Time: Before the Han Dynasty, the Spring Festival was a dry calendar that started in spring and later evolved into the first day of the first month of the summer calendar (that is, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar). At present, the Spring Festival time is: the first day of the first lunar month in a narrow sense, and the first day of the first lunar month to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in a broad sense.
Customs: buy new year's goods, sweep the dust, paste New Year greetings, have a reunion dinner, observe the New Year, give lucky money, pay New Year's greetings, celebrate the New Year, dance dragons and lions, offer sacrifices to gods and ancestors, light firecrackers, set off fireworks and play god games.
2. Lantern Festival
Time: the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year.
Custom: Because Lantern Festival has the custom of displaying and viewing lanterns, it is also called "Lantern Festival" among the people. Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities, such as watching lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, solve riddles on the lanterns and setting off fireworks. In addition, 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 in many places.
3. Tomb-Sweeping Day
Time: the day when the solar terms of the dry calendar are clear, around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar (Gregorian calendar).
Customs: First, respect the ancestors, and pursue the future with caution; The second is outing and getting close to nature. The culture of Qingming etiquette and custom fully embodies the humanistic spirit of the Chinese nation of respecting ancestors and cautiously pursuing the future. In the ancestor worship ceremony, we should be careful to pursue the distance and enjoy the fun of spring in the outing.
4. Dragon Boat Festival
Time: Before the Han Dynasty, it was noon in the Ganzhi calendar, and after the Han Dynasty, it evolved into the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.
Custom: It is carried out in the form of blessing, restraining evil and disturbing disasters. The content is rich and colorful, vivid and festive. The customs of blessing and embracing happiness mainly include dragon boat, dragon boat festival and paper dragon. The customs of suppressing evil spirits and disturbing disasters mainly include hanging wormwood, soaking in dragon boat water, washing herbal water and tying five-color lines. Festival food mainly includes zongzi and Huang Wu.
5. Chinese Valentine's Day
Time: the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.
Custom: Valentine's Day in China is the earliest love festival in the world. It is a traditional folk custom in China to sit and watch the morning glory and the weaver girl, visit friends in the boudoir, worship the weaver girl, seek marriage, learn needlework and pray for good luck.