1, the Spring Festival - the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar
Customs: the Spring Festival is generally to eat rice cakes, dumplings, dumplings, large meatballs, whole fish, wine, apples, peanuts, melon seeds, sweets, etc.; firecrackers, to give the New Year's Eve money, pay respects to New Year's Eve, visit relatives, send New Year's gifts, on the ancestral graves, flower market, the fire and other activities. 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 have a reunion dinner and watch the Spring Festival gala together.
2, Lantern Festival - the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar
Customs: watching lanterns, eating Lantern Festival, stilt walkers, riddles
The first month of the first lunar month, which the ancients called "Lantern Festival", and the 15th day of the first full moon of the year, so it is called the first month of the first month of the year. 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.
3, Qingming Festival - (around April 5 on the Gregorian calendar)
Customs: sweeping graves, trekking.
Spring breeze warms the Qingming Festival, trekking to the ancestors to remember 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.
Customs of the Qingming Festival is rich and interesting, in addition to preaching the prohibition of fire, sweeping the tomb, there are a series of customs and sports activities such as trekking, swinging, kicking Cuju, playing polo, sticking willow.
4, Dragon Boat Festival - the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar
Customs: eating dumplings, dragon boat racing.
Duanwu Festival is the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, also known as the Duanyang Festival, Wuzhi Festival, May Festival, summer five, heavy five, etc.. Duanwu Festival is a traditional festival of Chinese Han people to commemorate Qu Yuan.
The Dragon Boat Festival has the custom of eating zongzi, racing dragon boats, hanging calamus, artemisia, moxa, fumigating Cangzhu, Angelica dahurica, and drinking xionghuang wine. This day's activities are now gradually evolved into eating rice dumplings, dragon boat racing, with five-color thread, making scented sachets, door inserted Ai.
5, Tanabata Festival - the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar
Customs: threading the needle to beg for coquettish, praying for blessings and longevity, worship of the seven sisters, red
The Tanabata Festival is the most romantic of China's traditional festivals in the color of the festival, but also in the past the most important day of the day of the girls. According to legend, on the night of July 7 or July 6 of the lunar calendar, women in the courtyard to the Weaving Maiden star to beg for wisdom and skill, so it is called "begging for skill".
The women wear needles to beg for coincidence, pray for blessings and longevity activities, worship seven sisters, the ceremony is pious and grand, display of flowers and fruits, women's red, all kinds of furniture, utensils are exquisite and small, attractive.
6, Mid-Autumn Festival - the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar
Customs: enjoy the moon, eat moon cakes
Mid-Autumn Festival moon festival, in China is a very ancient custom. The custom of enjoying the moon is derived from the moon festival, and the seriousness of the festival is transformed into a light-hearted entertainment. "Folk worship of the moon" has become the people long for reunion, happiness and well-being, to the moon to send love. A large incense burner is set up and offerings such as mooncakes, watermelons, apples, jujubes, plums, grapes, etc. are placed on the table, among which mooncakes and watermelons are absolutely indispensable.
7, Chongyang Festival - the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar
Customs: climbing high, inserting dogwood.
The Chrysanthemum Festival, also known as the Chrysanthemum Festival, Sunshine Autumn Festival, "Treading Autumn", for the first nine days of September in the lunar calendar each year, a traditional Chinese festival. Celebration of the festival generally includes activities such as going out to enjoy the fall, climbing up to a high altitude, viewing chrysanthemums, inserting dogwoods all over the place, eating chrysanthemum cakes, and drinking chrysanthemum wine.
The Chrysanthemum Festival, along with the Spring Festival on the third day of March, is a time for families to come out of their rooms, and all their relatives to climb to the top of the hill together to avoid disasters. Autumn and September, high and cool, this season can be achieved by climbing high and looking far and wide, fitness to get rid of the purpose of the disease.
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