Traditional festivals and holiday customs

First of all, the custom of the Spring Festival

The Spring Festival is the biggest traditional folk festival in China, and it is a folk festival integrating blessing, entertainment and food. The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from the sacrificial rites of praying for the New Year at the beginning of ancient times, and bears rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development. New Year's greeting activities are centered on offering wishes and praying for blessings, and are carried out in the form of eliminating the old, worshipping ancestors, exorcising evil spirits and praying for a bumper harvest. The content is rich and colorful, lively and festive, and the annual flavor is rich, which embodies the essence of traditional culture of Chinese civilization. During the Spring Festival, various New Year celebrations will be held all over the country. Due to different regional cultures, the content or details of customs are also different.

Second, the Lantern Festival custom

The custom of Lantern Festival includes a series of traditional folk activities, such as eating glutinous rice balls, enjoying lanterns, solve riddles on the lanterns and setting off fireworks. In addition, many places have added traditional folk performances during the Lantern Festival, such as playing with dragon lanterns, playing with lions and walking on stilts. Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Little Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival, is one of the traditional festivals in China on the 15th day of the first lunar month.

Third, the custom of dragons raising their heads.

The second day of February is also called the day when dragons look up. Manchu people who live in Xinbin, Manxiang, attach great importance to this folk festival, just like Chinese New Year or a big festival. Women are busy preparing things on the first festival. The first thing is "grass" (also called barnyard grass), as well as various pieces of cloth and colorful wool.

Fourth, the custom of social day festivals.

Social Day Festival, a traditional festival in China, also known as Land Birthday, is an ancient traditional festival in China. Social days are divided into Spring Club and Autumn Club. In ancient times, the festival of social day was determined according to the calendar of cadres and branches. Later, due to the change of calendar, festivals were decided by the lunar calendar. The Spring Festival will be calculated on the fifth day after beginning of spring, usually around the second day of February in the lunar calendar, and the Autumn Festival will be calculated on the fifth day after beginning of autumn, about August in the lunar calendar. In ancient times, the land gods and the places where they were sacrificed were called "clubs". According to the folk custom of our country, every time sowing or harvesting season, farmers should set up a social sacrifice, pray or reward the land god.

Fifth, the custom of Shangsi Festival.

On Shangsi Festival, there is the custom of eating shepherd's purse and boiling eggs, and there is also the custom of going to the countryside for an outing. On this day, people take their families to the countryside for a picnic, enjoy flowers and fly kites.

Sixth, the custom of Cold Food Festival.

1. No fireworks, no cooking.

2. Prepare cooked food in advance and wait until the Cold Food Festival to eat cold food, so it is called "cold food".

People bring wine, incense and other things to worship the graves of their ancestors. The weather is cold during the Cold Food Festival. In order to prevent eating cold food and cold meals from harming your health, you can go for an outing, swing, insert willows, tug of war, and fight chicken.

Tomb-Sweeping Day custom.

There are grave-sweeping, hiking, planting trees, swinging and flying kites. Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave-sweeping is a kind of respect for ancestors, and its custom has a long history. Going for an outing is also called a spring outing. In ancient times, it was called spring exploration and spring search. In April, Wan Li is clear, and spring returns to the earth. Nature is full of vitality everywhere. "

Eight, the Dragon Boat Festival customs

The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival mainly include picking dragon boats, flying kites, eating zongzi, washing herbal water, tying five-color silk thread, playing noon water, casting Yang Kui, soaking in dragon boat water, wearing damselflies, pasting afternoon symbols, worshipping gods and ancestors, painting foreheads, smoking Atractylodes, hiding from the Dragon Boat Festival, avoiding the five poisons, picking herbs, making tea, hanging wormwood and calamus, and drinking realgar wine.

Nine, China Valentine's Day custom

The seventh day of the seventh lunar month is the annual Valentine's Day in China. The main activity of begging for cleverness in ancient times was the unrequited love for the girl and the weaver girl, so this day is also called begging for cleverness festival, and there are various Qixi customs such as throwing needles to test cleverness, fighting at night, drying books and clothes, and worshiping the weaver girl. "

X. Customs of Mid-Autumn Festival

1. Setting off river lanterns is a very important part of Mid-Autumn Festival folklore. Setting off lanterns is a good thing, which also shows that the living people are concerned about their dead relatives and have a feeling of acacia.

2. eat ducks. Ducks are sacrificed to their ancestors in the Mid-Autumn Festival, so they also like to eat ducks.

3. Worship ancestors and pray for ancestors to bless their families.

Eleven, Mid-Autumn Festival customs

1. Eating moon cakes is the main custom of Mid-Autumn Festival. According to existing records, eating moon cakes originated in the Tang Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, moon cakes were called golden flowers and hibiscus, and their production was more exquisite.

2. Sacrificing the moon, in ancient times, there was a custom of autumn dusk and evening moon, and the evening moon was to worship the moon god.

3. Appreciate the moon. Every Mid-Autumn Festival night, we will hold a cold welcome and sacrifice to the moon, set up incense tables, put on wine and food, and sit around to enjoy the moon.

Twelve, the Double Ninth Festival custom

Climb mountains, enjoy chrysanthemums, drink chrysanthemum wine, and insert dogwood. Double Ninth Festival, also known as Mountaineering Festival, has the custom of climbing mountains. It is said that appreciating chrysanthemum and drinking chrysanthemum wine originated from Tao Yuanming, a great poet in Jin Dynasty. The ancients thought that inserting Evodia rutaecarpa in the Double Ninth Festival could take refuge and eliminate disasters.

Thirteen, the custom of the next Yuan Festival

It is one of the fasting dates stipulated in the Taoist fasting law.

Taoism believes that everything depends on divine power, such as praying for blessings, overcoming disasters and getting out.

Suffering, apologizing, seeking longevity, prolonging life, turning people over, etc. , must be repaired.

Zhai. The methods of fasting can be roughly divided into two categories: one is slightly three, and the other is aimed at fasting. That is, set up an altar to fast and immerse in God to avoid disaster.

Fourteen, winter solstice custom

There is a saying in many places that "the solstice in winter is as big as a year", from which many customs are derived, mainly reflected in the diet, such as eating dog meat, wonton, jiaozi, glutinous rice balls, red bean porridge, millet cakes, wine making and so on. In some places, there is also a winter solstice to worship ancestors. There is also the custom of family reunion and eating red beans and glutinous rice on the night of winter solstice. "

What are the customs on New Year's Eve?

1. On New Year's Eve, people are ready to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, and have a reunion dinner.

2. Sticking Spring Festival couplets is also called door couplets, spring stickers, couplets, couplets and peach symbols. It depicts the background of the times and expresses good wishes with neat, dual, concise and exquisite words, which is a unique literary form in China.

3. People in stick grilles also like to stick all kinds of paper cuts on their windows-window grilles. Window grilles not only set off the festive atmosphere, but also integrate decoration, appreciation and practicality.

4. When pasting the word "Fu" on Spring Festival couplets, some people want to paste the word "Fu" on doors, walls and lintels. Sticking the word "Fu" during the Spring Festival is a long-standing folk custom in China.

Traditional festivals in China are an important part of the long history and culture of the Chinese nation, with various forms and rich contents. The formation of traditional festivals is a process of long-term accumulation and cohesion of national or national history and culture. The ancient traditional festivals of the Chinese nation include primitive beliefs, sacrificial culture, astronomical calendar, Yi Shushu and other humanistic and natural cultural contents, which contain profound and rich cultural connotations. The traditional festivals in China, which developed from ancient ancestors, not only clearly recorded the colorful social life and cultural content of Chinese ancestors, but also accumulated profound historical and cultural connotations.