1, the first day of the first month: the Spring Festival
Celebrations are extremely rich and varied, there are lion dances, floating color, playing the dragon, the God, the boat, the New Year's Eve, burning fireworks, but also on stilts, running boats, twisting rice-planting songs and so on. During the Spring Festival, the Spring Festival couplets, the New Year's Eve, eat the New Year's Eve dinner, pay respects to the New Year and so on, but because of the different customs and local conditions, the nuances and each has its own characteristics.
Sacrifices to the gods, ancestor worship custom prevalent in the southern coastal areas, inherited the ancient customs, the Spring Festival held in many places such as the grand tour of the gods.
2, the first month of the 15th: Lantern Festival
Eating "dumplings" is an important custom of the Lantern Festival. Tangyuan, also known as "dumplings", "Lantern". The custom of eating dumplings began in the Song Dynasty, when the dumplings were called "floating rounds", also known as "soup dumplings", "lactose rounds", "soup balls", "soup balls", "soup balls", "soup balls", "soup balls", "soup balls", "soup balls", "soup balls", "soup balls", "soup balls", "soup balls". ", "soup dumplings", the businessman is beautifully named: "Yuanbao". Song Yuan Yuan early, dumplings have become the Lantern Festival food, so people also call it "Lantern".
"Guessing riddles", also known as "playing riddles", is an activity added after the Lantern Festival, riddles were first developed by the riddles, originated in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period. It is a kind of literary game equipped with ridicule, admonition, warning, wit and jest. Riddles hanging in the lamp, for guessing, began in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Seeing lanterns is the Lantern Festival traditional holiday customs, ancient times, the city and countryside, everywhere open lights and colors, unprecedented. At that time, regardless of the royal relatives, the common people, can break the routine, out to play. So the Lantern Festival is also known as the "Festival of Lights", on the night of the first month of the fifteenth, the streets and alleys, red lanterns hanging high, there are palace lanterns, animal head lamps, horse lanterns, flower lamps, bird lamps and so on attracted the masses of light watching.
3, the fifth day of May: Dragon Boat Festival
There are different customs around. The content of the main are: the daughter back to her mother's home, hanging Zhong Kui statue, welcome ghost ship, hiding afternoon, posting the afternoon leaf charm, hanging calamus, mugwort, swim in the hundred diseases, Pei Xiangbao, ready to sweet, dragon boat racing, martial arts, hitting the ball, swinging, to the children painted with xionghuang, drinking xionghuang wine, calamus wine, eat five poisonous cakes, salted eggs, zongzi and seasonal fruits, and so on.
4, August 15: Mid-Autumn Festival
Mid-Autumn Festival customs include enjoying the moon, eating mooncakes, sacrificing to the moon and watching the tide. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional cultural festival that is popular among many ethnic groups in China and the countries in the Chinese character cultural circle, and is held on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar.
5. The 9th day of the 9th month of the 9th month of the 9th lunar month: Chongyang Festival
In ancient times, the folk in Chongyang Festival had the custom of ascending to high altitude to pray for blessings, enjoying chrysanthemums in the fall, wearing dogwoods, worshipping the gods and ancestors, and drinking feasts to seek longevity. Nowadays, it has added the connotation of honoring the elderly and enjoying the feast on the day of Chung Yeung to give thanks and respect to the elderly.