What are the twelve traditional festivals in China?

Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Cold Food Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, China Valentine's Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Laba Festival and New Year's Eve.

I. Spring Festival

The first day of the first month is the Spring Festival, which is the beginning of a new year and the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation. The Spring Festival originated from the activities of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors in the beginning and end of the Shang Dynasty. It is the biggest, most lively and most important ancient traditional festival in China. Festival activities mainly include New Year greetings, posting Spring Festival couplets, setting off firecrackers, and including jiaozi.

Second, Lantern Festival.

The fifteenth day of the first month is the Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan, Yuanxiao and Yuanxiao. There are also customs of watching lanterns and eating Yuanxiao (sweet dumplings). Jiaozi, jiaozi in the south, and Yuanxiao in the north.

Third, the Cold Food Festival.

Cold food should be eaten two days or one day before Qingming, and fire is not allowed. Eat cold food for three days. Legend has it that when Jin Wengong was in exile, meson tui cut shares for him to satisfy his hunger. However, after Jin Wengong returned to China and became a monarch, he forgot meson, and meson did not want to cry roast meat and compete for favor, so he took his mother to live in seclusion.

Later, Jin Wengong repeatedly asked meson to push out of the mountain, but he didn't want to be an official. Finally, Jin Wengong released Yamakaji, and Meson pushed his mother to burn to death under the tree. In order to commemorate the loyal ministers and righteous men, future generations did not make a fire and ate cold food on the day when Xie Tui died.

Fourth, Tomb-Sweeping Day

On April 5th every year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, the main activities are grave sweeping and hiking. Qingming is also one of the 24 solar terms. Tomb-Sweeping Day's poems include "Tomb-Sweeping Day" written by Du Mu in the Tang Dynasty: It rains in succession during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road want to die. Ask local people where to buy wine? The shepherd boy just laughed and didn't answer Xingshan Village.

Five, Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, and customs include dragon boat racing, eating zongzi, picking mugwort leaves and tying red lines. It is said to commemorate Qu Yuan's death in the Miluo River on this day.