The origin and allusions of various traditional festivals

Time: 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.

Origin: The Spring Festival, the first year of the lunar calendar, is another name for the Spring Festival, the grandest, most lively and most important ancient traditional festival in China, and a unique festival for China people. It is the most concentrated embodiment of Chinese civilization. Since the Western Han Dynasty, the custom of the Spring Festival has continued to this day. Spring Festival generally refers to New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month. However, among the people, the traditional Spring Festival refers to the sacrificial ceremony from the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month or the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month to the 15th of the first lunar month in La Worship, taking New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month as examples.

2. Lantern Festival

Time: the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Origin: The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival. Also known as Shangyuan Festival, Lantern Festival and Lantern Festival. According to legend, Emperor Wendi (179- 157) celebrated the 15th day of the first month to investigate the Zhu Lu rebellion. Every night, he goes to the palace to play with people. In ancient times, night was the same as night, and the first month was also called January. Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty designated the fifteenth day of the first month as the Lantern Festival, and this night was called Yuanxiao. Sima Qian founded the taichu calendar, which listed the Lantern Festival as a major festival. With the changes of society and times, the custom of Lantern Festival has changed greatly, but it is still a traditional folk festival in China.

3. Tomb-Sweeping Day

Time: April 5, Gregorian calendar.

Origin: It is said that the origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day began with the "grave-sweeping" ceremony of ancient emperors and generals. Later, people followed suit, and it became a fixed custom of the Chinese nation to worship ancestors and sweep graves on this day.

4. Dragon Boat Festival

Time: the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.

Origin: Dragon Boat Festival originated in China. At first, it was a totem festival of tribes who worshipped dragon totem in Baiyue area (middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and southern areas). Before the Spring and Autumn Period in Baiyue area, there was a custom of holding tribal totem sacrifice in the form of dragon boat race on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Later, because Qu Yuan, a poet of the State of Chu (now Hubei) in the Warring States period, threw a huge stone into the Miluo River that day, the ruler took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan in order to establish the label of loyalty to the monarch and patriotism. In some areas, Wu Zixu and Cao E are also commemorated.

5. Chinese Valentine's Day

Time: the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.

Origin: The Qixi Festival, which started in the Han Dynasty, is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the cultural circle of Chinese characters. According to legend, on the night of the seventh day of the seventh month or the sixth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, women beg for wisdom and intelligence from Vega in the courtyard, so they are called "begging for cleverness". It originated from the worship of nature and women's needlework, and was later endowed with the legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl, making it a festival symbolizing love.