What are the traditional festivals and customs in China?

1, Spring Festival (the first day of the first lunar month)

Custom: it can be roughly summarized as follows: offering sacrifices to gods to adapt to the weather; Worship ancestors and maintain family ties; Drive away evil spirits and seek peace; Have fun and relax.

2. Lantern Festival (15th day of the first lunar month)

Custom: The Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities, such as watching lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, solve riddles on the lanterns and setting off fireworks. In addition, traditional folk performances such as Youlong lanterns, lion dancing, walking on stilts, boating, yangko and playing Taiping drums have been added to the Lantern Festival in many places.

3. The dragon looks up (the second day of the second lunar month)

Custom: When raising dragons, people will hold ceremonies to worship the dragon gods, pray for rain and release them, so as to have a good harvest in a year, and regard the season of raising dragons as an auspicious day. In some northern areas, there are customs such as hoarding grain, attracting Tian Long, knocking on beams, having a haircut, frying braised pork, eating pork head, noodles, jiaozi, candied beans, pancakes, and avoiding needlework on February 2nd.

4. Tomb-Sweeping Day (around April 5, Gregorian calendar)

Custom: Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave-sweeping means "grave-sweeping sacrifice" and "thinking about respecting time" for his ancestors. Sacrificing ancestors is a way of remembering ancestors, and its custom has a long history. The Chinese nation has had the custom of going for an outing in Qingming since ancient times. In ancient times, it was called spring outing, spring seeking and so on. There is a habit of planting trees in Tomb-Sweeping Day, and some people call Tomb-Sweeping Day Arbor Day. Flying kites is the most popular activity in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

5. Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month)

Customs: Dragon Boat Festival customs mainly include picking dragon boats, Dragon Boat Festival, picking herbs, hanging wormwood, calamus, worshipping ancestors, washing herbal water, drinking water at noon, soaking in dragon boats, eating zongzi, flying kites, tying colored silk thread, smoking Atractylodes lancea and wearing sachets. The custom of eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival has been popular all over China since ancient times, and it has become one of the most influential and widespread folk food customs of the Chinese nation.