What are the folkways and customs of China?

Chinese folk customs and traditions include: New Year's Eve, having a reunion dinner, offering sacrifices, and staying up late to observe the New Year's Eve; Spring Festival, paying homage to the New Year and visiting relatives; Lantern Festival, eating Lantern Festival; Cold Food Festival, sweeping and trekking; Ching Ming Festival, sweeping tombs and paying tribute to ancestors, and trekking in the green countryside, etc. The following are some of the Chinese folk customs and traditions. The details are as follows:

1. New Year's Eve

Eating a reunion dinner, offering sacrifices, and staying up all night to observe the New Year. On New Year's Eve, people often stay up all night, which is called "New Year's Eve". New Year's Eve this day, home and outside the house should be cleaned up, but also paste the god of the door, paste the Spring Festival couplets, paste the New Year's paintings, paste the windowpane, paste the word of blessing. People change into new clothes with festive colors and patterns.

2. The Spring Festival

generally focuses on eating rice cakes, dumplings, dumplings, meatballs, whole fish, wine, apples, peanuts, melon seeds, candies, etc.; setting off firecrackers, giving New Year's money, paying homage to the New Year's Eve, visiting relatives, sending New Year's gifts, going to the ancestors' graves, going to the Flower Market, making a scene at the fireworks, and other activities, which is the best way to enjoy the joy of the family.

3, Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival customs since ancient times to warm and festive Lantern Festival customs. Traditional customs go out to enjoy the moon, light the fire, happy to guess the riddles, *** eat Lantern, pull the rabbit lamp. In addition, the Lantern Festival in many places has increased the dragon lanterns, lions, stilt walkers, rowing dry boats, twisting rice-planting songs, playing drums and other traditional folk performances.

4, Cold Food Festival

In the summer calendar, 105 days after the winter solstice, one or two days before the Qingming Festival. It is the beginning of the day for the festival, the ban on fireworks, only eat cold food. And in the development of later generations gradually increased the cleaning, trekking, swing, cuju, pulling hooks, cockfighting and other customs, cold food festival before and after the extension of more than 2,000 years, was known as China's first folk festival day. The Cold Food Festival is the only one of the traditional Chinese festivals to be named after a food custom.

5, Qingming Festival

Also known as the Treading Green Festival, it is celebrated at the intersection of mid-spring and late spring. Qingming Festival is a traditional Chinese festival and one of the most important sacrificial festivals, a day for sweeping tombs and paying homage to ancestors. The traditional Qingming Festival of the Chinese nation started around the Zhou Dynasty, which is more than 2,500 years old. Through the development and evolution of history, Qingming has an extremely rich connotation, and different customs have been developed in different places, while sweeping tombs and sacrificing to ancestors, trekking and picnicking are the basic themes. p>1, the Spring Festival taboos contain the fear and superstition of the color gradually for people all happy, mutual love and care of the mood to take. As the saying goes: "Into the mileage of the year boundary (New Year's Eve) taboos more". Hakka folk practiced the Spring Festival taboos include: forbidden to scold children; forbidden to break utensils; forbidden to speak foul language.

2, Zhang Zuqi's "Hakka old rituals and customs" said: "the first day of the day is particularly cautious, do not dare to speak bad language cursing, but also less people go out, if you run into good things in the morning of the first day of the first day of the year, hear good things, as a Department of the year's good omen, as the market will be profitable. So encounter people, they congratulate each other, speak all kinds of good words"; avoid using unlucky words, such as disease, death, suffering, poverty, disaster, chaos, desertion, kill, etc.; the third day of the taboo out to visit friends, the third of the families are accustomed to sweeping down the garbage, sent out of the house outside the open space or go to the riverside, shouting to do to send poor people. Therefore, few people go out on this day; avoid using needle and thread, especially avoid doing needlework in the hall.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia_Folklore? Baidu Encyclopedia_Traditional Chinese Festivals