What are the customs of festivals?
1, Spring Festival
Spring Festival custom: On the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month, we should stick a door-keeper, a Spring Festival couplets, the word "Fu", cut window grilles, hang colorful flags, steam rice cakes, eat jiaozi, set off firecrackers, observe New Year's Eve, and wish each other a happy New Year on the first day of the New Year.
2. Lantern Festival
The Lantern Festival is a traditional festival of China people on the 15th day of the first lunar month every year. Lantern Festival is named because its festival activities are held on the fifteenth night of the first month of each year. 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. Yuanxiao is a kind of jiaozi, which is a solid or stuffed jiaozi made of glutinous rice flour. You can eat soup, stir-fry it or steam it.
3. Tomb-Sweeping Day
Tomb-Sweeping Day folk activities include forbidding fire and eating cold food, sweeping graves and hiking, arranging flowers with willows, swinging, cuju (playing football), flying kites, tug of war and playing polo. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a festival because of the customs of cold food, fire prohibition and grave sweeping. Since the Western Zhou Dynasty (about 1000 BC), there has been the custom of sweeping graves or offering sacrifices to ancestors in front of graves.
4. Dragon Boat Festival
During the Dragon Boat Festival, there are many customs all over China. On this day, every household hangs bells, leaves of wormwood and calamus, fights a hundred herbs, drives away five poisons, races dragon boats, eats zongzi, drinks realgar wine and wears sachets.
5. Chinese Valentine's Day
Also known as Beggars' Day and Girls' Day. Legend has it that it originated from the myth that cowherd and weaver girl met on the bridge. According to the Chronicle of Jingchu: "July 7th is the night when Petunia and Weaver Girl get together. In the evening, another woman tied a colorful building, wore a seven-hole needle, or used gold, silver and jade as a needle, and the old fruit was clever in court. " This kind of begging is not only a fun way to play, but also a hope for ingenuity and luck. The most common custom of Valentine's Day in China is that young women engage in various begging activities on the night of the seventh day of July. Most of the ways to make fun of girls are to make small items and put some melons and fruits to make fun of them.