I. Spring Festival

1. Time

Starting on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar.

2, customs

(1) paste the Spring Festival: every Spring Festival, whether urban or rural, every family will select a large red Spring Festival couplets pasted on the door, for the festival to add a festive atmosphere.

(2) stickers: the Spring Festival hanging stickers in urban and rural areas is also very common, thick black colorful paintings to thousands of families added a lot of prosperity and joy of the festive atmosphere.

(3) temple fair: temple fair is one of the folk activities during the Spring Festival. Guangfu Temple Fair and Beijing Temple Fair is known as China's two major temple fairs. It covers thematic activities such as Puppet Gathering, Chinese Masterpieces, Martial Arts Assembly, Lantern Festival, etc. It contains a rich content of praying for blessings culture, folk culture, food culture, trade and leisure culture and so on.

Two, Lantern Festival

1, time

The 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar.

2, customs

The Lantern Festival is mainly a series of traditional folk activities, such as lanterns, eating dumplings, riddles, fireworks and so on. In addition, the Lantern Festival in many places also added a dragon lanterns, lions, stilt walkers, rowing dry boat, twisting rice-planting songs, playing drums and other traditional folk performances.

Three, Qingming Festival

1, time

Around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar.

2. Customs

The Qingming Festival is rich in customs and traditions. Sweeping tombs and offering sacrifices to ancestors and trekking in the countryside are the two main ritual themes of the festival, which have been handed down in China since ancient times and remain unchanged today.

Four, Dragon Boat Festival

1, time

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month.

2, customs

(1) Dragon Boat Festival food dumplings, is a traditional custom of the Chinese people since ancient times. Rice dumplings are one of the "籺". "The zong is one of the kinds of zong, which is used to pay tribute to the gods and ancestors during festivals. There are many varieties of zong, and different kinds of zong are made for different festivals, and it is an ancient custom to make zong to pay tribute to the gods and ancestors.

(2) The dragon boat has a long history and is a multi-person collective paddle race. The dragon boat race is divided into several sections such as inviting the dragon, sacrificing to the dragon god, swimming the dragon and collecting the dragon. Dragon boat racing before the general have to hold a grand sacrificial ceremony, first to invite the dragon, sacrifice to the god. Before the Dragon Boat Festival to choose an auspicious day to rise from underwater, after sacrificing to the gods, the dragon head, dragon tail, and then prepare for the race.

Fifth, the Mid-Autumn Festival

1, time

August 15 of the lunar calendar.

2. Customs

The Mid-Autumn Festival has had folk customs since ancient times, such as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating mooncakes, playing with lanterns, enjoying osmanthus flowers and drinking osmanthus wine, which have been passed down to the present day and are still going strong.

Sixth, Chongyang Festival

1, time

The first nine days of the ninth lunar month.

2, customs

Ancient folk in the Chongyang Festival have climbed to pray for blessings, autumn tour to enjoy chrysanthemums, wear dogwood, worship and ancestor worship and feasts and pray for life and other customs. In modern times, it has added the connotation of honoring the elderly, enjoying feasts and honoring the elderly on the day of the Chrysanthemum Festival.

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