Chinese Customs and Traditions

1. New Year's Eve - the 29th or 30th day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar

Customs: Eating a reunion dinner, offering sacrifices, and staying up all night to observe the New Year.

On New Year's Eve, people often stay up all night, which is called "keeping watch". On the day of New Year's Eve, the house is cleaned and cleaned, and door gods, spring couplets, New Year's paintings, window decals and lucky charms are put on. People change into new clothes with festive colors and patterns.

2. Spring Festival - the first day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar

Customs: The Spring Festival is generally characterized by eating rice cakes, dumplings, dumplings, meatballs, whole fish, wine, apples, peanuts, melon seeds, candies and so on; firecrackers, giving New Year's Eve money, paying homage to the New Year, visiting relatives, sending New Year's gifts, going to the graves of the ancestors, flower markets, fireworks, and other activities, and so on. The Chinese New Year is a great opportunity for people to enjoy the joy of family life.

The Spring Festival is a traditional Chinese festival in which families eat a reunion dinner and watch the Spring Festival gala together.

3. Lantern Festival - the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar

Customs: watching lanterns, eating Lantern Festival, walking on stilts, guessing riddles

The first month of the first lunar month, which is the first month of the lunar calendar, was called "Lantern Festival" by the ancients, and the 15th day of the first full moon of the year, so it is called the first month of the first lunar month. The first month of the year is the first night of the full moon, so the first fifteen days of the first month of the year is called the Lantern Festival. It is also known as the Small New Year's Day, the Lantern Festival, or the Lantern Festival, and is the first important festival after the Spring Festival. China's vast territory, a long history, so the customs of the Lantern Festival are not the same in all parts of the country, in which eating Lantern Festival, lanterns, dragon dance, lion dance, etc. is the Lantern Festival several important folk customs.

4. Cold Food Festival - (the day before the Qingming Festival)

Customs: start a fire to burn rice, eat cold food

Ban on fireworks, only eat cold food. And in the development of later generations gradually added sweeping, trekking, swinging, cuju, pulling hooks, cockfighting and other customs, cold food festival before and after the extension of more than 2,000 years, was once known as the first Chinese folk festival day. The Cold Food Festival is the only one of the traditional Chinese festivals to be named after a food custom.

During this fireless time, people must prepare enough cooked food to survive the day in the cold, i.e. "cold food", hence the name "Cold Food Festival". Cold Food Festival stretched before and after more than two thousand years, known as the first folk festival.

5. Qingming Festival - (around April 5)

Customs: Tomb-sweeping, trekking.

Spring breeze warms the Qingming Festival, trekking to the ancestors and remembering the ancestors. Tomb-sweeping rituals, remembering the ancestors to send condolences, is conducive to the promotion of filial piety and affection, awakening the family *** with the memory, and promote family members and even the cohesion and identity of the nation.

The customs of the Qingming Festival are rich and interesting, in addition to preaching the prohibition of fire, sweeping the tomb, there are also trekking, swinging, kicking Cuju, playing polo, willow and a series of customs and sports activities.