How does China celebrate traditional festivals?

The main traditional festivals in China are Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese Valentine's Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Winter Solstice, Laba and so on.

1, Spring Festival

The Spring Festival is the largest and most lively ancient traditional festival in China. Commonly known as "Chinese New Year". According to the China lunar calendar, the first day of the first month is the beginning of a year. Traditional celebrations last from New Year's Eve to the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month. Every New Year's Eve, every family gets together to have a New Year's Eve dinner, which is called "reunion dinner". In the meantime, I talked and laughed, and I was happy. Then we celebrate our old age together, catch up with the old and talk about the new, and congratulate and encourage each other. When the new year comes, firecrackers and fireworks push the festive atmosphere to a climax. In northern China, there is a custom of eating jiaozi at this time, which means "having sex when you are young". There is a habit of eating rice cakes in the south, which symbolizes a better life. Putting up Spring Festival couplets, beating gongs and drums, saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new are very lively. In addition, there are customs such as visiting each other to celebrate the New Year, dancing lions, playing dragon lanterns, performing social fires, visiting flower markets, and watching lantern festivals.

2. Lantern Festival

The 15th night of the first lunar month is the traditional Lantern Festival in China, also known as Shangyuan Festival and Lantern Festival. The Lantern Festival will be held on the fifteenth day of the first month, which will push the celebration on New Year's Eve to another climax. On the night of Lantern Festival, the streets are decorated with lanterns and people appreciate them. Solve riddles on the lanterns and eating Yuanxiao have become the customs of several generations.

3. Tomb-Sweeping Day

Grave-sweeping in Tomb-Sweeping Day is a festival custom related to funeral customs. According to records, in ancient times, "tombs were not graves", that is to say, only graves were dug and graves were not built, so sacrifices were not recorded. Later, graves and graves, the custom of offering sacrifices to sweep graves, were supported. During the Qin and Han Dynasties, tomb sacrifice has become an indispensable ritual activity.

4. Mid-Autumn Festival

August 15th is the middle of autumn, so it is called Mid-Autumn Festival or Mid-Autumn Festival. The moon on August 15 is rounder and brighter than the full moon in other months, so it is also called "moonlit night" and "August Festival". On the eve of Mid-Autumn Festival, people try their best to reunite with their families, which means bimonthly. August 15 is also called "Reunion Festival". Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional folk festival of Han nationality and ethnic minorities. As early as the Three Dynasties, China had the custom of "Twilight in Autumn". The moon at night is to worship the moon god. In the Zhou Dynasty, every Mid-Autumn Festival night, activities to welcome the cold and offer sacrifices to the moon were held. In the Tang Dynasty, it was quite popular to enjoy and play with the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival. In the Southern Song Dynasty, people gave mooncakes to each other, which meant reunion. In the evening, there are activities such as enjoying the moon and swimming in the lake. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the custom of Mid-Autumn Festival has become more popular. In many places, there are many special things, such as burning incense, planting trees, lighting tower lanterns, putting sky lanterns, walking on the moon and jumping on fire dragons.

The Dragon Boat Festival is also called Dragon Boat Festival.

It is one of the biggest traditional festivals in China. "Duan" has the same meaning as "Chu".

Calling "Dragon Boat Festival" is also like calling "the fifth day"; The word "five" of the Dragon Boat Festival is also connected with "noon", in the order of earthly branches.

According to calculation, May is the "noon" month. Because noon is the "sun", the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Duanyang". five

On May 5th, both the month and the day are five, so calling five is also called noon.

In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival has many nicknames, such as: Summer Festival, Magnolia Festival, Daughter's Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, Dila,

6. Double Ninth Festival.

The ninth, 29th and 29th day of the ninth lunar month is very important, which is called "Double Ninth Festival". Because in ancient China, six was the number of yin and nine was the number of yang, so the Double Ninth Festival was called "Double Ninth Festival".

The origin of the Double Ninth Festival can be traced back to the early Han Dynasty. It is said that in the palace, on September 9th every year, you should wear Cornus officinalis, feed it with bait and drink chrysanthemum wine to live longer. After the love princess Qi of Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang was killed, the maid-in-waiting Jia was also expelled from the palace, and this custom spread to the people.

7. "Qixi" is also called "Daughter's Day".

On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, the legendary Cowherd and Weaver Girl crossed the Tianhe River from Queqiao to meet each other. The weaver girl in people's minds is a

Hard-working, kind and ingenious, so on the night of July 7, girls and young women will come out to worship.

Sacrifice etiquette, please the Weaver Girl, and hope that I can have a pair of dexterous hands and an intelligent heart like the Weaver Girl.

Will live a happy life.

Because Valentine's Day in China is closely related to women's affairs, it is also called "Daughter's Day", which is a traditional festival for women in China.

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China has the custom of eating smart dishes on Valentine's Day. The contents of skillful eating include melons, fruits and various kinds of pasta, and customs vary from place to place.

After all kinds of ingenious foods are prepared, they should be displayed on several cases in the yard, as if inviting the weaver girl in the sky to taste them. So big

Looking at the distant night sky, the family ate all kinds of smart food, thinking that it would make people smart.

In the Han Dynasty, people began to beg the Weaver Maid for ingenious ideas. Pray not only for ingenuity, but also for wealth and early dating.

Have a happy and sweet marriage and have children.

8. Winter solstice

Commonly known as "Winter Festival", it is a grand festival in ancient times. Among the 24 solar terms, the winter solstice is also the most important.

The ancients believed that by the solstice of winter, although it was still in the cold season, spring was not far away. Everyone who goes out at this time will go home for the winter vacation, which indicates that there will be a home at the end of the year. People in Fujian and Taiwan believe that the annual winter solstice is a festival for family reunion, because it is a day to worship ancestors. Going out and not coming home is a person who denies his ancestors.

The solstice in winter is the longest night in a year. Many people use this evening to make a "winter solstice circle" with glutinous rice flour. In order to distinguish it from "saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new" on the eve of the Spring Festival, the day before the Winter Festival is called "adding the year" or "dividing the year", which means that the year is not over yet, but everyone has grown up for a year.

9. Laba Festival

The eighth day of December is called Laba Festival. The origin of Laba Festival should be the ancient wax (sound reading) sacrifice.

China has attached importance to agriculture since ancient times. Whenever there was a bumper harvest in agricultural production, the ancients thought it was the result of the help of the God of heaven and earth, and the grand thank-you ceremony to celebrate the bumper harvest in agriculture was called Big Wax. It is recorded in "Special Sacrifice in the Suburb" that "those who have wax will ask for it. In December this year, they will sacrifice everything and seek their hometown." After the wax sacrifice ceremony, the ancients would hold a banquet in the countryside, cook porridge with new millet paste, and have dinner with everyone to celebrate the festival.