There are eight traditional festivals in China. What are they?

The time and customs of the eight traditional festivals in China are:

1, Spring Festival: On the first day of the first month, the Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from when ancient people prayed for the New Year. Everything is based on the sky, and people are based on their ancestors. Pray for the ancestors who respect the sky and return to the truth. The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations, and it carries rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development.

2. Lantern Festival: the fifteenth 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". According to the Taoist "Sanyuan Festival", the fifteenth day of the first month is also called "Shangyuan Festival". Since ancient times, the custom of Lantern Festival has been based on the warm and festive custom of watching lanterns.

3. Tomb-Sweeping Day: Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival in China, and it is also the most important festival to worship ancestors and sweep graves. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a good time for spring ploughing and planting; Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival for people to express their feelings and comfort themselves. Tomb-Sweeping Day Qi provides important conditions for the formation of Tomb-Sweeping Day customs in terms of time and weather phenology.

4. Dragon Boat Festival: the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the Chinese character cultural circle. According to legend, Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State in the Warring States Period, committed suicide by jumping into the Miluo River on the fifth day of May, and later generations also took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. There are also sayings in memory of Wu Zixu, Cao E and meson push.

Qixi: On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, Valentine's Day in China is not only a festival to worship Seven Sisters, but also a festival of love. It is a comprehensive festival with the folk custom of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" as the carrier, with the theme of blessing, begging and courtship, and women as the main body.

6. Mid-Autumn Festival: August 15th of the lunar calendar is the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival. This is the middle of autumn, so it is called Mid-Autumn Festival. In China's lunar calendar, a year is divided into four seasons, and each season is divided into three parts: Meng, Zhong and Ji, so the Mid-Autumn Festival is also called the Mid-Autumn Festival. The moon on August 15 is rounder and brighter than the full moon in other months, so it is also called "moonlit night" and "August Festival". On this night, people look up at the bright moon like jade in the sky and naturally look forward to family reunion. Wanderers who are far away from home also take this opportunity to pin their thoughts on their relatives in their hometown. Therefore, Mid-Autumn Festival is also called "Reunion Festival".

7. Chongyang: the ninth day of the ninth lunar month. It is called "Gordon Festival" and the Double Ninth Festival, which is a traditional folk festival in China and is held on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month every year. The number of "Nine" is a positive number in the Book of Changes, and the two positive numbers of "Nine Nine" are heavy, so it is called "Chongyang"; It is also called "Double Ninth Festival", because both the date and the month conform to nine.

8. Winter solstice: Every year from June 65438 to February 2 1 day to 23 in Gregorian calendar, it is a very important solar term and a traditional festival in China lunar calendar. Until now, there are still many places that have the custom of winter solstice. The winter solstice is commonly known as "Winter Festival", "Dragon Solstice Festival" and "Asian New Year Festival".