What festivals are there in China?

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is called Dragon Boat Festival, which was recorded as early as the early Western Zhou Dynasty. This is not a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan, but some customs after the Dragon Boat Festival have been influenced by Qu Yuan. Custom: hanging clocks and statues, hanging calamus branches, racing dragon boats, eating zongzi and drinking realgar wine.

2. Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month, also known as "Shangyuan Festival", is one of the traditional festivals of Han nationality and some brotherly nationalities in China, which existed more than 2,000 years ago in the Qin Dynasty. Emperor Wen of Han ordered the fifteenth day of the first month to be the Lantern Festival. Buddhism was introduced in the Eastern Han Dynasty. In order to expand its local influence, traditional culture attaches the Lantern Festival as an auspicious day and participates in Buddhism.

The practice of Yuanxiao is mainly stuffing. The general process is to mix the stuffing, stir it evenly, spread it into large round pieces, cool it and cut it into cubes smaller than table tennis. Then put the stuffing into a machine like a big sieve, pour the rice flour and "sieve" it. As the fillings collide with each other and become spherical, glutinous rice also sticks to the surface of the fillings, forming Yuanxiao.

3. Spring Festival

The traditional names of the Spring Festival are New Year, New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, but they are also called "New Year" and "Happy New Year" verbally. In ancient times, the Spring Festival refers to the beginning of spring in the solar terms and is also regarded as the beginning of a year. Later, it was changed to the first day of the first lunar month as the New Year. Generally speaking, it doesn't end until the fifteenth day of the first month (Shangyuan Festival). Spring Festival, commonly known as "Chinese New Year", is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation.

Since the first year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the date of the annual festival has been fixed and has continued to this day. New Year's Day was called "New Year's Day" in ancient times. After the Revolution of 1911, 19 1 1 adopted the Gregorian calendar to calculate the year, so it was called "New Year's Day" on the Gregorian calendar 1 and "Spring Festival" on the first day of the first lunar month.

4. Chinese Valentine's Day

China Valentine's Day, also known as Qiaojie Begging Festival, Qiqiaojie Festival or Seven Sisters's Birthday, originated in China and is a traditional festival in China and East Asian countries. This festival comes from the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl and is celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. Because the main participants in this day's activities are girls, the content of the festival activities is mainly begging skills, so people call this day "begging skills festival" or "daughter's day" or "daughter's day". On May 20th, 2006, Tanabata was listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage by the State Council.

5. Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most important traditional festivals in China, which falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month every year. The word "Mid-Autumn Festival" first appeared in Zhou Li. According to the ancient calendar of China, there are four seasons in a year, and each season has three months, which are called Meng Yue, Mid-month and Seasonal Month respectively. Therefore, the second month of autumn is called Mid-Autumn Festival, which is called "Mid-Autumn Festival" because it falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. It was not until the early years of the Tang Dynasty that the Mid-Autumn Festival became a fixed festival.