The custom of traditional festivals
Custom: having a reunion dinner, offering sacrifices and staying up late for the New Year.
People often stay up all night on New Year's Eve, which is called "vigil". On New Year's Eve, the house and the outside should be cleaned up, and the door gods, Spring Festival couplets, New Year pictures, stick grilles and blessings should be posted. People put on new clothes with festive colors and patterns.
2. Spring Festival-the first day of the first lunar month.
Custom: During the Spring Festival, people usually eat rice cakes, jiaozi, glutinous rice balls, big meatballs, whole fish, wine, apples, peanuts, melon seeds and sweets. Many activities, such as setting off firecrackers, giving lucky money, visiting relatives and friends, giving new year gifts, visiting ancestral graves, visiting flower markets, making fires, etc., are very enjoyable.
Spring Festival is a traditional festival in China. The family had a family reunion dinner and watched the Spring Festival party together.
3. Lantern Festival-15th day of the first lunar month.
Custom: Watching lanterns, eating Yuanxiao and walking on stilts, solve riddles on the lanterns.
The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called it "Xiao", and the fifteenth day is the first full moon night in a year, so the fifteenth day of the first month is called the Lantern Festival. Also known as the first lunar month, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival, it is the first important festival after the Spring Festival. China has a vast territory and a long history, so the customs of celebrating the Lantern Festival are different all over the country, among which eating Yuanxiao, watching lanterns and dancing dragons and lions are several important folk customs.
4. Cold Food Festival-(the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day).
Custom: Bake with fire and eat cold food.
Don't smoke, just eat cold food. In the development of later generations, the customs of sweeping, climbing, swinging, cuju, crochet and cockfighting were gradually increased. The Cold Food Festival lasted for more than 2,000 years and was once called the largest folk festival in China. Cold Food Festival is the only traditional festival named after food customs in China.
In this period when there is no fire, people must prepare enough cooked food to live on cold food, which is called "cold food", hence the name "Cold Food Festival". The Cold Food Festival has lasted for more than 2,000 years and is called the largest folk festival.
5. Tomb-Sweeping Day —— (around April 5th of Gregorian calendar).
Custom: sweeping graves and hiking.
In Tomb-Sweeping Day, the spring breeze is blowing, and we are going for an outing to worship our ancestors. Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave-sweeping and ancestor-worshipping is conducive to promoting filial piety and affection, awakening family memories, and promoting the cohesion and identity of family members and even the nation.
Tomb-Sweeping Day's customs are rich and interesting. In addition to paying attention to the prohibition of fire to sweep graves, there are a series of customs and sports activities such as jogging, swinging, playing cuju, playing polo and inserting willows.
6. Dragon Boat Festival-the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.
Custom: eat zongzi and race dragon boats.
Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, also known as Duanyang Festival, Noon Festival, May Festival, Summer Fifth and Heavy Fifth. Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival for the Han people in China to commemorate Qu Yuan.
On the Dragon Boat Festival, there are customs of eating zongzi, racing dragon boats, hanging calamus, wormwood, wormwood leaves, smoked atractylodes rhizome, angelica dahurica and drinking realgar wine. The activities of this day gradually evolved into eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, wearing five-color thread, making sachets and inserting moxa on the door.
7. China Valentine's Day-the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.
Custom: Wear needles to pray for Fu Lushou, Sister qi zhou and Lady Hong.
Tanabata is one of the most romantic traditional festivals in China and the most important day for girls in the past. According to legend, on the night of the seventh or sixth day of the seventh lunar month, women begged the Weaver girl for cleverness in the courtyard, so they called it "begging for cleverness".
Women wear needles to pray for Fu Lushou. On the seventh day of the week, the ceremony was pious and grand, displaying flowers, fruits and embroidery. All kinds of furniture and home appliances are exquisite and small, which makes people fondle them.
8. Mid-Autumn Festival: July 15th of the lunar calendar.
Custom: set off river lanterns, worship ancestors, worship the dead, burn paper ingots, etc.
Meaning: commonly known as ghost festival, ancestor worship, water lanterns, etc.
The Mid-Autumn Festival was originally a small autumn, and some crops were ripe. As a rule, people should worship their ancestors, offer sacrifices, such as new rice, and report Qiu Cheng to their ancestors. Therefore, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, every family pays homage to their ancestors. On July 15, I went to visit the grave to worship my ancestors.
Legend has it that all ghosts will be released from the underworld on the Lantern Festival, and people will generally worship ghosts. Traditionally, families with new funerals have to go to new graves, but generally they have to sacrifice ghosts and ghosts locally, which has become one of the biggest folk festivals in China.
9. Mid-Autumn Festival-August 15th of the lunar calendar.
Custom: Enjoy the moon and eat moon cakes.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is a very old custom in China. The custom of enjoying the moon comes from offering sacrifices to the moon, and serious sacrifices have become relaxed pleasures. "Folk Yue Bai" has become people's longing for reunion, entertainment and happiness. They send their feelings every month.
Put a big incense table, with offerings such as moon cakes, watermelons, apples, red dates, plums and grapes, among which moon cakes and watermelons are absolutely indispensable.
10, Double Ninth Festival-the ninth day of the ninth lunar month.
Custom: Climb the mountain and insert dogwood.
Double Ninth Festival, also known as Double Ninth Festival, Sunbathing Autumn Festival and Treading Autumn Festival, is a traditional festival in China, which falls on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month every year. Celebrating the Double Ninth Festival generally includes traveling to enjoy autumn, climbing high and overlooking, watching chrysanthemums, planting dogwood all over, eating double ninth cake, drinking chrysanthemum wine and other activities.
Chongyang and the "spring outing" on March 3 are all family members. On Double Ninth Festival, all relatives should climb the mountain together to "avoid disaster". Autumn in September, the sky is crisp, this season, climbing high and looking far can achieve the purpose of refreshing, fitness and recuperation.
1 1, winter solstice: 65438+February 2 1, 22nd or 23rd every year.
Custom: Eat jiaozi, glutinous rice balls and mutton soup.
Significance: beginning of winter, offering sacrifices to heaven and ancestors.
After the winter solstice, the days get longer and the sun rises, which is the beginning of a solar cycle. The northern region has the custom of slaughtering sheep and eating jiaozi and wonton from winter solstice, while the southern region has the custom of eating glutinous rice balls and long noodles from winter solstice on this day. On the solstice of winter, all regions worship the heavens and ancestors.
12, Laba Festival: the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.
Custom: Eat Laba porridge, Laba garlic and Laba noodles.
Significance: Sacrifice ancestors and gods, and pray for good harvest and good luck.
The arrival of Laba Festival means that it is getting closer and closer to the traditional Spring Festival in China, and the strong flavor of the year is filled in the air. In this delicious twelfth month, tasting a bowl of hot Laba porridge is not only for health, but also for harvest.
13. Sacrifice stove: 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month.
Custom: Dust removal and eating stove candy.
Moral: The day when Kitchen God went to heaven.
The 23rd of the twelfth lunar month is also considered as the beginning of the New Year in China. In ancient times, the festival of offering sacrifices to stoves was second only to the Mid-Autumn Festival. In ancient times, people who were officials, businessmen or studying abroad had to go home for reunion and eat their own candy before offering sacrifices to the kitchen stove, so as to pray for the kitchen god to bless the whole family for peace in the coming year.