What festival is Lantern Festival?

Spring Festival: The Spring Festival, that is, 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. During the Spring Festival, various activities are held all over the country to celebrate the Spring Festival, with a lively and festive atmosphere. These activities are rich and colorful, which have condensed the essence of China traditional culture, and mainly revolve around saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, inviting wealth and treasures, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, and praying for a bumper harvest.

Lantern Festival: Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaoyuanyuan Festival, Yuanxi 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". 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.

Tomb-Sweeping Day: Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as Walking Festival, Walking Festival, March Festival, ancestor worship festival, etc. It was celebrated 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. Tomb-Sweeping Day is rich in festivals and customs. Grave-sweeping and hiking are two major themes of etiquette and custom in Tomb-Sweeping Day. The two traditional themes of etiquette and custom have been passed down in China since ancient times and have never stopped.

Dragon Boat Festival: Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month), also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhengyang Festival, Magnolia Festival and Tianzhong Festival, is a traditional folk festival in China. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers the ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects, and contains profound and rich cultural connotations. In the process of inheritance and development, a variety of folk customs are integrated, and festival customs are rich in content. Picking dragon boats and eating zongzi are two major customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, which have been passed down in China since ancient times and have never stopped.

Mid-Autumn Festival: The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Mid-Autumn Festival, Autumn Season, Mid-Autumn Festival, August Festival, Moon Chasing Festival, Moon Worship Festival, Daughter's Day or Reunion Festival, is a traditional cultural festival popular in many ethnic groups and countries in the Chinese character cultural circle in China. It 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.

Since the Mid-Autumn Festival, there have been customs such as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating Yue Bai, enjoying osmanthus flowers and drinking osmanthus wine, which have been passed down to this day and last forever. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a colorful and precious cultural heritage. The full moon is a symbol of people's reunion, a sustenance for missing their hometown and relatives, and hopes for a bumper harvest and happiness. Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day are also called the four traditional festivals in China.

Double Ninth Festival: Double Ninth Festival refers to the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, which is a traditional folk festival in China. The Book of Changes defines "nine" as yang number, and the two yang numbers of "nine nine" are heavier, so it is called "Chongyang"; It is also called "Double Ninth Festival", because both the date and the month conform to nine. Returning to the truth of 1999, the ancients thought that 1999 Chongyang was an auspicious day.

In ancient times, there were folk customs such as climbing to pray for blessings, enjoying chrysanthemums in autumn, wearing dogwood, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, and feasting on the Double Ninth Festival. So far, it has added the connotation of respecting the elderly, feasting on the day of Chongyang, and being grateful for respecting the elderly. Climbing mountains and enjoying autumn and giving thanks and respecting the elderly are two important themes of today's Double Ninth Festival.