Time and custom of traditional festivals in China.

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 (the second day of February), Social Day Festival (the second day of February), Tomb-Sweeping Day (around the fifth day of April in Gregorian calendar), Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month), Tanabata (the seventh day of the seventh lunar month), July and a half (the fourteenth and fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month) and Mid-Autumn Festival (the eighth lunar month).

The following are some examples of five traditional holiday customs:

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

The Spring Festival, the Lunar New Year, is the beginning of a year and a traditional "festival". Commonly known as Spring Festival, New Year, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve and so on. It is also known verbally as New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve. The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from praying for the New Year at the beginning of the year in ancient times.

Customs: Celebrations during the Spring Festival are extremely colorful, including lion dancing, floating colors, dragon dancing, worship of gods, temple fairs, flower shopping, lantern viewing, beating gongs and drums, flying cursor flags, burning fireworks, praying for blessings, jumping spring dance, walking on stilts, running roller boats and dancing yangko.

The custom of offering sacrifices to gods (ancestors) prevails in the southern coastal areas, and it inherits the ancient customs. During the Spring Festival, there are many grand activities, such as offering sacrifices to heaven and earth and praying for the Spring Festival, which are rich in content, lively and festive, and full of flavor. During the Spring Festival, you can find it everywhere, such as posting New Year's greetings, observing New Year's Eve, having a reunion dinner and paying New Year's greetings. However, due to different local customs, the nuances have their own characteristics.

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

Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Little Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival, is one of the traditional festivals in China on the 15th day of the first lunar month. 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".

Custom: Eating Yuanxiao, watching lanterns and dancing dragons and lions are several important folk customs of the Lantern Festival.

3. Tomb-Sweeping Day (around April 5, Gregorian calendar):

Also known as outing festival, outing festival, March festival, ancestor worship festival, etc. This festival is 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.

Custom: Grave-sweeping, ancestor worship and outing are the basic etiquette themes.

4. Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month):

Also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhengyang Festival, Magnolia Festival and Tianzhong Festival, it is a traditional folk festival in China.

Customs: rowing dragon boats, eating zongzi, hanging wormwood, drinking water at noon, soaking in dragon boat water, tying five-color silk thread to ward off evil spirits, washing herbal water, smoking Atractylodes rhizome to prevent diseases and so on.

5. Mid-Autumn Festival (August 15th of the lunar calendar):

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, August Festival, Moon Chasing Festival, Moon Appreciating Festival, Daughter's Day or Reunion Festival, is a popular traditional cultural festival in many ethnic groups and countries in the Chinese character cultural circle in China, and falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. Because its value is only half that of Sanqiu, it is named, and some places set the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 16.

Customs: Since ancient times, there have been customs such as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, Yue Bai, eating moon cakes, enjoying osmanthus and drinking osmanthus wine.

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