What are the traditional festivals in China?

), Chongyang Festival (Lunar: September 9), Cold Clothes Festival (Lunar: the first day of October) Lunar Festival (Lunar: the eighth day of the month of Lunar), Lunar New Year (Lunar month 23 ~ ~ Lunar month 24) and so on.

1, New Year's Eve (the last day of the Lunar New Year)

Because it is often on the 29th or 30th day of the Lunar New Year in the summer calendar, it is also known as the Day of the New Year's Eve, which is one of the most important traditional festivals in China. It is one of the most important traditional festivals in China. Families are busy or cleaning their homes to welcome their ancestors home for the New Year, and offer sacrifices of rice cakes and three animals.

2, Spring Festival (the first day of the first month)

Commonly known as the "New Year's Day", the traditional name for the new year, the big year, the day of wax, the new year, orally also known as the year of the year, the celebration of the new year, New Year's. The Chinese people have been celebrating the Spring Festival for at least 4000 years, and it is one of the most important traditional festivals. Chinese people have been celebrating the Spring Festival for at least 4,000 years of history. In folklore, the Spring Festival in the old traditional sense refers to the Lunar New Year from the Lunar New Year's Lunar Festival or Lunar New Year's 23rd or 24th sacrificial stove, until the 19th day of the first month. In modern times, people set the Spring Festival on the first day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar, but the New Year generally does not end until at least the fifteenth day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar (Shangyuan Festival).

3, Lantern Festival (first month 15)

Also known as the Shangyuan Festival, the small first month, Yuanxi or Lantern Festival, for the first month of the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year, is the last important festival in the Chinese Spring Festival annual custom. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called the "night" "night", so the first full-moon night of the year on the fifteenth day of the first month is called the Lantern Festival.

The Lantern Festival customs since ancient times to warm and festive customs of the lantern. Traditional customs go out to enjoy the moon, burning lanterns and fireworks, happy to guess the riddles, *** eating Lantern, pulling rabbit lamps and so on. In addition, the Lantern Festival in many places has increased the dragon lanterns, lions, stilt walkers, rowing dry boat, twisting rice-planting songs, playing drums and other traditional folk performances.

4, Cold Food Festival (the day before the Qingming Festival)

In the summer calendar, 105 days after the winter solstice, one or two days before the Qingming Festival. Is the day of the first for the festival, the ban on fireworks, only eat cold food. And in the development of later generations gradually increased the cleaning, trekking, swing, cuju, pulling hooks, cockfighting and other customs, cold food festival before and after the extension of more than 2,000 years, was once known as the first Chinese folk festival day. The Cold Food Festival is the only one of the traditional Chinese festivals to be named after a food custom.

5, Qingming Festival (solar calendar: around April 5)

Also known as the Treading Green Festival, it is celebrated at the intersection of mid-spring and late spring. Qingming Festival is a traditional Chinese festival and one of the most important sacrificial festivals, a day for sweeping tombs and offering sacrifices to ancestors. The traditional Qingming Festival of the Chinese nation began around the Zhou Dynasty, which is more than 2,500 years old. Through the development and evolution of history, Qingming has an extremely rich connotation, and different customs have been developed in various places, while sweeping tombs and sacrificing ancestors, trekking and picnicking are the basic themes.

6, Dragon Boat Festival (Lunar Calendar: the fifth day of May)

According to the "Jing Chu chronicle" records, because of the mid-summer ascent, Shunyang on the May is the mid-summer, it is the first day of the first day of the afternoon is the day of the good weather ascent Shunyang, so the first five days of May is also known as the "Festival of the Duan Yang"; in addition to the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Day Festival, Wu Day Festival.

The Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Day Festival, Noon Festival, May Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Bathing Orchid Festival, Tianzhong Festival and so on.

Duanwu customs are mainly food dumplings and dragon boat racing. The custom of eating rice dumplings, for thousands of years in China prevails; dragon boat race in southern China along the coast is very popular, spread abroad by the people of all countries and formed an international competition.

7, Mid-Autumn Festival (Lunar Calendar: August 15)

The Mid-Autumn Festival began in the early Tang Dynasty, flourished in the Song Dynasty, to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, has become one of the Chinese traditional festivals along with the Spring Festival. Influenced by Chinese culture, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also a traditional festival in some East and Southeast Asian countries, especially for the local Chinese diaspora. Since 2008, the Mid-Autumn Festival has been listed as a national holiday, and on May 20, 2006, the State Council included it in the list of the first batch of national intangible cultural heritages.

The Mid-Autumn Festival has been practiced since ancient times, with customs such as sacrificing to the moon, enjoying the moon, worshipping the moon, eating mooncakes, enjoying osmanthus flowers, and drinking osmanthus wine, which have been passed down to the present day and continue unabated. The Mid-Autumn Festival has become a colorful and precious cultural heritage, with the fullness of the moon signifying the reunion of people, in order to express the feelings of nostalgia for the hometown and relatives, and to pray for a good harvest and happiness. The Mid-Autumn Festival, together with the Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival and Ching Ming Festival, are known as the four major traditional festivals in China.

Reference:

Baidu Encyclopedia_Traditional Chinese Festivals