1. New Year's Eve - the 29th or 30th day of the twelfth lunar month

Customs: Eat reunion dinner, offer sacrifices, and stay up late to watch the New Year.

People often stay up all night on New Year's Eve, which is called "staying up late". On New Year's Eve, the house and outside must be cleaned cleanly, and door gods, Spring couplets, New Year pictures, window grilles, and blessing characters must be posted. People put on new clothes with festive colors and patterns.

2. Spring Festival - the first day of the first lunar month

Customs: During the Spring Festival, people generally eat rice cakes, dumplings, glutinous rice balls, large meatballs, whole fish, fine wine, apples, peanuts, melon seeds, and candies. The main purpose is to set off firecrackers, give lucky money, pay New Year greetings, visit relatives, send New Year gifts, visit ancestral graves, visit the flower market, have social gatherings and many other activities, which are the ultimate family happiness.

The Spring Festival is a traditional Chinese festival. The family has a reunion dinner and watches the Spring Festival Gala together.

3. Lantern Festival - the fifteenth day of the first lunar month

Customs: watching lanterns, eating yuanxiao, walking on stilts, and guessing lantern riddles

The first month of the lunar calendar is the first month of the lunar calendar , the ancients called it "Xiao", and the 15th is the first full moon night of the year, so the 15th day of the first lunar month is called the Lantern Festival. Also known as Xiaozhengyue, 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 the Lantern Festival vary across the country. Among them, eating Lantern Festival, admiring lanterns, dragon dancing, lion dancing, etc. are some of the important folk customs of the Lantern Festival.

4. Cold Food Festival - (the day before Qingming Festival)

Customs: light a fire to cook and eat cold food

No fireworks, only cold food. In the development of later generations, customs such as sweeping sacrifices, outings, swings, Cuju, lead hooks, and cockfighting were gradually added. The Cold Food Festival lasted for more than two thousand years and was once known as the largest folk festival in China. Cold Food Festival is the only traditional Chinese festival named after food customs.

During this fire-free period, people must prepare enough cooked food to survive as cold food, which is called "cold food", hence the name "Cold Food Festival". The Cold Food Festival has lasted for more than two thousand years and is known as the largest folk festival.

5. Qingming Festival - (around April 5 in the Gregorian calendar)

Customs: tomb sweeping and outing.

On the Qingming Festival, the spring breeze blows, and we go out to pay homage to our ancestors. Tomb-sweeping and offering sacrifices during the Qingming Festival, remembering the ancestors and expressing their grief, are conducive to promoting filial piety and family ties, awakening family memories, and promoting the cohesion and identity of family members and even the nation.

The customs of Qingming Festival are rich and interesting. In addition to banning fires and sweeping tombs, there are also a series of customary sports activities such as outing, swinging, kicking Cuju, playing polo, and planting willows.

6. Dragon Boat Festival - the fifth day of the fifth lunar month

Customs: eating rice dumplings and racing dragon boats.

The Dragon Boat Festival falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year, and is also known as the Duanyang Festival, Noon Day Festival, May Festival, Summer Fifth Day, Chongwu Festival, etc. The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival for Chinese Han people to commemorate Qu Yuan.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, there are customs of eating rice dumplings, racing dragon boats, hanging calamus, mugwort, moxa leaves, smoked atractylodes and angelica, and drinking realgar wine. The activities of this day have gradually evolved into eating rice dumplings, racing dragon boats, wearing five-color threads, making sachets, and putting moxa on the door.

7. Chinese Valentine's Day - the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar

Customs: threading needles and begging for skill, praying for good luck, wealth and longevity, worshiping the Seventh Sister, and red women

Chinese Valentine's Day It is the most romantic festival among the traditional festivals in our country, and it was also the day that girls paid most attention to in the past. According to legend, women beg for wisdom from Vega in the courtyard on the night of July 7 or 6 of the lunar calendar, so it is called "begging for cleverness".

Women thread needles and beg for skills, pray for good fortune and longevity, worship the Seventh Sister, the ceremony is pious and solemn, flowers, fruits, red flowers are displayed, and all kinds of furniture and utensils are exquisite, small and attractive.