my country’s traditional festivals and customs include the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, etc.
1. Spring Festival: the first day of the first lunar month. Stay up all year long.
2. Lantern Festival: the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Watch lanterns, eat Lantern Festival, walk on stilts and guess lantern riddles.
3. Qingming Festival: the eighth day of the third month of the lunar calendar. Tomb sweeping and outing.
4. Dragon Boat Festival: the beginning of the fifth lunar month
5. Mid-Autumn Festival, August 15th
1. Spring Festival
Spring Festival, It is the first day of the first lunar month of the lunar calendar, also called the lunar year, commonly known as the "New Year". This is the most solemn and lively traditional festival in our country.
The Spring Festival has a long history. It originated from the activities of worshiping gods and ancestors at the beginning and end of the year during the Yin and Shang Dynasties. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, the first day of the first lunar month was called Yuanri, Yuanchen, Yuanzheng, Yuanshuo, New Year's Day, etc. in ancient times. It was commonly known as the first day of the new year. During the Republic of China, the Gregorian calendar was switched to the Gregorian calendar. The first day of the first month of the Gregorian calendar was called New Year's Day, and the lunar calendar was called New Year's Day. January 1st is called the Spring Festival.
The Spring Festival is here, which means that spring is coming, everything is revived, vegetation is renewed, and a new round of sowing and harvesting seasons is about to begin. Before the Spring Festival, it is necessary to prepare New Year's goods, buy new clothes, and post Spring Festival couplets.
The Spring Festival is a day for relatives to reunite. It is a joyful and peaceful festival. People stay up late on New Year's Eve. In the north, there is the custom of eating dumplings on New Year's Eve, and in the south, there is the custom of eating rice cakes during the New Year.
During the Spring Festival, people set off firecrackers, visit relatives and see friends, and in some places there are customs such as ancestor worship, lion dance, dragon lantern performance, social fire performance, flower market visits, temple fairs and other customs until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. After the Lantern Festival, the Spring Festival is truly over.
2. Lantern Festival
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year is the first full moon night of the year and is the traditional Chinese festival - the Lantern Festival.
The first month of the lunar calendar is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called night "xiao", so the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is called the Lantern Festival, also known as the "Shangyuan Festival" and the Festival of Lanterns. According to Chinese folk customs Traditionally, on this night when the bright moon hangs high in the sky, people light up thousands of colored lanterns to celebrate.
Going out to enjoy the moon, lighting lanterns and setting off flames, guessing lantern riddles, eating Yuanxiao, family reunions, and celebrating the festival together are a joy. Many local festivals have added traditional folk performances such as dragon lantern dancing, lion dancing, stilt walking, land boating, Yangko dancing, and Taiping drum playing.
This traditional festival, which has been passed down for more than 2,000 years, is not only popular on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, but also celebrated year after year in overseas Chinese communities.
3. Qingming Festival
Qingming is one of the twenty-four solar terms in our country. As soon as the Qingming Festival comes, the temperature rises and the rainfall increases, which is a good time for spring plowing and spring planting. Therefore, there are farmers' proverbs like "Before and after Qingming, order melons and plant beans" and "Afforestation is better than Qingming."
Qingming Festival is a traditional festival in my country and the most important sacrificial festival. It is a day for worshiping ancestors and sweeping tombs. Tomb sweeping, commonly known as visiting graves, is an activity to pay homage to the deceased.
Most Han people and some ethnic minorities sweep tombs during the Tomb Sweeping Day. Qingming Festival, also called the Outing Festival, according to the solar calendar, it is between April 4th and 6th every year. It is the time when the spring scenery is bright and the grass is green, and it is also the time when people go out in the spring (called outing in ancient times) It is a good time, so the ancients had the custom of going outing during the Qingming Festival and carrying out a series of sports activities.
4. Dragon Boat Festival
The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional Chinese folk festival. It is one of the ancient traditional festivals of the Chinese nation. The Dragon Boat Festival began in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in China and has a history of more than 2,000 years. The Dragon Boat Festival is also called Dragon Boat Festival and Duanyang.
In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival has many other names, such as: Wu Day Festival, Chongwu Festival, May Festival, Bath Orchid Festival, Girl's Day, Tianzhong Festival, Di La, Poet's Day, Dragon Day, etc. wait. Although the names are different, generally speaking, the festival customs of people in various places are more similar than different.
As for the origin and legend of the Dragon Boat Festival, there are the theory of commemorating Qu Yuan; the theory of commemorating Wu Zixu; the theory of commemorating Cao E; the theory of Wuyue National Totem Sacrifice; the theory of starting from the Summer Solstice Festival of the Three Dynasties; and the theory of avoiding evil months and evil days. ,etc.
Celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival has been a traditional habit of the Chinese people for more than 2,000 years. Due to the vast territory, numerous ethnic groups, and many stories and legends, not only have many different festival names been produced, but there are also festivals in various places. Have different customs.
The main contents include: When the daughter returns to her parents’ home, she hangs a statue of Zhong Kui, welcomes the ghost ship, hides in the afternoon, puts up leaf talismans at noon, hangs calamus and mugwort, treats all diseases, wears sachets, and prepares sweet wine for sacrifices. Dragon boat races, martial arts competitions, batting, swinging, painting children with realgar, drinking realgar wine, calamus wine, eating five-poison cakes, salted eggs, rice dumplings and seasonal fresh fruits, etc.
In addition to superstitious activities, the activities gradually Except for the ones that have disappeared, the rest are still spread throughout China and neighboring countries. Some activities, such as dragon boat races, have achieved new development, breaking through time and geographical boundaries and becoming international sports events.
Mid-Autumn Festival
Every year on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, it is the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival. This is the middle of autumn, so it is called Mid-Autumn Festival. Also called "Yuexi" and "August Festival".
On this night, people look up at the bright moon in the sky, hold banquets to admire the moon, and look forward to family reunions. Wanderers who are far away from home also use this to express their longing for their hometown and relatives. Also known as "Reunion Festival".
Our Chinese people also have the custom of "autumn twilight and evening moon", which is to worship the moon god.
There are many customs and forms of the Mid-Autumn Festival, but they all express people's infinite love for life and yearning for a better life.