At the beginning of the Spring Festival, everything changes. The main activities are eating New Year's Eve dinner, offering sacrifices and staying up late on New Year's Eve. In addition, the first, second and third day of the first lunar month are the three days of the New Year, and sacrifices and offerings are also held.

During these three days, you generally don't do any work except cooking, you are taboo to say unlucky words, and you have to visit close relatives and distinguished relatives.

From the first to the fifteenth day of the Spring Festival, various temple fairs, social fires, rural operas and other activities are held in various places. It is the most lively and extravagant festival among traditional festivals.

Lantern Festival The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival, also known as the Lantern Festival, Shangyuan Festival and Lantern Festival.

During the festival, there are customs such as eating Lantern Festival, watching lanterns, playing social fire, and guessing lantern riddles.

In addition to eating Yuanxiao, there are many different dietary customs in various places.

People in Shaanxi eat "Yuanxiao tea", which is made by putting various vegetables and fruits into the noodle soup; people in Luoyang and Lingbao in Henan eat jujube cake; people in Kunming, Yunnan eat more bean dough.

February 2 is commonly known as "Dragon Heads Up", also known as Qinglong Festival, which marks the beginning of agricultural production in the year.

Activities include spreading ashes to attract dragons, fumigating insects, picking vegetables, avoiding needlework (to prevent "piercing the longan"), etc.

There are records about the customs of this festival in the Tang Dynasty.

As for what to eat and drink on February 2nd, instead of eating greasy food during the Spring Festival, we will adopt a vegetarian diet.

During the Qingming Festival, people visit ancestral graves, go on outings, and avoid fireworks.

The Dragon Boat Festival is also called the Duanyang Festival. According to legend, it comes to commemorate Qu Yuan.

The main activities include eating rice dumplings and dragon boat racing. In some places, such as Qinghai, there are also customs such as lansuo (thin rope twisted with five-color silk thread, tied to the hands and ankles), planting willows, and wearing sachets to repel insects.

and pray for good fortune and peace.

The Qiqiao Festival is also called the Qiqiao Festival. Legend has it that it is the day when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet on the Magpie Bridge.

Folks usually set up an offering table that night, and women beg for gifts in order to give good ones.

There are also young men and women falling in love, which is also called the Chinese Love Festival.

Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as Moon Eve, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, August Festival, August Meeting, Moon Chasing Festival, Moon Playing Festival, Moon Worshiping Festival, Daughter's Day or Reunion Festival. On this day, the whole family reunites to enjoy the moon and eat moon cakes.

There are also festival activities such as "burning incense", "walking on the moon", "releasing sky lanterns", "trees for Mid-Autumn Festival", "lighting tower lanterns", "dancing the fire dragon", "trailing stones", and "selling rabbits".

This festival is taken more seriously by overseas travelers, and many ethnic minorities also celebrate this festival.

The Double Ninth Festival means Double Ninth Festival.

The main activities are climbing, chrysanthemum viewing, drinking, etc. It is very popular among the elderly, so it is also called "Senior Citizen's Day".

October 1 is commonly known as "Ghost Festival" and "Hanyi Festival", and it is also an ancestor worship festival.

As the saying goes, "October 1st brings cold clothes." On this evening, every family will visit their graves to worship their ancestors.

For those who cannot visit the grave or live far away from home for some reason, they draw a circle in the center or at the intersection and burn paper money.

Winter Solstice Festival Winter Solstice is a very important solar term in our country's lunar calendar and a traditional festival.

Winter Solstice is commonly known as "Winter Festival", "Long Solstice Festival", "Yasui", etc.

In northern areas, there is a custom of slaughtering sheep and eating dumplings and wontons during the Winter Solstice. In southern areas, there is a custom of eating winter solstice rice dumplings and winter solstice noodles on this day.

Various regions also have the custom of worshiping heaven and ancestors on the winter solstice.

Laba Festival People customarily call the twelfth month of the lunar calendar the twelfth lunar month, and the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month as the Laba day or Laba Festival, and treat it as a traditional festival, the Laba Festival.

Many customs related to the twelfth lunar month or the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month are often labeled with the word "twelfth lunar month".

On this day, Laba porridge is eaten in many places. Laba is actually the beginning of preparations for the Spring Festival.

In addition, there are also traditional festivals with different folk customs in various places.

The ancestors of our country created many folk festivals during thousands of years of living and reproduction, including both production and life aspects, including food culture, etiquette culture, and simple and magical scientific thoughts, leaving us with

It has a precious spiritual heritage that is worthy of our carrying forward and passing on.

Answered by: Piaoyu Hanying - Manager Level 5 6-25 08:20 China’s traditional festivals have been basically established since the Han Dynasty, with certain increases and decreases. After the Republic of China, major changes have occurred due to formal westernization, but the people still insist on it.

Some of these governments are not legally mandated minorities.

Until the Cultural Revolution, the government even reduced the promotion of traditional festivals other than the Spring Festival. Even the Spring Festival was promoted as "a revolutionary Spring Festival."

After the reform and opening up, people began to celebrate some traditional festivals, and newspapers and periodicals also made some introductions and publicity accordingly.

At present, including statutory holidays, traditional festivals celebrated by the people account for about one-third of traditional festivals.

Traditional festivals contain many folk culture and traditional humanistic concepts, as well as religious factors, which are of certain significance for studying the culture, history and social life of ancient societies. The main traditional festivals are listed below for the benefit of friends who are interested in this aspect.

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New Year's greetings on the first lunar month, also known as New Year's Day, or the first day of the first lunar month.

The first day of the first lunar month is the day at which the year, four seasons, and twelve months begin.

"Spring and Autumn Annals" calls the first month Duanyue.

When the rooster crows, firecrackers are fired in front of the court to ward off evil spirits.