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What are the traditional Chinese festivals, seek the date is the lunar calendar, and have a poem

1. New Year's Eve - the 30th day of the 12th month of the lunar calendar (February 2, Gregorian calendar). People often stay up all night on New Year's Eve, which is called the "New Year's Watch". On New Year's Eve, people not only clean their homes, but also put up door gods, spring couplets, New Year's paintings, and door cages, and change into new clothes with festive colors and patterns.

Poems describing New Year's Eve include:

New Year's Eve

Song Wen Tianxiang

The sky and the earth are empty, and the years have gone by;

The end of the road is full of wind and rain, and the poor side is full of snow and frost.

The life with the years want to end, the body and the world are all forgotten;

No more tusu dream, picking lamps the night is not yet over.

2. Spring Festival - the first day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar (February 3, Gregorian calendar). Chinese New Year customs, generally to eat rice cakes, dumplings, dumplings, meatballs, whole fish, wine, apples, peanuts, melon seeds, candy, tea and dishes; and accompanied by dusting, washing bedding, preparing New Year's goods, posting Spring Festival couplets, posting New Year's paintings (Zhong Kui, the God of the Door), dumplings and sticking paper cuttings, sticking window decorations, posting the word "blessed", pointing candles, light a fire, firecrackers, to the New Year's Eve, to pay homage to the new year, to visit relatives, to send New Year's gifts, on the graves of the ancestors, shopping in the flower market, haunted The festival is characterized by many activities, such as the flower market, social fires, etc., which are extremely enjoyable.

Poems describing the Spring Festival include:

On the first day of the New Year, Wang Anshi (王安石)

Blazing firecrackers in the sound of the year, the spring breeze sends warmth into the TuSu,

A thousand doors and ten thousand households telsel day, the new peaches are always replaced by the old symbols.

3. Lantern Festival - the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar (February 17, Gregorian calendar). The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called it "night", and the fifteenth day is the first full moon night of the year, so the first fifteenth of the month for the Lantern Festival. It is also known as the Small New Year's Day, the Lantern Festival, or the Lantern Festival, and is the first important festival after the Spring Festival. China is a vast country with a long history, so the customs about the Lantern Festival are not the same in all parts of the country, among which eating Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Dance, Lion Dance and so on are several important folk customs of the Lantern Festival.

The poems describing the Lantern Festival include:

The Lantern Festival was celebrated last year on the night of the first lunar month, when the lanterns in the flower market were like daytime.

The moon reaches the top of the willow, and people meet after dusk.

This year on New Year's Eve, the moon and the lights are still the same.

Not seeing last year's people, tears wet spring shirt sleeves.

4. Qingming Festival - the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar (April 5, Gregorian calendar). The customs of Qingming Festival are rich and interesting, in addition to the preaching of banning fire and sweeping tombs, there are also a series of customs and sports activities, such as trekking, swinging, kicking Cuju, playing polo, and planting willows.

The poems describing the Qingming Festival include:

Tang Du Mu (唐杜牧)

清明时节雨纷纷,路上行人欲断魂.

The shepherd boy pointed to the apricot blossom village.

5. Dragon Boat Festival - the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar (June 6, Gregorian calendar). The activities on this day are now gradually evolving into eating zongzi, racing dragon boats, hanging calamus, artemisia, moxa, fumigating cangzhu and dahurica, drinking xionghuang wine, tying Baisuozi, making jiangjiaozi, sticking five poisons, sticking talismans, releasing the yellow smoke, and eating twelve reds.

The poems describing the Dragon Boat Festival are:

Duanwu Tang Wenxiu

The festival is divided into the Dragon Boat Festival since who said that the rumors of ancient times for the Qu Yuan;

Kan laugh at the empty Chu River, can't be washed to straighten the wrongs of the ministers.

6. Tanabata Festival - the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar (August 6, Gregorian calendar). Tanabata Festival is one of the most romantic of China's traditional festivals, and also the most important day for girls in the past. On the evening of this day, women threaded needles and begged for coquettishness, prayed for blessings and longevity activities, worshipped the seven sisters, the ceremony was pious and grand, displaying flowers and fruits, women's red, and all kinds of furniture and utensils were beautifully small and delightful.

The poems describing the Tanabata Festival include:

The Tanabata Festival is celebrated in the Tang Dynasty

Luoyinluo

Horns of the starry river Nymphaea and the sky of the Nymphaea, and the family laughs and sets up a feast in red.

It is time to pour out Xie's pearls, and to write Tanlang's embroidery.

The fragrant tents are clustered in a row, and the golden needles are threaded to pay homage to Cindy.

The copper kettle will tell us that the day will dawn, and we will be disappointed for another year of good times.

7. Mid-Autumn Festival - the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar (September 12, Gregorian calendar). The Mid-Autumn Moon Festival is a very ancient custom in China. The custom of enjoying the moon originated from the moon sacrifice, and the serious sacrifice turned into a light-hearted entertainment. "Folk worshiping the moon" becomes a way for people to long for reunion, happiness and well-being, and to send their love to the moon. A large incense burner is set up, and moon cakes, watermelons, apples, jujubes, plums, grapes and other offerings are placed on the table, of which moon cakes and watermelons are absolutely indispensable.

The poems describing the Mid-Autumn Festival are: Mid-Autumn Moon Song Su Shi

The twilight clouds are overflowing with cold, and the silver man is turning the jade disk without sound.

This night is not long good, where to see the bright moon next year.

8. Chung Yeung Festival - the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar (October 5, Gregorian calendar). Chrysanthemum Festival has the custom of ascending the heights, the golden autumn in September, the sky is high and cool, this season can be achieved by ascending the heights of the far-away look at the heart, fitness to get rid of the purpose of the disease. And climb high associated with the chrysanthemum poetry, dogwood, eat Chongyang cake and other customs.

Poetry describing the Chrysanthemum Festival includes:

September 9, remembering the Shandong brothers

Tang Wang Wei

Alone in a foreign land for a foreign guest, every festival doubly homesick,

Remote to know that the brothers climbed up high, inserted Cornus officinalis less than a person.