What are the seven traditional festivals in China?

Seven traditional festivals in China: Lantern Festival, Flower Festival, Shangsi Festival, Cold Food Festival, Zhongyuan Festival, Cold Clothes Festival and Xiayuan Festival.

Flower Festival:

Flower Festival is a traditional festival for Han people to commemorate Baihua's birthday, commonly known as Flower God Festival, Baihua's birthday, Flower God's birthday and Picking vegetables Festival. Popular in Northeast China, North China, East China, Central South and other places, it is usually held on the second day of February, February 12 or February 15 of the lunar calendar.

During the festival, people go to the suburbs to enjoy flowers together, which is called "outing". Girls cut five-color paper and stick it on the flower branches, which is called "enjoying the red".

Lantern Festival:

Shangyuan and Yuanxi refer to the Lantern Festival. It happened on the 15th day of the first lunar month, which is the traditional Lantern Festival in China. In the lunar calendar, the first month is January, but the ancients called the night dawn, and the fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night of the year, so it is called the Lantern Festival.

Also known as Shangyuan Festival. According to the traditional folk custom in China, on the festival night of Spring Festival, the moon is high in the sky and there are tens of thousands of lanterns on the ground. People watch lanterns, solve riddles on the lanterns and eat Yuanxiao. They have a happy family reunion.

Shangsi Festival:

Shangsi Festival, commonly known as March 3rd, is a traditional folk festival in China. This festival can be traced back to the end of the Spring and Autumn Period. This is the most important festival in ancient times. People go to the water to take a bath together, which is called "praise" Since then, it has added sacrificial banquets and winding water. In ancient times, the first three days in early March were marked by "cadres and branches", which was called "thinking above".

After Wei and Jin Dynasties, this festival was changed to the third day of March, so it was also called Chongsan or March 3. Later generations inherited it, and it became a festival of drinking water by the water and having a spring outing in the suburbs. The traditional Shangsi Festival is also a baby day, that is, "Spring Bath Day", also known as Daughter's Day. After the Song Dynasty, Shangsi Festival, like Flower Festival, was gradually forgotten by people.

Cold food festival:

105 solstice is one or two days before Tomb-Sweeping Day after the winter in the summer calendar. When the first day of the day is a holiday, smoking is forbidden and only cold food is eaten. In the development of later generations, the customs of sweeping, climbing, swinging, cuju, crochet and cockfighting were gradually increased. The Cold Food Festival lasted for more than 2,000 years and was once called the largest folk festival in China. Cold Food Festival is the only traditional festival of Han nationality named after food customs.

Mid-Autumn Festival:

Mid-Autumn Festival, that is, the ancestor worship festival in July and a half, is also called Shigu Festival, Ghost Festival, Solitary Festival and Local Officials' Day. Festival customs mainly include ancestor worship, setting off river lanterns, worshipping the dead and burning paper ingots. Mid-Autumn Festival evolved from the ancient "July and a half", harvesting crops in autumn and offering sacrifices to ancestors.

July and a half is a festival to celebrate the harvest and repay the earth in early autumn, and some crops have matured. As a rule, people should worship their ancestors and report Qiu Cheng to them with new rice. It is a traditional cultural festival to commemorate ancestors, and its cultural core is to respect ancestors and filial parents.

Cold clothing festival:

The first day of the 10th lunar month, also known as "October Dynasty", "Ancestor Festival" and "Ghost Festival", is a traditional festival of sacrifice in China, which is said to have originated from the Zhou Dynasty. The Cold Clothes Festival is popular in the north, and many northerners will offer sacrifices on this day to commemorate their deceased relatives. This is called sending cold clothes.

In the north, Hanyi Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day in spring and Mid-Autumn Festival on July 15 are collectively called the three "ghost festivals" in China. At the same time, this day also marks the arrival of severe winter, so it is also a day to send warm clothes to parents, lovers and others who care about it.

Next yuan festival:

Next Yuan Festival is the 15th day of the 10th lunar month, also known as "Next Yuan Festival" and "Next Yuan Festival". It is one of the traditional folk festivals in China.

On the fifteenth day of the first month, China called Shangyuan Festival to celebrate Yuanxiao, which has existed since ancient times. On July 15, China called the Mid-Autumn Festival a festival to worship ancestors. 1October15th, China called the next yuan festival the ancestor worship festival.

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