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Traditions -> Festivals and Customs

Auspice embodied in words - Lucky Symbols in Chinese characters Chinese characters usually have one or more meanings and some of them are particularly loved by Chinese people. Here is the top ten list of the lucky ones.
  
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  • "Cupid's arrows" at the wedding...
  • "Stolen" Happiness of Tujia Eth...
  • 18 steps to marriage for the tr...
  • Activating Double Seventh Festi...
  • Adult ceremony of the Tibetan g...
  • Ancestor Worship of Miao Ethnicity
  • Aobao Festival - Everlasting Co...
  • Auspice embodied in words - Luc...
  • Bai Festival - Celebrating a Wh...
  • Be the Daughter of the Sea: the...
  • Behave yourselves, Manchurian b...
  • Beijing Folk Customs Service In...
  • Birthday Congratulation Customs...
  • Bless the Tajik newly-weds with...
  • Bouyei ethnic group: songs thro...
  • Bouyei ethnic group: talk about...
  • Business in the Old Lanes
  • Cave Burial Custom of Miao Nati...
  • Chabai Song Festival of Bouyei ...
  • Change the clothes, Yi girls be...
  • Chinese Folk Worship
  • Close neighbours, yet celebrati...
  • Colt Festival: Flying Hooves fo...
  • Confucius Memorial Ceremony
  • Corban Festival
  • Cultural Taboos in China
  • Daur ethnic group: chicken live...
  • Daur ethnic group: marriage beg...
  • Dickers of Folk Customs in Beijing
  • Different Conventions of Moving...
  • Diversified wedding shoes, Vari...
  • Double Seventh Festival
  • Double-Ninth Day
  • Dragon Boat Festival
  • Dragon Heads-raising Day
  • Dragon-boat Festival: "Man's Da...
  • Duan Festival of Shui Ethnic Group
  • Eight Auspicious Symbols
  • Enjoy the Air of the Citizens i...
  • Festival Markets of the Song Dy...
  • Festival of Westward Movement o...
  • Festivals on the grassland of I...
  • Fire Day - Fire Means Lucky and...
  • Folk Customs Handed Down from t...
  • Folk Customs in Beijing-Games a...
  • Folk Customs in Beijing-Life Sc...
  • Folk Customs in Beijing-Variety...
  • Folk Customs in China's Northeast
  • Folk Customs of Fujian Province
  • Folk Customs of Guangdong Province
  • Folk Customs of Jiangsu and Zhe...
  • Folk Customs of Loess Plateau
  • Folk Customs of Praying for a Son
  • Folk Customs of Shandong Province
  • Folk Customs of Sichuan Provinc...
  • Folk Customs of the Central Plains
  • Folk Customs of Yunnan and Guiz...
  • Folk Customs on the Silk Road
  • Formal Marriage at the Lugu Lake
  • Freedom of marriage also exists...
  • Full contact with the "wal...
  • Funeral Customs
  • Ghee Lamp Festival - Light up a...
  • Give the cattle a day off - the...
  • Great Shanghai, Petty Customs
  • Guests treated with special eti...
  • Gulunmuta Festival of Elunchun ...
  • Guys of the Li ethnic group: jo...
  • Hands Folded in Front to Greet ...
  • Hani Ethnic Group: Newlyweds Wi...
  • Hani groom, grab the bride in a...
  • Happy Liuyueliu Festival for a ...
  • Horse Milk Festival - Never For...
  • How Do Shanghai Natives Go to t...
  • Huayao Dai People: tie the knot...
  • Huji Shuhui
  • Humans' Day
  • Hungry Ghost Festival
  • Hunting on the Dragon Boat Fest...
  • Invite the "Tiger" Home
  • June Festival of Regong
  • Kaquewa Festival of Drung (Dulo...
  • King Pan Festival
  • Kirgiz ethnic group: wedding in...
  • Korean husband and wife: treat ...
  • Korean people: Etiquette beyond...
  • Laba Rice Porridge Festival
  • Lantern Festival
  • Life in the Old Teahouse of Sha...
  • Livestock Festival - the New Ye...
  • Long-life lock - blessings for ...
  • Love Signals between Men and Wo...
  • Lover's Day in Tu Ethnic Group:...
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  • Maitreya Festival - Doing Somet...
  • Make friends with Naxi people, ...
  • Maolong Festival of Gelao Ethni...
  • Maonan custom: Select "pumpkin ...
  • Maonan people: Release birds to...
  • Marriage life of the Pumi peopl...
  • Meet of the Chinese - etiquette...
  • Miao people show affection: flo...
  • Miao People's Sister Festival
  • Miao wedding: " Grabbing " is a...
  • Mid-Autumn Festival
  • Monba people - god-worshipping,...
  • Monba people: names decided by god
  • Monba wedding dinner: bride's u...
  • Mountain-Circling Festival
  • Nadam Fair
  • Nadun Festival of the Tu Minority
  • No easy for Gelao parents to ma...
  • No easy wedding ceremony for Ji...
  • Numerous gifts for the Manchuri...
  • Offering Birthday Congratulations
  • Pray in Tibet - Saga Dawa Festival
  • Praying for Rain
  • Propitious Articles in Wedding
  • Prosperous "Year of Birth"
  • Put on your shoes, let's go wed...
  • Qinhuai Lantern Fair
  • Qiongshan people in Hainan: put...
  • Random Talk on Ox in the Year o...
  • Receiving the bride: modes you ...
  • Rejuvenate Qiang Culture
  • Rite of Birth
  • Sama Festival of Dong Ethnic Group
  • Sewing happiness into the weddi...
  • She Huo
  • Shibi (Sorcerers) of Qiang Ethn...
  • Shoton Festival
  • Shuagetang Songfest of Yao Mino...
  • Singsong on June 6th
  • Small society of the Hani ethni...
  • Sophisticated procedures to mar...
  • Spring - Love season for the et...
  • Spring Begins
  • Spring Festival
  • Spring Festival in Beijing
  • Spring Festival in Guangdong
  • Spring Festival in Shanghai
  • Spring Festival in Shanxi
  • Spring Festival in Taiwan
  • Stealing Marriage of Tujia Ethn...
  • Summer Fashion in Old Shanghai
  • Taboos in Presenting Gifts in T...
  • Taliu People of Yongsheng Count...
  • Talking about Spring When It Co...
  • Temple Fair
  • Temple Fair in Changdian of Bei...
  • Ten-mile red trousseaux in wedd...
  • The 24 Solar Terms
  • The Beginning of Autumn
  • The Capping and Hair-Pinning Ce...
  • The Cat Guarding the House on t...
  • The Culture of Chinese Family Name
  • The Dujiangyan Water-Releasing ...
  • The Fairy Festival of Nu Ethnic...
  • The Huayao Marriage Customs
  • The Knife-ladder-Climbing Festi...
  • The March 3rd Festival
  • The Minor New Year
  • The Mysterious Paxi Village
  • The Ongkor Festival comes as hi...
  • The Spring Festivals in the Pas...
  • The Summer Solstice
  • The Ten Weirdies in Shaanxi
  • The Tibetans: Confess affection...
  • The Torch Festival
  • The Wedding Customs of Tu Minority
  • The wedding of Zhuang people: s...
  • The Yifan Festival of Mulam Min...
  • They also have the "Twelve Chin...
  • Third Month Street Fair of the ...
  • Tibetan New Year
  • Tibetan Wedding Customs in Aba
  • Tomb Sweeping Day
  • Traditional Chinese Weddings
  • Twelve Chinese Zodiac Signs
  • Unsophisticated love of the Axi...
  • Uzbek couples: talk about divor...
  • Walking into Achang ethnic grou...
  • Walking Marriage of Mosuo People
  • Water-Splashing Festival of the...
  • Wedding ceremony of the Bai eth...
  • Wedding Culture of Modern and C...
  • Wedding Customs in Ordos
  • Wedding Customs in Taiwan
  • Wedding of the Blang ethnic gro...
  • Wedding of the Li ethnic group:...
  • Wedding of the Nu ethnic group:...
  • Wedding of the Yi ethnic group:...
  • Why is China so "red" - the cho...
  • Winter Solstice
  • Worship Ceremony of Mu Zu (Godd...
  • Xibe Ethnic Group: Arrow shooti...
  • Xiuqiu to determine the happine...
  • Young men of the Yao ethnic gro...
  • Yuncheng, Shanxi: Daubing "Fest...
  • Yunnan: Little Monks Fall in Lo...
Key Words Spring Festival Lantern Festival Qingming Festival Dragon Boat Festival Double Seventh Festival Mid-Autumn Festival Double-Ninth Day The Torch Festival Shoton Festival Water-Splashing Festival

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Folk Customs of Ethnic Groups

  • Wedding of the Yi ethnic group: songs accompanying all through
  • Rejuvenate Qiang Culture
  • Give the cattle a day off - the Fenlong Festival of Maonan people
  • Happy Liuyueliu Festival for a brave Bouyei girl
  • Pray in Tibet - Saga Dawa Festival
  • Bouyei ethnic group: songs throughout the wedding ceremony
  • Bouyei ethnic group: talk about love through songs
  • Spring - Love season for the ethnic minorities
  • The wedding of Zhuang people: shoes in exchange for red packet
  • Change the clothes, Yi girls begin their adulthood
  • The Mysterious Paxi Village
  • Huayao Dai People: tie the knots at the gate
  • Lover's Day in Tu Ethnic Group: Sing out your love
  • Wedding of the Nu ethnic group: three days not enough
  • Bless the Tajik newly-weds with flour
  • No easy for Gelao parents to marry off their daughter

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