The customs and customs of countries other than China

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The customs and culture of China are as follows:

1. Do not sweep the floor on the first day of the first lunar month, if the first day of the first lunar month sweeps the floor, the Chinese think that it will sweep away luck and wealth, if you have to sweep the floor, you must sweep it from the outside to the inside.

2. On the second day of the first lunar month, I have to go back to the door, and the daughter who got married on this day has to go back to my parents' house.

3. The third day of the first lunar month is called "Red Dog Day", and this day usually does not go out to pay New Year's greetings.

4. Sacrifice to the God of Wealth on the fourth day of the first month.

5. On the fifth day of the first lunar month, it is necessary to "break five", and on this day, it is necessary to clean up and set off firecrackers to "drive out the five poor", including "intellectual poverty, learning poverty, literary poverty, life poverty, and payment poverty".

6. On the sixth day of the first lunar month, send the poor ghosts, and on this day, every household has to throw out the garbage.

7. The seventh day of the first lunar month is the "Human Day", and you can't quarrel with others on this day, and you can't beat and scold your children.

8. The ninth day of the first lunar month is the birthday of the Jade Emperor, and on this day, many places in the countryside will hold activities to pray for good weather in the new year.

9. The tenth day of the first month is the "stone day", it is said that all the stone tools can not be moved on this day, and there is a saying that the stone god is carried in Yuncheng and other places in Shandong.

10. The Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, on this day, many places in the folk want to see the lanterns and eat the Lantern Festival.

11. Not getting a haircut in the New Year, and getting a haircut in the New Year is "thinking about the old", but for the sake of the uncle, everyone often doesn't choose to get a haircut in the New Year.

12. On the second day of the second lunar month, "the dragon raises its head", on this day, the haircut "cuts the dragon's head", and the traditional folk customs should "do four things, eat three things, and do not touch the two".

13. On the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, "Xuanyuan", there will be temple fairs in many places on this day.

14. Eat boiled eggs on Qingming Festival, pay tribute to ancestors, etc.

15. The fourteenth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar is Lu Zu's birthday, and on this day, many places have the tradition of making fairy cakes.

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Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Tanabata Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival.

Spring Festival. The Spring Festival is one of the grandest and most lively ancient traditional festivals in China. Commonly known as "Chinese New Year".

The traditional celebration lasts from Chinese New Year's Eve to the 15th Lantern Festival of the first lunar month. Every Chinese New Year's Eve, families gather together to have a Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, called "Tuan Nian", and then celebrate the New Year together. There is a habit of eating rice cakes in the south, which symbolizes the backgammon of life.

Keep the New Year, like to paste the Spring Festival couplets, beat gongs and drums, put up lights, and send the old and welcome the new The activities are very lively.

Lantern Festival. On the night of the Lantern Festival, the streets and alleys are lit up with lights, and people enjoy the lanterns, guess the lantern riddles, and eat the Lantern Festival, which has become a custom along the generations.

Dragon boat festival. Many of the activities of today's Dragon Boat Festival are related to the commemoration of Qu Yuan, a great writer in our country. Eat zongzi, hold dragon boat races in various parts of the south, sprinkle and sweep the courtyard, hang mugwort branches, and Tanabata. Every year on the seventh day of July, the magpies of the world build a magpie bridge on the Milky Way, so that the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl can meet. This beautiful legend began in the Han Dynasty.

Qixi Festival is also called the Qiqiao Festival or the Daughter's Festival. Every Qixi Festival is approaching, the two stars of Morning Glory and Weaver Girl actually pass through the sky at night, and do not retreat until the sun rises, so it is also known as the meeting of husband and wife who parted in the world.

Mid-autumn festival. On the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, in addition to admiring the moon, worshipping the moon, and eating moon cakes, there are also activities such as dancing grass dragons and building pagodas in some places. In addition to mooncakes, a variety of seasonal fresh fruits and dried fruits are also a delicacy on the Mid-Autumn Festival.

There are too many Chinese folk customs, and 56 ethnic groups have their own folk customs.

The main folk customs are as follows:

From the solar calendar, the Spring Festival swims from January 21 to February 20. The beginning of spring falls on February 4 or February 5. Laba:

The eighth day of the lunar month is a traditional festival of the Han nationality, as a signal that the "New Year" is coming. As a tradition, Laba porridge is drunk on this day and Laba garlic is made. (See Laba verse).

The sacrificial stove is to send the stove prince to heaven in the new year.

Sweeping dust, pasting Spring Festival couplets, pasting New Year paintings, inviting God, worshiping God, sending God, burning incense, lighting candles, hanging lanterns, worshipping ancestors, beating gongs and drums, Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, keeping the New Year, setting off firecrackers, greeting the New Year, pressing New Year's money, stepping on stilts, dancing dragon lanterns, and family reunion.

The last day of the lunar year is Chinese New Year's Eve, or the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, where households cut ribbon paper, paste Spring Festival couplets, and the whole family reunites to drink, and there are surplus dishes, which is called eating a reunion dinner. The time of eating is uncertain, from 12 o'clock in the morning to 8 o'clock in the evening, during this time you will hear the sound of firecrackers everywhere, indicating which family began to eat the New Year's dinner, speaking of which is to talk about firecrackers, the Spring Festival firecrackers are an ancient folk custom, has a history of more than 1000 years. In the old days, the whip had two meanings, one was to drive away ghosts and welcome the gods and pray for a good harvest; The second is to increase the atmosphere of festive joy.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, it was known as the Shangyuan Festival in ancient times, also known as the Lantern Festival. There is a saying that "the fire of the thirty nights, the light of the night of the Lantern Festival".

The lanterns are mostly made of various lanterns tied with paper paste, some of which are hung on the eaves of the top of the door, and some are held by hand to go to the street. On this day, every family lights candles in the corner of the stove, and every household cooks Lantern Festival groups. At night, it is very lively, both adults and children will go to the street with lanterns to catch up with the temple fair, sing big operas, play lion and dragon dances, ride bamboo horses and other spring literary and artistic activities, as well as guess lantern riddles, etc., usually noisy all night, hence the name Lantern Festival.

Among them, the dragon dance lantern is the most common, the dragon dance team in the countryside is the most, the folk think that the dragon can protect Qingji, so where the "dragon" goes, the drums are ringing in unison, the firecrackers are endless, and everyone will give a red envelope. FYI.

Traditional Chinese customs are from the social level, such as the Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival; In terms of region, such as weekly fairs and temple fairs; From an ethnic point of view, such as the Mongolian Naadam Conference and the Dai Songkran Festival; If we talk about it on a personal level, for example, like the begging festival for women, and the ancestor worship for men.