traditional customs
Ancestral ways preserved
Traditional customs are practices handed down through generations within a culture or community—rituals, ceremonies, and behaviors that mark occasions like births, weddings, holidays, and deaths.
Traditional customs vary widely from region to region.
The phrase often appears in discussions of cultural preservation or the tension between heritage and modernity: Many young people are abandoning traditional customs.
- communal mealsFood shared by groups
- family recipesInherited cooking instructions
- feast daysReligious celebration dates
- ritualsCeremonial repeated practices
- etiquetteRules of polite conduct
festivals · worship · taboos · ceremonies · rites of passage · coming of age · holidays · oral traditions · folk songs · hospitality · gift giving · respect for elders · folklore · sacred texts · greetings · heirlooms · parades · pilgrimage
- East AsiaChina, Japan, South Korea, North Korea, Korea
- cultural immersionhomestay, language exchange, study abroad, exchange student, host family
- customscustoms, customs clearance, customs declaration, customs duty, customs officers
- Indigenous AustraliaAboriginal art, Dreamtime, dreaming, corroboree, didgeridoo
- folklorefairy tales, fairytales, folktales, folk tales, folk tale
- Colonial KoreaJapanese occupation, Japanese rule, colonial rule, occupation period, independence movement
traditional customsiconoclasm
Attacking revered traditions
modernization · anti-traditionalism · taboo-breaking · social upheaval · reform movements