Spring Festival refers to the first day of the traditional calendar in China (different from the current Gregorian calendar in China), the first day of the first lunar month, also known as the Lunar New Year, New Year's Day, the beginning of a year, and Zheng Dan, the first lunar month, also known as the Lunar New Year, commonly known as the Chinese New Year, the Chinese New Year, and celebrating the New Year.
During the Spring Festival, Han people and some ethnic minorities in China will hold various activities to celebrate. The main contents of these activities are offering sacrifices to ancestors, paying homage to ancestors, saying goodbye to the old year and welcoming the new year, and praying for a bumper harvest. The Spring Festival activities are colorful and full of national characteristics. Influenced by China culture, some countries and nationalities belonging to the Chinese character cultural circle also have the custom of Spring Festival.
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Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, also known as Duanyang Festival, Noon Festival, May Festival, May Festival, Ai Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival, Noon Festival, Summer Festival and Pujie Festival. It was originally a festival to drive away the plague in summer, but later Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State, threw himself into the river on the Dragon Boat Festival and became a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan.
Dragon boat race is the main custom of Dragon Boat Festival. According to legend, people who originated in the ancient State of Chu were reluctant to part with the death of the sage Qu Yuan, and many people rowed boats to save people. They rushed to catch up with each other and disappeared at Dongting Lake. After that, I will row a dragon boat on May 5th every year to commemorate it. Rowing a dragon boat to disperse the fish in the river so as not to eat Qu Yuan's body. The habit of competition prevailed in wuyue and Chu.
Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is another traditional custom of China people. Zongzi, also known as "corn millet" and "tube zongzi". It has a long history and various patterns. On the morning of Dragon Boat Festival, every family eats zongzi to commemorate Qu Yuan. Zongzi is usually wrapped the day before, cooked at night and eaten in the morning. Jiaozi is mainly made of tender reed leaves which are rich in ponds, and bamboo leaves are also useful in some areas, collectively called zongye. The traditional form of zongzi is a triangle, which is generally named after the inner pulp. Glutinous rice dumplings are called zongzi, adzuki bean dumplings are called adzuki bean dumplings, and jujube dumplings are called jujube dumplings, which are collectively called glutinous rice dumplings. Jujube jiaozi homophones "junior high school", so it eats the most. Children who plan to study can win the championship early. In the past, Jinshi ate jujube jiaozi on the morning of taking the imperial examination. Up to now, on the morning of the entrance examination day in middle schools and universities, parents have to make jujube jiaozi for the candidates.
Mid-Autumn Festival:
Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most important traditional festivals in China, which falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month every year. Eating moon cakes to show "reunion" is also called Hu cake, palace cake, moon dumplings, harvest cake and reunion cake. It is an offering to worship the moon god in ancient Mid-Autumn Festival. According to legend, in ancient China, the emperor had a system of offering sacrifices to the sun in spring and the moon in autumn. In the folk, every Mid-Autumn Festival in August, there is also a custom about Yue Bai or offering sacrifices to the moon. The famous proverb "The moon is full on August 15th, and the Mid-Autumn moon cake is sweet and fragrant" tells the custom of urban and rural people to eat moon cakes on Mid-Autumn night. At first, moon cakes were used to worship the moon god. Later, people gradually regarded the Mid-Autumn Festival as a symbol of family reunion, and gradually, moon cakes became a necessary gift for the festival.
Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most important traditional festivals in China, which falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month every year. The word "Mid-Autumn Festival" first appeared in Zhou Li. According to the ancient calendar of China, there are four seasons in a year, and each season has three months, which are called Meng Yue, Mid-month and Seasonal Month respectively. Therefore, the second month of autumn is called Mid-Autumn Festival, which is called "Mid-Autumn Festival" because it falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. It was not until the early years of the Tang Dynasty that the Mid-Autumn Festival became a fixed festival. Mid-Autumn Festival generally has the custom of eating moon cakes and enjoying the moon.