The folkways and customs in China are: having a reunion dinner on New Year's Eve, offering sacrifices and staying up late to watch the New Year; Visiting relatives during the Spring Festival; Eat Yuanxiao on Lantern Festival; The cold food festival sweeps and walks; Tomb-Sweeping Day visited graves to worship ancestors, and went for an outing. The details are as follows:

1. On New Year's Eve,

have a family 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 "keeping watch". On New Year's Eve, both the home and the outside should be cleaned up, and the door gods, Spring Festival couplets, New Year pictures, stick grilles and blessings should be pasted. People put on new clothes with festive colors and patterns.

2. During the Spring Festival

, people usually eat rice cakes, jiaozi, glutinous rice balls, big meatballs, whole fish, wine, apples, peanuts, melon seeds and sweets. Many activities, such as setting off firecrackers, giving lucky money, visiting relatives, sending new year gifts, visiting ancestral graves, visiting flower markets, making social fires and so on, are extremely enjoyable.

3. Lantern Festival

Since ancient times, the Lantern Festival custom has been dominated by the warm and festive custom of watching lanterns. Traditional customs include going out to enjoy the moon, burning lanterns and setting off flames, enjoying solve riddles on the lanterns, eating Lantern Festival and pulling rabbit lanterns. In addition, in many places, traditional folk performances such as playing with dragon lanterns, playing with lions, walking on stilts, rowing on dry boats, dancing yangko and playing Taiping drums have been added to the Lantern Festival.

4. The Cold Food Festival

falls on 115 days after the winter solstice in the summer calendar and one or two days before Tomb-Sweeping Day. When the first day of the day is a festival, smoking is forbidden and only cold food is eaten. In the development of later generations, customs such as sweeping, hiking, swinging, cuju, hooking and cockfighting were gradually added. The Cold Food Festival lasted for more than 2,111 years, and it was once called the largest folk festival in China. Cold Food Festival is the only traditional festival in China named after food customs.

5. Tomb-Sweeping Day

is also called Youth Day, which is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival in China, and it is also one of the most important sacrificial festivals, and it is a day to sweep graves and worship ancestors. Tomb-Sweeping Day, a traditional Chinese nation, began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,511 years. Through historical development and evolution, Qingming Festival has extremely rich connotations, and different customs have been developed in various places, and sweeping graves to worship ancestors and outing are the basic themes.

Extended information:

In the folk, especially in rural areas, there is a habit of having a small year and a big year.

off-year, that is, on the 23rd (or 24th) of the twelfth lunar month, send the kitchen king to heaven (cremate the painting of the kitchen king) and report to the Jade Emperor the performance of his family in the past year. In order to make the kitchen god speak well, we should offer candied melons, and paste sugar on his mouth when seeing him off, so that he can speak well in heaven. To welcome the kitchen king back on New Year's Eve is to invite (buy) a new painting of the kitchen king (with the kitchen king and his wife's milk on it) for the kitchen. A pair of couplets is usually posted on both sides of the painting: Heaven says good things, and the lower world keeps peace. Horizontal batch: the head of the family.

The New Year begins on the last day of the twelfth lunar month. It is generally believed that until the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, there is also a saying that the first month is the New Year.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia _ China Folk Customs? Baidu Encyclopedia _ China Traditional Festival