How many festivals are there in a year?

There are different festivals in a year according to different categories. It is mainly divided into traditional festivals in China, statutory festivals in China and all international festivals.

1. According to the traditional festivals in China, it can be divided into 15 festivals, such as Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Head Lifting Festival, Social Day Festival, Shangsi Festival, Cold Food Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese Valentine's Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Xiayuan Festival, Winter Solstice Festival and New Year's Eve.

According to the legal holidays in China, there are seven holidays in a year, namely, New Year's Day, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Labor Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day.

3. According to all international festivals, there are 5 1 a year, including New Year's Day, World Wetlands Day, Valentine's Day, National Love Ear Day, Youth Volunteer Service Day, International Women's Day, Mother River Protection Day, China Arbor Day, white day, International Police Day, World Consumer Rights Day, World Forest Day and World Sleeping Day.

The formation of traditional festivals

The origin, inheritance and development of ancient traditional festivals are the "cultural process of gradual formation and perfection" of human society and the product of the evolution and development of human civilization. According to the research results of modern anthropology and archaeology, the two most primitive beliefs of human beings are the belief in heaven and earth and the belief in ancestors. The belief in heaven and earth and ancestors originated from the worship of nature and ancestors in the early days of mankind, which led to various worship and sacrifice activities.

In the ancient farming society, people lived and worked in peace and contentment. They chose a day to worship the gods and ancestors, and they had various regular festivals. Abundant offerings to gods and ancestors developed into festival feasts, and gradually formed some established ways of celebration, that is, the so-called festival folk customs.

The early festival culture embodies the ancient people's humanistic spirit of advocating nature, the unity of man and nature, cautiously pursuing the future, and firmly thinking about the source; A series of sacrificial activities contain profound cultural connotations, such as respecting morality, ritual and music civilization, etc. The traditional festivals of the Chinese nation are diverse in form and rich in content. They are an important part of the long history and culture of the Chinese nation and the basic framework of a civilized country.

Baidu Encyclopedia-China Traditional Festival