Festival customs in Henan province

Spring Festival is the first day of the first lunar month, commonly known as "Lunar New Year", also known as "Chinese New Year". During the Republic of China, it was named Spring Festival. Have a holiday for 5-7 days, and carry out various festivals with fresh patterns.

Breaking the fifth day of the first month is commonly known as "breaking the fifth day".

The opening of the Sixth National Congress means "Six Shun".

The fifteenth day of the first month of the Lantern Festival is the first full moon night in a year, commonly known as "Lantern Festival".

February 2 nd, February 2 nd, also known as the "Dragon Head Up" Festival.

The day before in Tomb-Sweeping Day was the Cold Food Festival. In the past, there were no fireworks on this day. There is no such custom now.

There is no fixed date in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and most of them are in the end of February or the beginning of March in the lunar calendar.

Dragon Boat Festival The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival, also called Duanyang Festival. The social flag is called "possible delay".

On the sixth day of the sixth lunar month, my daughter went back to visit her parents. As the saying goes, "June 6th, please ask your aunt".

Legend has it that the seventh day of July every year is the day when the cowherd will weave the girl.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is called the Mid-Autumn Festival because it falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. Family member day.

Double Ninth Festival, the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, is called "Double Ninth Festival". At this time, the autumn is crisp and the grain is abundant, which is an important family season.

According to folklore, the first day of the tenth lunar month is "Ghost Festival". There is a folk custom of burning paper when sweeping graves on October 1st.

The winter solstice festival is one of the twenty-four agricultural festivals, and there is no fixed date. At that time, everyone would eat jiaozi.

Laba 'er is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, commonly known as Laba. Eat Laba porridge for breakfast that day.

The 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, commonly known as "off-year". It's a Japanese kang that cooks steamed buns, drinks tofu soup and eats stove candy. After twenty-three, the people of this county have "twenty-three, off-year; Twenty-four, sweeping the house; Twenty-five, grinding bean curd; Twenty-six, cut meat; Twenty-seven, kill the chicken; Twenty-eight, decals; Twenty-nine, go to buy wine; Thirty children pinch their noses (including jiaozi); On the first day, children bow their backs (that is, kowtow to the New Year).

New Year's Eve, commonly known as "New Year's Day", falls on the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month (the 29th day of the second lunar month). All day long, the whole family sits together, commonly known as "surviving the New Year".