What are the national festivals in China?

1, Spring Festival (the first day of the first lunar month)

During the Spring Festival, various New Year celebrations will be held all over the country. Due to different regional cultures, there are differences in the content or details of customs, which have strong regional characteristics.

2. Lantern Festival (15th day of the first lunar month)

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, traditional folk performances such as Youlong lanterns, lion dancing, walking on stilts, boating, yangko and playing Taiping drums have been added to the Lantern Festival in many places. In June 2008, the Lantern Festival was selected as the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage.

3. Dragon Head Raising and Social Day Festival (the second day of the second lunar month)

When the dragon looks up, people will hold a ceremony to worship the dragon god, praying for rain and release, so as to have a good harvest in a year, and regard the season when the dragon looks up as a lucky day. In our country, there is a saying that "on February 2, we worship the village community;" The dragon looked up and prayed for a bumper harvest; August 2, village hall; The dragon is over. Send it back.

4. Shangsi Festival (the third day of the third lunar month)?

There is a saying in Shangsi Festival that witchcraft originated from blue soup to ward off evil spirits, and blue soup is used to ward off evil spirits. Blue grass, as a spiritual thing, has the characteristics of aroma. Before major sacrificial ceremonies were held, the ancients fasted, including the best bathing method at that time, "blue soup bathing".

5. Cold Food Festival (winter solstice after 105 or 106)

From the Spring and Autumn Period to the present, the Cold Food Festival has a history of more than 2,600 years. The story took place in Shanxi, China, and was set as the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day. On this day, the custom of eating cold food, offering sacrifices and having an outing has been handed down and accepted by the whole country. With the passage of time, the Cold Food Festival has quietly merged into Tomb-Sweeping Day, and the people represented by the Cold Food Festival have praised loyalty, honesty and political clarity for thousands of years.