Chinese Paper Cutting
Red paper, scissors, engraving knives, window decoration, festival symbols, and regional folk pattern.
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Chinese Festivals and Rituals
Browse Chinese heritage guides about festivals, social customs, folk belief, seasonal practice, maritime ritual, and community ceremony.
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Chinese Festivals and Rituals in context
Festival and ritual pages explain when a practice happens, who participates, what objects are used, and what social memory or seasonal meaning the event carries.
Each guide names the English and Chinese heritage item when useful, then explains region, materials or performance elements, process, use, cultural meaning, and current transmission.
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Dragon Boat Festival
Dragon boat racing, zongzi, protective herbs, seasonal memory, and community ritual.
Mazu Belief and Customs
Coastal temples, processions, incense, offerings, maritime memory, and community identity.
Qiang New Year Festival
Sichuan Qiang communities, tenth lunar month ritual, gratitude, costume, dance, and recovery.
Twenty-Four Solar Terms
Seasonal calendar, farming guidance, weather observation, food customs, festivals, and living time.
Wangchuan Ceremony
Ong Chun, Wangkang ritual boats, Minnan and Melaka communities, sea memory, processions, and offerings.
Spring Festival
Reunion, cleaning, couplets, offerings, New Year's Eve dinner, red envelopes, visits, and Lantern Festival.
Xi'an Wind and Percussion Music
Drums, wind instruments, seated and walking music, old scores, temple fairs, and ritual occasions.
Korean Farmers' Dance in China
Jilin communities, drums, gongs, field ritual, spinning hats, formation dance, and harvest celebration.
Meshrep
Uyghur gatherings, music, dance, oral literature, foodways, games, etiquette, and community teaching.