or Laba are often labeled as "La". On this day, Laba porridge is eaten in many places, and Laba is actually the beginning of preparations for the Spring Festival.

in addition, there are traditional festivals with different folk customs in different places. Our ancestors created many folk festivals in thousands of years, including both production and life, including food culture, etiquette culture and simple and magical scientific ideas, which left us a valuable spiritual heritage, which is worth carrying forward and inheriting. Respondent: Piao Yu Han Ying-Manager Level 5 6-25 8:2 The traditional festivals in China have been basically shaped since the Han Dynasty, with some increase or decrease. After the Republic of China, great changes have taken place due to the formal westernization, but the people still insist on a few of them that have not been stipulated by the government. Until the Cultural Revolution, the government even cut back on the promotion of traditional festivals except the Spring Festival, and even for the Spring Festival, it was promoted as "a revolutionary Spring Festival". After the reform and opening up, people began to celebrate some traditional festivals, and newspapers and periodicals also made some introductions and propaganda accordingly. At present, except statutory holidays, traditional festivals celebrated by the people account for about one-third of the traditional festivals. Traditional festivals contain many folk culture and traditional humanistic concepts, as well as religious factors, which are of certain significance for studying the culture, history and social life of ancient society. Here are the main traditional festivals to reward friends who are interested in this aspect.

one. New Year's Day, also known as New Year's Day, or the first day of the first month. The first day of the first month is the day when a year, four seasons and twelve months begin. In Chunqiu Zhuan, the first month is called Duanyue. When the cock crows, firecrackers will be set off before the court to stop evil spirits. Therefore, the first month is a festival that has existed since ancient times since its own calendar. There are many customs in the first month, for example, the young and the old are well dressed, and the custom is still maintained today, drinking pepper wine, that is, wine made of pepper flowers, or cypress wine. However, some specific activities have now been abandoned, including the Han and Jin Dynasties. For example, Zhou Chu said in "The Records of Local Customs": "When you swallow a chicken, it is called practicing shape." "Dream of China in Tokyo" records that the government of the Northern Song Dynasty will hold a grand meeting in the first month, and the emperor and officials will hold large-scale group worship activities, and entertain envoys from various countries, paying special attention to the banquet treatment for the Liao and Korean missions. This activity has been preserved to this day.

After the Revolution of 1911, the traditional festival legally reserved by the government of the Republic of China was only the first month, but it was renamed as "Spring Festival", and New Year's Day was placed on January 1st in the western calendar. Only the government and the people paid more attention to the Spring Festival, and the people and the Chinese government had a legal holiday of four days. However, at present, many private enterprises have extended the Spring Festival to different degrees, and some even extended it to January 15th, including weekends.