What are the customs of traditional Chinese festivals?
In There are many traditional festivals in China, the most famous of which are the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Heads Up, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Qixi Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Laba Festival, Xiaonian, New Year"s Eve , These festivals have different customs.
Each festival has specific customs in terms of food customs, entertainment culture, living habits, etc.In entertainment, we have to go out on the green to release paper kites, and in life we have to sacrifice to ghosts and gods to sweep the tomb, etc.Therefore, if we want to know what the festival customs are, we must analyze them from different traditional festivals.
List of time and customs of twelve traditional festivals
Festival name | Festival time | Folk Customs |
Spring Festival | Lunar January 1st | Posting couplets, dusting, eating dumplings, paying New Year"s greetings, setting off firecrackers |
Lantern Festival | 15th day of the first lunar month | Eating Lantern Festival, lantern festival, offering sacrifices to gods, walking a hundred diseases, lion dancing, walking on stilts |
Dragon Heads Up | 2nd day of the second lunar month | Sacrificing to shrine gods, eating dragon food, collecting dragon energy, shaving dragon heads, driving dragon boats, making cattle farming, writing writing, introducing dragons |
Qingming Festival | April 5th or 6th | td>Outing, sweeping graves, planting trees, flying kites, eating green balls, planting willows, tug-of-war, swinging, shooting willows, silkworm flowers |
Dragon Boat Festival | 5th day of the fifth lunar month | dragon boat race, Eating dumplings, hanging wormwood and calamus, winding colorful ropes, drinking realgar wine, avoiding five poisons, hiding the Dragon Boat Festival, pasting the noon time symbol, wearing damselfly, painting the forehead |
Qixi Festival | The seventh day of the seventh lunar month | Incense bridge meeting, catching dew, worshiping ghosts and gods, praying for marriage, fighting cleverness, listening to whispers, knotting red head rope, water purification video |
Zhongyuan Festival | The 14th or 15th day of the seventh lunar month | Sacrificing ancestors, placing river lanterns, offering sacrifices to the dead, burning paper ingots 、Sacrificing the land |
Mid-Autumn Festival | August 15th of the lunar calendar | Moon viewing, offering sacrifices to the moon, eating moon cakes, drinking Osmanthus wine, lantern lighting, lantern festival, tide watching, tower burning, rabbit playing, banquet |
Chongyang Festival | September 9th of the lunar calendar | Climbing high and autumn tour, offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods, wearing dogwood, eating Chongyang cake, drinking chrysanthemum wine |
Laba Festival | The eighth day of the 12th lunar month | Eat Laba Congee, Eat Laba Vinegar, Eat Laba Garlic, Eat Ice, Eat Laba Tofu, Eat Laba Noodles |
Xiao Nian | The 23rd or 24th day of the 12th lunar month | cleaning the house, bathing, eating candy, offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods |
New Year"s Eve | Lunar December 29th or 30th | New Year"s Eve Dinner, New Year"s Eve Red, firecrackers, ancestor worship, old age, hanging lanterns, lucky money |
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