Are traditional festivals a traditional custom?

Traditional customs include a lot, but many customs are related to festivals, such as the lanterns of the Lantern Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi, etc., the two are not subordinate, but our traditional customs with the help of traditional festivals and performance.

*Traditional festivals belong to traditional customs**. Traditional practices refer to cultures that are transmitted through non-written forms of language, i.e. oral, customary or behavioural means. As a part of traditional culture, traditional festivals are also passed down from generation to generation through oral transmission, so traditional festivals belong to traditional customs.

On this day, the married woman also returns to her parents' home with her husband and children to celebrate the New Year. The fifth day of the first month is commonly known as the fifth lunar month, and the folk customs say that the fifth lunar month is the fifteenth day of the tenth month, which is a traditional Chinese folk festival, the Xia Yuan Festival, also known as the "Xia Yuan Day" and "Xia Yuan". Under.

Summary. 1. Spring Festival: the first day of the first lunar month. Customs: Staying up for the New Year, lighting firecrackers, pasting Spring Festival couplets, hanging New Year's paintings, playing dragon lanterns, lion dances, and greeting the New Year.

2. Lantern Festival: the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Customs: Viewing lanterns, making dumplings, making New Year's drums, welcoming toilet gods, guessing lantern riddles.

3. The dragon raises its head: the second day of the second lunar month. Customs: Chinese folk have the customs of shaving the dragon's head, sacrificing, respecting the god of Wenchang, eating noodles, fried oil cakes, popping corn, and eating pig's heads.

4. Sheri Festival: around the second day of the second lunar month. Customs: Families pool money to congratulate the land god on his birthday, go to the land temple to burn incense and sacrifice, beat gongs and drums, and set off firecrackers.

5. Qingming Festival: around April 5 in the Gregorian calendar. Customs: sweeping tombs, walking green, swinging, flying kites, planting willows and wearing flowers.

6. Dragon Boat Festival: the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Customs: realgar wine, hanging incense bags, eating zongzi, flower arrangement and calamus, fighting grass, driving away the "five poisons", etc.

What are the customs of traditional festivals?

1. Spring Festival: the first day of the first lunar month. Customs:

Stay up for the New Year, light firecrackers, paste Spring Festival couplets, hang New Year's paintings, play dragon lanterns, lion dances, and celebrate the New Year. 2. Lantern Festival: the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Customs: Viewing lanterns, making dumplings, making New Year's drums, welcoming toilet gods, guessing lantern riddles. 3. The dragon raises its head:

The second day of the second lunar month. Customs: Chinese folk have the customs of shaving the dragon's head, sacrificing, respecting the god of Wenchang, eating noodles and loose wheels, frying oil cakes, popping cornflowers, and eating pigs' heads.

4. Sheri Festival: around the second day of the second lunar month. Tong or custom:

Families pooled money to congratulate the land god on his birthday, went to the land temple to burn incense and sacrifice, beat gongs and drums, and set off firecrackers. 5. Qingming Festival: around April 5 in the Gregorian calendar.

Customs: Sweeping tombs, stepping on the green, swinging autumn and rushing to round a thousand miles, flying kites, planting willows and wearing flowers. 6. Dragon Boat Festival:

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Customs: realgar wine, hanging incense bags, eating zongzi, flower arrangement and calamus, fighting grass, driving away the "five poisons", etc.

7. Qixi Festival: the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. Customs:

Threading the needle is ingenious. 8. Mid-Autumn Festival: the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar.

Customs: admiring the moon, worshiping the moon, watching the tide, eating moon cakes and making drafts. 9. Chung Yeung Festival:

The ninth day of September. Customs: Climb high and look into the distance, appreciate chrysanthemum poems, drink chrysanthemum wine, and insert dogwood.

10. Winter Solstice Festival: December 21 and 23 in the Gregorian calendar. Customs:

In some coastal areas in the south of the country, pure wisdom and filial piety still continue the traditional custom of worshipping ancestors in winter. In some areas of northern China, on the winter solstice every year, there is a custom of eating dumplings. 11. Chinese New Year's Eve:

The last day of the year. Customs: Since ancient times, Chinese New Year's Eve has had customs such as ancestor worship, New Year's observance, reunion dinner, New Year's red, and hanging lanterns, which have been passed down to this day and have endured for a long time.

1. Chinese New Year's Eve - the 29th or 30th day of the twelfth lunar month.

Customs: Eat reunion dinners, sacrifices, 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 - the first day of the first lunar month.

Customs: The Spring Festival is generally dominated by eating 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 - the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Customs: watching lanterns, eating Lantern Festival, stepping on stilts, guessing lantern riddles.

The first lunar month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called it "xiao", and the fifteenth day is the first full moon night of the year, so the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is called the Lantern Festival. Also known as the Little New Year, Yuan Xi 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 the Lantern Festival are not the same throughout the country, among which eating the Lantern Festival, appreciating the lanterns, dragon dance, lion dance, etc. are several important folk customs of the Lantern Festival.

4. Cold Food Festival - (the day before the Qingming Festival).

Customs: Cooking rice and eating cold food.

No smoking, only eat cold food. And in the development of later generations, the customs such as sacrificial sweeping, stepping on the green, swinging, juju, hooking, cockfighting, etc., stretched for more than 2,000 years before and after the cold food festival, 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.

Customs: Tomb sweeping, outing.

The spring breeze blows on the Qingming Festival, and the ancestors are worshipped. Sweeping tombs and sacrificing during the Qingming Festival and remembering the ancestors are conducive to promoting filial piety and family affection, awakening the common memory of the family, and promoting the cohesion and sense of identity of family members and even the nation.

The customs of the Qingming Festival are rich and interesting, in addition to paying attention to the ban on fire, sweeping the tomb, there are a series of customs and sports activities such as walking, swinging, kicking and bowing, playing polo, and planting willows.