What are the activities in China's traditional festivals

Introduction to Traditional Chinese Festivals

The Spring Festival

At the beginning of the year, everything is renewed, and the main activities are having New Year's Eve dinner, making sacrifices and observing the New Year's Eve, etc. In addition, the first, second, and third day of the first month of the first lunar month are three days of the New Year, and sacrifices are made to offer offerings as well. During these three days, no work is usually done except for cooking, and it is taboo to say unlucky words and visit the closest and honored relatives. From the first to the fifteenth day of the Spring Festival, a variety of temple fairs, social fires, and rural theater are also held in various places, making it the most lively and extravagant of the traditional festivals.

Metal Lantern Festival

The 15th day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar is the Lantern Festival, which is also known as the Yuanxi Festival, Shangyuan Festival and Lantern Festival. During the festival, there are customs such as eating lanterns, watching lanterns, playing social fires and guessing lantern riddles. In addition to eating the Lantern Festival, there are also many different food customs around the world. Shaanxi people eat "Lantern Tea", that is, in the noodle soup into a variety of vegetables and fruits made; Henan Luoyang, Lingbao area to eat jujube cake; Yunnan Kunming people eat more bean dough.

February 2

Commonly known as "Dragon Head Raising", also known as the Green Dragon Festival, is a year of agricultural production began to mark. Activities include spreading ashes to attract dragons, smoking insects, picking vegetables, and avoiding needles and threads (to prevent "tying up the dragon's eyes"). Records about the customs of this festival in the Tang Dynasty. As for the February 2 this day to eat and drink, a change during the Spring Festival to eat greasy wind, to move vegetarian.

Ching Ming Festival

Sweeping ancestral graves, trekking in the spring, avoid moving fireworks.

Duanwu Festival

Also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, it is said to commemorate Qu Yuan. Mainly eat rice dumplings, dragon boat racing activities, some places such as Qinghai, there is a tie rope (with five-color silk thread twisted into a thin rope, tied to the wrists of the hands and feet), inserted willows, wearing a bag of incense and other customs, in order to be used to drive away insects and pray for good luck and peace.

Seven Charms Festival

Also known as the Begging for Charms Festival, it is said to be the day when the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden meet at the Magpie Bridge. Folk generally in that night set up offering table, women begging for coincidence, in order to give a good female labor. There are also young men and women talk about love, also known as the Chinese festival of love.

Mid-Autumn Festival

Also known as the Moon Festival, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, August Festival, August will be, chasing the moon festival, playing the moon festival, moon festival, worship festival, the daughter of the festival or reunion festival, the day of the family reunion to enjoy the moon, moon cakes, the original there is a "burning bucket incense", "walk the moon! "burning incense", "walking on the moon", "releasing lanterns", "tree mid-autumn festival", "lighting pagoda lanterns", "fire dragon dance "Tree Mid-Autumn Festival", "Lighting Pagoda Lanterns", "Fire Dragon Dance", "Trailing Stones", "Selling Rabbits", and other festivals and activities. This festival is more emphasized by overseas travelers, and many ethnic minorities also celebrate this festival.

Chrysanthemum Festival

Taking the meaning of nine nine suns. The main activities of the festival are climbing up the mountain, enjoying chrysanthemums, drinking wine, etc. It is quite popular among the elderly, so it is also called the "Festival of the Elderly".

October 1

Commonly known as the "Ghost Festival" and the "Cold Clothes Festival", it is also a festival of ancestor worship. As the saying goes, "October 1, send cold clothes", at dusk on this day, every family will go to the grave to pay homage to their ancestors. If you can't go to the grave for some reason or are far away from home, make a circle in the center of the field or at the crossroads and burn the paper money.

Winter Solstice

The winter solstice is a very important festival in China's lunar calendar and a traditional festival. The winter solstice is commonly known as the "winter festival", "long solstice festival", "YaYu", etc. In the northern regions, there is a winter solstice slaughtering sheep, which is also known as the winter solstice festival. In the north, there is the custom of slaughtering sheep, eating dumplings and wontons on the winter solstice, while in the south, there is the custom of eating winter solstice rice balls and winter solstice long thread noodles on this day. Various regions in the winter solstice on this day there is also the custom of sacrificing to the sky and ancestors.

La Ba Festival

People customarily refer to the twelfth month of the lunar calendar as the Lunar New Year, and refer to the eighth day of the Lunar New Year as the Lunar New Year's Day or Lunar New Year's Day, which is treated as a traditional festival, the Lunar New Year's Day. Many customs related to Lunar New Year or Laha are often labeled with the word "Lah". On this day, Laha congee is eaten in many places, and Laha is actually the beginning of the preparations for the Spring Festival.

Besides that, there are also traditional festivals with different folklore in different parts of the world. Our ancestors created many folk festivals in thousands of years of living and reproducing, including both production and life, dietary culture, ritual culture, and simple and magical scientific ideas, leaving us a valuable spiritual heritage, which is very worthwhile for us to carry forward and pass on.

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Traditional Chinese festivals have been basically stereotyped since the Han Dynasty, with certain additions and subtractions, and after the Republic of China, due to the

formalization of the Westernization of the larger changes, but the folk still insisted on some of them the government did not

define a few. Until the Cultural Revolution, the government cut back on the promotion of traditional festivals other than the Chinese New Year, and even for the Chinese New Year, it was promoted as a "revolutionary Chinese New Year". After the reform and opening up,

some traditional festivals began to be celebrated by the public, and some publicity was given to them in the press. At present,

including legal holidays, folk celebrations of traditional holidays account for about one-third

of traditional holidays.

Traditional festivals contain a lot of folk culture and traditional humanistic concepts, as well as religious factors,

for the study of culture, history and social life of ancient societies, there is a certain significance, the following

listed the main traditional festivals, in order to rate interested in this aspect of the friends.

I. New Year's Day

New Year's Day, also known as New Year's Day, or the first day of the first month. The first day of the first month is the day when the year, the four seasons, and the twelve

months begin. In the Spring and Autumn Annals, the first month is called the month of the end. The rooster crows and rises, and first pops firecrackers in front of the court

to ward off the evil spirits of the mountain. Therefore, the first month is a festival that has existed since ancient times since the beginning of the calendar

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There are many customs in the first month of the year, such as the young and old are all correctly dressed, in order to worship and congratulations, this custom is still maintained

Holding, drinking pepper wine, that is, with pepper flowers made of wine, or cypress wine. But some specific activities

have now been abandoned, including during the Han and Jin dynasties, such as Zhou's "Records of Wind and Earth," which says, "On the first day,

when a chicken is swallowed raw, it is called practicing the shape."

Tokyo Dreaming Records, the Northern Song government in the first month of

To be held in the great dynasty, the emperor and the hundred officials to hold a large reunion, and feasts on envoys from all countries,

Particularly on the Liao, Goryeo envoys to the feast treatment. This activity has been preserved to this day.

After the Xinhai Revolution, the Republic of China government retained the traditional holidays only the first month, but renamed

"Spring Festival", and the New Year's Day on the first day of January in the Western calendar, only the government and the private sector are more important to the Spring Festival

Spring Festival, the people's **** and the national government legal Spring Festival holiday of four days, but at present, many private enterprises do not

This is the first time in the history of the Republic of China. private enterprises are not

the same degree of the Spring Festival to do the appropriate extension, some even including the weekend counted, extended to the 15th of January

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