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Paste Spring Festival couplets, hang New Year's paintings, play dragon lanterns, lion dance, worship ancestors, enjoy flower lanterns, make dumplings, make New Year's drums, welcome the toilet god, eat zongzi, race dragon boats, admire the moon, worship the moon, watch the tide, eat moon cakes, appreciate chrysanthemum poems, drink chrysanthemum wine, plug dogwood, etc.
1. Paste Spring Festival couplets: Every Spring Festival, whether in the city or in the countryside, every household should pick a beautiful red Spring Festival couplets and paste them on the door, bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and increase the festive atmosphere. Another ** of the Spring Festival couplets is the spring sticker, the ancients pasted the word "Yichun" on the beginning of spring, and then gradually developed into the Spring Festival couplet, expressing the good wishes of the Chinese working people to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters and welcome auspiciousness.
It is said that this custom originated in the Song Dynasty and became popular in the Ming Dynasty.
2. Hanging New Year's paintings: Hanging New Year's pictures is a unique custom of the Chinese New Year. It is prevalent all over the country. In the New Year, hang the New Year's picture on the door or on the wall. It evolved from the ancient door god, which was originally used to ward off evil spirits, and later became a lively atmosphere for the New Year and an expression of people's joyful emotions.
3. Dragon Boat Racing: Dragon Boat Racing is one of the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival in China, and it is also one of the most important festival folk activities of the Dragon Boat Festival, which is common in southern China, and there are also dragon boat racing customs in cities near rivers and lakes in the north, and most of them are in the form of dry dragon boat dance dragon boats.
4. Moon appreciation: The Mid-Autumn Festival is the oldest and most famous festival in China, and moon appreciation is an important custom of the festival. Many poets have verses of the moon in their famous poems, and the Song Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, and Qing Dynasty courts and folk moon viewing activities are more large-scale.
It also refers to the full moon of the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, and the folk Mid-Autumn Festival moon viewing activities began in the Wei and Jin dynasties and flourished in the Tang and Song dynasties.
5. Dogwood: Dogwood is an old folk festival custom, popular in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, the Huai River, the Yangtze River basin and other places. Every year on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, during the Double Ninth Festival, the folk pick dogwood to put on their heads, and also use dogwood to make a bag to wear, which is believed to drive away evil spirits and cure diseases.
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1.The unique customs in traditional Chinese culture include: Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Xiao Nian, Qixi Festival, 15 solar terms, traditional Chinese festivals, ancestor worship, etc.
2.There are many unique customs in China, such as: gift-giving, New Year's greetings, family feasts, bride's birthdays, banquets, gatherings, naming babies, weddings, thank-you banquets, blessings, ancestor worship, etc.
3.Traditional Chinese customs also include: respect for the elderly, respect for elders and superiors, courtesy to guests, good deeds without causing evil, care for the environment, respect for culture, and close the system.
4.China's customs of division and unification also include: settling down, being thrifty and thrifty, being diligent and thrifty, abiding by laws and regulations, supporting public welfare, and protecting the animal and plant environment.
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Unique customs from all over China:
1. Hebei. Throwing the hat: Throwing the hat is done in the dead of night on Chinese New Year's Eve. Adults and children in every household, before going to bed, quietly threw the old hats or bandanas they had worn on their heads into the street.
2. Jiangsu. The custom of "playing the drum" during the Spring Festival. The road was opened by the big flag, and the gong and drummer beat the drum vigorously to cheer up, "playing the night drum" on the third day of the junior high school, "going to the seventh drum" on the seventh day of the first month, and playing the "shirtless drum" from the thirteenth to the fifteenth, the atmosphere was warm.
3. Zhejiang. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, go up the mountain to sweep the tomb. In the eyes of most people, going to the temple to burn incense and sweep the tomb is something that only happens on the Qingming Festival. But in some areas of Wenzhou, the Spring Festival is the time to sweep the tomb. Sweeping the tomb on the first day of the new year has the meaning of "inviting the ancestors to celebrate the New Year together".
4. Shaanxi. The custom of the Spring Festival is to make thimbles. Shaanxi people will use the thimble used for needlework as a mascot, which has the meaning of increasing the age. During the Spring Festival, people will wear a thimble with red silk thread and hang it around the child's neck to express their blessings to the child.
5. Jiangxi. Changing tea means "exchanging wealth", that is, everyone gets rich. Wrap the pastry in thick woolen paper with a layer of white paper, paste a piece of red paper on it, and send it around.
6. Fujian. Fujian does not have the tradition of eating dumplings during the New Year, they all eat rice cakes. Because the homonym of rice cakes is "high year", eating rice cakes during the Spring Festival means that everything is good every year. The style of the rice cake has a square-shaped yellow and white rice cake, which symbolizes **, **, and the meaning of making a fortune in the New Year.
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