Chinese traditions
Ancient Asian practices
Chinese traditions encompass the customs, practices, and beliefs passed down through Chinese culture over millennia.
These include festivals like Lunar New Year and Mid-Autumn Festival, practices like ancestor veneration and feng shui, customs around food, family hierarchy, and social etiquette, and arts like calligraphy and tea ceremony.
The phrase often appears in discussions of cultural preservation or generational change: Her grandmother insisted on observing Chinese traditions for the wedding.
- redPrimary color, warm
- red envelopeFestive monetary gift wrapper
- fanAdmirer or air mover
- teaSteeped leaf beverage
- tea ceremonyRitualized beverage preparation
ancestor worship · calligraphy · filial piety · shadow puppetry · martial arts · dumplings · moon cake · silk embroidery · jade bracelet · Chinatown · ink painting · feng shui · Mid-Autumn Festival · Confucianism · respect for elders · joss paper · Dragon Boat Festival · family reunion
- overseas ChineseChinatown, Chinatowns, benevolent society, benevolent societies, tong
Chinese traditionsEuropean traditions
Customs from the continent
American traditions · Western culture · African traditions · Indian traditions · Nordic traditions
Chinese traditionsmodernity
Being of present times
modernization · globalization · secularization · cosmopolitanism · contemporary culture
Chinese traditionsWesternization
Adopting Western cultural practices
cultural assimilation · cultural erasure · anti-traditionalism · iconoclasm · Maoism