Traditional festivals in China include: New Year's Eve, Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Head Rise, Shangsi Festival, Cold Food Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese Valentine's Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Cold Clothes Festival, Xiayuan Festival, Winter Solstice, Laba Festival and Valley Festival. Most of these traditional festivals in China originated from ancient sacrificial activities and humanistic beliefs. Many festivals have their own unique customs. For example, the custom of Spring Festival is to paste couplets, sweep the floor and remove dust, eat jiaozi, pay New Year greetings and set off firecrackers. The custom of Lantern Festival is to eat Yuanxiao, celebrate the Lantern Festival, offer sacrifices to gods, dance lions and walk on stilts. The custom of looking up is to sacrifice to the gods, eat dragon food, collect dragon breath, scrape the tap and write with a pen. The customs of the Cold Food Festival include sweeping, hiking, swinging and cuju. The customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day are hiking, sweeping graves, planting trees, flying kites, eating green balls and inserting willows. The custom of the Dragon Boat Festival is to race dragon boats, eat zongzi, hang wormwood and calamus, wind colorful ropes, drink realgar wine, wear damselflies and draw foreheads. The custom in Qixi Festival is to celebrate the bridge, receive dew, worship ghosts and gods, pray for marriage and tie red ropes. The custom of Mid-Autumn Festival is to enjoy the moon, Yue Bai, eat moon cakes, drink osmanthus wine, light lanterns, celebrate the Lantern Festival, watch the tide and hold banquets. The custom of the Double Ninth Festival is to go hiking in autumn, worship ghosts and gods, wear dogwood, eat double ninth cake and drink chrysanthemum wine.
The custom of the winter solstice festival is to worship ancestors and hold banquets. The custom of Laba Festival is to eat Laba porridge, Laba vinegar, Laba garlic and Laba noodles. The custom of off-year is to clean the house, take a bath, eat stove candy and offer sacrifices to ghosts and gods. The custom of New Year's Eve is New Year's Eve, putting up New Year's red stickers, setting off firecrackers, worshipping ancestors, observing the old age, hanging lanterns and giving lucky money.