Ancient festivals

The traditional festivals in ancient China include: Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Head Rise or Social Day Festival, Shangsi Festival, Cold Food Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese Valentine's Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Xiayuan Festival, Winter Solstice Festival, Laba Festival, New Year's Eve and so on. The traditional festivals in ancient China are diverse in form and rich in content, and their formation is a process of long-term accumulation and cohesion of national or national history and culture.

Ancient festivals

Before the Han Dynasty, the Spring Festival was the beginning of spring in the Ganzhi calendar, and later it evolved into the first day of the first lunar month. In a narrow sense, the Spring Festival today is the first day of the first lunar month, and in a broad sense, it is from the first day to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

The Mid-Autumn Festival originated in ancient times, shaped in the early Tang Dynasty and prevailed in the Song Dynasty. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Mid-Autumn Festival had become one of the major folk festivals in China, just like the New Year.