1. Spring Festival
The first day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar is the beginning of a new year, commonly known as "New Year". In order to meet this day, from the month of Lunar New Year began to celebrate the festival, commonly known as "busy year", Lunar New Year's Eve to drink Lunar congee, smoked and pickled bacon, preserved fish, brewing Lunar New Year's Eve wine. Lunar New Year on the 23rd (or 24th), New Year's Eve, every family should nail the peach charm, pasting spring couplets, firecrackers, family ancestor worship, resignation, eat New Year's Eve dinner, parents to the children's New Year's Eve money. People also Xing all night sleepless "keep the New Year's Eve". The first morning, the younger generation to the elders to pay homage to the New Year, the second to pay homage to the mother-in-law, only after the third party to pay homage to relatives and friends. The fifth is commonly known as "broken five", to receive the God of Fortune. The first nine is the Jade Emperor's birthday, known as the nine festival.
2, Lantern Festival
The Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month, also known as the "Festival of Lights". On this day, we should eat the Lantern Festival, Maogu Dumpling; in the evening, we should play dragon lanterns, lions, dance mussel shells, rowing Cailian Boat, playing Lianjiao, enjoying the lanterns, guessing riddles. Some places also play more skillful shrimp dragon, bench dragon. Many people also want to release the Kongming lanterns. The so-called "thirty of the fire, fifteen of the lights", until this is considered the end of the Spring Festival. Businesses also have to finish the first month of the fifteenth before opening their doors to customers.
3, the social festival
The second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, the land festival, known as the "social festival", this festival, in the middle of the Republic of China that is declining, the modern young people almost do not know, can only be from the ancient poems to find traces.
4. Qingming Festival
It is the time of the year for sweeping tombs and sacrificing to ancestors, trekking in the green and spring, and also the best time for children to fly kites. Most of the family members will make their own Qingming hangers, Qingming sticks and paper streamers, and then take wine and food, joss sticks and firecrackers to the graves. If you can't finish the food and wine, you can't bring them back, which is commonly called "catching up with the pile". Therefore, the city has a "beggar also Xing catching piles of" said. Since the Republic of China until the early liberation, Yichang city are still popular this custom. After the founding of the country against feudal superstition and wastefulness, although the wind of the Qingming Festival exists, catching up with the pile of children is gradually limited to family members and relatives.
5, Dragon Boat Festival
The fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, also known as the "Duan Yang", "five", Poet's Day. In Yichang, the people to this day for the first Duanyang, 15 days for the big Duanyang, 25 days for the end of the Duanyang. Families hanging calamus, wormwood, package zongzi, boiled salted duck eggs, steamed meat buns, drink xionghuang wine, pounded garlic to eat, hanging long life locks, wearing a bag of joss sticks, wash orchid grass bath. Yichang city and zigui county are to row the dragon boat (Yichang people do not call the boat), shouting dragon boat horn for qu yuan invocation. Since the reform and opening up, Yichang city government has successfully organized several international dragon boat rallies according to the custom of dragon boat rowing at the Dragon Boat Festival, which has achieved excellent social impact and economic results. It has now become a famous brand in Yichang.
6, Tanabata Festival
The seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, in the old days in the night, women will be on the empty needle threading, looking forward to ask the seven fairies to give their own wisdom and skills, so also known as "Begging for coincidences festival". The modern young people, all the rise of a Chinese and a foreign two Valentine's Day.
7, Mid-Autumn Festival
The 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, is the reunion of loved ones, eat moon cakes, fruits and vegetables, sitting around the moon, talk, drink, and catch up on old times a good time. Yichang literati will also be invited to this day to worship the moon, the moon, chanting the moon, poems and couplets, a show of ambition, leaving behind the words of the chapter ink treasure, the literary world.
8, Chongyang Festival
The first nine days of the ninth lunar month. Folklore also welcome married women to return to the home, home to eat cake custom. After the liberation, the state stipulates that this day for the old people's day, so all units have to organize activities for the retired, retired people, to express respect for the old and respect for the old.
9, Yichang Tujia festivals, to the cattle king festival and daughter will be the most.
10, since the establishment of New China, the people of Yichang in the legal holidays, New Year's Day, March 8 Women's Day, March 12 Arbor Day, May 1 International Labor Day, May 4 Youth Day, June 1 Children's Day, July 1 anniversary of the founding of the Chinese ****production party, August 1 Army Day, September 10 Teachers' Day, October 1 National Day (including the Dragon Boat Festival, Chung Yeung Festival), are routinely on vacation or hold a related commemorative activities.