Let's talk about the traditional customs (Dragon Boat Festival, Mid Autumn Festival and Qingming Festival)

Let's talk about the traditional customs (Dragon Boat Festival, Mid Autumn Festival and Qingming Festival)

Chinese traditional festivals and customs
1. Spring Festival: the Spring Festival is the most grand and lively traditional festival in China. It is commonly known as "Chinese New Year". According to the Chinese lunar calendar, the first day of the first month is the beginning of the year. The traditional celebration activities last from the new year's Eve to the Lantern Festival. Every new year's Eve, families get together to have new year's Eve dinner, When the new year comes, firecrackers and fireworks push the festive atmosphere of the festival to a climax. In northern China, there is the custom of eating dumplings at this time, which means "making friends in the new year". In the south, there is the habit of eating New Year cakes, which symbolizes the step-by-step progress of life, In addition, there are many customs, such as visiting each other for the new year, dancing lions, playing Dragon lanterns, performing community fires, visiting flower markets and enjoying lantern parties
2. Lantern Festival: the 15th night of the first month of the lunar calendar is the traditional Lantern Festival in China, also known as Shangyuan Festival and Lantern Festival. The Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month pushes the celebration activities from the new year's Eve to another climax. On the night of the Lantern Festival, the streets are decorated with lanterns. People enjoy the lanterns, guess lantern riddles and eat Lantern Festival, which has become the custom of generations
February 2: according to folklore, every second day of the second lunar month is the day when the Dragon King in charge of clouds and rain rises. Since then, the rain will gradually increase. Therefore, this day is called "spring Dragon Festival". There is a popular saying in the north of China that "February 2, the Dragon rises; big cangman, small cangliu."
4. Qingming Festival: Qingming is not only one of the 24 solar terms, but also a traditional festival with a long history. The day before Qingming is called cold food festival. The two festivals coincide with the spring in March. The spring is bright and the peach is red and the willow is green. The cold food Festival is set up to commemorate Jie Zitui, who "burned the unjust marquis to death" in the spring and Autumn period of Jin Dynasty, There are also traditional activities such as swing, kite flying, tug of war, chicken fighting, willow wearing, grass fighting and ball playing
5. Dragon Boat Festival: the fifth day of the fifth lunar month is a traditional Dragon Boat Festival in China, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival and Duanwu Festival. As early as the Zhou Dynasty, there was the custom of "storing orchids and bathing" on May 5th. But today, many activities of the Dragon Boat Festival are related to commemorating Qu Yuan, the great writer of our country. On this day, every family has to eat zongzi, and dragon boat races are held all over the south, which are related to mourning Qu Yuan, The Dragon Boat Festival is also a "Health Festival" handed down from ancient times. On this day, people sweep the courtyard, hang Artemisia argyi branches, hang Acorus calamus, sprinkle realgar water, drink realgar wine, remove rot, kill bacteria and prevent diseases. These activities also reflect the fine traditions of our nation
6. Tanabata Festival: on the seventh day of July every year, magpies from all over the world build a magpie bridge on the Milky way, so that Niulang and Zhinu can meet each other. This beautiful legend began in the Han Dynasty and has been passed down from generation to generation for more than a thousand years. On this day, people have the custom of begging for skillfulness from Zhinu. It is generally a competition to see who is more skillful. Therefore, Tanabata is also called Qiqiao festival or daughter's day, The two stars, morning glory and weaver girl, passed through the sky at night and didn't disappear until the sun rose
7. Mid Autumn Festival: August 15 of the lunar calendar is the middle of autumn, so it is called Mid Autumn Festival. On the night of Mid Autumn Festival, in addition to enjoying the moon, offering sacrifices to the moon and eating moon cakes, there are activities such as dancing grass dragons and building pagodas in some places. In addition to moon cakes, various kinds of fresh and dried fruits in season are also delicious food on the night of Mid Autumn Festival, So, the Mid Autumn Festival is also called "reunion festival"
8. Double Ninth Festival: the Double Ninth Festival on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month is very rich in activities, such as climbing, appreciating chrysanthemums, drinking chrysanthemum wine, eating double ninth cake, inserting dogwood, etc
9. Winter Solstice Festival: the winter solstice was a very grand festival in ancient China. Up to now, Taiwan still has the tradition of offering sacrifices to ancestors with nine layer cakes in the winter solstice to show that we will not forget gengben and wish the family reunion. In the north, there are the customs of slaughtering sheep and eating dumplings. In the south, there are traditional foods such as rice balls and long noodles
10. Laba Festival: Laba Festival is a Buddhist festival. This day is the day when Sakyamuni became a Buddha, also known as "Chengdao Festival". The most important activity on this day is eating Laba porridge. The earliest Laba porridge was only adding red beans to the rice porridge. Later, it evolved into a very complex and elegant one, with dozens of main ingredients including white rice, yellow rice, jiangmi, Xiaomi, and water chestnut rice, Add walnuts, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, pine nuts, raisins, longan meat, lilies, lotus seeds, etc. and cook all night
11. New Year's Eve: New Year's Eve is the last day of the year. On this day, ordinary families try their best to get together and surround the whole family
Get together on the stove, drink and eat delicious food to say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new year
The family spent the last night of a warm year together

Lunar phase change chart with date

(editor's note: man teaches nature Volume 8 lesson 14 observe the moon) 1 month old 2 months old 3 months old 4 months old 5 months old 6 months old 7 months old 8 months old 9 months old 10 months old 11 months old 12 months old 13 months old 14 months old 15 months old 16 months old 17 months old 18 months old 19 months old 20 months old 21 months old 22 months old 23 months old 24 months old 2

The change of lunar phase in a month depends on the position, height and date

The phases of the moon are calculated according to the degree of the difference between the meridians of the sun and the moon (the following degree is the difference between the meridians of the sun and the moon)
New moon: 0 degrees;
Emei month (generally around the second night of the lunar new year --- around the seventh day of the Lunar New Year): 0 degrees --- 90 degrees;
The first quarter of the moon (around the eighth day of the lunar calendar): 90 degrees;
Gradually convex moon (the ninth day of the lunar calendar --- the fourteenth day of the lunar calendar): 90 degrees --- 180 degrees;
Full moon (looking at the full moon day, the night of the 15th or 16th of the lunar calendar): 180 degrees;
Gradually losing convex moon (around the 16th - 23rd lunar calendar): 180 degrees - 270 degrees;
The last quarter of the moon (around the 23rd lunar calendar): 270 degrees;
Waning moon (around the 24th day of the lunar calendar --- the end of the month): 270 degrees --- 360 degrees;
In addition, the last day of the lunar month is called the dark day, that is, there is no moon;
There are four main phases of the moon: the new moon (the first day of the lunar calendar), the first string (about the eighth day of the lunar calendar), the full moon (about the fifteenth day of the lunar calendar), and the last string (about the twenty third day of the lunar calendar). They all have definite occurrence time, which is calculated by precise orbit