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What are the words for festivals?

1, Spring Festival (Spring Festival)

Spring Festival is the Spring Festival in China, which is a Spring Festival, that is, when spring begins. According to the lunar calendar, the solar calendar is around February 4. This is the most important festival in China.

2. Lantern Festival (Lantern Festival)

Lantern Festival is a traditional festival custom, which began in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in Sui and Tang Dynasties. After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, lantern style prevailed in all previous dynasties and spread to future generations.

3. Tomb-Sweeping Day /Tom B- Tomb-Sweeping Day (Tomb-Sweeping Day)

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as outing festival, touring plot, March festival and ancestor worship festival, is celebrated at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day originated from the ancestral belief and the custom of worshipping spring in ancient times, which has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival. Grave-sweeping and outing are the two major themes of Tomb-Sweeping Day etiquette and customs, and these two traditional themes have been passed down from ancient times to the present in China.

4. Dragon Boat Festival (Dragon Boat Festival)

The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhengyang Festival and Tianzhong Festival, originated from the worship of astronomical phenomena in ancient times and evolved from the Dragon Boat Festival. On the midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, the black dragon rises to the south of the sky for seven nights, which is an auspicious day for the dragon to fly. As the fifth poem in the Book of Changes says, "The dragon is in the sky". At noon, Long Xing is both a "win" and a "right" and a symbol of good luck. Its origin covers ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects, and contains profound and rich cultural connotations; In the process of inheritance and development, a variety of folk customs are integrated, and festival customs are rich in content. Picking dragon boats and eating zongzi are two major customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, which have been passed down in China since ancient times and have never stopped.

5. National Day (National Day)

National Day is a national statutory holiday to commemorate the country itself. They are usually the independence of this country, the signing of the constitution, the birthday of the head of state or other significant anniversaries; Some are saints' day, the patron saint of this country. Although most countries have similar anniversaries, due to complicated political relations, this festival in some countries cannot be called National Day. For example, the United States only has independence day and no national day, but the two have the same meaning. In ancient China, the emperor's accession to the throne and birthday were called "National Day". Today, China National Day refers to the anniversary of the official establishment of People's Republic of China (PRC). 10 1.