Traditional festivals and dates in China.

Traditional festivals in China include New Year's Eve (the last day of the twelfth lunar month), Spring Festival (the first day of the first month), Lantern Festival (the fifteenth day of the first month), Cold Food Festival (the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day), Tomb-Sweeping Day (the solar calendar: around April 5th), Shangsi Festival (March 3rd), Dragon Boat Festival (May 5th) and Chinese Valentine's Day (July 7th).

Form:

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. It is a legal system of "civilized society ruled by law". It is the basic framework of regional civilized countries. The origin and development of festivals is a "cultural process of gradual formation and perfection" of human society, and it is the product of the evolution of civilization from apes to humans.

The traditional festivals in China are loaded with myths, legends, astronomy, geography, numbers, calendars and other humanistic and natural cultural contents. Documentary records can be traced back at least to Zheng Xiao and Shangshu in Xia Dynasty. By the Warring States period, a year was divided into 24 solar terms, which was basically completed. Later traditional festivals are closely related to these solar terms. Every traditional festival in China has its own origin and necessary conditions for its formation.