What is a brief introduction to traditional festivals and customs in China?

1, Laba Festival People are used to calling December of the lunar calendar the twelfth lunar month and the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month the twelfth lunar month or Laba Festival, and regard it as a traditional festival, namely Laba Festival. Many customs related to the twelfth lunar month or Laba are often labeled as "wax". According to legend, this day is the day when Sakyamuni became a Buddha. Laba porridge is eaten in many places, and Laba is actually the beginning of Spring Festival preparation.

2. Winter solstice is a very important solar term in China lunar calendar, and it is also a traditional festival. The winter solstice is commonly known as "Winter Festival", "Dragon Solstice Festival" and "Asian New Year Festival". The northern region has the custom of slaughtering sheep and eating jiaozi and wonton from winter solstice, while the southern region has the custom of eating glutinous rice balls and long noodles from winter solstice on this day. There is also the custom of offering sacrifices to heaven and ancestors in winter solstice in various regions.

On the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, the Double Ninth Festival is called "Double Ninth Festival". Because in ancient China, six was the number of yin and nine was the number of yang, the Double Ninth Festival was called "Double Ninth Festival". The origin of the Double Ninth Festival can be traced back to the early Han Dynasty. It is said that in the palace, on September 9 every year, Cornus officinalis is accompanied, fed with bait and drunk with chrysanthemum wine, in order to live longer. The main activities are mountain climbing, chrysanthemum appreciation and drinking. It is very popular with the elderly, so it is also called "Festival for the Elderly".

4. Mid-Autumn Festival is also called Mid-Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, August Festival, Moon Chasing Festival, Moon Appreciation Festival, Moon Worship Festival, Daughter's Day or Reunion Festival. On this day, the whole family get together to enjoy the moon and eat moon cakes. There are also "burning incense", "walking on the moon", "putting sky lanterns", "Mid-Autumn Festival on the tree" and "lighting tower lanterns". This festival is more concerned by overseas travelers, and many ethnic minorities also celebrate this festival.

In the old society, on the seventh day of July, it was also called Qiaoqi Festival. Legend has it that Cowherd and Weaver Girl met at the Magpie Bridge. Generally speaking, the people set up an altar that night, and the women were trying to please the good women workers. There are young men and women in love, also known as China's love story.

6. The Dragon Boat Festival, also called Duanyang Festival, is said to commemorate Qu Yuan. There are mainly activities such as eating zongzi and dragon boat racing. In some places, such as Qinghai, there are customs such as tying ropes (twisted with five-color silk threads and tied on hands, feet and wrists), inserting willows and wearing sachets to drive away insects and pray for good luck and peace.

7. Tomb-Sweeping Day and Tomb-Sweeping Day are traditional festivals in China, and they are also the most important festivals to worship ancestors and sweep graves. Grave-sweeping, commonly known as going to the grave, is an activity of offering sacrifices to the dead. Most Han people and some ethnic minorities visit graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day. According to the old custom, when sweeping graves, people should bring food, wine, fruit, paper money and other items to the cemetery, offer food to the graves of their loved ones, then burn the paper money, cultivate new soil for the graves, break some green branches and insert them in front of the graves, then kowtow and worship, and finally go home after eating and drinking.

8. February 2nd, commonly known as "Dragon Head Up", also known as Qinglong Festival, marks the beginning of agricultural production in a year. Activities include throwing ash to attract dragons, smoking insects, picking vegetables and avoiding seams (in case of "hurting longan"). The record of this custom can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty. As for eating and drinking on February 2 nd, don't eat or drink greasy food during the Spring Festival, and be vegetarian.

9. The 15th day of the first lunar month is a traditional festival in China. The first month is January, and the ancients called the night "Xiao". 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 Shangyuan Festival. According to the folk tradition in China, on the festival night of Spring Festival, the moon is high in the sky and thousands of lanterns are hung on the ground. People will watch lanterns, solve riddles on the lanterns, eat Yuanxiao and have family reunion.

10, New Year's Eve, or "New Year's Eve". This day is a day for people to eat, drink and be merry. Northerners make jiaozi and southerners make rice cakes. The shape of jiaozi is like an "ingot" and the sound of rice cakes is like "rice cakes", which are good signs of good luck. On New Year's Eve, the whole family eats a "reunion dinner" together, which smells like a family reunion in the New Year. When having a reunion dinner, the "fish" on the table can't be moved, because this fish represents "more than one year" and "more than one year", symbolizing "wealth and good luck" in the coming year. It belongs to a decoration and can't be touched. According to legend, in ancient times, our ancestors were threatened by the fiercest beast "Nian". People have struggled with Nian for many years and found that Nian is afraid of three things, red color, fire and noise. So on a winter night, people hung red boards on the door, lit a fire at the door, stayed up all night, knocked and knocked, scaring Nian back to the mountains and never coming out again. As the night passed, people congratulated each other and celebrated the victory by decorating, drinking and feasting. To commemorate this victory, every family will stick red paper couplets on their doors, light lanterns, bang gongs and drums, and set off firecrackers and fireworks at this time of winter. At night, vigil all night; The next day, I congratulated each other early in the morning. This has been passed down from generation to generation, and it has become a "New Year".