There are several traditional festivals in a year

There are eight traditional festivals in a year: 1. Spring Festival: The Spring Festival is the most solemn and distinctive traditional festival among Chinese people, and it is also the most lively ancient festival.

Generally refers to New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month, which is the first day of the year, also called the lunar year, commonly known as "New Year".

2. Lantern Festival: the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Lantern Festival means the first full-moon night of the year, also known as the "Shangyuan Festival".

3. Qingming Festival: Qingming Festival is a traditional festival in my country and the most important sacrificial festival. It is a day for worshiping ancestors and sweeping tombs.

Tomb sweeping, commonly known as visiting graves, is an activity to pay homage to the deceased.

At the same time, Qingming is one of the twenty-four solar terms in our country.

Since the twenty-four solar terms more objectively reflect changes in temperature, rainfall, phenology and other aspects throughout the year, working people in ancient times used them to arrange agricultural activities.

4. Dragon Boat Festival: the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.

5. Qixi Festival: the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, Valentine's Day in ancient China.

It is also called "Qiqiao Festival" or "Girls' Festival".

6. Mid-Autumn Festival: The 15th day of the eighth lunar month every year is the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival.

This is the middle of autumn, so it is called Mid-Autumn Festival.

In the Chinese lunar calendar, a year is divided into four seasons, and each season is divided into three parts: Meng, Zhong and Ji. Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also called Zhongqiu.

The moon on August 15th is rounder and brighter than the full moon in other months, so it is also called "Yuexi" and "August Festival".

This night, when people look up at the bright moon in the sky, they naturally look forward to family reunions.

Wanderers who are far away from home also use this to express their longing for their hometown and relatives.

Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also called the "Reunion Festival".

7. Double Ninth Festival: the ninth day of the ninth lunar month.

It is called the "Climbing Festival", and the customs include traveling to enjoy the scenery, climbing high to overlook, viewing chrysanthemums, planting dogwood everywhere, eating Double Ninth Festival cakes, drinking chrysanthemum wine and other activities.

Now our country has designated the ninth day of September as Respect for the Aged Day.

8. Winter Solstice: The Winter Solstice is a very important solar term in the Chinese lunar calendar and a traditional festival. There are still many places that still have the custom of celebrating the Winter Solstice.

Winter Solstice is commonly known as "Winter Festival", "Long Solstice Festival", "Yasui", etc.