Chinese Traditions Traditions Lunar New Year Tomb-Sweeping Day Mid-Autumn Festival Lantern Festival Dragon Boat Festival Winter Solstice Dumplings Tea Ceremony What they do Reunion of family and removal of bad luck honoring ancestors and visiting gravesites to clean them people gather to eat mooncakes, admire the moon, light lanterns, and celebrate with gratitude solving riddles on lanterns, eating tangyuan (sweet rice balls), watching dragon dances, and launching fireworks. racing long, dragon-headed boats to drumming, eating zongzi (sticky rice dumplings), and hanging herbs to ward off disease warm the body, prevent ear frostbite, and bring family unity, good fortune, and health a ritualized preparation and presentation of tea, most notably the Japanese chanoyu (using matcha) or Chinese wedding ceremonies.
