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How to express the festivals of each month in English?

Every month's festival. Every month's festival.

Keywords: Gege; ? Every; ? Everyone; Festival celebration; ? A red-letter day; ? Vacation.

For example, the English version of traditional festivals in China:

1. New Year's? Day? New Year's Day (65438+1October1);

2. Spring Festival; New year's? Day? Spring Festival (the first day of the first lunar month);

3. Lantern Festival (January 15th of the lunar calendar);

4. Tomb-Sweeping Day; Tomb-Sweeping Day, Tomb-Sweeping Day (April 5);

5. Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month);

6. Mid-Autumn Festival? Mid-Autumn Festival (August 15th of the lunar calendar);

7. New Year's Eve (December 30th of the lunar calendar).

Extended data:

Traditional festivals are an important carrier of inheriting excellent history and culture, which can not only increase people's knowledge and benefit from festivals, but also help to show culture, carry forward virtues, cultivate sentiments and carry forward traditions. Folk festivals are the product of the evolution and development of human civilization, and most festival customs have already appeared in ancient times. The formation process of traditional festivals is the process of precipitation and cohesion of Chinese history and culture.

"Spring and Autumn Life Calendar": "The heavens and the earth are open, and everything is turbid; Yin and Yang depend on ... Morning glory blooms in the sun, the moon and the five latitudes; Forty-five thousand years, the sun, the moon and the five latitudes turn; ... the image of the sky, the instrument of the law and the earth, and the sun and the moon. " The formulation of ancient trunk and branch calendars provided a prerequisite for the emergence of festivals.

In the development and evolution of history, dynasties changed and ancient calendars changed greatly. * * There are 102 calendars before and after, and the specific dates of some "traditional festivals" are actually different. In the history of the Chinese nation, many festivals have been born, some of which have been passed down to this day, and some have been "lost" halfway.

Month and day are the same (lunar calendar): Spring Festival (1 month 1 day), Spring Dragon Festival (February 2), Shangsi Festival (March 3), Dragon Boat Festival (May 5), Dried Mushroom Festival (June 6), Chinese Valentine's Day (July 7) and Double Ninth Festival (September 9).

Mid-month: Shangyuan Festival (1 month 15), Zhongyuan Festival (July 15), Mid-Autumn Festival (August 15) and Xiayuan Festival (10/5)

The first day and the end of each month: January (1 month 1 day), Poverty Festival (1 month 1 day), Cold Clothes Festival (1 month/day), New Year's Eve (1 day)

Exotic festivals: Bathing Buddha Festival (April 8th) and Laba Festival (1February 8th).

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-China Traditional Festival