What are the origins and times of Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Lantern Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Double Ninth Festival?

The first day of the first lunar month is the most solemn festival in China's traditional customs. The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from praying for the New Year in ancient times. Everything is based on the sky, and people are based on their ancestors. It is also the opposite to pray for the ancestors who worship the sky. The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations, and it carries rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development.

Lantern Festival:

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, according to the folk tradition in China, the bright moon hangs high in the sky on the festive night of the unification of the Yuan Dynasty and the return of spring. People like to watch lanterns, solve riddles on the lanterns and celebrate the Lantern Festival. Lantern Festival originated in the Han Dynasty, and it is said that it was set up to commemorate Pinglu during the reign of Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty.

Dragon Boat Festival:

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month, a traditional folk festival in China, is generally considered to be related to the commemoration of Qu Yuan. Qu Yuan was loyal and drowned himself, so people ate zongzi and held dragon boat races to mourn him. The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival include drinking realgar wine, hanging sachets, eating zongzi, arranging calamus flowers, beating herbs and expelling the "five poisons".

Mid-Autumn Festival:

August 15th of the lunar calendar, a traditional folk festival in China, the Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the story of the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon. According to historical records: "Yesterday, Chang 'e took the medicine of the Queen Mother of the West to live forever, so she went to the moon with the essence of the moon. "Chang 'e paid hard labor for this move, and she can't return to the world for life.

Tomb-Sweeping Day:

The eighth day of the third lunar month (Tomb-Sweeping Day in the twenty-four solar terms of the lunar calendar, around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar) is a traditional folk festival in China. At this time, the weather is getting warmer and sunny, and "everything is clean and bright", hence the name Tomb-Sweeping Day. Its customs include sweeping graves, hiking, swinging, flying kites and wearing flowers.

Double ninth festival:

The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is a traditional folk festival in China. The Book of Changes defines "nine" as the number of yang. These two nines are very important, so the ninth day of the ninth lunar month is called "Chongyang". In the Double Ninth Festival, the air is crisp in autumn, the wind is clear and the moon is clean, so there are customs such as climbing high and looking far, appreciating chrysanthemums and making poems, drinking chrysanthemum wine and inserting dogwood.