What are the traditional Chinese festivals?

China's folklore is to stay up for the New Year's Eve, rowing dragon boats, playing dragon lanterns, stilt walkers, stickers, stickers, stickers, worship seven sisters, begging for coincidence, etc., specifically the following kinds of introduction:

1, rowing dragon boats

Rowing dragon boats, Dragon Boat Festival, an important customary activities, a long history of the Dragon Boat Festival is the collective multi-people paddle race, the coastal areas of the southern part of China is very popular, and spread out of the foreign people by the people of all countries and formed an international competition. The favorite and the formation of the international competition.

2, playing the dragon lantern

Playing the dragon lantern, also known as the dragon dance, dragon lantern dance, is China's unique traditional folk entertainment. From the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival, China's urban and rural areas have the custom of playing dragon lanterns. After thousands of years of inheritance and development, the Dragon Lantern Dance has become a form of lively, beautiful performance, with a romantic traditional dance.

3, stilt-walking

Stilt-walking is one of the traditional folk activities in China. Stilt-walking is commonly known as binding wood feet, also known as "stilts", "stepping on stilts", "tie high feet", "walking high legs", is a popular folk dance in the north of China. It is a kind of mass skill performance that prevails in the northern folk of China, and it is performed in some folk festivals by dancers with long wooden stilts tied to their feet.

4, posting spring couplets

Every Spring Festival, whether urban or rural, families have to pick the beautiful red spring couplets posted on the door, to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, and increase the festive atmosphere. Another source of Spring Festival couplets is the Spring Festival stickers, the ancients in the Spring Festival more stickers "Yichun" two words, and gradually developed into Spring Festival couplets, expressing the Chinese working people a kind of warding off evils and disasters, and to welcome the good wishes of the auspicious and blessed.

5, begging

Begging for coincidence

Begging for coincidence, China's custom of the year, is a custom of the seventh sister birthday (July 7). The first day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar to the night of the seventh month (seven days and eight nights), wearing a new dress of young girls in the courtyard to the Vega star to beg for wisdom, known as "begging for coquettish".

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