Traditional festivals related to filial piety

The traditional festivals related to filial piety are answered as follows:

1. Ao Jiujie:

Aojiu Festival, also known as Filial Piety Festival, is a unique traditional festival in Fuzhou, which originated in the Northern Song Dynasty. On the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, Aojiu Festival is a day for Fuzhou people to worship their ancestors, sweep graves, be grateful and respect the elderly. On this day, Fuzhou people will dedicate their own glutinous rice porridge (made of glutinous rice, brown sugar, peanuts and other ingredients) to their elders to show their respect and gratitude.

2. Tomb-Sweeping Day:

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the Spring Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day, is a traditional festival for the Chinese people to worship their ancestors. Tomb-Sweeping Day originated from the Cold Food Festival and gradually evolved into a festival with ancestor worship, grave sweeping and memory of martyrs as its main contents. On this day in Tomb-Sweeping Day, people will go to the ancestral graves to sweep graves, offer flowers and worship to show their respect and memory for their ancestors.

3. Double Ninth Festival:

Double Ninth Festival, also known as Ascending Festival and Double Ninth Festival, is the ninth day of the ninth lunar month. The Double Ninth Festival originated in the Warring States Period, originally to commemorate Qu Yuan. Later, the Double Ninth Festival gradually evolved into a festival of climbing mountains, enjoying chrysanthemums, eating double ninth cake, drinking chrysanthemum wine and inserting dogwood. On the Double Ninth Festival, people will pay special attention to the elderly and express their filial piety.

4. Spring Festival:

The Spring Festival, also known as the Lunar New Year, is the most important traditional festival of the Chinese nation. During the Spring Festival, people will hold various activities to celebrate the arrival of the New Year, such as putting up Spring Festival couplets, setting off firecrackers, eating New Year's Eve, and paying New Year's greetings. In these activities, filial piety to the elderly is an important content.

For example, the younger generation should pay tribute to their elders on New Year's Eve. During the Spring Festival, children should accompany their parents to visit relatives and friends to celebrate the festival.

5. Mid-Autumn Festival:

The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Full Moon Festival and the Reunion Festival, falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the worship of the autumn moon in ancient times, and gradually evolved into a festival with the main contents of enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes, having a reunion dinner and offering sacrifices to the moon. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, people will pay special attention to the elderly and hope for family harmony and happy reunion, which reflects the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation in attaching importance to family and filial piety.