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What are the five traditional festivals in China?

There are five traditional festivals in China, namely Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Valentine's Day in China. 1, Spring Festival Spring Festival has a long history, commonly known as Spring Festival, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, etc. People often say that this is the day. At present, the Spring Festival is the first day of the first lunar month in a narrow sense, and the first day of the first lunar month to the fifteenth lunar month in a broad sense. During the Spring Festival, various activities will be held all over the country to celebrate the Spring Festival, which has strong regional characteristics. 2. Lantern Festival Lantern Festival, also known as Lantern Festival, Xiaoyuanyuan Festival and Shangyuan Festival. It is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year. Since ancient times, the Lantern Festival has been dominated by the warm and festive custom of watching lanterns. The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night in a year, so people call it the Lantern Festival. 3. Tomb-Sweeping Day, Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as Walking Festival, Ancestor Festival, etc. It is a major traditional Spring Festival in China, and its custom of sweeping graves and offering sacrifices to ancestors has been a fine tradition of the Chinese nation for thousands of years. In addition, the time in Tomb-Sweeping Day is around April 5th in the Gregorian calendar. 4. Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Double Ninth Festival and Dragon Boat Festival. Before the Han dynasty, it was the afternoon of the dry calendar, and after the Han dynasty, it evolved into the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. There are all kinds of festival activities in the Dragon Boat Festival. Its customs, like the Spring Festival, contain cultural connotations such as praying for blessings and eliminating disasters, and place people's good wishes for welcoming blessings and ward off evil spirits and eliminating disasters. 5, Mid-Autumn Festival Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon Worship Festival, Reunion Festival, etc. The date is August 15th of the lunar calendar. Since ancient times, Mid-Autumn Festival has had folk customs such as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes, playing with lanterns, enjoying osmanthus and drinking osmanthus wine.