What are the traditional festivals and customs in China?

1, New Year's Eve-December 29th or 30th of the lunar calendar.

Custom: having a reunion dinner, offering sacrifices and staying up late for the New Year.

People often stay up all night on New Year's Eve, which is called "vigil". On New Year's Eve, the house and the outside should be cleaned up, and the door gods, Spring Festival couplets, New Year pictures, stick grilles and blessings should be posted. People put on new clothes with festive colors and patterns.

2. Spring Festival-the first day of the first lunar month.

Custom: During the Spring Festival, people usually eat rice cakes, jiaozi, glutinous rice balls, big meatballs, whole fish, wine, apples, peanuts, melon seeds and sweets. Many activities, such as setting off firecrackers, giving lucky money, visiting relatives and friends, giving new year gifts, visiting ancestral graves, visiting flower markets, making fires, etc., are very enjoyable.

3, Lantern Festival-the fifteenth day of the first lunar month

Custom: Watching lanterns, eating Yuanxiao and walking on stilts, solve riddles on the lanterns.

The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called it "Xiao", and the fifteenth day is the first full moon night in a year, so the fifteenth day of the first month is called the Lantern Festival. Also known as the first lunar month, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival, it is the first important festival after the Spring Festival. China has a vast territory and a long history, so the customs of celebrating the Lantern Festival are different all over the country, among which eating Yuanxiao, watching lanterns and dancing dragons and lions are several important folk customs.

4. Cold Food Festival-(the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day)

Custom: cook with fire and eat cold food.

Don't smoke, just eat cold food. In the development of later generations, the customs of sweeping, climbing, swinging, cuju, crochet and cockfighting were gradually increased. The Cold Food Festival lasted for more than 2,000 years and was once called the largest folk festival in China. Cold Food Festival is the only traditional festival named after food customs in China.

5. Tomb-Sweeping Day —— (around April 5 of Gregorian calendar)

Custom: sweeping graves and hiking.

In Tomb-Sweeping Day, the spring breeze is blowing, and we are going for an outing to worship our ancestors. Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave-sweeping and ancestor-worshipping is conducive to promoting filial piety and affection, awakening family memories, and promoting the cohesion and identity of family members and even the nation. Tomb-Sweeping Day's customs are rich and interesting. In addition to paying attention to the prohibition of fire to sweep graves, there are a series of customs and sports activities such as jogging, swinging, playing cuju, playing polo and inserting willows.