Introduction of traditional festivals

China traditional festival-New Year's Eve, the last day of the Lunar New Year, is1February 30th, and that year's1February is the symbol of major traditional festivals. Abortion is 29 years old, and every big month is 30 years old. New Year's Eve is called New Year's Eve.

Origin:

New Year's Eve originated from the "expulsion" in the pre-Qin period. According to Lu Chunqiu Ji, the ancients beat drums to drive away the "plague god" the day before the New Year, and there will be no disease or disaster in the coming year. In ancient times, "New Year's Eve" had other names, such as "except night, no night, except year, except year, all year round". Although there are many names, they always mean to send the old to welcome the new and eliminate disasters and diseases.

New Year's Eve, or "New Year's Eve". It refers to the night before the first day of the first lunar month in China and other parts of the Han cultural circle. Generally speaking, this day is a day for people to eat, drink and be merry.

2. Spring Festival

The Spring Festival lasts from the first day of the first lunar month to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. It is the first year of the lunar calendar, commonly known as "New Year's Day" or "New Year's Day".

Origin:

The origin of the Spring Festival has a history of about 4000 years in China. This is the most lively and grand traditional festival in China. The ancient Spring Festival refers to the "beginning of spring" season in the twenty-four solar terms of the lunar calendar. It was not until the Southern and Northern Dynasties that the Spring Festival was changed to the end of the year, generally referring to the whole spring. At this time, spring returns to the earth and everything is renewed. People regard it as the beginning of a new year.

In the early years of the Republic of China after the Revolution of 1911, after the lunar calendar was changed to the Gregorian calendar, the first day of the first month was designated as the Spring Festival. It was not until1September 27th, 949 that the China People's Political Consultative Conference officially designated the New Year from the first day of the first month to the fifteenth day of the first month as the "Spring Festival", so many people still called it the Spring Festival.

3. Lantern Festival

Time: the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. This is an important traditional festival in China. The fifteenth day of the first month is the night of the first full moon in a year and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty. On the night of the Spring Festival, people celebrate it and celebrate the continuation of the Spring Festival, so it is also called "Shangyuan Festival", that is, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. In ancient books, this day is called Shangyuan, and its night is called Yuanye, Yuanxi or Yuanxiao.

custom

Because the Lantern Festival has the custom of decorating lanterns and watching lanterns, it is also called "Lantern Festival" among the people. In addition, there are customs such as eating Yuanxiao, walking on stilts, solve riddles on the lanterns, dragon dancing, flower viewing lanterns, lion dancing, watching big-head monk dance's Liu Cui Opera, boating, flower viewing and tea serving. In Gaoyou, Jiangsu, there is a custom of looking at the screen.

4. Tomb-Sweeping Day

Tomb-Sweeping Day time: April 5th, Gregorian calendar, Tomb-Sweeping Day is the most important festival in China, and it is the most suitable day to worship ancestors and sweep graves. Grave-sweeping is commonly known as going to the grave and offering sacrifices to the dead. Most Han people and some ethnic minorities visit graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the outing festival, according to the solar calendar, between April 4th and 6th every year, it is the season of beautiful spring and lush vegetation, and it is also a good time for people to have a spring outing, so the ancients had the custom of going for an outing in Qingming and carrying out a series of sports activities.

5. Dragon Boat Festival

Time: the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival, which is an ancient traditional festival in China. The real name of "Dragon Boat Festival" is "Dragon Boat Festival", which means the beginning. Because people think that May is an evil month and the fifth day is an evil day, they avoid May and change it to Dragon Boat Festival.

source

Legend has it that after Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu were so sad that they flocked to the Miluo River to pay homage to Qu Yuan. The fisherman paddled the boat and fished for his real body back and forth on the river. A fisherman took out rice balls, eggs and other foods prepared for Qu Yuan and threw them into the river, saying that ichthyosaurs, shrimps and crabs were full and would not bite the doctor.

People followed suit after seeing it. An old doctor took an altar of realgar wine and poured it into the river, saying that he wanted to stun the dragon water beast with medicine so as not to hurt Dr. Qu. Later, people were afraid that rice balls would be eaten by dragons, so they came up with a way to develop zongzi by wrapping rice with neem leaves and wrapping it with colored silk.