my country’s traditional festival customs include New Year’s Eve, Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Cold Food Festival, Qingming Festival, etc.
1. New Year’s Eve: 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 all night". 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.
2. Spring Festival: Mainly eating rice cakes, dumplings, glutinous rice balls, big meatballs, whole fish, fine wine, apples, peanuts, melon seeds, candies, etc.; setting off firecrackers, giving lucky money, paying New Year greetings, visiting relatives, and giving gifts There are many activities such as New Year's rites, visits to ancestral graves, flower markets, social gatherings, etc., which are the ultimate family happiness.
3. Lantern Festival: watching lanterns, eating Lantern Festival, walking on stilts, and guessing lantern riddles. The first lunar month is the first month of the lunar calendar, which the ancients called "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.
4. Cold Food Festival: 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.
5. Tomb-Sweeping Day: Tomb-sweeping and outing. The spring breeze blows in the Qingming Festival, and people go out to pay homage to their 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.