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What are the traditional festivals of Manchu? What are the traditional festivals of Manchu?

1. Manchu has four traditional festivals, namely Golden Festival, Mountain Opening Festival, Spring Festival and New Year Festival. Among them, the Golden Festival is the day when Manchu founded the country, and the Mountain Opening Festival is a blessing activity for Manchu to celebrate the harvest of collecting herbs.

2. Golden Festival: 16 16, Nurhachi unified the ministries of Jurchen and established the post-Jin regime. After his son, Huang Taiji, succeeded to the throne, the imperial edict was issued in the eighth year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty and the ninth year of Tiancong in Jin Dynasty (AD 1635), and the title of Manchu was changed to "Manchuria", which marked that Manchu moved to the center of the historical stage with a new look. October 13th of the lunar calendar is the Manchu festival "Golden Festival" every year.

3. Mountain-breaking Festival: Mountain-breaking Festival is a blessing activity for Manchu people to collect herbs for a bumper harvest after the Mid-Autumn Festival in autumn or in the middle of September in the lunar calendar (the exact time is uncertain).

4. Spring Festival: Spring Festival, that is, China Lunar New Year, commonly known as Spring Festival, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, etc. Also known verbally as Spring Festival and New Year's Eve. 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.

5. Off-year: usually refers to the day of sweeping dust and offering sacrifices to the stove, and is regarded as the beginning of a "busy year". Due to the different customs between the north and the south, the days called "off-year" are not the same. The traditional off-year (dust-sweeping day) is the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month. In most parts of the south, the tradition of the 24th lunar month is still maintained.