traditions

n. custom, practice, convention

The word tradition comes from the Latin word traditio which means "to hand down" or "to hand over." It is used in a number of ways in the English language:Beliefs or customs taught by one generation to the next, often orally. For example, we can speak of the tradition of sending birth announcements.A set of customs or practices. For example, we can speak of Christmas traditions.A broad religious movement made up of religious denominations or church bodies that have a common history, customs, culture, and, to some extent, body of teachings. For example, one can speak of Islam's Sufi tradition or Christianity's Lutheran tradition.
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Noun
1. an inherited pattern of thought or action
(hypernym) content, cognitive content, mental object
2. a specific practice of long standing
(synonym) custom
(hypernym) practice
(hyponym) habit, wont

n. mores, traditional customs of a community; lore, compilation of traditional knowledge or beliefs about a particular subject

n. tradition, praxis, custom

yi2 feng1 yi4 su2
Change habits and customs.
To transform social traditions.