Chinese traditional festival time and customs

1, the Spring Festival

Time: the Han Dynasty before the Spring Festival for the dry calendar spring, later evolved into the first day of the first month of the summer calendar (that is, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar). Nowadays, the Spring Festival time: the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar in the narrow sense, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar in the broad sense to the first month of the 15th.

Customs: do New Year's goods, dust sweeping, posting New Year's red, New Year's dinner, keep the New Year's Eve, New Year's money, worship, New Year's Eve, dragon dance, lion dance, worship of the gods and ancestors, burning firecrackers, burning fireworks, and touring the gods and races.

2, Lantern Festival

Time: for the first month of the lunar calendar every year on the 15th.

Customs: Because of the Lantern Festival has the custom of opening the lanterns, see the lanterns, folk custom called "Festival of Lights". Lantern Festival is mainly a series of traditional folk activities, such as lanterns, eating dumplings, riddles, fireworks and other traditional folk activities. In addition, the Lantern Festival in many places has increased the number of dragon lanterns, lions, stilt walkers, rowing boats, rice-planting songs, playing drums and other folk performances.

3, Qingming Festival

Time: the day of the dry calendar festival Qingming, the Gregorian calendar (solar calendar) around April 5 or so.

Customs: First, to honor ancestors, the end of the day; the second is trekking excursions, close to nature. Qingming rituals and culture fully embodies the human spirit of the Chinese people to honor their ancestors and to be cautious of the end of the human spirit. In the ancestor worship rituals to be cautious of the end of the distant, in the trekking excursions to enjoy the fun of spring.

4, Dragon Boat Festival

Time: before the Han Dynasty for the dry calendar noon noon day, after the Han Dynasty evolved into the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar.

Customs: to pray for blessings and good luck, the pressure of evil and other forms of disaster, the content is colorful, lively and festive. Prayer for good luck and good luck class customs are mainly grilled dragon boat, dragon festival, put paper dragons, etc., the pressure of the evil and disaster class customs are mainly hanging wormwood, dipping dragon boat water, wash herbal water, tethered five-color line, etc., the festival food are mainly rice dumplings, five yellow, and so on.

5, Tanabata Festival

Time: the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar

Customs: Tanabata Festival is the world's earliest love festival, Tanabata night to sit and watch the Altair and Vega star, visit the girlfriends of close friends, worship Weaving Maiden, praying for a marriage, cut female red, begging for blessings, and so on, is the traditional Chinese folk Tanabata customs.