What are the top ten traditional festivals in China?

The top ten traditional festivals in China are: New Year's Eve, Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Cold Food Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Qixi Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival and Laba Festival.

1, New Year's Eve

The last day of the twelfth lunar month, also known as New Year's Eve, is one of the most important traditional festivals in China. On New Year's Eve, there have been many customs since ancient times, such as offering sacrifices to ancestors, celebrating the 30th anniversary, having a reunion dinner, posting New Year greetings and hanging lanterns, which have been passed down to this day and lasted for a long time.

2. Spring Festival

Also known as New Year's Day, New Year's Day and New Year's Day, verbally, it is also called New Year's Day, New Year's Day and New Year's Day. People in China have celebrated the Spring Festival for at least 4000 years.

Headed by Hundred Festivals, the Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation, which not only embodies the Chinese nation's ideological beliefs, ideals and aspirations, life, entertainment, cultural psychology, but also shows activities such as blessing, eating and entertainment in a carnival way.

3. Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival is the 15th day of the first lunar month and the last important festival of the Spring Festival in China. Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities, such as watching lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, solve riddles on the lanterns and setting off fireworks.

In addition, in many places, traditional folk performances, such as playing dragon lanterns, playing lions, walking on stilts, boating, yangko dancing and playing Taiping drums, have all joined the Lantern Festival.

4. Cold Food Festival

A day or two before Tomb-Sweeping Day. 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.

5. Tomb-Sweeping Day

Also known as the outing festival, it is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival in China, and it is also one of the most important sacrificial festivals. It is a day to sweep graves and worship ancestors. "Ming" has two meanings: nature and humanity. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional major Spring Festival. It is a fine tradition of the Chinese nation for thousands of years to sweep graves and cherish the memory of ancestors. It is not only conducive to promoting filial piety and family memory, but also conducive to promoting the cohesion and identity of family members and even the nation.

6. Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month is one of the four traditional festivals in China. The custom of the Dragon Boat Festival embodies the ancient people's view of nature of "harmony between man and nature" and reflects the profound cultural connotation of China with a long history.

Dragon Boat Festival has a variety of folk customs in its inheritance and development. There are many customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, and the contents or details of the customs are different due to different regions. Although customs vary from place to place, eating zongzi and picking dragon boats are common customs.

7. Chinese Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day in China is on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, also known as Begging for Cleverness Day, Seven Clever Days, Double Seven Days, Sweet Days, Weeks, Blue Nights, Daughter's Day or Seven Sisters's Birthday.

In ancient times, Tanabata was a comprehensive festival with women as the main body. On this day, women will visit close friends in the boudoir, worship the weaver girl, learn embroidery and pray for good luck.

Valentine's Day in China is the earliest love festival in the world. It is a traditional folk custom to sit and watch morning glory and Vega on Qixi night. Countless sentient men and women in the world will pray for a happy marriage against the stars on this night.

It is a festival with the folklore of Cowherd and Weaver Girl as the carrier, love as the theme and women as the protagonist.

8. Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Mid-Autumn Festival, August Festival and Reunion Festival, is a traditional cultural festival in China. Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has had customs such as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes, enjoying osmanthus flowers and drinking osmanthus wine, which have been passed down to this day and lasted for a long time. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a colorful and precious cultural heritage. The full moon is a symbol of people's reunion, a sustenance for missing their hometown and relatives, and hopes for a bumper harvest and happiness.

9. Double Ninth Festival

The ninth day of September in the solar calendar is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation. In the Book of Changes, "nine" is defined as yang number, and September 9 and 29 are important, so it is called "Chongyang"; It is also called "Double Ninth Festival", because both the date and the month conform to nine.

Returning to the truth of 1999, the ancients thought that 1999 Chongyang was an auspicious day. In ancient times, there were folk customs such as climbing to pray for blessings, enjoying chrysanthemums in autumn, wearing dogwood, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, and holding birthday banquets. So far, it has added the connotation of respecting the elderly, feasting on the day of Chongyang, and being grateful for respecting the elderly. Climbing mountains and enjoying autumn and giving thanks and respecting the elderly are two important themes of today's Double Ninth Festival. ?

10, Laba Festival

Laba Festival, commonly known as Laba, is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. The ancients had a tradition of offering sacrifices to ancestors and gods (including door gods, household gods, house gods, kitchen gods and well gods) and praying for a bumper harvest. In some areas, people are used to drinking Laba porridge.

Extended data:

Traditional festivals in China are diverse in form and rich in content, and they are an important part of the long history and culture of the Chinese nation. The formation of traditional festivals is a process of long-term accumulation and cohesion of national or national history and culture.

The ancient traditional festivals of the Chinese nation involve primitive beliefs, sacrificial culture, astronomical phenomena, calendars and other humanistic and natural cultural contents, covering philosophy, humanities, history, astronomy and other aspects, and contain profound and rich cultural connotations.

The traditional festivals in China, which developed from ancient ancestors, clearly recorded the rich and colorful social life and cultural content of the Chinese nation, and also accumulated profound historical and cultural connotations.

Traditional festivals are an important carrier of inheriting excellent history and culture. Traditional festivals not only increase people's knowledge and benefit from festivals, but also help to show culture, carry forward virtues, cultivate sentiment and carry forward traditions. The formation of traditional festivals in China is also a process of precipitation and cohesion of China's history and culture.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-China Traditional Festival