Introduction of 16 traditional festivals and folk customs in China
China has 16 main traditional festivals, namely Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Heading, Huachao Festival, Cold Food Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Qixi Festival, Zhongyuan Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Hanyi Festival, Winter Solstice Festival, Laba Festival Festival, New Year"s Eve, New Year"s Eve.
Chinese traditional festivals include historical traditional festivals and traditional festivals of various ethnic minorities, among which the most important festivals can reach more than 16 kinds.There is a certain connection, but the festival significance of each festival has been different, and its specific folk customs also have many differences.
Traditional festival chronological query table
Festival name | Holiday Time | Folk Customs |
Spring Festival | Lunar January 1st | Post 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 with all kinds of diseases, lion dance, stilt walking Offering sacrifices to the gods, eating dragon food, collecting dragon energy, shaving dragon heads, driving dragon boats, making cattle, writing and writing, attracting dragons |
Flower Festival | 2nd day of the second month of the lunar calendar | Wish the temple meeting, swim in spring and flutter butterflies, plant flowers and pick vegetables, dry seeds to pray for abundance, make flower cakes |
cold food Festival | April 4th or 5th of the Gregorian calendar (the day before Qingming Festival) | Sacrificial sweeps, outings, swings, Cuju, hooks, cockfights |
Qingming Festival | April 5th or 6th in the Gregorian calendar | Outing, tomb sweeping, tree planting, kite flying, eating green balls, planting willows, tug-of-war, swinging Swing, Willow Shooting, Silkworm Flower Fair |
Dragon Boat Festival | May 5th in the lunar calendar | Dragon boat racing, eating rice dumplings, hanging Wormwood calamus, winding colorful ropes, drinking realgar wine, avoiding five poisons, avoiding 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, receiving dew water, worshiping ghosts and gods, praying for marriage, fighting cleverness, listening to whispers, knotting red head ropes, purifying water video |
Zhongyuan Festival | July 14th or 15th in the lunar calendar | Sacrificing ancestors, placing river lanterns, offering sacrifices to the dead, burning paper ingots, and offering sacrifices to the land | td>
Mid-Autumn Festival | August 15th of the lunar calendar | Moon viewing, offering sacrifices to the moon, eating moon cakes, drinking osmanthus wine, lighting lanterns, Lantern Festival, Tide Watching, Tower Burning, Rabbit Playing, Banquet |
Double Ninth Festival | September 9th of the lunar calendar | Climb high and autumn tour, worship ghosts and gods, wear dogwood, eat Chongyang cake, drink chrysanthemum wine |
Winter Clothes Festival | October 1st day of the lunar calendar | Send cold clothing to ancestors in the form of tomb sweeping, worship, etc. |
Winter Solstice Festival | October 21st or 22nd of the Gregorian calendar | Enjoy ancestors, hold banquets, etc. |
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 sugar, offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods |
New Year"s Eve | the 29th or 30th day of the 12th lunar month | New Year"s Eve dinner, sticking New Year"s Eve, burning firecrackers, worshipping ancestors , New Year"s Eve, Hanging Lanterns, New Year"s Money |
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