A Collection of China Folk Customs

New Year's Paper Shop: It is a custom for China to post New Year's pictures.

Sticking Spring Festival couplets: commonly known as "door dui","spring stickers","couplets", and "couplets", gracefully called "couplets". In ancient Han folk culture, the 30th anniversary of the New Year (or 29th, may be earlier in some areas).

New Year's Eve: New Year's Eve refers to the evening of the last day of the lunar calendar year, that is, the eve of the first day of the New Year. Because it is often on the 29th or 30th day of the twelfth lunar month in the summer calendar, it is also called the 30th day of the year.

Family fun and New Year celebration: On New Year's Eve, families will be together for wine and dinner, or friends and relatives will be invited to eat together and drink to their hearts 'content. It is called "Fennian Wine". Because New Year's Eve is the dividing line between the old and the new, eating wine means that the old and the new years are divided on this night.

Farewell: On Lunar New Year's Eve, relatives and friends pay homage to each other and bless each other, and family members bow to their elders and wish each other peace. This is called "farewell".

Dividing New Year's money: New Year's money is a Han New Year custom, which means to ward off evil spirits and protect peace.

Setting off firecrackers on the New Year: Setting off firecrackers is a traditional Han custom that has a history of more than 2,000 years. It is said that it is to drive away a monster called Nian.

New Year greetings: New Year greetings are to celebrate the arrival of the New Year.

New Year greetings: New Year greetings are a traditional folk custom in China and a way for people to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new.

New Year's Taboos: There is a folk custom to regard what happens in the first month as a "sign" of good or bad luck in the year.

Whip the spring ox: At the beginning of spring, the spring ox is whipped, which means that farming is here, and the Han custom is at the beginning of the year.

Lantern Festival: Lantern Festival is an ancient Han folk festival. It originated in the Han Dynasty. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called the night "night", so the fifteenth day of the first month is called the Lantern Festival.

Qixi Festival: Also known as Qiqiao Festival, Qiqiao Festival or Qijie's Birthday, comes from the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. It is celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. It is Valentine's Day in China.

Mid-Autumn Festival: The eighth month of the lunar calendar is in the middle of autumn, the second month of autumn, and it is called "Mid-Autumn", and August 15th is in the middle of "Mid-Autumn", so it is called "Mid-Autumn Festival". Because the festival is on August 15th, it is called "August Festival" and "August and Half"; because the main activities of the Mid-Autumn Festival are carried out around the "moon", it is also commonly known as "Moon Festival" and "Moon Xi"; Mid-Autumn Festival The full moon symbolizes reunion, so it is also called "Reunion Festival". There are dragon dancing in Hong Kong, pagodas in Anhui, tree Mid-Autumn Festival in Guangzhou, roasted tazi in Jinjiang, moon watching on stone lake in Suzhou, moon worship by Dai, moon jumping by Miao, moon-stealing vegetables by Dong, ball holding dance by Gaoshan ethnic groups; traditional customs and habits of observing the moon, offering sacrifices to the moon, eating mooncakes, and reunion dinner.

Moonlight Paper: Also known as "Moonlight","Rabbit 'er", and "Rabbit' Lord", it is usually a woodcut watercolor image of a statue. It is the paper of the statue used in traditional Mid-Autumn Festival to commemorate the moon, painted with the moon god and the moon palace. After the moon sacrifice ritual is completed, people usually burn moonlight paper and memorial rites with fire.

Double Ninth Festival: Also known as the Ninth Festival and the "Autumn Festival", it falls on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar every year. It is also the four major festivals in traditional China. The Double Ninth Festival generally includes activities such as traveling to enjoy the scenery, climbing high and overlooking the distance, viewing chrysanthemums, planting dogwood everywhere, eating Double Ninth Cake, and drinking chrysanthemum wine.

Winter Solstice: commonly known as "Winter Festival","Long Solstice Festival","Asian Year", etc. It is the shortest day of the year. It usually falls on December 21 or December 23 in the Gregorian calendar. In these days, the custom of "eating dumplings in the north and eating dumplings in the south" is common. Nowadays, people's living standards have improved, and they generally have the habit of drinking mutton soup. In addition, there are local customs and habits such as Jiangnan rice, Taiwanese glutinous cake, Taizhou Laiyuan, Suzhou wine-making, Jiangxi Ma Ci, Chaoshan Tangyuan in Guangdong, and Longan Roasted Egg in Jiaxing, Zhejiang.

Laba porridge: It is a kind of porridge made with a variety of ingredients during the Laba Festival. It is also called Qibao Wuwei porridge. Eating Laba porridge to celebrate the harvest has been passed down to this day. On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the custom of eating "Laba porridge"(in some places,"Laba rice") is spread among the Han people in China. In Henan, Laba porridge, also known as "everyone's meal", is a festive food custom in memory of the national hero Yue Fei.