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The arrangement of festivals in a year.

Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, China Valentine's Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Winter Solstice Festival, Laba Festival, New Year's Day and New Year's Eve.

1, Spring Festival:

The time is the first day of the first lunar month. Customs include New Year greetings, putting up couplets, sweeping the floor and removing dust, eating jiaozi, setting off firecrackers and collecting lucky money. The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations, and it carries rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development. During the Spring Festival, every household will hold various celebrations, most of which focus on offering sacrifices to gods and buddhas, ancestors, saying goodbye to the old year, welcoming the new year and praying for a bumper harvest.

2. Lantern Festival:

The time is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Customs include eating Yuanxiao, playing lanterns, offering sacrifices to gods, dancing dragons and lions, and walking on stilts. Lantern Festival is also known as Shangyuan Festival, Tianguan Festival, Spring Lantern Festival, Xiaoyuanyi and Yuanxiao. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called "night". The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night in a year, so it is called "Lantern Festival".

3. Tomb-Sweeping Day:

The time is April 5 or 6 of the Gregorian calendar. Customs include hiking, sweeping graves, planting trees, flying kites, eating green balls and inserting willows. Tomb-Sweeping Day, with both natural and humanistic connotations, is not only one of the "24 solar terms", but also a traditional festival for ancestor worship. Tomb-Sweeping Day ranks among the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists.

4. Dragon Boat Festival:

The time is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Customs include eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, hanging wormwood and calamus, winding colored ropes, drinking realgar wine, avoiding the five poisons, and hiding from the Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, is also known as the four traditional festivals in China with the Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival. It is a traditional festival with the most names and customs.

5. Valentine's Day in China:

The date is the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. Customs include incense bridge meeting, receiving dew, worshiping ghosts and gods, praying for marriage, and tying red ropes. Tanabata is a traditional Valentine's Day in China. Tanabata is endowed with the beautiful love legend of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl", which makes it a festival symbolizing love, thus being considered as the most romantic traditional festival in China.