What are the traditional Chinese festivals?

Traditional Chinese folklore and symbols are:

1, the spring festival of agriculture

The spring festival in the first month of January to the first month of January 15, this is the ancient tradition of sacrifice to the farmers festival, this festival is actually the real spring, the spring festival of agriculture, meaning that next year's wind and rain, the five cereal harvests. Folk also have the custom of wearing a "spring chicken" to children in the spring, implying a good harvest, strong growth and good luck.

2, Dragon Boat Race

May 5 of the lunar calendar is the annual Dragon Boat Festival, very lively, usually the folk will organize their own Dragon Boat Race, eat rice dumplings, drink xionghuang wine, hanging wormwood in the court.

"Dragon boat racing" is in the Warring States period on the custom, about the race of the dragon boat legend has a variety of, but figure a good luck, try to up the moral has not changed.

3, Mid-Autumn Moon Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival since ancient times, there is a moon festival, moon, moon worship, eating moon cakes, osmanthus flowers, drinking osmanthus wine, and other customs, passed down to the present day, and enduring.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is a colorful and precious cultural heritage, with the fullness of the moon signifying the reunion of people, and the hope of missing their hometowns and relatives, and praying for a good harvest and happiness.

4, Chongyang ascend

The Chongyang Festival has the custom of ascending to the heights, the golden September, high and cool, this season can be achieved by ascending to the heights, fitness to eliminate the purpose of the disease. And the high and high associated with the custom of eating Chongyang cake.

High and cake resonance, as a holiday food, the earliest is to celebrate the harvest of autumn grain, happy to taste the new grain intention, and later folk have climbed high to eat cake, to take step by step the meaning of good luck.

5, Lapa porridge

China's ancient days, the king of the country in the Lapa Festival to carry out the Lapa Festival, sacrifices to the eight grain star god, celebrating the harvest; praying for the next year, the wind and rain.

The folk will be sacrificed to heaven and earth, ancestors, gods, thankful for the year's blessings, and pray for the next year to continue to give grace. Lapa congee", also known as "Fukushou congee", has the meaning of increasing happiness and longevity.