There are some folk customs in China, such as staying up late for the New Year, rowing the dragon boat, playing with dragon lanterns, walking on stilts, posting Spring Festival couplets, posting New Year pictures, worshiping seven sisters, and begging for cleverness. The following are introduced in detail:

1. Rowing the dragon boat

Rowing the dragon boat is an important custom activity of the Dragon Boat Festival, which has a long history and is a multi-person collective paddle-scraping competition in the southern coastal areas of China.

2. Playing dragon lantern

Playing dragon lantern, also known as dragon dance and dragon lantern dance, is a unique traditional folk entertainment activity in China. From the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival, there is a custom of playing dragon lanterns in urban and rural areas of China. After thousands of years of inheritance and development, playing dragon lantern has become a traditional dance with lively form, beautiful performance and romantic color.

3. Walking on stilts

Walking on stilts is one of the traditional folk activities in China. Walking on stilts, commonly known as binding firewood feet, also known as "stilts", "walking on stilts", "tying high feet" and "walking high legs", is a popular mass skill performance in northern China, and is often performed by dancers with long wooden stilts tied to their feet in some folk festivals.

4. Posting Spring Festival couplets

Every Spring Festival, no matter in urban or rural areas, every household should choose beautiful red Spring Festival couplets and put them on the doors to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, so as to increase the festive atmosphere. Another source of Spring Festival couplets is spring stickers. The ancients posted the word "Yichun" more and more in beginning of spring, and then it gradually developed into Spring Festival couplets, expressing the good wishes of the working people in China to ward off evil spirits and disasters and welcome good fortune.

5. Begging for cleverness

Begging for cleverness is a custom in China at the age of seven, which is the seventh birthday of the Seventh Sister. From the first day of July to the seventh day of July in the lunar calendar (seven days and eight nights), girls in new clothes begged Vega for wisdom and ingenuity in the courtyard, which is called "begging for cleverness".

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