What are the time and customs of the Spring Festival?

1, Spring Festival-the first day of the first lunar month

Custom: During the Spring Festival, people usually eat rice cakes, jiaozi, glutinous rice balls, big meatballs, whole fish, wine, apples, peanuts, melon seeds and sweets. Many activities, such as setting off firecrackers, giving lucky money, visiting relatives and friends, giving new year gifts, visiting ancestral graves, visiting flower markets, making fires, etc., are very enjoyable.

Spring Festival is a traditional festival in China. The family had a family reunion dinner and watched the Spring Festival party together.

2. Lantern Festival-15th day of the first lunar month.

Custom: Watching lanterns, eating Yuanxiao and walking on stilts, solve riddles on the lanterns.

The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called it "Xiao", and the fifteenth day is the first full moon night in a year, so the fifteenth day of the first month is called the Lantern Festival. Also known as the first lunar month, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival, it is the first important festival after the Spring Festival. China has a vast territory and a long history, so the customs of celebrating the Lantern Festival are different all over the country, among which eating Yuanxiao, watching lanterns and dancing dragons and lions are several important folk customs.

3. Tomb-Sweeping Day —— (around April 5 of Gregorian calendar)

Custom: sweeping graves and hiking.

In Tomb-Sweeping Day, the spring breeze is blowing, and we are going for an outing to worship our ancestors. Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave-sweeping and ancestor-worshipping is conducive to promoting filial piety and affection, awakening family memories, and promoting the cohesion and identity of family members and even the nation.

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, playing cuju, playing polo and inserting willows.

4. Dragon Boat Festival-the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.

Custom: eat zongzi and race dragon boats.

Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, also known as Duanyang Festival, Noon Festival, May Festival, Summer Festival and Double Day. Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival for the Han people in China to commemorate Qu Yuan.

On the Dragon Boat Festival, there are customs of eating zongzi, racing dragon boats, hanging calamus, wormwood, wormwood leaves, smoked atractylodes rhizome, angelica dahurica and drinking realgar wine. The activities of this day gradually evolved into eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, wearing five-color thread, making sachets and inserting moxa on the door.

5, China Valentine's Day-the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.

Custom: Wear needles to pray for Fu Lushou, Sister qi zhou and Lady Hong.

Tanabata is one of the most romantic traditional festivals in China and the most important day for girls in the past. According to legend, on the night of the seventh or sixth day of the seventh lunar month, women begged the Weaver girl for cleverness in the courtyard, so they called it "begging for cleverness".

Women wear needles to pray for Fu Lushou. On the seventh day of the week, the ceremony was pious and grand, displaying flowers, fruits and embroidery. All kinds of furniture and home appliances are exquisite and small, which makes people fondle them.

6. Mid-Autumn Festival-August 15th of the lunar calendar.

Custom: Enjoy the moon and eat moon cakes.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is a very old custom in China. The custom of enjoying the moon comes from offering sacrifices to the moon, and serious sacrifices have become relaxed pleasures. "Folk Yue Bai" has become people's longing for reunion, entertainment and happiness. They send their feelings every month. Put a big incense table, with offerings such as moon cakes, watermelons, apples, red dates, plums and grapes, among which moon cakes and watermelons are absolutely indispensable.

7. Double Ninth Festival-the ninth day of the ninth lunar month.

Custom: Climb the mountain and insert dogwood.

Double Ninth Festival, also known as Double Ninth Festival, Sunbathing Autumn Festival and Treading Autumn Festival, is a traditional festival in China, which falls on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month every year. Celebrating the Double Ninth Festival generally includes traveling to enjoy autumn, climbing high and overlooking, watching chrysanthemums, planting dogwood all over, eating double ninth cake, drinking chrysanthemum wine and other activities.

Chongyang and the "spring outing" on March 3 are all family members. On Double Ninth Festival, all relatives should climb the mountain together to "avoid disaster". Autumn in September, the sky is crisp, this season, climbing high and looking far can achieve the purpose of refreshing, fitness and recuperation.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-China Traditional Festival