There is eating dumplings. During this festival, people go to the fields to pick wild vegetables, make dumplings, fry pancakes, fry soybeans, fry bacon, and steam jujube steamed buns. Improving life has become an important part of the festival.

Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of May).

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the traditional Dragon Boat Festival in my country.

Among the people in Henan, there are two theories about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival. One is to commemorate Qu Yuan, and the other is that it originated from Tian Wen's new rules for the Dragon Boat Festival.

Along with the vivid and interesting legends, Henan's Dragon Boat Festival customs become more and more colorful.

There is a folk song saying: "On May 5th, when the wheat is ripe, make rice dumplings to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival." This shows that making and eating rice dumplings is an important folk activity during the Dragon Boat Festival in Henan.

In terms of shape, other provinces and cities have bag rice dumplings, angle rice dumplings, cone rice dumplings, diamond rice dumplings, tube rice dumplings, weighing hammer rice dumplings and nine-zi rice dumplings, etc., while Henan mainly has angle rice dumplings, with three corners and four corners.

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Celebrate the Little New Year (the sixth day of June).

The first day of the sixth lunar month is a festival that people in the Central Plains attach great importance to.

In both eastern and southern Henan, there is a saying that the first day of June is celebrated as the Little New Year.

Especially in rural areas, more attention is paid.

People regard this day as a festival to celebrate the harvest and pray for a good year.

At this time, the wheat had just been planted, and the joy of the harvest filled the farmers' hearts and brows.

People set up offering tables in houses, courtyards, and wheat fields, and put five kinds of fruits such as steamed buns, jujubes (a type of steamed buns), peaches, and plums. They filled buckets with newly harvested wheat and put red stickers on the buckets.

With the word "福", people burn incense and firecrackers to pray for good weather and abundant harvest in autumn.

Afterwards, people happily ate a "chowder" made of meat, vegetables, vermicelli and kelp.

The adults were playing guessing games and making orders in the wheat field, and the children were enjoying themselves while eating and playing.

The sixth day of June is known among the people as "Fried Noodles Festival", "Wangxia Festival", "Girls' Day", etc. They are often ten miles (5 kilometers) and eight miles (4 kilometers) apart, so the customs are different.

No matter what, the festival is all about eating, playing and visiting relatives.

And these festivals are all related to married girls.

Every household in rural areas must take married girls home from the first to the sixth day of June, entertain them, and then send them back to their husband's family.

Common sayings include: "On June 6th, please call auntie." "On June 6th, hang up the hoe hook, and call auntie or auntie." The custom of celebrating the Little New Year on the first day of June is quite common in the Central Plains area.

From the first to the sixth day of June, the "New Year" flavor in the rural areas of the Central Plains is strong and lasts for about a week.

Although there are differences between the first day of the lunar month and the sixth day of the lunar month, the two festivals are so close that the festival activities are naturally integrated.

These festivals are agricultural festivals in the farming areas of the Central Plains, and are also "harvest festivals" and "harvest festivals".

The customary activities in the festival are activities for farmers to taste the fruits of their labor.

This kind of joy is naturally shared by everyone at the same time when visiting relatives and friends.

Qiao Qiao Festival (seventh day of July).

Every year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, it is a traditional festival of the Han people.

Because the main participants in this day's activities are girls, and the content of the festival activities is mainly about begging for skillful things, people call this day "Begging for Skillful Skills Festival" or "Girls' Day".

The begging custom in Xinxiang, Henan Province is that on the sixth night of the seventh lunar month every year, local unmarried girls gather in a group of seven (to correspond to the number of "Qixi Festival"), and each of them exchanges face and food to prepare offerings for the Weaver Girl.

Some people want to buy seven kinds of fruits such as grapes, pomegranates, watermelons, dates, and peaches, bake seven oil-baked buns or sugar-baked buns, make seven bowls of dumplings, and make seven bowls of noodle soup.

In addition, seven large dumplings must be made separately. The fillings of the dumplings are made of seven kinds of vegetables and seven things made of flour are included, such as needles, weaving shuttles, flower mallets, flower spinning spindles, scissors,

Garlic cloves or abacus, etc.

These seven things must represent the wishes of the seven girls.

Animal Festival (July 15th).

The fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month is the traditional Ghost Festival in my country, commonly known as the "Ghost Festival" among the people.

Farmers in the Central Plains also call this day "Animal Festival". There are many activities to worship cattle on this day.

In Lin County in northern Henan and other places, on July 15th, every family will steam lamb-shaped white flour buns. After steaming them at noon, they will be offered on the table, and then firecrackers will be set off to celebrate the prosperity of Taotou.

Farmers with large livestock will stop working for a day on this day and give the lamb buns to the livestock to eat. Some also feed the livestock beans and other concentrated feed to show that the Animal Festival is different from usual days.

In the evening, they also make a pot of rice soup for the animals to drink.

There is a folk saying: "Hit one thousand, scold ten thousand, and have a meal of rice on July 15th." Double Ninth Festival (September 9th).

The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the traditional Double Ninth Festival in my country.

The ancients believed that "nine" was an auspicious number and regarded it as a yang number.

The ninth day of the ninth lunar month occupies two characters of nine, and the two yangs coincide with each other, so people call it "Chongjiu" or "Double Ninth Festival".

In Chinese traditional customs, the Double Ninth Festival is a climbing festival. Like eating rice dumplings on the Dragon Boat Festival and eating mooncakes on the Mid-Autumn Festival, climbing has become a symbol of the Double Ninth Festival on September 9.

According to history books, it was formed under the influence of a myth and legend.

In addition, in the traditional concepts of the Central Plains people, Double Nine also means long life, health and longevity.

Therefore, people regard the Double Ninth Festival as the "Elderly Person's Day", and many elderly-centered activities to respect, care for, and respect the elderly have appeared in society.

Laba Festival (the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month).

The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is the traditional Laba Festival of the Han people in my country. On this day, most areas in my country have the custom of eating Laba porridge.

Laba porridge is made from eight kinds of fresh grains and fruits harvested that year. It is generally a sweet porridge.