What are the traditional festivals and customs in China?

Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, China Valentine's Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Winter Solstice Festival, each traditional festival will have its own corresponding customs. Knowing his unique customs, he will definitely like China culture better. Then let's take a concrete look at all the traditional festivals and customs in China today!

1. New Year's Eve-December 29th or 30th of the lunar calendar (Gregorian calendar 65438+ October 22nd). People often stay up all night on New Year's Eve, which is called "vigil". On New Year's Eve, people should not only clean their homes and outside, but also put up door gods, Spring Festival couplets, New Year pictures and hanging door cages. People put on new clothes with festive colors and patterns.

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Spring Festival-the first day of the first lunar month (Gregorian calendar 65438+1October 23rd). The custom of the Spring Festival is to eat rice cakes, jiaozi, glutinous rice balls, meatballs, whole fish, wine, apples, peanuts, melon seeds, sweets, fragrant tea and dishes. Accompanied by many activities, such as dusting, washing bedding, preparing new year's goods, pasting Spring Festival couplets, pasting New Year's pictures (Zhong Kui, the door god), pasting paper-cuts in jiaozi, stick grilles, pasting blessings, lighting candles, lighting fires, setting off firecrackers, giving lucky money, visiting relatives, giving New Year's gifts, visiting ancestral graves, visiting flower markets, making social fires and so on.

3. Lantern Festival-the 15th day of the first lunar month (February 6th in Gregorian calendar). The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called it "Xiao", and the fifteenth day is the first full moon night in a year, so the fifteenth day of the first month is called the Lantern Festival. Also known as the first lunar month, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival, it is the first important festival after the Spring Festival. China has a vast territory and a long history, so the customs of celebrating the Lantern Festival are different all over the country, among which eating Yuanxiao, watching lanterns and dancing dragons and lions are several important folk customs.

4. Tomb-Sweeping Day-March of the lunar calendar 14 (April 4 of the Gregorian calendar). Tomb-Sweeping Day's customs are rich and interesting. In addition to paying attention to the prohibition of fire to sweep graves, there are a series of customs and sports activities such as jogging, swinging, playing cuju, playing polo and inserting willows.

5. Dragon Boat Festival-the fifth day of the fifth lunar month (June 23rd in Gregorian calendar). This day's activities gradually evolved into eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, hanging calamus, wormwood, wormwood leaves, smoked Atractylodes macrocephala, angelica dahurica, drinking realgar wine, tying Cynanchum, making a fragrant trough, sticking five poisons, sticking symbols, putting yellow tobacco seeds and eating twelve reds.

6. Mid-Autumn Festival-August 15th of the lunar calendar (September 30th of the solar calendar). The Mid-Autumn Festival is a very old custom in China. The custom of enjoying the moon comes from offering sacrifices to the moon, and serious sacrifices have become relaxed pleasures. "Folk Yue Bai" has become people's longing for reunion, entertainment and happiness. They send their feelings every month. Put a big incense table, with offerings such as moon cakes, watermelons, apples, red dates, plums and grapes, among which moon cakes and watermelons are absolutely indispensable.

7. Double Ninth Festival-the ninth day of the ninth lunar month (Gregorian calendar 65438+1October 23rd). There is a custom of climbing mountains on the Double Ninth Festival. In autumn and September, the sky is crisp. Climbing mountains and overlooking in this season can achieve the purpose of relaxing body and mind, keeping fit and getting rid of diseases. There are also customs related to climbing, such as appreciating chrysanthemums as poems, inserting dogwood and eating Chongyang cakes.