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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