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What festivals are there in China?

Festivals in China:

1, New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve: also known as New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, etc. , refers to the last night of the twelfth lunar month (December) every year, there are customs such as eating New Year's Eve, posting Spring Festival couplets and giving lucky money.

2. Spring Festival

Spring Festival: Lunar New Year, commonly known as "Chinese New Year Festival". China people have celebrated the Spring Festival for more than 4,000 years. The Spring Festival is the most solemn festival of the Chinese nation, and there are customs such as greeting the New Year and setting off firecrackers.

3. Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival: Also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaoyuanyuan Festival, Yuanxi Festival or Lantern Festival, it is the first important festival after the Spring Festival. There are customs such as eating Yuanxiao, playing lanterns and solving riddles on lanterns.

4. Tomb-Sweeping Day

Tomb-Sweeping Day: Also known as the outing festival, at the turn of mid-spring and late spring, that is, on 108 after the winter solstice, there are customs such as sweeping graves and hiking.

5. Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival: Also known as Duanyang Festival and Dragon Boat Festival, it is popular in China and other countries in the cultural circle of Chinese characters, and there are customs such as rowing dragon boats and eating zongzi. In September 2009, UNESCO officially approved China Dragon Boat Festival to be included in the world intangible cultural heritage, becoming the first festival in China to be included in the world intangible cultural heritage.

6. Chinese Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day in China: also known as Begging for Cleverness Festival, started in the Han Dynasty and originated from women's worship of nature and begging for wisdom. Later, it was endowed with the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, making it a festival symbolizing love.

7. Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival: Also known as Mid-Autumn Festival and Reunion Festival, it began in the early Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it had become one of the major festivals in China, enjoying the moon and eating moon cakes.