What are the origins and customs of traditional festivals in China?

The origins and customs of traditional festivals in China are as follows:

1, Tanabata, also known as Qiaoqi Festival, Qijie Festival, Daughter's Day, Qiaoqi Festival, Chinese Valentine's Day, Niuniu Festival and Qiaoxi Festival, is a traditional folk festival in China. In Yixing, Jiangsu Province, there is the custom of the Qixi Xiangqiao Festival. Every year on Tanabata, someone will participate and build a fragrant bridge. The so-called incense bridge is a bridge about four or five meters long and half a meter wide, made of all kinds of thick and long incense. It is equipped with railings and decorated with flowers made of five-color lines.

2. The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhengyang Festival and Tianzhong Festival, originated from the worship of astronomical phenomena in ancient times and evolved from Dragon Boat Festival. Picking dragon boats and eating zongzi are two major customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, which have been passed down in China since ancient times and have never stopped.

3. Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as outing festival, outing festival, March festival and ancestor worship festival, is celebrated at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day bears rich cultural connotations in its historical development, and there are differences in the content or details of customs in different parts of the country. Although the festival activities vary from place to place, grave sweeping and outing are the same basic custom theme.

4. Social Day Festival, a traditional festival in China, also known as Land Birthday, is an ancient traditional festival in China. Social days are divided into Spring Club and Autumn Club. In the south, February 2 still follows the custom of offering sacrifices to the society, such as Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and other regions; In addition, a new "February 2" custom, similar to the Dragon Head-raising Festival, is formed, focusing on offering sacrifices to the society, such as Hakka areas in eastern Guangxi.

Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China. Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities, such as watching lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, solve riddles on the lanterns and setting off fireworks. In addition, traditional folk performances such as Youlong lanterns, lion dancing, walking on stilts, boating, yangko and playing Taiping drums have been added to the Lantern Festival in many places.