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List of twelve traditional festivals

List of twelve traditional festivals

In the list of twelve traditional festivals, there are 56 ethnic groups in China, and the festivals of all ethnic groups are rich and colorful. If you count it, it is estimated that there are festivals every day. If you only name one nation, then festivals should be distributed in a fixed period of time. The following is a list of twelve traditional festivals.

Table of Twelve Traditional Festivals 1 There are many traditional festivals in China, among which the most famous twelve traditional festivals are Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Rise, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Qixi Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Laba Festival and New Year's Eve. These festivals all have different customs.

Every festival has certain customs in many aspects, such as food customs, entertainment culture, living habits and so on. For example, during our stay in Tomb-Sweeping Day, we should eat green balls for food, fly kites for entertainment, and worship ghosts and gods to sweep graves in our lives. Therefore, if we want to know what the holiday customs are, we should analyze them from different traditional festivals.

List of time and customs of twelve traditional festivals

Table of Twelve Traditional Festivals 2 China Traditional Festivals Table

The most important traditional festivals in China are Spring Festival (the first day of the first lunar month), Lantern Festival (the fifteenth day of the first lunar month), Tomb-Sweeping Day (around the fifth of April), Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth of May), Valentine's Day in China (the seventh of July), Mid-Autumn Festival (the fifteenth of April), Double Ninth Festival (the ninth of September) and Winter Solstice Festival (the ninth of September).

Introduction of Chinese traditional festivals

1, Spring Festival:

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 ambitions, life, entertainment, cultural psychology, but also shows activities such as blessing, eating and entertainment in a carnival way.

2. Lantern Festival:

Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, Chinese character cultural circle and overseas Chinese. 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.

3, the dragon looked up:

Dragon Head Raising, also known as Spring Farming Festival, Farming Festival, Qinglong Festival and Spring Dragon Festival, is a traditional folk festival in China. Dragon refers to the seven-night astrology of the oriental black dragon in the twenty-eight nights. At the beginning of mid-spring, the "Dragon Horn Star" rises from the eastern horizon, so it is called the dragon looks up.

4. Social Day Festival:

Social Day Festival, also known as Land Birthday, is an ancient traditional festival in China. Social days are divided into Spring Club and Autumn Club. In ancient times, the festival of social day was determined according to the calendar of cadres and branches. Later, due to the change of calendar, festivals were decided by the lunar calendar.

5. Flower Festival:

Flower Festival is to commemorate the birthday of Baihua, referred to as Flower Festival, commonly known as Flower God Festival, Baihua Birthday, Flower God Birthday, Picking Vegetables Festival, a traditional Han festival, which is popular in Northeast China, North China, East China, Central South and other places.

It is usually held on the second day of February, February 12th, February 15th and February 25th of the lunar calendar. During the festival, people go to the suburbs to enjoy flowers together, which is called an outing.

6. Shangsi Festival:

Shangsi Festival, commonly known as March 3rd, is a traditional folk festival in China. Shangsi Festival is the most important festival in ancient times. People go to the water to take a bath together, which is called praise. Since then, sacrificial banquets, meandering water and outings have been added.

7. Cold Food Festival:

The Cold Food Festival is from summer to the future 105, one or two days 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.

8. Tomb-Sweeping Day:

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as outing festival, outing festival, March festival, ancestor worship festival, etc. It was celebrated at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day originated from the ancestral belief and the custom of worshipping spring in ancient times, which has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival.

9. Dragon Boat Festival:

Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhengyang Festival, Magnolia Festival and Tianzhong Festival, is a traditional folk festival in China. Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of astronomical phenomena and evolved from the ancient dragon totem sacrifice.

10, Tanabata:

China Valentine's Day, also known as Qiaoqi Festival, Qijie Festival, Daughter's Day, Beggar's Day, Chinese Valentine's Day, Niuniu Festival and Qiaoxi Festival, is a traditional folk festival in China. Valentine's Day in China originated from the worship of stars.

1 1, Mid-Autumn Festival:

Mid-Autumn Festival, alias July 30th and July 14th, includes ancestor worship, Arahara Festival and local officials' day, mainly including ancestor worship, setting off river lanterns, worshipping the dead, burning paper ingots and offering sacrifices to the land.

12 Mid-Autumn Festival:

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, August Festival, Moon Chasing Festival, Moon Worship Festival, Daughter's Day or Reunion Festival, is a traditional cultural festival popular in many ethnic groups and countries in the Chinese character cultural circle in China.

13, Double Ninth Festival:

Double Ninth Festival refers to the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, which is a traditional folk festival in China. In the Book of Changes, nine is regarded as yang number, and nine and nine yang numbers are important, so it is called Chongyang. Because both the sun and the moon meet nine, it is also called the Double Ninth Festival.

14, Cold Clothes Festival:

On the first day of October in the lunar calendar, the Han Festival is also called October Dynasty, Ancestor Festival and Ghost Festival. People call it Ghost Head Festival, which is a traditional festival of sacrifice in China. It is said that it originated in the Zhou Dynasty.

15, winter solstice:

Winter solstice, also known as winter festival, Asian New Year Festival and Long Day Festival, has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is not only an important solar term among the 24 solar terms, but also a traditional folk festival in China.

16, Laba Festival:

Laba Festival, commonly known as Laba, falls on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. In ancient times, some places in China had the tradition of offering sacrifices to ancestors and gods in the twelfth lunar month, praying for a bumper harvest and good luck, and also had the custom of "drinking Laba porridge".

17, off-year:

Off-year, not just a day, is called off-year because of local customs. During the off-year period, the main folk activities include sweeping dust and offering sacrifices to stoves.

18, New Year's Eve:

New Year's Eve is the last night at the end of the year. The last day of the end of a year is called the year-end division, which means that the old year is divided and replaced by the new year. In addition, it also means to remove. Night means night. New Year's Eve means the day before the New Year, also called New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, etc. That is, the last night at the end of the year.

Twelve traditional festivals show the festivals of three ethnic minorities.

1, the "Torch Festival" of the Yi people. Every year, June 24th of the lunar calendar is a grand traditional festival of the Yi people-Torch Festival. Early this morning, Yi people, men and women, old and young, put on festive costumes, gathered together, drank during the day to celebrate, and carried out bullfighting, wrestling, horse racing, archery and other activities. There will be a bonfire party and a torch parade in the evening. Numerous torches swam across the fields of Shan Ye, and the scenery was spectacular.

2. The "Danu Festival" of Yao nationality. On the 29th of May in the lunar calendar, it is a traditional festival "Da Nu" celebrated by Yao people in Du 'an, Guangxi. On this day, everyone wears gorgeous clothes to visit relatives and friends in the village to celebrate the harvest. The village drummed on bronze drums, sang and danced, and enjoyed a bumper harvest.

The legend of Danu Festival comes from this: in ancient times, there was a grandmother named Miroto. When a man and a woman grow up, grandma lets them live a self-reliant life with farm tools and seeds. Brother and sister cultivated land to grow crops, but the fruits were eaten up by wild boar, gophers and birds.

3. Nadam. "Nadam" is Mongolian, also known as "Nair", and "Nadam" is a transliteration of Mongolian, meaning "entertainment and games" to express the joy of harvest. The "Nadam" conference is a traditional festival with a long history in Mongolia and occupies an important position in the life of the Mongolian people.

Nadam, which begins on the fourth day of the sixth lunar month every year, is a grand gathering of Mongolian people. The contents of the Nadam Congress mainly include wrestling, horse racing, archery, horse riding, playing Mongolian chess and other traditional ethnic events. In some places, there are track and field, tug of war, basketball and other sports.

4. The Water Splashing Festival, also known as "Buddha Washing Festival" and "Cold Monk Festival", is a traditional festival of Dai, Achang, Bulang, Wa, De 'ang, Thai and Southeast Asia. On that day, China Xishuangbanna, Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia and other countries, as well as overseas Thai settlements such as Hong Kong Kowloon City and Zhonghe District, New Taipei City, Taiwan Province Province.

During the period, everyone sprinkled purified water on each other and prayed to wash away the troubles of the past year. Songkran Festival is the New Year of the Dai people, which is equivalent to the middle of April in the Gregorian calendar and generally lasts for 3 to 7 days.

5. Tool holder joint. "Knife and Pole Festival" is an annual traditional sports festival of Lisu people in Lunmashan, Yunnan. The time is the eighth day of the second lunar month. Knife and pole festival originated from a legend, to commemorate the achievements of Wang Shang, a minister of war who observed the sufferings of border people in the Ming Dynasty.

Extended data:

The traditional festivals in China mainly include Spring Festival (the first day of the first month), Lantern Festival (the fifteenth day of the first month), Dragon Head Raising (February 2), Social Day Festival (February 2), Flower Festival (February 6438+03-February 65438+07) and Tomb-Sweeping Day (around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar).

Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month), Qixi Festival (the seventh day of the seventh lunar month), July and a half (the 14th and 15th of the seventh lunar month), Mid-Autumn Festival (the 15th of the eighth lunar month), Double Ninth Festival (the 9th lunar month), Winter Solstice Festival (Gregorian calendar 65438+ February 2 1 ~ 23) and New Year's Eve (the last day of the year).

In addition, some of the 24 solar terms are both natural solar terms and traditional festivals, such as Tomb-Sweeping Day and winter solstice. These festivals have both natural and humanistic connotations. They are both natural solar terms and traditional festivals.

In addition, the ethnic minorities in China have their own traditional festivals, such as the Water-splashing Festival of the Dai nationality, the Nadam Festival of the Mongolian nationality, the Torch Festival of the Yi nationality, the Danu Festival of the Yao nationality, the March Street of the Bai nationality, the Gewei of the Zhuang nationality, the Tibetan calendar year and the Guowang Festival, and the jump flower festival of the Miao nationality.