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What sacrificial festivals are there?

Sacrificial festivals include: Xiayuan Festival, Shangsi Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Zhongyuan Festival and Double Ninth Festival.

1, Xiayuan Festival

Next Yuan Festival is the 15th day of the 10th lunar month, also known as "Next Yuan Festival" and "Next Yuan Festival". It is one of the traditional folk festivals in China. On the fifteenth day of the first month, China called Shangyuan Festival to celebrate Yuanxiao, which has existed since ancient times. On July 15, China called the Mid-Autumn Festival a festival to worship ancestors. 1October15th, China called the next yuan festival the ancestor worship festival.

2. Shangsi Festival

Shangsi Festival, commonly known as March 3rd, is a traditional festival of the Han nationality. Before the Han dynasty, it was designated as the first day of March, and later as the third day of March in the summer calendar. Shangsi Festival is the most important festival in ancient times. People go to the water to take a bath together, which is called "praise" Since then, sacrificial banquets, meandering water and outings have been added.

3. 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.

4. Mid-Autumn Festival

Yuan Festival is the name of Taoism, which is called July 30 and July 14 in folklore, and it is called Yulanben Festival in Buddhism. Festival customs mainly include offering sacrifices to ancestors, setting off river lanterns, offering sacrifices to the dead, burning paper ingots and offering sacrifices to the ground. Its birth can be traced back to ancestor worship and related festivals in ancient times.

5. Double Ninth Festival

Double Ninth Festival is a traditional festival in China, which is celebrated on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month every year. In ancient times, there were folk customs such as climbing mountains to pray, enjoying chrysanthemums in autumn, wearing dogwood, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, and drinking to pray for longevity. So far, it has added the connotation of respecting the elderly, feasting on the day of Chongyang, and being grateful for respecting the elderly.