List of traditional festivals in China

The twelve traditional festivals in China are: Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, China Valentine's Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Winter Solstice Festival, Laba Festival, Lunar New Year and New Year's Eve.

Secondly, twelve traditional festivals and customs.

1. Spring Festival: The time is the first day of the first lunar month. Customs include New Year greetings, putting up couplets, sweeping the floor and removing dust, eating jiaozi, setting off firecrackers and collecting lucky money. The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations, and it carries rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development. During the Spring Festival, every household will hold various celebrations, most of which focus on offering sacrifices to gods and buddhas, ancestors, saying goodbye to the old year, welcoming the new year and praying for a bumper harvest.

2. Lantern Festival: The time is the 15th day of the first lunar month. Customs include eating Yuanxiao, playing lanterns, offering sacrifices to gods, dancing dragons and lions, and walking on stilts. Lantern Festival is also known as Shangyuan Festival, Tianguan Festival, Spring Lantern Festival, Xiaoyuanyi and Yuanxiao. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called "night". The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night in a year, so it is called "Lantern Festival". ?

3. Tomb-Sweeping Day: The date is April 5th or 6th of the Gregorian calendar. Customs include hiking, sweeping graves, planting trees, flying kites, eating green balls and inserting willows. Tomb-Sweeping Day, with both natural and humanistic connotations, is not only one of the "24 solar terms", but also a traditional festival for ancestor worship. Tomb-Sweeping Day ranks among the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists.

4. Dragon Boat Festival: The time is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Customs include eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, hanging wormwood and calamus, winding colored ropes, drinking realgar wine, avoiding the five poisons, and hiding from the Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, is also known as the four traditional festivals in China along with Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival. It is a traditional festival with the most names and customs. ?

5. Valentine's Day in China: The date is July 7th. Customs include incense bridge meeting, receiving dew, worshiping ghosts and gods, praying for marriage, and tying red ropes. Tanabata is a traditional Valentine's Day in China. Tanabata is endowed with the beautiful love legend of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl", which makes it a festival symbolizing love, thus being considered as the most romantic traditional festival in China.

6. Mid-Autumn Festival: The time is July 15th of the lunar calendar. Customs include offering sacrifices to ancestors, setting off river lanterns, offering sacrifices to the dead, burning paper ingots and offering sacrifices to the ground. July is auspicious month and filial month, and July 30 is a festival for people to celebrate the harvest and repay the earth in early autumn. Some crops are ripe, so people should worship their ancestors according to the law and report Qiu Cheng to them with new rice and other sacrifices.

7. Mid-Autumn Festival: The time is August 15th of the lunar calendar. Customs include family reunion, moon viewing, Yue Bai, eating moon cakes, lighting lanterns, Lantern Festival, watching tides and drinking osmanthus wine. Mid-Autumn Festival symbolizes family reunion and happiness. Mid-Autumn Festival, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Dragon Boat Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. Ranked in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

8. Double Ninth Festival: The time is the ninth day of the ninth lunar month. Customs include hiking in autumn, offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods, eating Chongyang cake and drinking chrysanthemum wine. In the historical development and evolution, the Double Ninth Festival is a mixture of various folk customs, bearing rich cultural connotations. In the folk concept, "nine" is the largest number, which means longevity, and it places people's wishes for the health and longevity of the elderly.

9. Winter solstice: the date is Gregorian calendar1February 2 1 day or 22nd. Customs include ancestor worship, eating jiaozi, eating glutinous rice balls and drinking mutton soup. The winter solstice is the 22nd of the 24 solar terms. Four traditional festivals: Apart from the 12 traditional festivals and the 17 traditional festivals, the "four traditional festivals" are the most popular. These four traditional festivals are Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, and they are also the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage.