Traditional festivals throughout China (Mid-Autumn Festival, Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival. Chongyang Festival) customs and traditions

Customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival: enjoying the moon, sacrificing to the moon, playing with the moon, eating mooncakes, burning incense, walking on the moon, trailing stones, buying rabbits, the Guangzhou area, "tree Mid-Autumn Festival".

Other customs: 1, the Mid-Autumn Festival marriage and child-breeding beliefs, such as: stealing melons to send a son, shine the moon to get a son, begging for the moon as a matchmaker, stealing vegetables to ask for a man, and so on.

2, the Mid-Autumn custom of honoring the elderly

3, the Mid-Autumn tide watching, osmanthus viewing customs

4, the Mid-Autumn custom of eating the "animal head", playing the whip

5, the Mid-Autumn custom of eating crabs, jujubes, chestnuts

Customs of the Spring Festival: 1, the New Year's Eve 2, sweeping the dust, 3, the worship of the God of the stove, 4, the posting of Spring Festival couplets 5, Stick window 6, upside down FuZhi 7, stick the God of the door 8, hanging stickers 9, pay homage to the New Year 10, the New Year's money 11, hanging Chinese knot 12, firecrackers 13, the Spring Festival Dragon Dance 14, ancestor 15, temple fair

Customs of Ching Ming Festival: Customs of Ching Ming Festival

Customs of Ching Ming Festival are rich and interesting, in addition to pay attention to the banning of fires, sweeping the graves, as well as trekking, swinging, Cuju, playing polo, willow, and so on. A series of customary sports activities. Legend has it that this is because the Qingming Festival should be cold food and fire ban, in order to prevent cold food and cold food injury, so people come to participate in some sports activities, in order to exercise the body. Therefore, this festival is characterized by both the sorrowful tears of sweeping the new graves of life and death, as well as the laughter of trekking and playing.

Swinging

This is an ancient Qingming Festival custom in China. Swinging, meaning migrating by the leather rope. Its history is very ancient, the earliest called the thousand autumn, and then in order to avoid taboos, changed to swing. Ancient swing with tree branches for the frame, and then bolted on the ribbon made. Later gradually developed into a swing with two ropes and pedals. Playing swing not only can improve health, but also can cultivate the spirit of bravery, and is still loved by people, especially children.

Cuju

Cuju is a kind of leather ball, the ball skin made of leather, the ball with hair stuffed tight. Cuju is to kick the ball with the foot. It is a favorite game during the ancient Qingming Festival. It is said to have been invented by the Yellow Emperor, and its original purpose was to train warriors.

Trekking

And it is also called spring tour. In ancient times, it was called exploring spring, searching for spring and so on. March Qingming, spring back to the earth, the natural world everywhere presents a vibrant scene, it is a great time for excursions. China's folk long maintained the Qingming trekking habit.

Tree planting

Before and after the Qingming, the spring sun shines, the spring sun shines, the spring rain sprinkles, planting saplings with a high survival rate, fast growth. Therefore, since ancient times, China has the Qingming tree planting habit. Some people also call the Qingming Festival "Tree Planting Day". Tree-planting custom has been handed down to the present day. 1979, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress stipulated that every year on March 12 for China's Tree Planting Day. This is to mobilize the people of all nationalities to actively carry out activities to green the motherland, has a very important significance.

Kite flying

is also a favorite activity of the Qingming Festival. Every Qingming Festival, people not only fly during the day, but also at night. At night, a string of small colorful lanterns are hung under the kite or on the wind steady pulling line, like twinkling stars, which are called "divine lanterns". In the past, some people put the kite on the blue sky, then cut the line, let the wind send them to the end of the world, it is said that this can get rid of diseases and bring good luck to themselves.

Duanwu Festival customs: hanging Zhong Kui statue: Zhong Kui to catch ghosts, is the Dragon Boat Festival customs. In the Jianghuai area, the family is hanging Zhong Kui statue, used to suppress the house to drive away evil spirits. Tang Minghuang Kaiyuan, from the Lixan martial arts back to the palace, malaria big hair, dreaming of two ghosts, a small, small, small ghosts wearing red crotchless pants, steal Yang Guifei's scent bag and Minghuang's jade flute, around the temple and run. The big ghost is wearing a blue robe and hat, caught the little ghost, gouge out its eyes, swallowed. Ming Huang asked, the big ghost said: my surname Zhong Kui, that is, the martial arts not first, would like to remove the demons for His Majesty, Ming Huang woke up, malaria cured, and then made the painter Wu Daozi, according to what I saw in the dream painted Zhong Kui to catch the ghosts of the portrait, through the order of the world in the end of the day, all posted to drive away the evil spirits.

Hanging calamus leaves: in the Dragon Boat Festival, families are to calamus, leaves, pomegranate, garlic, dragon boat flowers, made of humanoid known as Ai people. Ai leaves hanging in the hall, cut for the tiger shape or cut color for the tiger, stick to Ai leaves, women scramble to wear to seclude evil drive miasma. Calamus as a sword, inserted in the lintel, has the divine effect of driving away demons and ghosts.

Dragon Boat Race: At that time, the people of Chu could not bear the death of Qu Yuan, a wise minister, so many people rowed their boats to catch up with him to save him. They scrambled, chased to Dongting Lake when no trace, is the origin of the Dragon Boat Race, after the fifth of May every year to commemorate the Dragon Boat. Rowing dragon boats to disperse the fish in the river, so that the fish do not eat the body of Qu Yuan. Racing habits, prevalent in Wu, Yue, Chu. In the 29th year of the Qianlong reign in the Qing Dynasty, Taiwan began to have dragon boat races, and at that time, Taiwan's governor, Mr. Chiang Yuan-jun, hosted a friendly race at the Half Moon Pond of the Fahua Temple in Tainan City. Now Taiwan holds dragon boat races on May 5 every year. Hong Kong has a race, and recently the British have followed the example of our people, organizing the Ghostbusters team for the competition.

Eat rice dumplings: Jing Chu people, on May 5 to cook glutinous rice or steamed rice dumplings cake into the river to worship Qu Yuan, for fear of fish eat, so the bamboo tube containing glutinous rice thrown down, and later gradually use rice dumplings wrapped in rice instead of bamboo tube.

Drinking Xionghuang wine: this custom, in the Yangtze River Basin area of the family is very popular.

Swimming for all diseases: this custom is prevalent in the Guizhou region of the Dragon Boat Festival.

Pei Xiangbao: Dragon Boat Festival children Pei Xiangbao, not only has the meaning of the evil spirits to drive away the plague, but also the lapel head embellishment of the wind. Incense capsule inside the cinnabar, andrographis, incense medicine, wrapped in silk cloth, fragrant, and then the five-color silk string buckle into a rope, for a variety of different shapes, knotted into a string, colorful, delicate and eye-catching.

Customs of Chung Yeung Festival: climbing high, enjoying chrysanthemums, drinking osmanthus wine, drinking chrysanthemum tea, eating chrysanthemum cakes, sleeping on chrysanthemum pillows, eating Chung Yeung cakes, inserting cornelian cherry