Chinese traditional cultural festivals origin customs?

The traditional Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar every year. This is the middle of the fall season of the year, which is why it is called the Mid-Autumn Festival. In the Chinese lunar calendar, the year is divided into four seasons, each of which is subdivided into three parts: the Meng, the Midsummer, and the Quarter, hence the Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival. The moon on the 15th day of the 8th month is fuller and brighter than the full moons of other months, which is why it is also called "Moon Festival" and "August Festival". On this night, people look up at the bright moon in the sky like a jade disk and naturally look forward to family reunions. People who are far away from their hometowns also take this opportunity to express their nostalgia for their hometowns and loved ones. Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as the "reunion festival".

China's people in ancient times, there is "autumn sunset" custom. The moon, that is, to worship the moon god. To the Zhou Dynasty, every Mid-Autumn Night will be held to welcome the cold and moon festival. A large incense burner was set up, and mooncakes, watermelons, apples, jujubes, plums, grapes and other offerings were placed on the table, of which mooncakes and watermelons were absolutely indispensable. The watermelon should also be cut in the shape of a lotus flower. Under the moon, the statue of the moon god is placed in the direction of the moon, red candles are lit high, and the whole family pays homage to the moon in turn, and then the housewife of the family cuts the mooncakes for reunion. Cutting the mooncake people pre-calculated the whole family *** how many people, at home, in the field, should be counted together, can not cut more or less, the size should be the same.

Spring Festival

The Spring Festival (Spring Festival) Chinese folk most grand traditional festival. On the first day of the first month of the summer calendar, also known as the lunar year, commonly known as "New Year", "New Year". The Spring Festival has a long history, which originated in the Yin Shang period at the end of the year to the gods and ancestors activities.

The Spring Festival is a festival of joy and harmony, but also the reunion of loved ones, children away from home in the Spring Festival to go home to celebrate. The night before the New Year's Eve, is the old year's Lunar New Year's Eve, also known as New Year's Eve, also known as the reunion night, in this time of transition between the old and the new, the New Year's Eve is one of the most important customary activities, New Year's Eve night, the whole family stay up to keep watch together, get together to drink soundly, *** enjoy the joy of family, the northern region in the New Year's Eve to eat dumplings, dumplings, dumplings is the first way and the face, and the word is the together; dumplings and dumplings and cross the resonance of, and cross the together! The dumplings have the meaning of "getting together" and "turning over the year". In the south, it is customary to eat New Year's cake on New Year's Day, a sweet and sticky cake that symbolizes the sweetness of life in the new year.

To the first rooster crows, or the New Year's bells ringing, the street firecrackers, loud and clear, the family is full of joy, the new year began, men and women, young and old, dressed in festive attire, the first to the elders of the family New Year's Eve wishes, the festival there are to the children of the New Year's Eve money to eat New Year's Eve dinner, the second and third began to go to relatives to see their friends and to pay tribute to each other, congratulations on the blessing, say some Congratulations to the new happy, Congratulations, congratulations, congratulations, New Year's Eve and other words, ancestor worship and other activities.