Four Traditional Festivals in China

The four traditional festivals in China are Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival.

1, Spring Festival

Spring Festival, also known as "New Year" and "China New Year", is the most solemn and lively festival among the traditional festivals in China. The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from praying for the New Year at the beginning of the year in ancient times. Everything is based on heaven, and people are based on ancestors, praying for the elderly, respecting the ancestors of heaven, and returning to the original. The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations, and it carries rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development.

2. Tomb-Sweeping Day

Tomb-Sweeping Day, which originated from the ancestral belief and the custom of worshipping spring in ancient times, has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is not only a natural solar term in the lunar calendar, but also a traditional festival. During my stay in Tomb-Sweeping Day, the main folk activities are grave-sweeping, ancestor worship and outing, which are two major themes of Tomb-Sweeping Day etiquette and customs handed down from ancient times to the present.

3. Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival, also called Duanyang Festival, is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. Dragon Boat Festival is closely related to heavenly stems and earthly branches, a traditional chronology in China. The original meaning of "Duan" of Dragon Boat Festival is "Zheng" and "Wu" is "Zhong". Dragon Boat Festival, "Zhongzheng" is also right, and noon on this day is right in the middle. Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of astronomical phenomena and evolved from the ancient dragon totem sacrifice.

4. Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival, also called Moon Festival, Moon Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon Worship Festival, Reunion Festival, etc. It is a traditional folk festival in China, which originated from the ancient autumn custom in Yue Bai. Since ancient times, there have been Yue Bai, moon cakes, lanterns, osmanthus and osmanthus wine. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated in ancient times, popularized in Han Dynasty, shaped in early Tang Dynasty, and prevailed in the whole country after Song Dynasty.

Chinese traditional festivals

Spring Festival (the first day of the first lunar month), Lantern Festival (the fifteenth day of the first lunar month), Dragon Head Rise (the second day of the second lunar month), Social Day Festival (the second day of the second lunar month), Shangsi Festival (the third day of the third lunar month), Cold Food Festival (to the future 105 or 106) and Tomb-Sweeping Day (around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar).

China Valentine's Day (seventh day of the seventh lunar month), Mid-Autumn Festival (fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month), Mid-Autumn Festival (fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month), Double Ninth Festival (ninth day of the ninth lunar month), Xiayuan Festival (fifteenth day of the tenth lunar month), Winter solstice Festival (Gregorian calendar 65438+ February 2 1-23) and Laba Festival (eighth day of the twelfth lunar month).

Baidu Encyclopedia-Spring Festival