Spring Festival is the first day of the first lunar month, also known as Lunar New Year, commonly known as "Chinese New Year". Before the Chinese New Year, a New Year greeting in red paper and yellow characters should be posted on the door of the house, that is, Spring Festival couplets written in red paper. There are brightly colored auspicious New Year pictures in the house, and ingenious girls cut out beautiful window grilles and stick them on the windows. Hanging red lanterns in front of the door, or posting the words "good fortune" and "door god" upside down, passers-by will be blessed if they think about it.
Second, Tomb-Sweeping Day.
Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the 24 solar terms in China, which lasts from April 4th to 6th every year. Tomb-Sweeping Day's customs are rich and interesting. In addition to paying attention to the prohibition of fire to sweep graves, there are a series of customs and sports activities such as jogging, swinging, cuju, playing polo and inserting willows.
According to legend, this is because Tomb-Sweeping Day wants to ban cold food and fire. In order to prevent the harm of cold food and cold meal to people, we all take part in some sports activities to exercise. Therefore, this festival is a distinctive festival, with both sad tears to sweep graves and laughter for an outing.
Third, Dragon Boat Festival.
The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is a traditional folk festival in China-Dragon Boat Festival, which is one of the ancient traditional festivals of the Chinese nation. The customs mainly include: the daughter goes back to her mother's house, hangs a statue of Zhong Kui, greets the ghost boat, hides in the afternoon, sticks leaves in the afternoon, hangs calamus and wormwood, travels in all diseases, wears sachets, prepares sacrificial bowls, races dragon boats, contests, hits the ball, swings, paints the children with realgar, drinks realgar wine and calamus wine, eats poisonous cakes, salted eggs, zongzi and seasonal fresh fruits.
Fourth, Mid-Autumn Festival.
August 15th of the lunar calendar is the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival. The custom is mainly to hold a banquet to enjoy the moon and eat moon cakes.
Verb (abbreviation for verb) Double Ninth Festival
The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the traditional Double Ninth Festival. The activities to celebrate the Double Ninth Festival are colorful and romantic, which generally include the customs of sightseeing, climbing high and looking far, watching chrysanthemums, planting dogwood everywhere, eating cakes on the Double Ninth Festival, drinking chrysanthemum wine and so on. Now people will also carry out some activities to respect and love the elderly on this day.