Summary of Chinese traditional festivals and customs
Since ancient times , people have already started to celebrate the festival, but there were not as many festivals at that time, and the content of festival customs was not as rich as it is now.Until today, there are more and more types of festivals, and we can properly understand some main customs and customs that have only been given to traditional festivals.
Many of the traditional Chinese festivals have been gradually forgotten, but the main ones are still widely spread among the people, such as Qingming Festival, Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Heading Up, Dragon Boat Festival, etc., and there are some differences in the specific folk customs of each festival.We can directly query these auspicious days from the festival folk customs comparison table.
List of twelve traditional Chinese festivals in order
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 | May 5th in the lunar calendar | Dragon Boat Race , eat rice dumplings, hang wormwood and calamus, wrap colorful ropes, drink realgar wine, avoid five poisons, hide from Dragon Boat Festival, stick noon time symbols, wear damselflies, draw foreheads |
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 | worshiping ancestors, placing river lanterns, offering sacrifices to the dead, burning paper Ingots, sacrificial land |
Mid-Autumn Festival | August 15th of the lunar calendar | Moon viewing, offering sacrifices to the moon, eating moon cakes, Drinking sweet-scented osmanthus wine, lighting lanterns, lantern festivals, watching tides, burning towers, playing with Rabbit Lord, and setting banquets |
Chongyang Festival | September 9th in the lunar calendar | Climb high and autumn tour, worship ghosts and gods, wear dogwood, eat Chongyang cake, drink 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 and New Year"s Eve Red, firecrackers, ancestor worship, old age, hanging lanterns, lucky money |
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