Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - The 24 Solar Terms - China traditional festival English.

China traditional festival English.

1, New Year's Eve:

New Year's Eve is the last night at the end of the year. The last day of the end of the year is called "year's minute", which means that the old year is divided and replaced by the new year. In addition, it means to remove; Night means night. "New Year's Eve" refers to the eve of New Year, also known as New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve and so on. This is the last night of the year.

2. Spring Festival: Spring Festival

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.

3. Lantern Festival: Lantern Festival

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".

4. Spring Festival (Dragon Head Up): Dragon Head Up Festival

Dragon Head Rise (the second day of the second lunar month), also known as Spring Farming Festival, Farming Festival, Qinglong Festival and Spring Dragon Festival, is a traditional folk festival in China. "Dragon" refers to the astrology of the Eastern Black Dragon and Seven Nights. At the beginning of mid-spring, the "Dragon Horn Star" rises from the eastern horizon, so it is called "Dragon Head Up".

5. Cold Food Festival: Cold Food Festival

Cold Food Festival: 105 Summer to the future, one or two days before Tomb-Sweeping Day. When the first day of the day is a holiday, smoking is forbidden and only cold food is eaten. In the development of later generations, the customs of sweeping, climbing, swinging, cuju, crochet and cockfighting were gradually increased. The Cold Food Festival lasted for more than 2,000 years and was once called the largest folk festival in China.

6. Tomb-Sweeping Day: Tomb-Sweeping Day

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as outing festival, outing 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.

7. Dragon Boat Festival: 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, Yulan Festival and Tianzhong Festival, is a traditional folk festival in China. Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of astronomical phenomena and evolved from the ancient dragon totem sacrifice.

8. China Valentine's Day: Magpie Festival?

Tanabata, also known as Qiaoqi Festival, Qijie Festival, Daughter's Day, Begging Qiaoqiao Festival, Seven-strong Club, Qiaoxi, Niuniu Festival and Tanabata, is a traditional folk festival in China, which is the traditional Tanabata birthday. It was named Tanabata, because the worship of Seven Sisters was held on July 7th.

9. Mid-Autumn Festival: Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival, that is, the ancestor worship festival in July and a half, is also called Shigu Festival, Ghost Festival, Solitary Festival and Local Officials' Day. Festival customs mainly include ancestor worship, setting off river lanterns, worshipping the dead and burning paper ingots. Mid-Autumn Festival evolved from the ancient "July and a half", harvesting crops in autumn and offering sacrifices to ancestors.

10, Double Ninth Festival

Double Ninth Festival, the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, is a traditional folk festival in China. In the Book of Changes, "nine" is defined as yang number, and "nine-nine" is called "Chongyang" because of its heavy yang number. It is also called "Double Ninth Festival", because both the date and the month conform to nine.

1 1 Mid-Autumn Festival

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.