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Chinese folk customs include: Chinese New Year's Eve reunion dinner, sacrifices, staying up late to keep the New Year; Mingcha New Year's greetings during the Spring Festival and visit relatives; Eat Lantern Festival on the Lantern Festival; The cold food festival is sacrificial and green; Tomb sweeping and ancestor worship during the Qingming Festival, outings, etc.

1. Chinese New Year's Eve. Eat reunion dinners, sacrifices, and stay up late to keep vigil. People often stay up all night on Chinese New Year's Eve, which is called "keeping the year".

On Chinese New Year's Eve, the house and outside the house must be cleaned, and the door gods, Spring Festival couplets, New Year paintings, window flowers, and blessing characters should be pasted. People change into new clothes with festive colors and patterns.

2. Spring Festival. Generally, it is mainly eaten rice cakes, dumplings, glutinous rice balls, large meatballs, whole fish, fine wine, apples, peanuts, melon seeds, candy, etc.; There are many activities such as setting off firecrackers, giving New Year's money, greeting relatives, visiting relatives, giving New Year's gifts, going to the ancestral grave, visiting the flower market, and making social fires.

3. Lantern Festival.

Since ancient times, the customs of the Lantern Festival have been dominated by the warm and festive lantern viewing customs. Traditional customs go out to admire the moon, light lamps and set off flames, guess lantern riddles, eat Lantern Festival, pull rabbit lanterns, etc.

4. Cold Food Festival.

On the 105th day after the winter solstice in the summer calendar, one or two days before the Qingming Festival. At the beginning of the day, no smoking and only cold food is eaten. And in the development of later generations, hail gradually increased the customs of sacrificial sweeping, stepping on the green, swinging, juju, hooking, cockfighting, etc., and the cold food festival stretched for more than 1,000 years, and was once known as the first major festival day of Chinese folk.

The Cold Food Festival is the only traditional Chinese festival named after food customs.

5. Qingming Festival.

It is also called the Qingqing Festival, at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Qingming Festival is a traditional Chinese festival and one of the most important sacrificial festivals, which is a day to sweep tombs and worship ancestors.

What are the traditional folk customs of the Spring Festival?

Chinese New Year customs of ethnic minorities.

China is a multi-ethnic country, with 55 ethnic minorities in addition to the Han Chinese. Although they have different languages, scripts, lifestyles and customs, most of them celebrate the Spring Festival as a major festival of their own nation.

Daur: Every year.

The Daur ethnic group in the north has the habit of paying New Year's greetings, and during the Spring Festival, people put on festive costumes and visit each other to congratulate each other. Each house has steamed cakes, and as soon as the New Year's greeters enter the door, the host will treat them with steamed cakes. "Cake" is homophonic with "Gao" in Chinese, and the hospitality of cake means that each other's living standards will be further improved in the new year.

During the festival, the Daur ethnic group also holds singing, dancing and sports activities, which last for half a month.

Folk customs are the patterns of behavior that have been observed by people for generations in a specific social and cultural area. The diversity of customs is based on habits, and people often call the differences in behavioral norms caused by different natural conditions "wind"; The difference in the rules of behavior caused by social and cultural differences is called "vulgar". The so-called "a hundred miles of different winds, a thousand miles of different customs" is a fitting reflection of the characteristics of customs that vary from place to place.

The customs and habits of the 56 ethnic groups in our country are also different.

Uyghur Uyghur residences are mostly courtyards, and the gate is generally not open to the west. The house is square in shape, with a deep front porch, and the courtyard is planted with flowers, grapes, and fruit trees, and is very clean. The interior is built with clay kang, tapestries are hung on the walls, niches are opened, and a variety of floral patterns are decorated with them.

In terms of diet, they eat flour and rice as the staple food, and like to drink milk tea, accompanied by flour-baked naan. There was a lot of variety of meals, there was pilaf. Porridge, ramen, noodle soup, thin-skinned steamed buns, grilled steamed buns, oil tart, yakiniku meat, etc.

He likes to eat melons, watermelons, grapes, apples, pears, apricots, pomegranates and other fruits, mainly beef, mutton, chicken, duck, and fish; It is forbidden to eat pork, donkey meat, carnivores, and fierce birds and beasts; Abstain from eating the blood of all animals.

The traditional costume of the Uyghur people is that men, women and children wear four-lined small flower hats. Men generally prefer to wear a "robe" (robe) with a short shirt embroidered with a pattern. Women like to wear dresses, black cardigans, earrings, hand tin, rings, necklaces and other ornaments, girls comb pigtails, and now city dwellers generally wear fashion.

Uyghurs are polite to others. When meeting an elder or friend, it is customary to press your right hand on your chest**, and then lean forward and say hello. The guests at home are warmly welcomed.

The Uyghurs are a people who can sing and dance. Their dances are light and graceful, and they are known for their fast and varied spins, reflecting the optimistic and cheerful character of the Uyghurs. The Uygur people are mainly engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry, have a business tradition, and at the same time the traditional handicraft industry is very developed, and have a high level of art, they make carpets, embroidery, silk clothing, copper kettles, knives, national musical instruments, etc., with a unique national style.