What are the important traditional festivals in China?

At the beginning of the year, all things are renewed, and the main activities are eating New Year's Eve dinner, making sacrifices, and observing the New Year's Eve, etc. In addition, the first, second, and third days of the first month of the New Year are three days of the Great Year, and sacrifices and offerings are also made. During these three days, no work is usually done except for cooking, and it is taboo to say unlucky words and visit the closest and honored relatives. From the first to the fifteenth day of the Spring Festival, a variety of temple fairs, social fires, and rural theater are also held in various places, making it the most lively and extravagant of the traditional festivals.

Metal Lantern Festival

The 15th day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar is the Lantern Festival, which is also known as the Yuanxi Festival, Shangyuan Festival and Lantern Festival. During the festival, there are customs such as eating lanterns, watching lanterns, playing social fires and guessing lantern riddles. In addition to eating the Lantern Festival, there are also many different food customs around the world. Shaanxi people eat "Lantern Tea", that is, in the noodle soup into a variety of vegetables and fruits made; Henan Luoyang, Lingbao area to eat jujube cake; Yunnan Kunming people eat more bean dough.

February 2

Commonly known as "Dragon Head Raising", also known as the Green Dragon Festival, is a year of agricultural production began to mark. Activities include spreading ashes to attract dragons, smoking insects, picking vegetables, and avoiding needles and threads (to prevent "tying up the dragon's eyes"). Records about the customs of this festival in the Tang Dynasty. As for the February 2 this day to eat and drink, a change during the Spring Festival to eat greasy wind, to move vegetarian.

Ching Ming Festival

Sweeping ancestral graves, trekking in the spring, avoid moving fireworks.

Duanwu Festival

Also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, it is said to commemorate Qu Yuan. Mainly eat rice dumplings, dragon boat racing activities, some places such as Qinghai, there is a tie rope (with five-color silk thread twisted into a thin rope, tied to the wrists of the hands and feet), inserted willows, wearing a bag of incense and other customs, in order to be used to drive away insects and pray for good luck and peace.

Seven Charms Festival

Also known as the Begging for Charms Festival, it is said to be the day when the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden meet at the Magpie Bridge. Folk generally in that night set up offering table, women begging for coincidence, in order to give a good female labor. There are also young men and women talking about love, also known as the Chinese festival of love.

Mid-Autumn Festival

Also known as the Moon Festival, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, August Festival, August will be, chasing the moon festival, playing the moon festival, moon festival, worship festival, the daughter of the festival or reunion festival, the day of the family reunion to enjoy the moon, moon cakes, the original there is a "burning bucket incense", "walk the moon! "burning incense", "walking on the moon", "releasing lanterns", "tree mid-autumn festival", "lighting pagoda lanterns", "fire dragon dance "Tree Mid-Autumn Festival", "Lighting Pagoda Lanterns", "Fire Dragon Dance", "Trailing Stones", "Selling Rabbits", and other festivals and activities. This festival is more emphasized by overseas travelers, and many ethnic minorities also celebrate this festival.

Chrysanthemum Festival

Taking the meaning of nine nine suns. The main activities of the festival are climbing up to a high altitude, enjoying chrysanthemums and drinking wine, etc. It is quite popular among the elderly, so it is also called the "Festival of the Elderly".

October 1

Commonly known as the "Ghost Festival" and the "Cold Clothes Festival", it is also a festival of ancestor worship. As the saying goes, "October 1, send cold clothes", at dusk on this day, every family will go to the grave to pay homage to their ancestors. If you can't go to the grave for some reason or are far away from home, make a circle in the center of the field or at the crossroads and burn paper money.

Winter Solstice

The winter solstice is a very important festival in China's lunar calendar and a traditional festival. The winter solstice is commonly known as the "winter festival", "long solstice festival", "YaYu", etc. In the northern region, there is a winter solstice slaughtering sheep, which is also known as the winter solstice festival. In the north, there is the custom of slaughtering sheep, eating dumplings and wontons on the winter solstice, while in the south, there is the custom of eating winter solstice rice balls and winter solstice long thread noodles on this day. Various regions in the winter solstice on this day there is also the custom of sacrificing to the sky and ancestors.

La Ba Festival

People customarily refer to the twelfth month of the lunar calendar as the Lunar New Year, and refer to the eighth day of the Lunar New Year as the Lunar New Year's Day or Lunar New Year's Day, which is treated as a traditional festival, the Lunar New Year's Day. Many customs related to the Lunar New Year or Lapa are often labeled with the word "Lapa". On this day, Laha congee is eaten in many places, and Laha is actually the beginning of the preparations for the Spring Festival.

Besides that, there are also traditional festivals with different folklore in different parts of the world. Our ancestors have created many folk festivals over thousands of years, including production, life, food culture, etiquette, and simple and magical scientific ideas, leaving us with a valuable spiritual heritage that is worth carrying forward and passing on

These festivals are the first of their kind in China.