What are the ancient customs and etiquette?

Common sense of ancient customs and etiquette

1. Spring Festival: This festival is the first in a year. The ancients also called Yuanri, New Year's Day, Jacky, Spring Festival and Xinzheng. On the one hand, the custom of the Spring Festival is to celebrate the past year, on the other hand, it is to wish a happy New Year, a bumper harvest of crops and prosperity of people and animals, which are mostly related to farming.

2. Lantern Festival: also known as the first half of the first month, Shangyuan Festival and Lantern Festival. The custom of Lantern Festival includes watching lanterns and playing drums in the New Year to welcome Ce Shen and solve riddles on the lanterns. The custom of eating Yuanxiao began in the Song Dynasty.

3. Cold food: No fireworks, only cold food.

4. Qingming: Its customs include sweeping graves, hiking, swinging, flying kites, inserting willows and wearing flowers.

5. Dragon Boat Festival: also known as Duanyang, Chongwu and Chongwu. It is generally believed that this festival is related to the commemoration of Qu Yuan. The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival include drinking realgar wine, hanging sachets, eating zongzi, arranging calamus flowers, beating herbs and expelling the "five poisons".

6. Jojo: Also known as Girls' Day or Chinese Valentine's Day. Every year on the evening of the seventh day of July, women will set up incense tables and thread needles and beg the Weaver Maid in the sky for the skill of weaving and embroidering.

7. Mid-Autumn Festival: also known as the Reunion Festival. There are customs of appreciating and offering sacrifices to the moon.

8. Chongyang: There are customs such as climbing high and looking far, appreciating chrysanthemums and making poems, drinking chrysanthemum wine and inserting dogwood.

9. New Year's Eve: Lunar New Year's Eve1On the evening of February 30th, the whole family got together to have a "New Year's Eve". This night, everyone stayed up all night, which is called "Shousui". At zero o'clock, a fire broke out in front of the court. At the time of the "three yuan" of "year yuan, month yuan and time yuan", three "celestial cannons" were released first in order to develop first and prosper.

10. Uncle (Meng) and Uncle Zhong: the ranking order of younger brothers. Bo (Meng) is the eldest, Zhong is the second, Uncle is the third and Ji is the fourth.

1 1. Zodiac: Also called Zodiac. Ancient astrologers used twelve kinds of animals to match the twelve earthly branches. Zi is a mouse, ugly is a cow, Yin is a tiger, Mao is a rabbit, Chen is a dragon, snake is a horse, noon is not a sheep, Shen is a monkey, you is a chicken, a dog is a dog, and Hai is a pig.

12. Birthday: The year, month, day and hour of a person's birth have their own heavenly stems and earthly branches, each with two words and four * * * characters. According to these eight words, we can calculate a person's fate. In case of major events, eight characters need to be calculated.

13. kowtow: it was one of the "nine worships" in ancient times, commonly known as kowtow. Usually used to pay tribute to junior officers and peers.

14. kotow: the ancient sacrificial ceremony was one of the "Nine Worships". This is the most solemn ceremony among the nine worshippers, and it is often used by courtiers when they meet the king.

15. coronation ceremony: the coronation ceremony of ancient men when they reached adulthood (20 years old). Because men are crowned at the age of 20, future generations will call it a "weak crown."

16. The goodness of Qin and Jin Dynasties: During the Spring and Autumn Period, the monarch of Qin Jin intermarried for several generations, and later called the marriage of two surnames "the goodness of Qin and Jin Dynasties".

17. Naming: The ancients had many nicknames for "death", mainly including:

(1) The names of the deaths of the son of heaven, the queen mother and the official are Yi, Beng, Centennial,, Shanling Beng, etc.

(2) The names of parents' death are: no back, loneliness, giving up, etc.

(3) The death names of Buddhists and Taoists are: Nirvana, Death, Sitting, Feather, Immortality and Death. "Death" is now also used to refer to the death of a respected person.

(4) The names of ordinary people's deaths are: death, long sleep, death, death, death, donation of life, death, death, old age, death and so on.