What are the six traditional festivals in China?

Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, China Valentine's Day, Mid-Autumn Festival and Double Ninth Festival.

China Valentine's Day, which originated from the love story of Cowherd and Weaver Girl, has a history of more than 2,000 years, nearly 300 years earlier than the Western Valentine's Day (February 14) which originated in ancient Rome in 270 AD.

Fan Gengxi, vice chairman of Shijiazhuang Folk Association, said that Chinese Valentine's Day in China was born by the people and grew spontaneously, while Valentine's Day in the west was also born by the people, and it only became a holiday when it was "authorized" by the church and had a certain "official" color.

In addition, different from Western Valentine's Day, China's Tanabata has cultural connotations such as seeking cleverness, beauty, children and years. , including people's prayers and yearning for wisdom, beauty, childbirth and harvest.

Valentine's Day in China originated from a fairy tale, which said that the weaver girl in the sky and the cowherd on the ground fell in love and got married, but was later separated by the Queen Mother. They became an Altair and a Vega, living on both sides of the Tianhe River, and only meet once a year on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month at the Magpie Bridge on the Tianhe River.

It is understood that in June last year, Tanabata was listed as one of the six traditional festivals in China along with the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Double Ninth Festival, and was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists.