Since ancient times, all ethnic groups in China like to combine food with festivals and ceremonial activities. Festivals, birth ceremonies, funerals, weddings and banquets are the most concentrated, distinctive and interesting activities to show the cultural style of food customs.

In festivals, it is necessary to strengthen family ties, adjust the pace of life, and show people's psychological and cultural needs, pursuit, expectation and other aesthetic consciousness through corresponding food customs activities. For example, the Dragon Boat Festival is held on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. People eat zongzi to express their deep memory of Qu Yuan. Another example is that in China, the seventh day of the seventh lunar month was regarded as Valentine's Day in China in the old society. At that time, people would worship the Cowherd and the Weaver Maid with the fruits of begging for cleverness (all kinds of carved fruits, melons and fruits, flowers, etc.). ), and begged for the cleverness of the female workers, showing people's admiration for the virtues of hard work and wisdom. Eating jiaozi, glutinous rice balls and rice cakes in the New Year and moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival all express people's good wishes for family reunion and the health of their loved ones.

During the traditional festivals of ethnic minorities, Albizia Albizia's wine and food are even more colorful, and there are abundant holiday foods, such as Manchu cakes, jiaozi with Hui oil fragrance, Zhuang zongzi, Uygur mutton pilaf, ornamental fish wrapped in leeks and so on. It is also accompanied by various forms of entertainment. For example, the dance on the moon in Xi of Yi nationality in Yunnan, the chanting of wooden brain of Jingpo nationality, the Nadam of Mongolian nationality, the splashing of water by Dai nationality, and the dragon boat race are all food and beverage activities.

Banquets in Han areas generally pay attention to "double happiness, single funeral, eight marriages and nine lives". Hui people's banquets are usually eight or two dishes, avoiding singular. When Dongxiang people entertain guests with chicken, they will divide the chicken into thirteen pieces, and the piece with the tip of the chicken is the most expensive, which is usually dedicated to VIPs. When she people worship their ancestors, they pay attention to two cups of wine and a cup of tea, three meats, three vegetables and six dishes.