1. New Year's Eve-Lunar calendar1February 30th (February 2nd in Gregorian calendar). People often stay up all night on New Year's Eve, which is called "vigil". On New Year's Eve, people should not only clean their homes and outside, but also put up door gods, Spring Festival couplets, New Year pictures and hanging door cages. People put on new clothes with festive colors and patterns. Poems describing New Year's Eve are:
New Year's Eve
Tian Xiang, Wen Song
Dry kunkong, years go to the church;
The end of the road is stormy, and the poor side is full of ice and snow.
Life disappears with the years, and the body is forgotten;
There is no such thing as killing Su Meng. It's still early at night.
2. Spring Festival-the first day of the first lunar month (February 3rd in Gregorian calendar). The custom of the Spring Festival is to eat rice cakes, jiaozi, glutinous rice balls, meatballs, whole fish, wine, apples, peanuts, melon seeds, sweets, fragrant tea and dishes. Accompanied by many activities, such as dusting, washing bedding, preparing new year's goods, pasting Spring Festival couplets, pasting New Year's pictures (Zhong Kui, the door god), pasting jiaozi paper-cuts, stick grilles, pasting blessings, lighting candles, lighting fires, setting off firecrackers, giving lucky money, visiting relatives, sending new year's goods, visiting ancestral graves, visiting flower markets, making social fires and so on, it is extremely enjoyable. Poems describing the Spring Festival are:
The first day of the lunar month
Wang Song Anshi
Besides firecrackers, the spring breeze also brings warmth to Tu Su.
The rising sun sheds light on doors of each household, New peachwood charm is put up to replace the old.
3. Lantern Festival-the fifteenth day of the first lunar month (Gregorian calendar 17 February). The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called it "Xiao", and the fifteenth day is the first full moon night in a year, so the fifteenth day of the first month is called the Lantern Festival. Also known as the first lunar month, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival, it is the first important festival after the Spring Festival. China has a vast territory and a long history, so the customs of celebrating the Lantern Festival are different all over the country, among which eating Yuanxiao, watching lanterns and dancing dragons and lions are several important folk customs. Poems describing the Lantern Festival are:
Yuanxi
Song Ouyang xiu
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the flower market is brightly lit.
At the end of the month, it is about dusk.
On the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month of this year, the moonlight and lights are still the same as last year.
I will never see my old friend last year again, and my tears are soaked through my clothes.
4. Tomb-Sweeping Day —— the third day of the third lunar month (April 5 of the Gregorian calendar). Tomb-Sweeping Day's customs are rich and interesting. In addition to paying attention to the prohibition of fire to sweep graves, there are a series of customs and sports activities such as jogging, swinging, playing cuju, playing polo and inserting willows. Poems describing Tomb-Sweeping Day are:
Qingming Festival
Dondum
A drizzling rain falls like tears on the Mourning Day; The mourner's heart is going to break on his way.
Excuse me, where is the restaurant? The shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village.
5. Dragon Boat Festival-the fifth day of the fifth lunar month (June 6th in Gregorian calendar). This day's activities gradually evolved into eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, hanging calamus, wormwood, wormwood leaves, smoked Atractylodes macrocephala, angelica dahurica, drinking realgar wine, tying Cynanchum, making a fragrant trough, sticking five poisons, sticking symbols, putting yellow tobacco seeds and eating twelve reds. Poems describing the Dragon Boat Festival are:
Dragon Boat Festival
Tang Wenxiu
The festival is divided into Dragon Boat Festival, which is said to be Qu Yuan.
I can laugh at the emptiness of the Chu River, but I can't wash it straight.
6. Valentine's Day in China-the seventh day of the seventh lunar month (August 6th in Gregorian calendar). Tanabata is one of the most romantic traditional festivals in China and the most important day for girls in the past. On this evening, women put on needles to pray for Fu Lushou. On the seventh day, the ceremony was pious and grand, filled with flowers, fruits and needles, and all kinds of furniture and utensils were exquisite and small, which made people fondle. Poems describing China's Valentine's Day are:
Chinese Valentine's Day; Qixi Festival
Tangluoyin
In the winding corner of the Milky Way, it is a beautiful day, and the family is laughing and eating a red feast.
We should thank Nvzhu for writing Tan Lang's wonderful article.
Fragrant curtains are clustered in rows, and gold needles are put on to worship Chanjuan.
If you don't report the copper pot, you will know, and you will be sad for another year.
7. Mid-Autumn Festival-August 15th of the lunar calendar (Gregorian calendar September 12). The Mid-Autumn Festival is a very old custom in China. The custom of enjoying the moon comes from offering sacrifices to the moon, and serious sacrifices have become relaxed pleasures. "Folk Yue Bai" has become people's longing for reunion, entertainment and happiness. They send their feelings every month. Put a big incense table, with offerings such as moon cakes, watermelons, apples, red dates, plums and grapes, among which moon cakes and watermelons are absolutely indispensable. Poems describing Mid-Autumn Festival are:
Festival moon
Song sushi
The twilight clouds are cold, and the silver-haired people silently turn to the tracts.
If you don't meet a good night in this life, where will you see the bright moon next year?
8. Double Ninth Festival-the ninth day of the ninth lunar month (Gregorian calendar 65438+10.5). There is a custom of climbing mountains on the Double Ninth Festival. In autumn and September, the sky is crisp. Climbing mountains and overlooking in this season can achieve the purpose of relaxing body and mind, keeping fit and getting rid of diseases. There are also customs related to climbing, such as enjoying chrysanthemums, writing poems, inserting dogwood, eating Chongyang cake and so on. Poems describing the Double Ninth Festival are:
Vacation in the mountains reminds me of my brothers in Shandong.
Don
A lonely stranger in a strange land I am cast, I miss my family all the more on every festive day.
When I think of my brothers' bodies climbing high, I will feel a little regret for not being able to reach me.
Note: Gregorian calendar date is 20 1 1 year. Because the traditional festivals in China are traditionally calculated according to the lunar calendar, there are some differences in the Gregorian calendar dates every year.