1, Spring Festival
Customs: Chinese New Year has a long history, and some relatively fixed customs have been formed in the process of inheritance and development, many of which have been passed down to this day, such as holding new year's goods, sweeping dust, pasting New Year's greetings, celebrating New Year's Eve, celebrating New Year's Eve, dancing dragons and lions, worshipping gods and ancestors, burning firecrackers, burning fireworks, visiting gods, holding boats, praying for blessings, temple fairs and swimming.
2. Lantern Festival
Customs: Because of the custom of putting up lanterns and watching lanterns on Lantern Festival, it is also known as "Lantern Festival". Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities such as viewing lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, solve riddles on the lanterns and setting off fireworks. In addition, folk performances such as playing dragon lanterns, playing lions, walking on stilts, rowing dry boats, dancing yangko and playing Taiping drums have been added in many places.
3. Tomb-Sweeping Day
Customs: First, respect the ancestors, and pursue the future with caution; The second is to have an outing and get close to nature. Qingming is an important time for the integration of solar terms and festivals in traditional society. Solar terms are "weather" and pure natural time, while festivals are "people's time", which fully embodies people's view of nature of "harmony between man and nature". The culture of Qingming etiquette and custom fully embodies the humanistic spirit of the Chinese nation's respect for ancestors and cautious pursuit of the future.
4. Dragon Boat Festival
Custom: Eating zongzi is a traditional folk custom in China. Zongzi, also known as "Jiaoshu", "Zongban" and "Zongzi", has a long history and various patterns.
5. Chinese Valentine's Day
Customs: Chinese Valentine's Day 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 close friends in the boudoir, worship the Weaver Girl, pray for marriage, learn from needlework and pray for luck. In ancient times, countless sentient men and women in the world would pray for a happy marriage to the stars on this night.
6. Mid-Autumn Festival
Customs: In mid-autumn night, the moon is full in Gui Xiang. In the old customs, people regard it as a symbol of happy reunion. People will prepare all kinds of fruits and cooked food, especially moon cakes, and enjoy the moon in the courtyard while eating them. Some places also enjoy osmanthus, drink osmanthus wine, light lanterns, guess riddles, burn towers and play with rabbits.
7. Double Ninth Festival
Customs: In the Double Ninth Festival, in ancient times, there were some folk customs, such as climbing high to pray for blessings, enjoying chrysanthemums in autumn, planting dogwoods, offering sacrifices to the gods and ancestors, and holding banquets for longevity. Up to now, it has added the connotation of respecting the elderly, enjoying a banquet on the day of Chongyang, and being grateful for respecting the elderly. Climbing the mountain to enjoy autumn and giving thanks to respect for the elderly are two important themes of today's Double Ninth Festival.
8. Winter Solstice Festival
Customs: In many areas, there is a custom of offering sacrifices to heaven and ancestors on the winter solstice, and there are still some places that celebrate the festival on the winter solstice. Every household provides genealogy, ancestral statues, memorial tablets, etc. at home to the upper hall, places a altar, sets up incense burners, offerings, etc. At the same time of offering sacrifices to ancestors, some places also offer sacrifices to gods and land gods, and worship the gods in order to pray for good weather, family and prosperity in the coming year.
9. New Year's Eve
Customs: On New Year's Eve, there are mainly some customs such as pasting New Year's Red, New Year's Eve, lucky money, resigning from the year, and keeping the year. On New Year's Eve, the whole family has a "reunion dinner" together, which smells like family reunion for the New Year. The folk custom of keeping the New Year's Eve is mainly manifested in the fact that the lights stay on all night on New Year's Eve. On New Year's Eve, people should not only clean up their homes and outside, but also put up door gods, Spring Festival couplets, New Year pictures and hanging door cages, and people will put on new clothes with festive colors and patterns.
10, Laba Festival
Customs: The main custom of Laba Festival is "drinking Laba porridge" and soaking Laba vinegar. The history of drinking Laba porridge in China has been 1000 years.
1 1, the dragon looks up
Customs: Due to the overlapping festivals, February 2nd in some southern areas has both the custom of dragon-raising the head and the custom of offering sacrifices to the society. For example, in Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and other regions, February 2nd is mainly devoted to offering sacrifices to the society, and most of the sacrifices are made to dragons in Duanyang.
12, Social Day Festival
Customs: Also known as Land Birthday, it is an ancient traditional festival in China. The social days are divided into Spring Society and Autumn Society. In ancient times, the festivals of social days were determined according to the calendar of cadres and branches. Later, due to calendar changes, the festivals were determined by lunar calendar. In ancient times, the land god and the place where the land god was sacrificed were called "clubs". According to the folk custom of our country, farmers prayed or rewarded the land god every season of sowing or harvesting.
13, Shangsi Festival
Customs: commonly known as March 3, it is a traditional festival of the Han nationality. Before the Han Dynasty, it was designated as the fourth day of early March, and later it was fixed on the third day of March in the summer calendar. Shangsi Festival has a long history. In ancient times, Shangsi Festival has become a large-scale folk festival. In spring and tranquility, people go out of their homes and gather at the water's edge to hold a ceremony to clear the ominous.
14, Cold Food Festival
Customs: The custom of changing fire existed in the pre-Qin period. No fire is allowed during the Cold Food Festival, only cold food can be eaten. The Cold Food Festival consists of two parts, one is the official ceremony to change the fire, and the other is the folk prohibition of cold food.
15, Mid-Autumn Festival
Customs: Folk customs are called July 30, July 14, and ancestor worship day. July is auspicious month and filial month, and July and a half is a festival for people to celebrate the harvest and reward the earth in early autumn. Some crops are ripe, so people should worship their ancestors according to the law, and report Qiu Cheng to their ancestors with new rice and other sacrifices. This festival is a traditional cultural festival to remember the ancestors, and its cultural core is to respect the ancestors and do filial piety.
16, Cold Clothes Festival
Customs: The first day of October in the lunar calendar, also known as the "October Dynasty", is popular in northern China, and many northerners will offer sacrifices on this day to commemorate their deceased relatives, which is called sending cold clothes. At the same time, this day also marks the arrival of severe winter, so it is also a day to send warm clothes to parents, lovers and other people who care about it.