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What are the traditional festivals of Han nationality in China?

Traditional festivals of Han nationality

There are many festivals of Han nationality in China, including La Worship, offering sacrifices to stoves, Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, social day, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Double Ninth Festival. Among festivals, the Spring Festival is the grandest. Spring Festival, also known as Chinese New Year, is the most important traditional festival of Han people in China for thousands of years, and it is also the most solemn and lively festival in a year.

China Han people generally eat rice cakes, jiaozi, Ciba, glutinous rice balls, poached eggs, meatballs, whole fish, wine, oranges, apples, peanuts, melon seeds, sweets, fragrant tea and dishes during the Spring Festival. Accompanied by many activities, such as dusting, washing bedding, preparing new year's goods, pasting Spring Festival couplets, pasting New Year's pictures, pasting paper-cuts, stick grilles, pasting blessings, lighting candles, lighting fires, setting off firecrackers, celebrating the New Year, giving lucky money, visiting relatives, sending new year's goods, visiting ancestral graves, visiting flower markets, lighting community fires, dancing Zhong Kui and so on, it is extremely enjoyable.

What are the traditional festivals of Han nationality in China?

1, the first day of the first month: Spring Festival. In ancient times, there were more than 30 names such as Yuanri, New Year's Day, Jacky, Chen Yuan, Yuanshuo, Sanyuan, Sancheng, Zheng Dan and Zhengshuo.

2. The fifth day of the first month: Shen Lu's birthday.

3. The 15th day of the first month: Shangyuan Festival (Lantern Festival).

4. The second day of February: Spring Dragon Festival, also known as Dragon Head Up and Qinglong Festival.

May and February 15: Flower Festival.

6. The day before Tomb-Sweeping Day: Cold Food Festival

7. The third day of March: On Shangsi Festival, the legendary Queen Mother held a flat peach party.

8. Day15th after the vernal equinox: Tomb-Sweeping Day (now April 5th in Gregorian calendar).

9. the eighth day of April: Buddha's birthday, also known as the festival of the ox. After this day, the cows will go to the fields.

10, fifth day of May: Dragon Boat Festival.

1 1, summer solstice festival

12, June 6: Sunbathing Festival, June 6, sunbathing in red and green. "Auntie's Day", June 6, is another festival in ancient times, called Tiangong Festival, and June 6 is also a festival of Buddhist temples, called Fan Jing Festival.

13, July 7th: It's called Qixi, and July 7th is beggar's day.

14, July 15: Zhongyuan Festival, also known as Ghost Festival and Arahara Festival.

15, July 30th: Dizang Festival.

16, August 15: Mid-Autumn Festival.

17, September 9th: Double Ninth Festival.

18, the first day of October: October dynasty, also known as ancestor worship festival.

19, 10 month 15 day: next yuan festival.

20. 1 1 22nd of the month: the solstice in winter.

2 1,1February 8: Laba Festival.

22. Twenty-third day of the twelfth lunar month: Festival of offering sacrifices to stoves, commonly known as Festival of Small Years, also known as Festival of Small Years, Small Years and Small Years.

23. The last day of the twelfth lunar month: In addition to the daytime, the night of this day is called New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, Big Festival Night, Great Fatigue, etc. People call it New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve.

General situation of Han nationality

Han nationality is the main ethnic group in China. Han population 122593264 1, accounting for 9 1.5 1% of the total population in China (2010, excluding the data of Hong Kong, Macao Special Administrative Region and Taiwan Province Province), accounting for 91of the total population in China. The ancestors of the Han nationality generally lived in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River from Longshan in the west to Taishan in the east. After 2 1 century BC, Xia, Shang and Western Zhou dynasties appeared in the Central Plains. Although they all think that the Yellow Emperor is their ancestor, they actually come from different tribal groups. After a long period of approach, communication, struggle and integration, they formed a * * * kin. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, there were clan names such as Huaxia, Xia or Huaxia, which were different from Manchu, Yi, Rong and Di. In the Warring States period, Qin, Chu, Qi, Yan, Han, Zhao and Wei were called Zhu Xia. After the merger and war, the unification trend of summer was formed. The Rong, Di, Yi and Man who entered the Central Plains also merged with Huaxia, and Huaxia became a stable nation. Its distribution area has reached the middle and lower reaches of Liaohe River in Northeast China, Taohe River Basin in Northwest China, Bashu in Southwest China, Central Guizhou, Southeast Hunan and wuyue. Before 22 1, Qin annexed six countries, unified the Xia Dynasty, and established the first unified centralized feudal country in China history. The Han nationality took pre-Qin Huaxia as the core, and formed a unified nation in Qin and Han Dynasties.