What are the customs of traditional festivals in China?

Traditional festivals and customs: New Year's Day

The word "New Year's Day" comes from Xiao Ziyun's poem "Jieya": "Four Qi's New Year's Day, long life starts today". Yuan is the beginning, the first meaning; Dan is a knowing word. The "sun" above represents the sun and the "one" below represents the horizon. The sun rises from the horizon, symbolizing the beginning of the day. New Year's Day is the first day of the year.

the Spring Festival; Chinese New Year

Every household prepares new year's goods. About ten days before the festival, people were busy shopping, including chicken, duck, fish, tea, wine, oil and sauce, roasted seeds and nuts in the north and south, and fruit with sugar bait. Some gifts should also be prepared when visiting relatives and friends in the New Year, and children should buy new clothes and hats for the New Year. Before the Chinese New Year, a New Year greeting in red paper and yellow characters should be posted on the door of the house, that is, Spring Festival couplets written in red paper. Bright-colored and auspicious New Year pictures are posted in the house. Beautiful window grilles are cut out by ingenious girls and pasted on the windows. Red lanterns are hung in front of the door, and lucky characters and door gods can be pasted upside down. Passers-by are blessed when they think of it. All these activities are aimed at adding enough festive atmosphere to the festival.

the Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival is also a traditional festival with a high voice of "legal holidays". Also known as the first half of the first month, Shangyuan Festival and Lantern Festival. The custom of Lantern Festival includes watching lanterns, wrapping jiaozi, and playing drums in the New Year to welcome Ce Shen and solve riddles on the lanterns. The custom of eating Yuanxiao began in the Song Dynasty. Yuanxiao is a kind of jiaozi, which is a solid or stuffed jiaozi made of glutinous rice flour. You can eat soup, stir-fry it or steam it. ? The 15th day of the first lunar month is the traditional Lantern Festival in China. Lantern Festival has the custom of enjoying lanterns, solve riddles on the lanterns and eating Yuanxiao.

Qingming Festival

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival in China, and it is also one of the most important festivals to worship ancestors and sweep graves. Tomb-Sweeping Day probably originated in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Therefore, on that day in Tomb-Sweeping Day, people will organize youth groups to pay homage to their ancestors.

Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, which originated in Baiyue area of Jingchu. It originally refers to the first afternoon in midsummer, also known as "Duanyang Festival". On this day, the clan who worships dragon totem has the custom of rowing dragon boats to worship their ancestors. Later generations associated it with the commemoration of Qu Yuan, and the Dragon Boat Festival also became a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. There are also some areas to commemorate Wu Zixu. There are customs such as dragon boat racing and eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival.

Qixi Festival

Valentine's Day in China was a festival for women in ancient times. On this day, women can dress up and go out, get together, play and show their embroidery skills.

Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival is also a family reunion festival. Since ancient times, there have been customs such as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes, enjoying osmanthus and drinking osmanthus wine.

Double Ninth Festival

The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the Double Ninth Festival, which was also called the Ascending Festival in ancient times. On this day, there is the custom of climbing mountains to enjoy autumn, and there is also the custom of inserting dogwood, enjoying chrysanthemums and tasting chrysanthemum wine.

Winter solstice

The time of winter solstice is between 65438+February 2 1-23. Winter solstice, also known as "winter festival" and "sub-year-old", is the only solar term among the 24 solar terms used to determine the order of months and leap months. From this day on, the yin gradually receded and the yang gradually rose. On this day, there is a custom of eating jiaozi in the north.