Write about the customs of traditional festivals

The customs of traditional festivals are as follows:

The Spring Festival:

It is the first day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar of each year, which is one of the most grand and lively traditional festivals in China. (Narrowly refers to the first day of the first month, broadly refers to the first day of the first month of the first month to the first month of the fifteenth) (Customs have to keep the New Year's Eve firecrackers . Stick Spring Festival couplets. New Year's greetings. Elders to give the New Year's money. Food customs include steaming rice cakes and making dumplings, etc.).

Lunar New Year's Eve:

The 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar is the traditional Chinese festival of the Lantern Festival. The first month is the first month, the ancients called the night "night", and the fifteenth day is the first full moon in a year, so the first month of the fifteenth for the Lantern Festival, also known as "on the Yuan Festival". According to Chinese folk tradition, in the beginning of the year, the earth back to spring festival night, the sky bright moon hanging high, on the ground colorful lanterns, people watching the lanterns, riddles, eat Lantern family reunion, happy.

Ching Ming Festival:

In all of China's traditional festivals, only the Qingming Festival has no fixed date. The Qingming Festival, which has a history of more than 2,000 years, is designated as the fifteenth day after the vernal equinox, which according to the solar calendar is between April 4 and 6 every year. Because the time of the vernal equinox varies from year to year, the date of the Qingming Festival is different, just as sometimes New Year's Eve is celebrated on the 30th day of the lunar month, and sometimes New Year's Eve is celebrated on the 29th day of the lunar month. The Qingming Festival falls at the intersection of mid-spring and late spring, and was therefore also called the "March Festival" in ancient times.

The Qingming Festival is a beautiful spring, the grass and trees spit green season, this time is suitable for spring tour, so the ancients also called "Treading Green Festival". Qingming Festival is a traditional festival in China, and also the most important festival of sacrifice, is the day of ancestor worship and tomb sweeping. Tomb-sweeping is commonly known as visiting the graves, which is an activity to honor the dead.

Most Han Chinese and some ethnic minorities sweep their tombs on Qingming Day. According to the old custom, when sweeping tombs, people should carry ? wine, food, fruit, paper money and other items to the cemetery, food offerings in front of their loved ones' graves, and then incinerate the paper money for the graves to cultivate new soil, folded a few young green branches inserted in the graves, and then kowtow to pay homage.

Duanwu Festival:

Duanwu Festival is the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, also known as the Duanyang Festival, Wuzhi Festival, the May Festival, was originally a summer festival to drive out the plague? Day. Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival of the Han Chinese people in China, Dragon Boat Festival began in China during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, and has a history of more than 2,000 years. Dragon Boat Festival has been a multi-ethnic people's fitness, disease prevention and expulsion, to avoid the plague and drive away poison, and pray for health of the folk festival.

The indispensable activities on this day gradually evolved into eating zongzi, racing dragon boats, hanging calamus ` Artemisia, mugwort, fumigation of Cangzhu, Angelica dahurica, drinking Xionghuang wine. It is said that eating rice dumplings and dragon boat racing, is to commemorate the Qu Yuan, so after liberation had the Dragon Boat Festival named "Poet's Day" to commemorate the Qu Yuan. As for hanging calamus, moxa leaves, fumigate Cangzhu, Angelica dahurica, drink Xionghuang wine, it is said to be in order to avoid evil spirits.

In Hubei, Hunan, Guizhou and Sichuan, the Dragon Boat Festival is divided into the big Dragon Boat Festival and the small Dragon Boat Festival. The Small Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, while the Big Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year.

Mid-Autumn Festival:

The Mid-Autumn Festival is traditionally celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar. This is the middle of the fall season of the year, so it is called the Mid-Autumn Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Song Dynasty and has been celebrated in China for more than 1,000 years. It is named after the Chinese lunar calendar, which divides the year into four seasons, each of which is divided into three parts: the Meng, the Zhong, and the Quarter, and thus the Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival.

The Mid-Autumn Festival has a number of aliases: because it falls on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, it is known as the "August Festival" and the "Half of the August Moon"; and because the moon on the fifteenth day of the eighth month is fuller and brighter than the full moons of the other months, the main activities of the festival are all based on the "moon". "Because the moon is fuller and brighter on the fifteenth day of the eighth month than in other months, the main activities of the Mid-Autumn Festival are all based on the moon, so it is also called the "Moon Festival", "Autumn Festival", and "Mid-Autumn Festival", The festival is also called "Moon Festival", "Autumn Festival", "Mid-Autumn Festival", "August Festival", "Moon Chasing Festival", "Moon Playing Festival", "Moon Worshipping Festival", and so on.

The moon on the Mid-Autumn Festival is exceptionally bright and full, and is seen as a symbol of family reunion, so it is also called the "Reunion Festival". On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, people will prepare all kinds of fruits and cooked food, especially moon cakes, and eat moon cakes while enjoying the moon in the courtyard.