What are the traditional festivals?

Traditional festivals mainly include: Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Head Rise, Social Day Festival, Shangsi Festival, Cold Food Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Qixi Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Next Yuan Festival, Winter Festival and New Year's Eve.

Introduction to traditional festivals:

1, Spring Festival.

Spring Festival has a long history, commonly known as Spring Festival, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve and so on. People often say that this is the day. At present, the Spring Festival is the first day of the first lunar month in a narrow sense, and the first day of the first lunar month to the fifteenth lunar month in a broad sense. During the Spring Festival, various activities will be held all over the country to celebrate the Spring Festival, which has strong regional characteristics.

Custom: New Year greetings are centered on offering wishes and praying for blessings, and are carried out in the form of activities such as uncovering old cloth, welcoming the new year, worshipping gods and ancestors, and praying for a bumper harvest. The content is rich and colorful, lively and festive, and the annual flavor is rich. Chinese New Year has a long history. In the process of inheritance and development, some relatively fixed customs have been formed, many of which have been handed down from generation to generation, such as holding new year's goods, sweeping dust, pasting New Year's greetings, having a family reunion dinner, celebrating New Year's Eve, paying New Year's greetings, dancing dragons and lions, worshipping gods and ancestors, burning firecrackers, burning fireworks, playing god games, dating rules, gambling on boats, praying for blessings, temple fairs, beating gongs and drums, and paying New Year's greetings.

2. Lantern Festival.

Lantern Festival, also known as Lantern Festival, the first lunar month, Shangyuan Festival, etc. It is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year. The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the first full moon night in a year, so people call it "Lantern Festival".

Custom: Because Lantern Festival has the custom of displaying and viewing lanterns, it is also called "Lantern Festival" among the people. Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities, such as watching lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, solve riddles on the lanterns and setting off fireworks. In addition, folk performances such as playing with dragon lanterns, playing with lions, walking on stilts, rowing on dry boats, dancing yangko and playing Taiping drums have been added to the Lantern Festival in many places.

3. The dragon raised its head.

The dragon looks up, also known as the Spring Farming Festival and the Spring Dragon Festival. It is a traditional folk festival, which falls on February 2 of the lunar calendar every year. "Dragon" refers to the astrology of the oriental black dragon in seven of the twenty-eight lodges. At the beginning of mid-spring every year, the "Dragon Horn Star" rises from the eastern horizon, so it is called "Dragon Head Up".

Customs: among the people, there are many customs on February 2, most of which are named after "dragon"! For example, shaving your head on this day is called "shaving the dragon head", eating pig's head is called "eating dragon meat", and there are some dzi beads, carrying the dragon head, dancing dragon lanterns, rowing dragon boats and so on! ?

4. Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the outing festival and ancestor worship festival, is a traditional major Spring Festival in China, at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. In addition, the time in Tomb-Sweeping Day is around April 5th in the Gregorian calendar.

Custom: Every time I go to Tomb-Sweeping Day, no matter where people are, I will go back to my hometown to participate in ancestor worship activities and remember my ancestors. Tomb-Sweeping Day is rich in customs, which can be summarized as two festivals and traditions: one is to respect the ancestors and be cautious to the end; The second is outing and getting close to nature. The culture of Qingming etiquette and custom fully embodies the humanistic spirit of the Chinese nation of respecting ancestors and cautiously pursuing the future. In the ancestor worship ceremony, we should be careful to pursue the distance and enjoy the fun of spring in the outing.

5. Dragon Boat Festival.

Also known as Duanyang Festival, Double Ninth Festival and Dragon Boat Festival. Before the Han dynasty, it was noon in the dry calendar, and after the Han dynasty, it evolved into the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. There are all kinds of festival activities in the Dragon Boat Festival. Its customs, like the Spring Festival, contain cultural connotations such as praying for blessings and eliminating disasters, and place people's good wishes for welcoming blessings and ward off evil spirits and eliminating disasters.

Customs: "The main customs of the Dragon Boat Festival include dragon boat racing, eating zongzi, collecting herbs, hanging wormwood and calamus, worshipping ancestors, flying kites, drinking Pu wine, realgar wine, cinnabar wine, playing polo, jumping Zhong Kui, mowing grass, etc. Among them, dragon boat racing and eating zongzi are the most important and symbolic customs. ?

6. Valentine's Day in China.

Valentine's Day in China, also known as Qixi Festival and Qiaoqiao Festival, falls on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month every year. Valentine's Day in China, which originated from the worship of stars, is Seven Sisters's birthday in the traditional sense. Because of the worship of Seven Sisters on the seventh day of July, it was named Tanabata.

Custom: The seventh day of the seventh lunar month is the annual Valentine's Day in China. In ancient times, the flattering activities were mainly concentrated on the unrequited love woman Weaver, so this day was also called flattering. On Tanabata, there are customs such as threading needles for cleverness, planting children, Niu Qingsheng drying books and clothes, grinding wine and offering music, worshipping Weaver Maid, worshipping Kuixing and eating proper fruits.

7. Mid-Autumn Festival.

It is the name of Taoism, which is called July 30th and July14th in folk customs, and ancestor worship festival in Buddhism, which falls on July15th in the lunar calendar.

Customs: there are mainly ancestor worship, river lanterns, sacrifice to the dead, burning paper ingots, and offering sacrifices to the ground. ?

8. Mid-Autumn Festival.

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon Worship Festival and Reunion Festival. It happened on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month.

Customs: Since ancient times, Mid-Autumn Festival has had folk customs such as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes, playing with lanterns, enjoying osmanthus and drinking osmanthus wine. ?

9. Double Ninth Festival.

Double Ninth Festival is the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, which is a traditional folk 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.

Customs: In the Double Ninth Festival, there were ancient customs such as climbing high to pray for blessings, enjoying chrysanthemums in autumn, planting dogwood, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, and holding birthday banquets.

10, winter solstice.

The winter solstice is not only an important solar term among the 24 solar terms, but also a traditional folk festival for ancestor worship, which lasts about1February 22nd.

Customs: In the southern region, there is a custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors and feasting on the winter solstice; In the northern region, there is a custom of eating jiaozi from winter to Sunday every year. ?

1 1, Laba Festival.

Laba Festival has gradually become a well-known folk festival, commonly known as "Laba", which is celebrated on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year and is mainly popular in northern China.

Custom: Mainly "drink Laba porridge".

12, off-year

Due to local customs, there are differences in the date of "off-year". In the early and middle Qing Dynasty, the sacrificial furnace was always the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, at least until the Qianlong period.

Custom: Eating stove candy is one of the folk customs that celebrate the Spring Festival every year, which means that the kitchen god speaks well in heaven and keeps peace in the next world, which is the good wish of working people. In addition, they will also clean the house, also known as dust removal, which places the good wishes of the working people to ward off evil spirits and meet auspicious wishes, and they have the habit of eating rice cakes and jiaozi. ?

13, New Year's Eve.

New Year's Eve is also called New Year's Eve. On New Year's Eve, every household is busy cleaning the courtyard, tearing down old cloth and making decorations.

Custom: Eating jiaozi and jiaozi on New Year's Eve, also known as jiaozi or Joule, means the alternation of old and new. On New Year's Eve, you should also eat carp and crucian carp. Carp is homophonic with ceremony, and crucian carp is homophonic with auspiciousness. Eating carp and crucian carp together in the New Year means good luck. In addition, New Year greetings should also be posted. New Year greetings are red festive elements such as Spring Festival couplets, door gods, window grilles, New Year pictures and blessings. ?

Definition of traditional festivals:

Traditional festivals are an important carrier of inheriting excellent history and culture, which can not only increase people's knowledge and benefit from festivals, but also help to show culture, carry forward virtues, cultivate sentiments and carry forward traditions. Folk festivals are the product of the evolution and development of human civilization, and most festival customs have already appeared in ancient times. The formation process of traditional festivals is the process of precipitation and cohesion of Chinese history and culture. In the development and evolution of history, dynasties changed and ancient calendars changed greatly. * * There are 102 calendars before and after, and the specific dates of some "traditional festivals" are actually different. In the history of the Chinese nation, many festivals have been born, some of which have been preserved, and some have been "lost" halfway. ?

List of all festivals in China (lunar calendar and lunar calendar):

The first lunar month:

(1) The first day of the first month, Spring Festival. In ancient times, it was called the beginning of a year and the beginning of a year. According to legend, Buddha was born in Taoism in Yuan Dynasty, and Maitreya was born in Buddhism.

(2) The second day of the first month, Dog Day.

(3) The third day of the first month, the Year of the Pig.

(4) the fourth day of the first month, sheep day.

(5) The fifth day of the first month, the Year of the Ox. Breaking the fifth, opening the market, the birth of the mythical god of wealth.

(6) the sixth day of the first month, horse day. Send the poor day.

(7) On the seventh day of the first month, Men's Day. Another celebrity conquest festival, to send Vulcan.

(8) On the eighth day of the first month, Valley Day. In Taoism, the birthday of Yan Wang is the Eight Immortals Day.

(9) the ninth day of the first month, the sun. The Nine Emperors' Meeting is said to be the birthday of the Jade Emperor in Taoism.

(10) On the 10th day of the first month, the earth and the sun. Stone birthday (stone sacrifice).

(1 1) The twelfth day of the first month, Fire Day. According to the folk custom, mice marry daughters-in-law, stir-fry soybeans (mouse eyes), light a hundred fires, and all diseases will not be cured.

(12) On the 13th day of the first month, the Lantern Festival (for trial implementation). Guan Gong ascended to heaven.

(13) On the fifteenth day of the first month, Lantern Festival. It's Dengri, Taoist Lantern Festival, and it's Tianguan's birthday.

(14) On the 18th day of the first month, the lights were dim.

Lunar February:

(1) February 1st, Zhonghe Festival. Sun's birthday

(2) On the second day of February, the Spring Dragon Festival (the first tooth). Also known as Dragon Head Raising and Qinglong Festival, it is the birthday of Buddha Jigong in Buddhism.

(3) On the third day of February, the mythical birthday of Emperor Wenchang.

(4) February 12th, Flower Festival (February 15th). Also known as Flower God Festival, Hundred Flowers Birthday and Flower God Birthday (flowering period).

(5) February 15th, nine days in Taoism, is the birthday of the Empress Xuan. The birthday of the old gentleman in Taoism.

(6) February 19th, the birthday of Guanyin Bodhisattva in Buddhism.

(7) On February 21st, it was the birthday of Bodhisattva Samantabhadra.

Lunar March:

(1) The third day of March and the last day of March. The girl went back to her mother's house, the birthday of the Yellow Emperor, the birthday of Zhenwu Emperor in Taoism, and the fairy tale of the flat peach party held by the Queen Mother.

(2) On March 15, Marshal Zhao Gongming was born in myth and Mother Taishan was born in Taoism.

(3) Winter to the future 105 or 106 days; The day before Tomb-Sweeping Day, the Cold Food Festival. The lunar calendar date is not fixed.

(4) Tomb-Sweeping Day. One of the 24 solar terms, usually from the second half of February to the first half of March.

Lunar April:

(1) On the first day of April, hail gods are sacrificed.

② On the fourth day of April, the birthday of Manjusri Bodhisattva in Buddhism.

(3) On the eighth day of April, the Buddha Bathing Festival (Dragon Flower Festival) is the birthday of Sakyamuni in Buddhism.

(4) April 12, the birthday of the snake king in Taoism.

⑤ April 14, the birthday of Taoist immortals (Lv Dongbin's birthday).

(6) On April 18th, Hua Tuo, the imperial doctor, was born.

(7) April 28th, Wang Yao's birthday.

May of the lunar calendar:

(1) The fifth day of May, Dragon Boat Festival.

Lunar June:

(1) June 6th, Laundry Day. June 6th, the sun is red and the sun is green, menstruation Festival and June 6th, please menstruation. In ancient times, it was another festival, called Tianwan Festival, and June 6th was also a festival of Buddhist temples, called Fan Jing Festival, to worship mountain gods.

(2) On June 19th, Avalokitesvara attained enlightenment in Buddhism.

(3) June 24th, the birthday of Guan Gong, the birth of Raytheon in myth and the birthday of Lotus.

Lunar July:

(1) Sacrifice to Poseidon on the first day of July.

(2) The seventh day of July is called Chinese Valentine's Day, July 7th and Beggar's Day.

(3) July 15 is the birthday of local officials, and there is a Bonihara Festival handed down from generation to generation in Buddhism, commonly known as the Confucian Ghost Festival and the Taoist Mid-Yuan Festival.

(4) July 18th, the birthday of the Taoist Empress Dowager.

(5) July 20th, the birthday of cotton.

(6) July 23rd, Zhuge Wuhou's birthday.

(7) July 30th, the birthday of Buddha, the king of Tibetan Buddhism (Tibetan Festival).

August of the lunar calendar:

(1) The first day of August is Chinese Medicine Day.

(2) On the third day of August, Daodu Chef Jun's birthday.

(3) the eighth day of August, the mythical Yaochi conference.

(4) August 12th, the birthday of King Pangu.

(5) August 15th, Mid-Autumn Festival.

(6) August 20th, rice birthday.

(7) August 27th, Confucius' birthday.

Lunar September:

(1) On the ninth day of September, the Double Ninth Festival, Yuan Di's inspiration.

② On September 19th, avalokitesvara became a monk.

October of the lunar calendar:

(1) On the first day of October, Hanyi Festival, also called Ghost Festival, is popular in northern China.

(2) On October 15th, the Taoist Festival of the Next Yuan, Shuiguan's birthday.

Lunar November:

(1) The winter solstice, also known as the southern solstice, is one of the 24 solar terms used to determine the order of months and leap months. The winter solstice is on 1 1 month (that is, the earliest 1/month1day and the latest1/month 29th or 30th). Because solar terms and Gregorian calendar are solar calendar attributes, the dates of solar terms and Gregorian calendar are relatively fixed, and the winter solstice is often after Gregorian calendar (Gregorian calendar) 65438+February 22.

Lunar December:

(1) On the eighth day of December, Laba Festival is the Buddha's enlightenment day in Buddhism.

(2)1February 16, the tail tooth.

(3)1February 23rd/24th, Festival of Sacrificing Kitchen, Day of Cleaning Dust and Day of Sacrificing Kitchen, commonly known as "off-year", also known as off-year.

(4)1On February 25th, Jade was connected to the highway.

(5)1February 29th/30th, except during the day and at night, which are called New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, etc. People call it New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, closing the well (to worship the well god), posting Spring Festival couplets, welcoming the god of wealth, eating New Year's Eve and keeping old.