12 traditional festival table

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.

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 fifteenth 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 time is April 5 or 6 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 with the Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival. It is a traditional festival with the most names and customs.

5. Chinese Valentine's Day

The date is the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. 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 September 9 of the lunar calendar. 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 time 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 solar term among the 24 solar terms. According to folklore, the winter solstice is as big as a year. However, in the winter of solstice, different places have different customs. In the north, most people have the custom of eating jiaozi, while in the south, most people have the custom of eating sweets.

10, Laba Festival

The time is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. Customs include eating laba porridge, laba vinegar, pickled laba garlic, laba tofu and laba noodles. In northern China, there is a saying that "children should not be greedy, it is the year after Laba", which means the prelude to the Chinese New Year.

1 1, off-year

The time is December 23 or 24 of the lunar calendar. Customs include cleaning the house, taking a bath, eating candy and offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods. Off-year, also known as Kitchen God Festival, Kitchen God Festival and Cleaning Day, is a traditional festival in China. The date varies from region to region, with the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month in the north and the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month in most parts of the south.

12, New Year's Eve

The time is December 29th or 30th of the lunar calendar. Customs include eating New Year's Eve, putting up couplets, setting off firecrackers, offering sacrifices to ancestors, observing the old age and hanging lanterns. New Year's Eve, the last day of the year, is one of the traditional festivals in China. In addition, it means to remove; Night means night. "New Year's Eve" refers to the eve of New Year, also known as New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve and so on. This is the last night of the year.