What are the four traditional festivals for ancestor worship in China?

The four traditional ancestor worship festivals in China are New Year's Eve, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Double Ninth Festival and Zhongyuan Festival.

Sacrificing ancestors is one of the important activities of the Chinese nation. Since ancient times, the Chinese nation has a tradition of pursuing the future with caution, in order to express that people do not forget the gratitude of their ancestors, remember their ancestors, and pray for their grace and blessing. New Year's Eve, that is, the night of thirty years, the last night at the end of a year, is also called "the end of the year".

The New Year is approaching. In traditional festivals like China, people naturally offer food and wine in advance and pay homage to their ancestors in a series of celebrations. While recalling the kindness of our ancestors, we pray for their good luck in the new year. Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the "24 solar terms" from April 4th to April 6th in the Gregorian calendar.

Festival introduction

Tomb-Sweeping Day's main activities are not only grave sweeping and ancestor worship, but also sightseeing. During the Qingming Festival, spring returns to the earth, full of vitality, and the whole family gathers in the suburbs to worship their ancestors, and also takes this opportunity to go hiking, get close to nature and enjoy family happiness. Tomb-Sweeping Day has different customs all over the country, mainly including eating cold food, eating green balls, forbidding fire and inserting willows.

In folk, this day generally refers to July 14, but in Taoism, the Mid-Autumn Festival generally refers to July 15. In July and a half (Mid-Autumn Festival), in addition to offering sacrifices to ancestors, there are also customs such as offering sacrifices to land and burning paper money. Every year, the ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the Double Ninth Festival, which is the number of Yang in the Book of Changes. "Jiujiu" is also called "Jiujiu Double Ninth Festival". September is the harvest season in autumn. After the autumn harvest, people will hold a big banquet to thank the heavens and the earth and their ancestors for their kindness and climb high to pray.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-China