question 1: what does folk custom mean? Folklore, also known as folk culture, refers to a relatively stable cultural event that a nation or a social group has gradually formed and passed down from generation to generation in the long-term production practice and social life, and can be simply summarized as popular customs and customs. China is a country with a long history of folk customs. Among the ethnic groups born and raised in China, there are all kinds of folk customs created by the broad masses of people, which are passed down from generation to generation. These folk customs not only enrich people's lives, but also increase national cohesion. Folklore originated from the needs of the group life of human society, and has been formed, expanded and evolved in various nationalities, times and regions to serve people's daily lives. Folklore is such a basic force that comes from the people, inherits from the people, regulates the people, and is deeply hidden in their behavior, language and psychology.

Question 2: What do you mean by folk customs? Custom is a behavior pattern or norm that people in the past dynasties have followed in a specific social and cultural area. The diversity of customs means that people often refer to the differences in behavior norms caused by different natural conditions as wind; And the differences in behavior rules caused by social and cultural differences are called vulgarity. The so-called different styles in a hundred miles and different customs in a thousand miles properly reflect the characteristics that customs vary from place to place. Custom is a kind of social tradition. Some popular fashions, customs and inappropriate parts of the original customs will change with the changes of historical conditions. The so-called changing customs is precisely this meaning.

question 3: what is folk custom? It is what people call customs:

1. The ethos and customs that have been formed for a long time. "Preface to Poetry": "The former king learned from his husband and wife, became filial, showed great respect for others, educated the United States and changed customs." Song Sima Guang's "Elementary Zhao Xueshi Becomes a Slogan and Presents the Grand Master of Kaifu" Part 4: "Luoyang customs are prosperous, and the Dutch woodcutter also wears flowers." Chapter 8 of Bakin's Death: "They asked me about the customs of China, and I also said a little, which often made them laugh."

2. It refers to folk songs. Historical Records? Le Shu: "I think that the state is different from other countries and has different feelings and habits, so I learn from customs and compare temperament."

● Custom is a behavior pattern or norm that people in the past dynasties have followed in a specific social and cultural area. The diversity of customs means that people often call the differences in behavior norms caused by different natural conditions "wind" and the differences in behavior rules caused by social and cultural differences "vulgar". The so-called "different winds in a hundred miles, different customs in a thousand miles" properly reflects the characteristics that customs vary from place to place. Custom is a kind of social tradition. Some popular fashions, customs and inappropriate parts of the original customs will change with the changes of historical conditions. The so-called "changing customs" is precisely this meaning. Custom is formed by a kind of history, which has a very strong behavior restriction on members of society. Custom is the foundation and complementary part of social morality and law.

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Question 4: What is custom? In a certain time and region, people have the same activities and lifestyles, some have the same activities and lifestyles, such as the Spring Festival, the whole country has the same activities and lifestyles, and some have the same activities and lifestyles, such as weddings and funerals, which have little influence, and only a small number of people * * * respect and abide by the active lifestyles, and each has its own. Each is a local custom, that is to say, customs

Question 5: What is the function of folk customs? 1. A nation can still exist in the ever-changing world, and it survives by its own folk customs.

second, most ethnic groups have learned the strengths of other ethnic groups, changed the weaknesses of their own ethnic groups, and have been improving their lives.

Third, even now, such things still exist, and this is the role played by folk customs.

Question 6: Brief introduction of folk customs in various places: (for reference) 1. Every ethnic group of Tibetans has its own unique culture and living habits. Tibetans are an ancient and enthusiastic nation, and in the long history, they have also formed their own living habits and taboos in life. 1. When two friends meet after a long separation greet or chat with each other, you can't put your hand on each other's shoulders. 2. You can't cross or step on other people's clothes, nor can you put your own clothes on other people's clothes, let alone cross people. 3, women hang clothes, especially pants, * * * can't hang in places where everyone passes by. 4. Don't whistle or cry loudly in the house. 5. When the family is away from home and the guests have just left, you can't sweep the floor or take out the garbage at noon and after sunset and on the first day of Tibetan New Year's Day. 6, outsiders can't mention the name of the deceased in front of his relatives. 7. Work that should be done this year can't be done next year, such as twisting wool, knitting sweaters, carpets, etc. 8. At dusk, you can't just go to people's homes, especially when people will have pregnant women who have given birth and newly-born women or seriously ill patients, and strangers can't go. 9. After noon, you can't take out any property at home. 1, a stranger to the mountains and cliffs and canyons you have never been to, can't talk loudly. 11, can't cross or step on eating utensils, pots, pans, etc. 12. There are two people in the family who go out at the same time and go in the opposite direction. They can't go out at the same time. They must go out before and after and the time of going out should be separated. 13. Women can't comb their hair and wash their hair at night, nor can they go out with their hair covered. 14. When using a broom and dustpan, you can't pass them directly by hand. You must put them on the ground first, and then another person will pick them up from the ground. 15. Whenever friends and relatives visit your home or visit you, they will give you some buttered tea or highland barley wine as gifts. When the guests leave, they can't leave everything empty. They must leave some in it or change some of their own things. 16. Bowls with gaps or cracks cannot be used for eating, nor can they pour tea for guests. 2. Yi people's torch festival, that is, the Year of Yi people. In the eyes of Yi people, fire symbolizes light, justice and prosperity, and symbolizes a powerful force that can destroy all evil. Torch Festival is a festival of joy, love and happiness for Yi people. Hong Kong Lunar New Year is a traditional grand festival in China, and I believe everyone in China knows it. However, celebrating the Lunar New Year in Hong Kong is totally different from the traditional ones in terms of customs and atmosphere. In recent years, few Hong Kong people have traditionally posted Spring Festival couplets and New Year pictures at home during the Lunar New Year. Instead, they have posted "prosperous business" and "safe entry and exit" in some shops or homes. Even so, the original intention of posting Spring Festival couplets and New Year pictures is the same as that of posting Spring Festival couplets and New Year pictures. I hope everything will be smooth and safe in the coming year. In addition, lion dances and dragon lanterns will also appear in some villages and villages in the New Territories, and it is difficult to see large-scale lion dances and dragon lanterns on the streets of urban areas in the New Year. As for setting off firecrackers and firecrackers, it is forbidden in Hong Kong. However, since 1982, a grand fireworks show has been held in Victoria Harbour every year on the second night of the Lunar New Year, which has been a program to welcome the Spring Festival for more than ten years. Hong Kong is known as a "gourmet paradise", and there are many customs about eating during the Spring Festival, and most families will also have a "reunion dinner" during the Spring Festival, usually at home, and the whole family will get together and enjoy dinner on New Year's Eve. The first choice for a big program after dinner is believed to be visiting the flower market. During the Lunar New Year, there are many fairs in Hong Kong and Kowloon, among which the flower market in Victoria Park is the largest and most lively. Hong Kong people are used to visiting the flower market after dinner, and on New Year's Eve, people are crowded with each other, and everyone will celebrate the festival together. The happiest thing about spending the Lunar New Year in Hong Kong is to collect children who are "profitable". During the Spring Festival, laughter can be heard everywhere. "Li" was originally a "good thing", which was based on good luck and good intentions, and it also became an indispensable custom with relatives during the Spring Festival. 4. Macao's annual customs Macao's annual customs are unique. Xie Zao is one of the most traditional China customs preserved in Macau. On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, people in Macau call it a thank you stove. According to the tradition of China, Macao people also use candy for the kitchen god, saying that it is to paste the mouth of the kitchen god with sugar, so as not to speak ill of him before the Jade Emperor. I saw a picture of Santa Claus on the stove of a Macao family in Flower Street, Macau. Strangely, Santa Claus looks like a side ... > >

question 7: what are the folk customs of the four major ethnic groups in China? First of all, what are the four ethnic groups?

What are the criteria for the four major ethnic groups? Number of people? According to the number of people, it should be

Zhuang 1617.88

Manchu 168.23

* * 981.68

Miao 894.1

* *. Er nationality 839.94

Tujia nationality 82.81

Yi nationality 776.23

Mongolian nationality 581.39

Tibetan nationality 541.6

According to the four nationalities you wrote, * * * the same festivals should be

Dragon Boat Festival

also known as Duanyang Festival, Mid-Day Festival and May. In addition to the Han nationality, the Mongolian, Hui, Tibetan, Miao, Yi, Zhuang, Buyi and other ethnic groups also celebrate this festival. It is held every year on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.

during the festival, the Han people mainly have activities such as dragon boat race, eating zongzi, hanging statues, hanging sachets, drinking realgar wine, inserting calamus and picking herbs.

Mongolians

Before sunrise on the Dragon Boat Festival, people went to the river and the well to wash their faces with cold water to get rid of bad luck, and then flocked up the mountain to collect mugwort. Because Artemisia argyi has the function of killing insects and decontamination, people put Artemisia argyi on the door to avoid plague. Women also hang purses filled with mugwort on children's bodies and put them on their hair. In order to refuse the arrival of the plague, people also inserted peach branches and paper-folded small medicine gourds in households, also known as paper seals. According to legend, Lv Dongbin once told the world that storing medicine with gourd during the Dragon Boat Festival can kill five poisons. On this day, children's wrists and ankles will be tied with colorful ropes, commonly known as "life-sustaining ropes", whose function is also to remove viruses. By noon, people will abandon these things they wear by the roadside. Rolling eggs is also an important custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. This morning, the old woman would roll the boiled eggs back and forth on her little grandson's belly, and she was still mumbling, "Baozi eats eggs, and the disaster will go away."

These customs of the Dragon Boat Festival were still popular among the people until the 199s. In modern times, there is also a Mongolian custom spectacle of Dragon Boat Festival at the mouth of Tianqiao in Jinzhou. From the fifth day of May to the eleventh day of May, many ancient Mongolian herders from Chengde and Tongliao bathed and prayed in the sea, sometimes reaching four or five thousand. After praying, they took them home with bottles full of seawater and sprinkled them on their neighbors, so that they could also get happiness and auspiciousness from the sea.

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Its contents mainly include: daughter going back to her mother's house, hanging Zhong Kui statue, welcoming ghost boats, hiding in the afternoon, posting leaf symbols in the afternoon, hanging calamus and wormwood, traveling in all diseases, wearing sachets, preparing sacrifices, dragon boat racing, fighting, hitting the ball, swinging, painting realgar on children, drinking realgar wine and calamus wine.

Tibetans (with different habits)

In Boyu Township, Zhouqu County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, every year from the fourth day to the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, Baima Tibetans living here hold a "flower picking festival" to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival.

Young men and women from other places go to the countryside to have fun and have horse racing, singing and dancing, games and other activities.

During the Dragon Boat Festival in Xiaoliangshan, Sichuan, people went to the mountains to collect herbs for disease prevention and treatment. Mulao people have to carry paper boats to the fields during the Dragon Boat Festival. Wizards patrol the boat to drive away pests and pray for the growth of seedlings. In addition to dragon boat races, Miao people in Guizhou also hold activities such as stepping on inspiration, singing, driving mountains and traveling.

question 8: what are the folk customs and habits in China? I. Spring Festival

The most solemn traditional folk festival in China generally refers to New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month, also known as the lunar year, commonly known as "Chinese New Year" and "New Year". However, among the people, the traditional Spring Festival refers to the sacrificial rites from La Worship on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month or on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month to the 15th day of the first lunar month, with New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month as * * *.

2. Lantern Festival

The 15th day of the first lunar month is the traditional Lantern Festival in China. The first month is January, the ancients called the night night, and the fifteenth day is a full moon night in a year, so the fifteenth day of the first month is called the Lantern Festival. Also known as Shangyuan Festival. According to the folk tradition in China, on the festival night in spring returns, the moon is high in the sky, and there are 1, lanterns on the ground, so people can watch lanterns, have solve riddles on the lanterns and have Yuanxiao, and have a happy family reunion.

Third, the dragon heads up on February 2nd

According to folklore, on the second day of the second lunar month, it is the day when the dragon king in charge of sex in the sky heads up; From then on, the rain will gradually increase. Therefore, this day is called Spring Dragon Festival. February 2 is widely circulated in northern China, and the dragon looks up; Big warehouse full, small warehouse flow. The folk proverb.

Every time the Spring Dragon Festival comes, in most parts of northern China, every family carries lanterns to fetch water from the well or the river in the morning, and when they get home, they light up, burn incense and offer offerings. In the old days, people called this ceremony to attract Tian Long. On this day, every household will eat noodles, fried oil cakes and popcorn, which is better than taking the lead, eating gentian and golden beans, and the dragon king will ascend to heaven, spreading clouds and rain, and the grain will be abundant to show good luck.

iv. Tomb-Sweeping Day

Qingming is one of the 24 solar terms in China. Because the twenty-four solar terms objectively reflect the changes in temperature, rainfall and phenology throughout the year, the ancient working people used them to arrange agricultural activities. Huainanzi? Astronomical training "says:" On the 15th day after the vernal equinox, when the bucket refers to B, the Qingming wind will come. " According to "Questions at the Age of 1", "Everything grows clean and bright at this time. So it is called Qingming. " As soon as Qingming arrives, the temperature rises and the rainfall increases, which is a good time for spring ploughing and spring planting. Therefore, there are agricultural proverbs that "before and after Qingming, point melons and plant beans" and "planting trees, it is better than Qingming". It can be seen that this solar term is closely related to agricultural production.

According to the old custom, when sweeping graves, people should bring wine, fruit, paper money and other things to the cemetery, offer food to their relatives' graves, then burn the paper money, cultivate new soil for the graves, break a few green branches and insert them in the graves, then kowtow and worship, and finally eat the wine and go home. The poem Qingming by Du Mu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, said: "It rains in abundance during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road want to break their souls. Ask the local people where to buy wine and worry? The shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village. " Write the special atmosphere of Tomb-Sweeping Day.

5. Dragon Boat Festival

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is a traditional folk festival in China-Dragon Boat Festival, which is also called Duanyang Festival, Pujie Festival, Tianzhong Festival, Dachang Festival, Mulan Festival, Daughter's Day and Children's Day. It is one of the traditional festivals of the Han nationality. Dragon Boat Festival is also called Duanwu and Duanyang. In addition, there are many nicknames for the Dragon Boat Festival, such as: Noon Festival, Chongwu Festival, May Festival, Yulan Festival, Daughter's Day, and Heaven.