What are the customs of China people?

The customs and habits of China people include putting up Spring Festival couplets, hanging New Year pictures, playing with dragon lanterns, dancing lions, offering sacrifices to ancestors, enjoying lanterns, wrapping jiaozi, playing New Year drums, welcoming Ce Shen, eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, enjoying the moon, worshipping the moon, watching tides, eating moon cakes, enjoying chrysanthemums and poems, drinking chrysanthemum wine and inserting dogwood. Specifically introduce the following customs and habits:

1, paste Spring Festival couplets

Every Spring Festival, no matter in urban or rural areas, every household should take off beautiful red couplets and stick them on the doors to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, thus increasing the festive atmosphere. Another source of Spring Festival couplets is spring stickers. The ancients posted the word "Yichun" more and more at the beginning of spring, and then it gradually developed into Spring Festival couplets, expressing the good wishes of the working people in China to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters and welcome good luck. It is said that this custom originated in the Song Dynasty and became popular in the Ming Dynasty.

Step 2 hang new year pictures

Hanging New Year pictures is a unique custom during the Spring Festival in China. Popular all over the country. On New Year's Day, hang New Year pictures on the door or wall. Judging from the evolution of ancient door-sticking gods, it was originally for exorcism, and later it became a lively atmosphere to set off the New Year and express people's festive mood.

3. Dragon Boat Race

Dragon boat race is one of the customs of China Dragon Boat Festival, and it is also one of the most important festivals and folk activities. It widely exists in the south of China, and there are also dragon boat races in cities near rivers, lakes and seas in the north, and most of them are held in the form of dragon boat rowing and dragon boat dancing.

4, enjoy the moon

Mid-Autumn Festival is the oldest and most famous festival in China, and enjoying the moon is an important custom of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Many poets have poems chanting the moon in their representative works, and the court and folk activities of appreciating the moon in Song, Ming and Qing dynasties are larger in scale. It also refers to watching the full moon on the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th. Folk Mid-Autumn Festival activities began in Wei and Jin Dynasties and flourished in Tang and Song Dynasties.

5. Evodia rutaecarpa

Evodia rutaecarpa is an ancient folk festival custom, which is popular in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, Huaihe River and Yangtze River. Every year on the ninth double ninth festival of the ninth lunar month, Cornus officinalis is worn on people's heads and in bags made of Cornus officinalis. Folk beliefs can exorcise evil spirits and cure diseases.