Chinese Traditional Festivals and Holiday Customs

Traditional Chinese Festivals and Holiday Customs:

1. New Year's Eve - 29 or 30th day of the 12th month of the Lunar Calendar

Customs: Eating a reunion dinner, making sacrifices, and staying up all night to observe the New Year.

On New Year's Eve, people often stay up all night, which is called the "New Year's Watch". On New Year's Eve, the house is cleaned up, and door gods, spring scrolls, New Year's paintings, and lucky charms are pasted on the door. People change into new clothes with festive colors and patterns.

2, the Spring Festival - the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar

Customs: the Spring Festival is generally to eat rice cakes, dumplings, dumplings, meatballs, whole fish, wine, apples, peanuts, melon seeds, candy, etc.; firecrackers, to give the New Year's Eve money, New Year's greetings, relatives, New Year's gifts, the graves of the ancestors, the Flower Market, the fireworks, and other activities. It's a great pleasure to be in the family.

3, Lantern Festival - the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar

Customs: watching lanterns, eating Lantern Festival, stilt walkers, riddles.

The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called it "night", and the fifteenth day is the first full moon night of the year, so the first fifteenth for the Lantern Festival. It is also known as the Small New Year's Day, the Lantern Festival, or the Lantern Festival, and is the first important festival after the Spring Festival. China's vast territory, a long history, so the customs of the Lantern Festival are not the same in all parts of the country, including eating Lantern Festival, lanterns, dragon dance, lion dance, etc. is the Lantern Festival several important folk customs.

4, Cold Food Festival - (the day before the Qingming Festival)

Customs: start a fire to burn rice, eat cold food.

Banning fireworks and eating only cold food. And in the development of later generations gradually added sweeping, trekking, swinging, cuju, pulling hooks, cockfighting and other customs, cold food festival before and after the extension of more than two thousand years, was once known as the first Chinese folk festival day. The Cold Food Festival is the only one of the traditional Chinese festivals to be named after a food custom.

5, Qingming Festival

Customs: sweeping tombs, trekking.

Spring breeze warms the Qingming Festival, trekking to the ancestors to remember the ancestors. Qingming tomb-sweeping rituals, remembering the ancestors to send condolences, is conducive to carry forward filial piety and affection, awakening the family *** with the memory, and promote the cohesion of family members and even the nation's sense of identity.

The customs of the Qingming Festival are rich and interesting, in addition to preaching the prohibition of fire, sweeping the tomb, there are a series of customs and sports activities such as trekking, swinging, kicking Cuju, playing polo, sticking willow and so on.