What are the four traditional festivals in China?

The four traditional festivals in China refer to the Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival in China.

The formation of traditional festivals is a process in which the history and culture of a country or nation have accumulated for a long time and become a celebration with profound emotional connotation. The rich folk customs and celebrations of traditional festivals condense the stable psychology, emotion and hope of this country or nation. It is a cultural phenomenon, a cultural symbol, and the recognition and transformation of national cultural feelings.

The traditional festivals in China contain the essence of China traditional culture. Traditional national festivals include Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, which are full of profound cultural connotations.

The origin of the four major festivals

1, Spring Festival

Spring Festival, also known as "New Year" and "China New Year", is the most solemn and lively festival among the traditional festivals in China. 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. The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations, and it carries rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development.

2. Tomb-Sweeping Day

Tomb-Sweeping Day, which originated from the ancestral belief and the custom of worshipping spring in ancient times, has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is not only a natural solar term in the lunar calendar, but also a traditional festival. During my stay in Tomb-Sweeping Day, the main folk activities are grave-sweeping, ancestor worship and outing, which are two major themes of Tomb-Sweeping Day etiquette and customs handed down from ancient times to the present.

3. Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival, also called Duanyang Festival, is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. Dragon Boat Festival is closely related to heavenly stems and earthly branches, a traditional chronology in China. The original meaning of "Duan" of Dragon Boat Festival is "Zheng" and "Wu" is "Zhong". Dragon Boat Festival, "Zhongzheng" is also right, and noon on this day is right in the middle.

Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of astronomical phenomena and evolved from the ancient dragon totem sacrifice. A large number of cultural relics and archaeological studies unearthed in modern times show that ancient ancestors used dragons as totems. The ancients observed the astronomical phenomena at that time, and the Black Dragon rose to the south of Zhongtian for seven nights, which was the most "middle" position in the whole year, so the Dragon Boat Festival became a festival in dragon festival.

4. Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival, also called Moon Festival, Moon Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon Worship Festival, Reunion Festival, etc. It is a traditional folk festival in China, which originated from the ancient autumn custom in Yue Bai. Since ancient times, there have been Yue Bai, moon cakes, lanterns, osmanthus and osmanthus wine. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated in ancient times, popularized in Han Dynasty, shaped in early Tang Dynasty, and prevailed in the whole country after Song Dynasty.

Refer to the above? Baidu Encyclopedia-Four Traditional Festivals in China