The traditional Chinese festival - Spring Festival

The first day of the first lunar month is the New Year of the Chinese lunar calendar. Among the traditional festivals in China, this is the most important and lively festival. Because the Lunar New Year is celebrated in late winter and early spring, people also call this festival "Spring Festival".

Chinese have many traditional customs for the Spring Festival. From the twenty-third day of the lunar month, people begin to prepare for the New Year. During this time, every household has to clean up, buy New Year's goods, paste window flowers, hang New Year's paintings, write Spring Festival couplets, steam rice cakes, make all kinds of food, and prepare to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new.

The eve of the Spring Festival is called "Chinese New Year's Eve". Chinese New Year's Eve is a time for family reunions. The family sits around and eats a sumptuous Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, talking and laughing until dawn, which is called keeping the new year. As soon as the clock rings at midnight on Chinese New Year's Eve, people still have to eat dumplings. In ancient times, zero was called "child time", and the child time on Chinese New Year's Eve was the time when the old and new years alternated, and people ate dumplings at this time, which means "more age and child". This is also the origin of the name "dumpling".

After Chinese New Year's Eve, it is the first day of the new year. From the beginning of the new year, people have to visit relatives, see friends, and greet each other. New Year's greetings are an important custom of the Spring Festival. During New Year's greetings, everyone should say some auspicious words to wish happiness and health.

Spring Festival custom - set off firecrackers

When midnight, the New Year's bell rings, and the sound of firecrackers reverberates in the sky over the entire land of China. At this "three-yuan" moment of "the yuan of the year, the yuan of the month, and the yuan of the time", some places still build "prosperous fire" in the courtyard to show that the prosperity is through the sky and prosperity. Around the blazing fire, the children set off firecrackers and jumped happily, at this time, the house was brightly lit, the court was bright sparks, and the outside was the earth-shaking sound, pushing the lively atmosphere of Chinese New Year's Eve to the most.

The sound of firecrackers is a sign of farewell to the old and welcome the new, and the expression of festive mood. By the merchant's house. Firecrackers have another meaning: they set off firecrackers on Chinese New Year's Eve to make a big profit in the new year. However, according to the old custom, the god of wealth should be the first, and the firecrackers should be the back. Legend has it that if you want to make a fortune, you must be sincere until the end of the cannon battle. In the old days, since the door of wealth was opened at midnight during the Spring Festival, there were people who sent the God of Wealth, and the God of Wealth with a paper seal in his hand shouted outside the door: "The God of Wealth is here!" At this time, the owner of the house, in order to welcome the God of Wealth, gave the reward to the visitor, and sent the mouth of the God of Wealth, of course, to say something auspicious. For example: "Gold and silver treasure roll in"! "There is a pair of golden lions on the left, and a pair of golden phoenixes on the right!" And so on and so forth. In addition, there is another kind of dressing up as the God of Wealth, wearing a red robe, a gauze hat, a fake beard on his mouth, and a yellow cloth bag on his back, followed by a few gongs and drums, going from house to house to distribute the statue of the God of Wealth, in order to ask for money. Whenever he came to the door of a man's house, he sang: "The left compartment is full of gold and silver vaults, and the right side is full of treasures." A lot of words begging for good fortune went on and on, until the master happily took the red paper statue of the God of Wealth, gave them some money, and these people who pretended to be the God of Wealth, after thanking them repeatedly, beat vigorously for a while, and in the sound of gongs and drums, they went to another house.

The first thing everyone did after returning to the house after setting off firecrackers was to worship heaven and earth, welcome gods, and worship ancestors. In ancient times, this custom was very popular. Due to the different rituals and customs in various places, the form of ancestor worship is also different, some go to the field to worship the ancestral tomb, some go to the ancestral hall to worship the ancestors, and most of them put the ancestral tablets in the main hall in turn at home, display offerings, and then worshippers worship in the order of the elder and youngest. After worshipping their ancestors, southerners check the auspicious direction of this year contained in the almanac, light lanterns and torches, carry pots and wine, offer incense and firecrackers, open the door to travel, and welcome the happy gods, called "out of the sky" or "travel", ZJ is called "out of the search", and SH is called "douxi shenfang". This custom is to seek good fortune and pray for the gods to bless the year with good luck. The Chinese New Year's Eve is a sleepless and all-nighter observance. That night, the housewives were busy hanging lanterns, posting Spring Festival couplets, cutting window flowers, pasting New Year's pictures, and decorating the house with red, green, and green flowers, adding a rich atmosphere to the festival. Perhaps what children are looking forward to the most is New Year's money. The money is given by the elders to the juniors, and some families are after eating the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, everyone sits at the table and is not allowed to leave, and when everyone has finished eating, the elders send it to the juniors, and encourage the children and grandchildren to learn and grow up in the new year and be good people. Some people are parents who put their children under their pillows at night after they are asleep, and more people are children gathered in the main hall, shouting happy new year to grandparents, parents and parents, and kneeling in line; Then reach out and ask for a red envelope. even chased after his grandfather's and mother's bedrooms, ran to the edge of the bed together, and shouted: "New Year's money, New Year's money!" The old man was not lively enough, so he pretended to be stingy, from bargaining to besieging and groping, and finally dug out the red envelopes of the ancestors, and everyone looted them before they dispersed. The old people were overjoyed by this scene, believing that it was a good sign that everything would go smoothly in the new year.

People's traditional concept is that they always like to ask for more good luck during the New Year, hoping for a qiēshun lì, which has many old customs. For example, there is a custom of prohibiting the use of brooms in various places, thinking that the use of brooms in the New Year will sweep away luck and wealth, and it will be difficult to make good luck in the new year. If you have to sweep the floor, you have to sweep it from the outside to the inside. In order to make this custom popular, the first day of the first lunar month is also designated as the "broom birthday". Don't scold your child in the New Year, and you must pay special attention to what you say. If a child carelessly smashes his job, everyone will never scold him, but say that he is "safe and peaceful", and rush to an ominous atmosphere because of the homonym of "broken" and "year". In the New Year, adults are most afraid of children saying that they have slipped their mouths, and they say something unlucky at the beginning of the year, in addition to taking care of them horizontally and vertically, some places also use a piece of red cloth or straw paper to wipe the children's mouths, which means that the mouth is used as an ass, even if they say unlucky words, it is equivalent to farting. Some people put oranges and lychees on the side of their pillows, which are called "New Year's fruits". Orange and lychee are homophonic to "auspicious", in order to be auspicious in the coming year. In some areas, there is also a custom of stealing the statue of the God of Wealth, and after stealing it, it must be hidden in the crotch of the pants, in order to take the meaning of the idiom "God of Wealth in the warehouse (pants)". In these whimsical and interesting customs, there are many good intentions of the toiling people of the past generations to flatter the god of fate.

On the morning of the Spring Festival, the door is opened, and the firecrackers are set off first, which is called "opening the door and opening the firecracker". After the sound of firecrackers, the broken red is all over the ground, bright as a cloud brocade, called "full of red". At this time, the streets were full of vigor and joy.

Spring Festival custom - pasting window flowers

During the Spring Festival, people in many areas like to put various paper cuts on the windows. Window grilles not only set off the festive atmosphere, but also bring people the enjoyment of beauty, set decoration, appreciation and practicality in one.

Paper-cutting is a very popular folk art, which has been loved by people for thousands of years, because it is mostly pasted on windows, so people generally call it 'window flowers'.

Paper-cutting is a very popular folk art, which has been loved by people for thousands of years, because it is mostly pasted on windows, so people generally call it 'window flowers'. With its unique generalization and exaggeration, the window flower will be auspicious mascots and good wishes to the fullest, and decorate the festival with prosperity and joy.

Spring Festival custom - paste the word blessing

Every Spring Festival, every household should paste the word "Fu" on the door, wall and lintel. Sticking the word "Fu" during the Spring Festival is a long-standing folk custom in China. According to the record of "Dream Lianglu": "The New Year's Day is in the future, the seat shop department store, the peach charm of the door is painted, and the spring brand is ......"; "Regardless of the size of the Shishu family, they all sprinkle and sweep the door, remove the dust, clean the court, change the door god, hang the bell Xu, nail the peach charm, paste the spring card, and sacrifice the ancestors." The "sticking spring card" in the text is the word "Fu" written on the red paper

The word "fu" is now interpreted as "happiness", whereas in the past it meant "good fortune" or "good fortune". The Spring Festival sticks the word "Fu", whether it is now or in the past, it embodies people's yearning for a happy life and wishes for a better future. In order to more fully reflect this yearning and wishes, the folk simply paste the word 'Fu' upside down, indicating that 'happiness has fallen' and 'blessing has arrived'. There is also a legend that the word 'Fu' is pasted upside down in the folk. Ming Taizu Zhu Zhang used the word 'Fu' as a secret mark to prepare to kill. In order to eliminate this disaster, the kind-hearted Queen Ma ordered all the families in the city to paste the word "Fu" on their doors before dawn. Naturally, no one dared to disobey Queen Ma's will, so the word "Fu" was posted on the door of every house. One of them was illiterate, so he put the word 'Fu' upside down. The next day, the emperor sent people to check on the street and found that the word "Fu" was pasted on every house, and the word "Fu" was pasted upside down in another family. The Emperor was furious when he heard the report, and immediately ordered the Imperial Guards to behead the family. Queen Ma saw that things were not good, and hurriedly said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "That family knows that you are visiting today, and deliberately pasted the word Fu upside down, doesn't this mean 'Fu to'?" As soon as the emperor heard that it made sense, he ordered the release of the people, and a catastrophe was finally eliminated. Since then, people have pasted the word blessing upside down, one is to seek good luck, and the other is to commemorate Queen Ma.

Folk also have the word "Fu" delicately depicted into a variety of patterns, the patterns have birthday star, longevity peach, carp jumping dragon gate, grain harvest, dragon and phoenix Chengxiang and so on. In the past, there was a saying that "on the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, every family writes big characters", and the word "Fu" used to be mostly handwritten, and now it is sold in the market and in the store.

Spring Festival custom - keep the New Year

Chinese people have the habit of observing the New Year on Chinese New Year's Eve. The New Year's Eve begins with a Chinese New Year's Eve meal, and this Chinese New Year's Eve meal must be eaten slowly, from the time of the lamp, and some people have to eat until late at night. According to Zongyi's "Jing Chu Chronicles", at least during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, there was a custom of eating Chinese New Year's Eve.

Chinese New Year's Eve, commonly known as "Stay Nian". Why is it called "staying up"? There is such an interesting story that has been passed down from generation to generation: according to legend, in the ancient flood era, there was a vicious monster, and people called him 'Nian'. Every night of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the Nian beast will crawl out of the sea to harm people and animals, destroy the countryside, and bring disaster to the people who have worked hard for a year. In order to avoid the beasts of the year, on the night of the thirtieth day of the lunar month, they closed the gate early before it was dark, did not dare to sleep, and sat and waited for the dawn, in order to kill time, and also to strengthen their courage, they drank wine. Wait until the morning of the first day of the new year when the beast no longer comes out, and then dare to go out. People met each other and bowed their hands, congratulated each other, and were glad that they were not eaten by the Nian Beast, so that after many years, nothing happened, and people relaxed their vigilance against the Nian Beast. On the night of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the Nian Beast suddenly rushed to a village in the south of the Yangtze River, and the people in one village were almost eaten by the Nian Beast, and only a newlywed couple with red curtains and red clothes were safe and sound. There were also a few children, in the courtyard lit a pile of bamboo to play, the fire was red, the bamboo burned and exploded, the year beast turned here, saw the fire frightened and turned around. Since then, people know that the year beast is afraid of red, afraid of light, afraid of sound, every year to the end of the year, every household will paste red paper, wear red robes, hang red lights, beat gongs and drums, set off firecrackers, so that the year beast will not dare to come again. After the ancients burned the bamboo poles, the air in the bamboo joints expanded, and the bamboo cavity burst, making a crackling sound, which is also the origin of 'firecrackers'. However, in some places, the villagers do not know that the Nian beast is afraid of red, and they are often eaten by the Nian beast. This news later spread to Zi Weixing in the sky, and in order to save people, he was determined to destroy the Nian Beast. One year, when he came out, he knocked it down with a ball of fire and chained it to a pillar of stone. Since then, every Chinese New Year, people always have to burn incense and ask Ziweixing to keep them safe.

On this night of "two years old in one night, five watches in two years", the family was reunited and gathered together. The whole family sat around, and the table was filled with refreshments and fruits. In the New Year, a large plate of apples is indispensable, which is called "peace and security". In the north, some people still have to provide a pot of rice, which is burned before the year and is offered for the New Year, which is called "every other year's rice", which means that there is leftover rice every year, and they can't eat it all year round, and they still eat the grain of the previous year this year. This pot of rice is generally mixed with rice and millet to cook, BJ is called "two rice rice", in order to have yellow and white, this is called "gold and silver rice" with "gold and silver, gold and silver full of pots". The pastries and fruits prepared by many places during the New Year are all to please an auspicious mouth: eating dates (spring comes early), eating persimmons (everything goes well), eating almonds (happy people), eating longevity fruit (immortality), and eating rice cakes (getting higher and higher year by year). On Chinese New Year's Eve, the whole family is happy while eating, talking and laughing. There are also laymen who push pai gow, roll dice, bet on stud, play mahjong, and the sound of noise and laughter converges into the joy of Chinese New Year's Eve.

Spring Festival custom - New Year's greetings

New Year's greetings are a traditional Chinese folk custom, which is a way for people to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new year and express good wishes to each other. In ancient times, the original meaning of the word "New Year's greetings" was to congratulate the elderly on the New Year, including prostrating to the elderly, congratulating them on a good New Year, and greeting them with a good life. When you meet relatives and friends of the same generation, you should also give gifts and congratulations.

New Year's greetings generally start at home. On the morning of the first day of the new year, after the younger generation gets up, they should first greet the elders and wish them a long and healthy life. After the elders are worshipped, the "New Year's money" prepared in advance should be distributed to the younger generations. After greeting the elders in the family, people should also congratulate the New Year with a smile on their faces when they go out, and exchange auspicious words such as "Wishing you prosperity", "Four seasons are happy", "Happy New Year", and neighbors or relatives and friends also visit each other to greet the New Year or invite each other to drink and have fun.

In ancient times, if there were too many relatives and friends in the neighborhood, it was difficult to visit the door, so that the servants were sent to bring business cards to pay New Year's greetings, called "flying posts", and a red paper bag was pasted in front of each house, and the words "receiving blessings" were written on it, which was used to hold the flying posts. To this day, the Spring Festival gift New Year's cards and New Year's cards are the legacy of this ancient practice of sending flying posts to each other.

With the development of the times, the custom of New Year's greetings has been constantly added with new content and form. Nowadays, in addition to following the previous way of greeting the New Year, people have also risen up ceremonial telegram and telephone New Year's greetings.

Traditional Chinese festival - Lantern Festival

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the traditional Chinese folk Lantern Festival. Because the first month of the first month is also called the first month, the night of the fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night of the year, and "xiao" means "night", so this festival on the fifteenth night of the first month is called the Lantern Festival.

During the Lantern Festival, the Chinese have the custom of appreciating lanterns and eating Lantern Festival. As the saying goes, "the fifteenth day of the first lunar month makes a lot of lanterns", therefore, the Lantern Festival is also called the Lantern Festival.

The custom of appreciating lanterns during the Lantern Festival has a history of more than 2,000 years. On the day of the Lantern Festival, there are lights everywhere, and it is very lively. When night comes, people go in droves to see the lanterns. Colorful palace lamps, wall lamps, character lamps, flower lamps, horse lamps, animal lamps, toy lamps...... Converge into a sea of lights. Some lanterns also have riddles written on them, which attracts people to scramble to guess.

Eating Lantern Festival is a traditional custom of the Chinese. As early as the Song Dynasty more than 1,000 years ago, this food was available. Lantern Festival is a small round ball made of glutinous rice flour filled with sugar and various nuts, and when cooked, it tastes sweet and delicious. Because this food is eaten on the day of the Lantern Festival, people later called it the Lantern Festival. Chinese hope that everything will be successful, and eating Lantern Festival on the first full moon night at the beginning of the year is to hope for family reunion, harmony, happiness, and fulfillment.

Traditional Chinese festival - Qingming Festival

Qingming is one of the 24 solar terms in China and an ancient traditional festival in China. Qingming Festival is in the third month of the lunar calendar (around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar), which is the season of bright and clean air, so this festival is called "Qingming Festival".

During the Qingming Festival, people have the custom of sweeping tombs to worship ancestors and stepping on green and planting willows.

Chinese people have the traditional virtue of respecting the elderly, and they remember and revere their deceased ancestors. Therefore, every day of the Qingming Festival, every family has to go to the suburbs to worship and sweep the graves of their ancestors. People remove weeds from the graves, add new soil, light incense in front of the graves, and put food and paper money on the graves to express their thoughts and respect for their ancestors. This is called going to the grave, and it is also called sweeping the grave.

In the Qingming season, the grass sprouts in the mountains, the willows by the river grow leaves, and there is a new green everywhere, which is a good time to play outdoors. The ancients had the custom of going to the suburbs for a walk, which was called "stepping into the green"; It is also necessary to break a willow branch and wear it on the head, which is called "planting willows". It is said that willow planting can ward off ghosts and disasters, so people put willow branches in one after another to pray for peace and happiness.

Now, the way of burial has changed a lot. After cremation was practiced and burial was abolished, there were fewer and fewer graves in the fields. However, it is a traditional custom of the Chinese to worship ancestors during the Qingming Festival, and on this day, people still use various ways to remember their ancestors, and they will also go to the suburbs to breathe fresh air and enjoy the blue sky, green trees, grass and flowers.

Traditional Chinese festival - Dragon Boat Festival

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the traditional Dragon Boat Festival in China, also known as the "May Festival". During the Dragon Boat Festival, people want to eat zongzi and race dragon boats. It is said that these events were held to commemorate Qu Yuan, a great patriotic poet in ancient China.

Qu Yuan was a native of Chu during the Warring States Period. Among the seven kingdoms of Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao, Wei, and Qin during the Warring States Period, Qin was the strongest, and always wanted to annex the other six countries and dominate the world. Qu Yuan is a doctor in the state of Chu and is very talented. He advocated reforming the Chu state and uniting all countries to jointly resist the Qin state. However, Qu Yuan's claim was opposed by bad actors. The king of Chu listened to the words of these bad people, and not only did not adopt Qu Yuan's ideas, but also drove him out of the capital of Chu. After Qu Yuan left the national capital, he still cared about the fate of the motherland. Later, when he heard the news that Chu was defeated by Qin, he was very sad and felt that he no longer had the strength to save the motherland, so he jumped into the Miluo River and committed suicide. This day was the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 278 B.C.

When people heard the news that Qu Yuan had jumped into the river, they all rowed boats to salvage his body, but they never found it. In order to prevent the fish and shrimp from eating Qu Yuan's body, the people still put food into the river to feed the fish. Since then, people have to do this every year on the fifth day of the fifth month of May. Over time, people used the leaves of reeds to wrap glutinous rice into zongzi and still enter the river. Thereupon. It formed the custom of eating zongzi and racing dragon boats during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Traditional Chinese festival - Mid-Autumn Festival

The 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar is the Mid-Autumn Festival, a traditional Chinese festival.

According to the Chinese calendar, the seventh, eighth, and ninth three months of the lunar calendar are autumn. August is the middle month of autumn, and August 15 is the middle day of August, so this festival is called "Mid-Autumn Festival". On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Chinese have the custom of admiring the moon and eating mooncakes.

In autumn, the weather is sunny and cool, with few clouds in the sky and the moon in the night sky is particularly bright. The night of August 15 is the night of the full moon, which has become the best time for people to admire the moon. People regard the full moon as a symbol of reunion, so the Mid-Autumn Festival is also called the "Reunion Festival".

According to traditional customs, when Chinese admire the moon, they also put out foods such as melons and fruits and moon cakes, and eat them while admiring the moon. Because the moon cake is round, it symbolizes reunion, and some places also call it "reunion cake". There are many varieties of moon cakes in China, and the preparation methods are different from place to place. The moon cake filling is sweet, salty, meaty, vegetarian, and there are various patterns and words on the moon cake, which is really beautiful and delicious.

Traditional Chinese festival - Double Ninth Festival

The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the Chung Yeung Festival. It is a very old festival, dating back more than 1,700 years.

In Chinese numerals, one, three, five, seven, and nine are yang numbers, and two, four, six, and eight are yin numbers. Therefore, the ninth day of the ninth month of September is called Chongyang or Chongjiu. In ancient China, the Double Ninth Festival was an important festival, and various activities were held on this day, such as: climbing heights, appreciating chrysanthemums, planting dogwoods, eating Chongyang cakes, etc.

Ascending is the main custom of Chung Yeung Festival. The ancients believed that the Double Ninth Festival and ascending to the heights could avoid disasters and avoid disasters. Later, the Chung Yeung Festival climbed the mountain, which gradually evolved into a sports and tourism activity for people to relax and exercise.

Dogwood planting and chrysanthemum viewing are also traditional customs of the Chung Yeung Festival. Dogwood is a plant whose fruit can be eaten, and the stems and leaves are medicinal herbs. Chrysanthemums bloom in September and are known as "longevity flowers". In order to avoid the plague and drive away the evil spirit, on the day of the Double Ninth Festival, people put dogwood and chrysanthemum on their bodies, and also watch chrysanthemums, drink chrysanthemum tea and chrysanthemum wine.

Chongyang cake is a kind of food made of noodles, which can be sweetened with jujube, ginkgo, pine nuts and almonds, or salty with meat, and made into nine layers, and then two lambs on top to harmonize the sound of "Chongyang (sheep)".

Now after the Chung Yeung Festival, there are no customs such as dogwood, but many people will still climb on this day to admire the chrysanthemums and enjoy the beautiful scenery of autumn. In recent years, this ancient festival has added new content and has become an annual "Respect for the Aged Day". Whenever the festive season comes, people have to hold a variety of activities to respect the elderly, wishing the elderly to climb high step by step, health and longevity. Agree

1. Mongolian

The Mongolian people are a long-standing and legendary people, living a nomadic life of "migrating from water to grass". Most of China's grasslands have left the footprints of Mongolian herders, so they are known as the "pride of the grassland". The "Naadam" festival is a long-standing traditional festival of the Mongolian people in July and August when the livestock are fattening, and it is a cultural, sports and entertainment meeting held by people to celebrate the harvest. At the "Naadam" conference, there were thrilling and moving horse races, wrestling, admirable archery, chess skills, and fascinating singing and dancing, showing the unique characteristics of the grassland people.

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**is the abbreviation of the Hui people. In the thirteenth century, a large number of Muslims migrated from Central Asia to China, and merged with the local Han, Uygur, and Mongolian ethnic groups. **Folk festival Eid al-Fitr (also known as Rouzi Festival), also known as Iftar. Every year the month of Ramadan is the month of September in the Islamic calendar. Anyone who is in good health for a man over the age of 12 and a woman over the age of 9 should fast. After liberation, the State Council designated Eid al-Fitr as a legal holiday.

3. Miao people

The music and dance of the Miao nationality has a long history, and the arts and crafts such as flower picking, embroidery, brocade, batik, and jewelry zuò are well-known in the world. The ancestors of the Miao people can be traced back to the Chiyou tribe who were active in the Central Plains in the era of primitive society. In the past, the Miao people believed in animism, worshiped nature, and worshiped their ancestors. There are many festivals, in addition to the traditional annual festival, sacrificial festival, there are festivals related to eating, Miao people have many festivals, but the name and method of each region are not the same, the traditional festival is the most grand in the Miao year.

4. Dai people

The Dai people are a people with a long history, as far back as the 1st century AD, there are records about the Dai people in Chinese historical books. After 1949, according to the wishes of the Dai people, it was named "Dai people". The Dai people call themselves "Dai Ling", "Dai Ya" and so on. The Dai people generally believe in Theravada Buddhism, and many festivals are related to Buddhist activities. The Songkran Festival held in June of the Dai calendar every year is the grandest festival, and this festival is called "Sangkan Bimai" in Dai language. At that time, the Buddha will be worshipped, and a feast will be held, and the monks and relatives and friends will be feasted and congratulated each other by splashing water. Now, because the water splashing activity is the main content of the Dai New Year festival activities, this activity is deeply loved by the people of all ethnic groups.

5. Susu tribe

The Susu people were called "chestnut millet" in the Tang Dynasty. The Susu people first lived in the Jinsha River basin at the junction of SC and YN, and later gradually moved to the Nujiang area of western Yunnan to settle down due to war and other reasons. On June 11, 1985, YN Weixi Susu Autonomous County was established. Festivals: The main festivals are the Broad Time Festival (December 20, equivalent to the Spring Festival of the Han nationality), the Torch Festival, the Harvest Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Bathing Pond Festival, the Knife Pole Festival, etc. The "Knife Pole Festival" held on the eighth day of the second lunar month every year is exciting, and it is said that the knife pole is set up to make the Susu people have the spirit of "dare to go up the knife mountain and dare to break through the sea of fire".

6. Tibetans

Tibetan is the Chinese appellation. XZ is called "Bo" in Tibetan, and the Tibetans who live here call themselves "Boba". Known as the "roof of the world", XZ is beautiful and magical, and is the main settlement of the Tibetan people, with 95% of the existing population of more than 1.3 million, and is one of the ancient ethnic groups in China. Tibetans generally practice Tibetan Buddhism, or Lamaism. In the past, many traditional days were associated with religious activities. Tibetan folk festivals include Tibetan New Year, Butter Lantern Festival, Buddha Bathing Festival, etc. The largest traditional festival of the Tibetan people is the Tibetan calendar year on the first day of the first month of the Tibetan calendar.

7. Zhuang

The Zhuang are the most populous ethnic group among China's ethnic minorities and are the indigenous people of Lingnan. There are more than 20 kinds of self-proclaimed such as "Buzhuang", "Butu", "Bunon", "Buyayi" and so on. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, they were collectively referred to as the "Zhuang", and later changed to the "Zhuang Nationality". Zhuang brocade and Nanjing's Yun brocade, Chengdu's Shu brocade, Suzhou's Song brocade and called "China's four famous brocades". The Zhuang people believe in primitive religion and worship their ancestors, and some believe in Catholicism and Christianity. Famous festivals have the annual "March 3" song festival, etc., the most solemn festival is the Spring Festival, followed by the July 15th Zhongyuan Ghost Festival, Qingming Shangtomb, August 15th Mid-Autumn Festival, as well as the Dragon Boat Festival, Chongyang, taste the new, winter solstice, ox soul, send stove and so on.

8. Korean

Koreans are mainly found in JL, HLJ, and LN provinces. Yanbian Koreans are the main inhabited area. The ancestors of the Korean ethnic group were ethnic Koreans who migrated from the Korean Peninsula to Northeast China. There are five major festivals among the Korean people, which are still solemnly celebrated today. The five major festivals are: Yuan Ri (Spring Festival), Shangyuan (Lantern Festival), Cold Food (Qingming), Dragon Boat Festival, and Autumn Festival. Koreans have a long tradition of respecting the elderly, and as early as the Yi dynasty (1392-1910), September 9 was designated as a day of comfort for the elderly.

9. Gaoshan tribe

The Gaoshan ethnic group is a collective term for the ethnic minorities in Taiwan Province, including more than 10 ethnic groups. The name "Gaoshan Nationality" is the general name of the ethnic group in Taiwan Province after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945. The Gaoshan area has a large forest coverage area and is known as the "treasure house of forests". There are many festivals of the Gaoshan people. Most of their traditional festivals have strong religious overtones. "Harvest Festival", also known as "Harvest Festival", "Harvest Festival", "Harvest Festival", etc., is equivalent to the Spring Festival of the Han nationality, and is the grandest festival of the Gaoshan people.

10. Naxi people

The ancient Qiang people, who were originally nomadic in the Yellow River and Huangshui valleys of QH Province, migrated south to the southwest of Sichuan and northwest Yunnan, and divided into different ethnic groups, including the Naxi people. "Na" has the meaning of big or noble, and "Xi" means people. The Mosuo people of the Naxi ethnic group in Lijiang believe in gods, worship nature, and believe that everything in heaven and earth is dominated by gods. Every year on the 25th day of the seventh lunar month, the "Zhuan Mountain Festival" sacrifices to Lion Rock, which is a public sacrificial celebration for people to worship natural entities.

11. Brown people

The Brown people are the descendants of the ancient Pu people. In the Tang Dynasty, it was called "Pu Ziman", and in the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was called "Puman". After the founding of the People's Republic of China, according to the wishes of the people, they were collectively called the Brown people. The Brown people used to worship multiple gods and generally believe in Theravada Buddhism, and many traditional festivals are mostly related to religious activities. One of the most distinctive festivals is endorsed

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The pouring of wine is carried out by the guests on the right side, first the guest of honor, then the host; Women first, men second. The wine should not be overfilled. The dish should be served cold and then hot, and the hot dish should be served from the left side of the seat opposite the guest of honor; Serve single dishes or side dishes, table orders and snacks before the guest; Whole chicken, whole duck, whole fish and other plastic dishes, do not put the head and tail towards the main position.

During the meal, when everyone eats together, don't just worry about eating enough. If you eat with others, check the cleanliness of your hands. Don't rub the rice balls with your hands, don't put excess rice in the pot, don't drink to the brim, don't eat with a snort, don't gnaw on the bones, don't put the bitten fish back in the bowl, and don't throw the meat bones to the dog. Don't eat food, don't stir up hot rice, eat steamed rice with your hands instead of a chopstick, don't gulp soup, and don't mix soup in front of your host. Don't pick your teeth in public, and don't drink the bolognese.

On the summer solstice, it is the custom of the Beihai people to buy lychees and dog meat to eat.

Every big festival or celebration in Beihai, there are dragon dances, lion dances, cannon burning and giving red envelopes, in order to please good luck and have a good time.

Traffic. The transportation in Beihai extends in all directions, and the means of transportation are also diversified, modern and luxurious.

Marriage. The old wedding customs in Beihai, like home, also have the habit of crying and marrying, and they are also full of superstition, which can only be recalled as a folk culture. With the development and progress of society, modern marriage implements a new fashion for newcomers.

July 14 Halloween --- North Sea customs.

Beihai celebrates July 14 every year on the lunar calendar, known as Halloween.

Every household kills chickens and ducks, burns incense, worships gods and ancestors.

The following festivals are calculated according to the lunar calendar (also known as the summer calendar and lunar calendar):

The first month of the lunar calendar

1. On the first day of the first lunar month, the Spring Festival, the day of the chicken, the birthday of the first Tianzun in Taoism, the birthday of Maitreya Buddha in Buddhism, there are more than 30 kinds of names in ancient times, such as Yuan Day, New Year's Day, Yuan Zheng, Yuan Chen, Yuan Shuo, Sanyuan, Three Dynasties, Sanzheng, Zhengdan, Zhengshuo, etc

2, the second day of the first month, dog day

3, the third day of the first month, the pig day, the small year

4, the fourth day of the first lunar month, sheep day, Sun Tianyi (Sun Simiao) birthday

5, the fifth day of the first month, the day of the ox, the fifth day of the break, the opening of the market, the birthday of the god of wealth in mythology

6, the sixth day of the first month, the day of the horse, the day of the poor

7, the seventh day of the first month, the day of the people, also known as the festival of human victory, send the god of fire

8, the eighth day of the first lunar month, the valley day, the birthday of the king of Yama in Taoism, the day of the eight immortals

9, the ninth day of the first month, the day of the day, the birthday of the Jade Emperor in Taoism

10, the tenth day of the first month, the day of the earth, the birthday of the stone (sacrifice stone)

11, the twelfth day of the first lunar month, the day of fire, the day of the mouse marrying the daughter-in-law in folklore, fried soybeans (mouse eyes), light a hundred fires, and throw away a hundred diseases

12, the thirteenth day of the first month, the day of the (test) light, the day of Guan Gong's ascension to heaven

13, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival, the Day of the Lamp, the Taoist Shangyuan Festival, is the birthday of Tianguan Yao

14, the eighteenth day of the first month, the sunset day

15, the twentieth day of the first month, the day wear festival, the day wear festival is also called the day mending festival, "small Tiancang", from the mythical story of Nuwa mending the sky. This festival is also associated with the "rain" solar term. The solar term after the beginning of spring is "rain". The ancients believed that it was "a day full of water", and it rained during the festival, so it was called "heaven wearing". The fusion of mythology and festival images has formed the folk festival tradition of the Heavenly Wear Festival. The main customs of the Heavenly Piercing Festival: pancakes "mending the sky and wearing", piercing the sky and shooting, and indiscriminate rice and needles.

16, the twenty-fifth day of the first month, the Tiancang Festival (Filling the Warehouse Festival), some say that the Tiancang Festival is the day of the stars, and some say that it is to sacrifice the land or sacrifice to the gods. The so-called filling of a silo means to fill a barn.

The second lunar month

1. On the first day of February, the Neutralization Festival, the birthday of the sun

2, the second day of the second month of February, the Spring Dragon Festival, also known as the Dragon Raising Head, the Green Dragon Festival, the birthday of the Jigong Bodhisattva in Buddhism

3, the third day of the second month, the birthday of the mythical Chinese Emperor Chang

4, February 12, Flower Dynasty Festival (February 15), also known as the Flower God Festival, Hundred Flowers Birthday, Flower God Birthday (Flowering Period)

5. February 15, the birthday of the Nine Heavenly Xuannu Niangniang in Taoism, the birthday of Taishang Laojun and King Jingzhong Yue in Taoism

6, February 19, the birthday of Guanyin Bodhisattva in Buddhism

7, February 21, the birthday of the Bodhisattva in Buddhism

8. One hundred and five days after the winter solstice, the day before the Qingming Festival, the Cold Food Festival, the lunar calendar date is not fixed (see Qingming)

9, Qingming, one of the 24 solar terms, the lunar calendar date is not fixed, usually within the second half of February to the first half of March

The third month of the lunar calendar

1, the third day of the third month of March, Shangsi Festival, the girl returned to her mother's home, the birthday of the Yellow Emperor, the birthday of the Zhenwu Emperor in Taoism, and the mythical Queen Mother opened the peach meeting

2, March 15, the birthday of Marshal Zhao Gong in mythology, the birthday of Taishan's mother in Taoism

Fourth lunar month

1. On the first day of the fourth month, sacrifice to the god of hail

2, the fourth day of the fourth month of April, the birthday of the Buddhist Chinese Bodhisattva

4, the eighth day of the fourth month, the Buddha Bathing Festival, (Longhua Society), the birthday of Shakyamuni in Buddhism

5, April 12, the birthday of the Snake King in Taoism

6, April 14, the birthday of the gods in Taoism (Lu Dongbin's birthday)

7, April 18, the birthday of the miracle doctor Hua Tuo

8, April 28, the birthday of the King of Medicine (Shennong).

The fifth month of the lunar calendar

1, the fifth day of the fifth month of May, Dragon Boat Festival

2, May 13, Rain Festival

The sixth month of the lunar calendar

1. The first day of June, half a year (over half a year)

2. On the sixth day of the first month of June, the Clothes Festival, the Sunshine Festival "June Sixth, the Red and Green. "Aunt's Day" and "June Sixth, Please Auntie", in ancient times, it was another festival, called Tianzhen (the meaning of gifting) Festival, and June 6 is also a festival in Buddhist temples, called the Sutra Turning Festival, sacrificing to the mountain god

3, June 19, in Buddhism, Guanyin Bodhisattva attained enlightenment

4, June 24, Guan Gong's birthday, the mythical birth of the god of thunder, the birthday of the lotus flower

The seventh month of the lunar calendar

1. On the first day of the seventh month, worship the god of the sea

2, the seventh day of the seventh month, known as Qixi Festival, July 7, and the Qiqiao Festival

3, July 15, is the birthday of the local official Shun, the Bon Festival of Buddhism, there is the Bon Festival handed down, Confucianism is commonly known as the Ghost Festival, Taoism is called the Zhongyuan Festival

4, July 18, the birthday of the Queen Mother of Taoism in China and the West

5, July 20, Cotton's birthday

6, July 23, Zhuge Wuhou's birthday

7, July 30, the birthday of the Bodhisattva of the King of Buddhism (Jizo Festival)

The eighth month of the lunar calendar

1. The first day of August, the Heavenly Doctor's Day

2, the third day of August, the birthday of the middle stove of the Daodu

3, the eighth day of the eighth month of August, the mythical Yaochi Conference

4. August 15, Mid-Autumn Festival

5, August 20, Rice's birthday

7, August 27, the birthday of Confucius

The ninth lunar month

1. The ninth day of September, Chung Yeung Festival

2, September 19, Buddhism Guanyin Bodhisattva ordained

The tenth month of the lunar calendar

1. On the first day of October, the October Dynasty, the Winter Clothes Festival, also known as the Ancestor Festival, is also one of the Confucian Ghost Festivals

2. October 15, the Taoist Xia Yuan Festival, the birthday of Shui Guan Yu

11th lunar month

1. The winter solstice, also known as the southern solstice, is the only one of the 24 solar terms that is used to determine the order of the month and the leap month, and the winter solstice is the premise of the leap month in the month of November (sub-month) (that is, the first day of November at the earliest, and the 29th or 30th day of November at the latest). Because the solar terms and the Gregorian calendar are both solar calendar attributes, the date of the solar term Gregorian calendar is relatively fixed, and the winter solstice is often around December 22 of the Gregorian calendar (solar calendar).

Lunar month

1, the eighth day of the twelfth month, Laba Festival, the enlightenment day of Shakyamuni Buddha in Buddhism

2, December 23 Stove Festival, the day of the stove, commonly known as "the small year", also known as the small year, the small year, the small year, the small year

3, December 24 sweeping

4, December 25, the Jade Emperor was connected to the Daodu

5, the last day of December, New Year's Day, New Year's Day, New Year's Day night is called Chinese New Year's Eve, Chinese New Year's Eve, Big Festival Night, Da Du, etc., folk called Chinese New Year's Eve, Chinese New Year's Eve, sealing the well (sacrificing the god of the well), sticking the Spring Festival, welcoming the God of Wealth, eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, keeping the year

The birthday of the sage

Emperor Guan's Birthday: June 24

Birthday of the Holy Prophet Confucius: August 27

Cangjie Holy Master's Birthday: March 28th

Luban Gong's Birthday: June 13 (the seventh day of May)

Fuxi's Birthday: May 13 (the birthday of the legendary dragon)

Yandi Shennong's birthday: April 26

Yellow Emperor's birthday: the third day of the third month of March

Zhuge Kongming's birthday: July 23

Mencius's birthday: the second day of the fourth month

Yue Fei's birthday: February 15, Lao Tzu's birthday: February 15, Shakya Buddha's birthday: April 8

Qu Yuan's birthday: the twenty-first day of the first month

Sixth Patriarch Huineng's birthday: the eighth day of the second month

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The 23rd/24th day of the lunar month

Bathing on the 27th/28th of the lunar month

Chinese New Year's Eve on the 29th day of the lunar month

On the second day of the first lunar month, the daughter returned to her parents' home.

On the third day of the first month, the door is burned / millet birthday / small year

The fourth day of the first lunar month welcomes the God of Wealth

The fifth day of the first lunar month, commonly known as the five folk customs, is said to be broken, and many taboos can be broken before the fifth day

The first day of the first month of the seventh day of the first month / spread pancakes / eat Qibao soup is also known as "Rensheng Festival", "Renqing Festival", "Population Day", "Renqi Day"

The day of the first month of the first month of the Eight Grains / the day of the lower realm of the stars is also called "sacrificing the stars" and "receiving the stars"

On the tenth day of the first month, the stone birthday "stone does not move" and "ten does not move" the mouse marries a girl

Other festivals

The "Half Year Festival" has June 15th, June 14th, June 6th, June 5th, and the first day of June!

Guanyin's birthday: February 19, June 19, September 19, November 19, Guanyin Bodhisattva's belief has gone beyond the scope of Buddhism, he is a culture, a wish!

The twenty-third day of the third month of the lunar calendar is Mazu's birthday every year!

The first day of the seventh month, commonly known as the opening gate

Warehouse Filling Festival: The traditional Chinese Han folk sacrifice festival, on the 25th day of the first lunar month. It is also called the Tiancang Festival and the Tiancang Festival, and it is a festival to worship the god of the warehouse.