What are the cultural characteristics and customs in China?

Cultural characteristics:

In the Yi area, the worship and sacrifice of fire are very common. On June 24th, the first day of the first month, a housewife chose the fattest piece of meat and threw it into a burning fireplace, praying for Vulcan's blessing. In Yongren County, the Yi people sacrifice fire on the second or third day of the first month, which is called "Vulcan Meeting". Liangshan Yi people regard the fire pit as a sacred place where Vulcan lives, and it is forbidden to touch and cross it.

On festivals, young men and women of all ethnic groups light torches made of pine, go to the fields in the village for activities, sprinkle rosin on the torches while walking, or hold rallies, sing and dance, or race horses, bullfights and wrestling. In modern times, people use the opportunity of parties to socialize or meet lovers, and conduct business activities on festivals.

2. Bai customs-Girls' Day

Cultural characteristics:

Girls' Day falls on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year. On this day, all Bai women in Diannan and Yang Cen of Jianchuan County will take part in the activities. They will donate money to get together, specially invite someone to tie a girl's idol, dress her in Bai costumes, carry her on a swing on the swing frame, and everyone will dance and sing around her, and then hold a memorial service at the seaside. In the evening, one person held the idol of "The Girl in Green" as the leader, and then, the daughters walked around the village singing the narrative of Long song's "The Girl in Green".

3. Dai custom-Water-splashing Festival

Cultural characteristics:

Every Songkran Festival, Dai people will collect some flowers and leaves on the nearby mountains. On the day of the festival, Dai men, women and children put on festive costumes and carried clear water. They first went to the Buddhist temple to bathe the Buddha, then dipped the collected flowers and leaves in the water and began to splash water on each other. You splash me, I splash you, and the spray blooms in the air, symbolizing auspiciousness, happiness and health. The bright and glittering water drops in the hands of young people also symbolize sweet love. Everyone threw water at each other, and there were baptisms, blessings and songs everywhere. Water splashing is laughing, and the water splashing festival has become an ocean of joy.

4. Hani custom-Daughter's Day

Cultural characteristics:

"Girls' Day" is a festival for young men and women riding cars to fall in love at the end of spring ploughing every year. On the day of "Daughter's Day", the girl riding a car should wear a white pointed towel, a "turtle suit", tight shorts and delicate silver ornaments around her waist, singing and dancing in the mountains to find her other half. Suining Miao Girls' Day is scheduled on the eighth day of April every year, and there is a folk song: Miao people return to their parents' homes on the eighth day of April, and Girls' Day is on the second day of the second lunar month.

5. Miao custom-Huashan Festival

Cultural characteristics:

The Miao Huashan Festival is held around May 1, which is an annual "stepping on Huashan" festival for Miao people in southern Sichuan, Xingwen, Hekou and Wenshan. At this time, the Miao people in one village came from the open space between several Miao villages in all directions. "Flower pole" is an important symbol of stepping on Huashan Festival. Generally, tall pine or cypress trees are selected and tied with flowers and colorful flags. The people in Dinghua Village are recognized as "good people". On the first morning of the festival, men must erect their style before the sun rises.

Extended data:

Folklore, also known as folk culture, refers to a relatively stable cultural event gradually formed and passed down from generation to generation by a nation or a social group in long-term production practice and social life, which can be simply summarized as popular customs and habits.

Folklore is one of the most suitable cultures for people to inherit their body and mind-there is productive labor in labor and daily life in daily life, there are traditional festivals in traditional festivals and social organizations in social organizations, and all stages of life growth need folklore to regulate-people who get married need a wedding ceremony or ceremony to gain social recognition, and people also have folklore in the field of spiritual consciousness-and many taboos in life are like this: sweeping the floor at home from New Year's Eve to the second day of junior high school.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-folk custom