What festivals are there in China? What is the date?

Spring Festival is the first day of the first lunar month, also known as Lunar New Year, commonly known as "Chinese New Year". This is the biggest and most lively traditional festival in China. The Spring Festival has a long history, which originated from the activities of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors in the beginning and end of the Shang Dynasty.

According to the China lunar calendar, the first day of the first month is called Yuanri, Chen Yuan, Jacky, Yuanshuo and New Year's Day. Commonly known as the first day of the first month. It was changed to Gregorian calendar in the Republic of China. The first day of the Gregorian calendar is called New Year's Day, and the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar is called Spring Festival.

2. Lantern Festival

On the 15th day of the first lunar month, it is the first traditional festival in China after the Spring Festival-Lantern Festival. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called the night "Xiao", so they called the fifteenth day of the first month the Lantern Festival. The fifteenth day of the first month is the night of the first full moon in a year and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty. On the night of Spring Festival, people celebrate this festival and the continuation of the Spring Festival.

3. Tomb-Sweeping Day

Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the twenty-four solar terms in China, which generally falls around April 5th in the Gregorian calendar. As soon as Qingming arrives, the temperature rises and the rainfall increases, which is a good time for spring ploughing and planting. Therefore, there is an agricultural proverb that "before and after Qingming, point melons and plant beans" and "planting trees is not as good as Qingming". It can be seen that this solar term is closely related to agricultural production.

4. Dragon Boat Festival

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is a traditional folk festival in China-Dragon Boat Festival, which is one of the ancient traditional festivals of the Chinese nation. The Dragon Boat Festival is also called Dragon Boat Festival and Duanyang. Mainly in memory of Qu Yuan, a great poet in ancient China. On this day, people eat zongzi and row dragon boats.

5. Chinese Valentine's Day

The seventh day of the seventh lunar month. In our country, this night, the weather is warm and the plants are fragrant, commonly known as Qixi, and some people call it "Begging for Cleverness Festival" or "Daughter's Day". According to folklore, this day is the day when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet. Few people see magpies because they go to the Milky Way in the sky to bridge the gap between the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.