中国人的民俗世界

Chapter One Chinese Folk Customs and the Four Seasons

Spring Festival--The Commencement of a Lunar New Year

Red Spring Couplets Pasted on Every Door--From Peachwood

Charms against Evil to Spring Festival Couplets

The Character “Happiness” Pasted Upside-down

Why is the Lunar New Year Celebrated with Firecrackers？

Merry Celebration of the Lantern Festival， the 15 Day of the Lunar Month

Sacrifice to the Ancestors， Spring Outings and the Qingming Festival（The Tomb-sweeping Festival）

Zongzi， Dragon-boat and the Dragon-boat Festival

What is the Double-Seventh Festival？

The Mid-Autumn Festival， Moon-Watching and Moon Cakes

The Double-Ninth Festival--The Festival for the Aged

Winter Solstice--The Winter Festival

Laba Porridge and the Laba Festival

Interesting Stories about “Sending off the Kitchen God”

About “Shousui”（Staying up Late or All Night on New Year's Eve）

Chapter Two Folk Customs and the Life of the Chinese People

Year of Birth and the Symbolic Animals

Meaningful Surnames

Birth Rituals

One-month-Old Celebration and Haircut

“Zhua Zhou” （Grabbing Test on the ~ccasion of a Baby's First Birthday）

The Significance of Naming a Child

Rituals of Coming-of-Age--Past and Presen

Multifarious Marriage Customs，

Birthday Celebration and Longevity Celebration

Funeral--The Last Scene of One's Life

Chapter Three Folk Customs and People's Daily Life

Colourful Tea Customs

“There is no banquet without alcohol-drinking “--Alcohol drinking and Chinese People

Seating Arrangement at Banquets

Chapter Four Folk Customs and Folk Language

tumorous Allegorical Folk Sayings

Street Corner Wisdom in Proverbs

Proverbs Related to Farming

Proverbs about Staying in Good Health

Chapter Five Folk Customs and Folk Beliefs

The Misery-Relieving Goddess Kwan-yin

The Sea Goddess Mazu

The Ever-smiling Buddha Maitreya

The Eight Immortals Cross the Sea，Each Reveals its Divine Power

Mountain Gods， River Gods and Thunder Gods

Earth Gods and Earth God Tempies

Guan Yu and the Lord Guan Temple

Why Town God's Temple is Found Everywhere？

The Highly-worshiped Gods of Fortune

Gift Money and Protective Talismans

Eight Treasures and Eight Mascots

Jade and Traditional Folk Beliefs

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