Four major festivals in China

The four traditional festivals in China are as follows:

1, Spring Festival: Also known as the Lunar New Year, it is the most solemn and lively traditional festival in China. The celebration of the Spring Festival usually begins on New Year's Eve and lasts until the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month. During the Spring Festival, people will carry out various custom activities, such as putting up Spring Festival couplets, hanging lanterns, setting off firecrackers, paying New Year's greetings, eating New Year's Eve, watching lanterns, solve riddles on the lanterns and dancing dragons and lions.

2. Tomb-Sweeping Day: Also known as the Youth Day, it is a traditional ancestor worship festival in China and one of the most important solar terms. Tomb-Sweeping Day originated from ancient ancestral beliefs and customs of worshipping spring, which has both natural and humanistic connotations. The main custom activities in Tomb-Sweeping Day are grave-sweeping, ancestor worship and outing.

3. Dragon Boat Festival: Also known as Duanyang Festival, it is one of the four traditional festivals in China. There are many sayings about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, the most popular of which is to commemorate Qu Yuan. The most distinctive activity of the Dragon Boat Festival is the dragon boat race. Dragon boat teams from all over the world compete with each other, showing the people's spirit of unity, cooperation and courage.

4. Mid-Autumn Festival: Also known as the Full Moon Festival, it is a traditional reunion festival in China. There are many customs in Mid-Autumn Festival, the most widely known of which are enjoying the moon and eating moon cakes. The Mid-Autumn Festival symbolizes family harmony and national unity, and inherits the excellent cultural traditions of the Chinese nation.