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Time: the first day of the first lunar month.

Origin: The origin of ancient traditional festivals is related to ancient primitive beliefs, sacrificial culture, astronomical phenomena, calendars and other humanistic and natural cultural contents.

Custom: During the Spring Festival, it is everywhere, such as posting New Year greetings, observing the old age, having a reunion dinner, and paying New Year greetings. However, due to different local customs, the nuances have their own characteristics. The folk customs of the Spring Festival are diverse and rich in content, which is a concentrated display of the essence of China people's life and culture.

2. Lantern Festival

Time: the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Origin: The formation of Lantern Festival custom has a long process. According to general data and folklore, the fifteenth day of the first month was paid attention to in the Western Han Dynasty. The activity of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to worship Taiyi in Ganquan Palace on the "Xin Night" in the first month was regarded by later generations as the first time to worship God on the fifteenth day of the first month.

Custom: As far as the length of festivals is concerned, there is only one day in Han Dynasty, three days in Tang Dynasty and five days in Song Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, lights were lit from the eighth day until the seventeenth night of the first month. This is the longest Lantern Festival in the history of China. Connected with the Spring Festival, the day is the city. Very lively and spectacular.

Especially the exquisite and colorful lights make it the climax of entertainment activities during the Spring Festival. In the Qing Dynasty, there were more "hundred operas" such as dragon dancing, lion dancing, dry boating, walking on stilts and yangko dancing, but the festival period was shortened to four to five days.

3. Tomb-Sweeping Day

Time: April 5, Gregorian calendar.

Origin: Tomb-Sweeping Day has a long history, which originated from ancient ancestral beliefs and spring sacrifices.

Custom: Tomb-Sweeping Day has incorporated the custom of forbidding fire and cold food in the Cold Food Festival in its historical development. According to legend, the Cold Food Festival was established in the Spring and Autumn Period to commemorate the Jiexiu, a loyal minister of the State of Jin. In folklore, the Cold Food Festival is related to Jie tui.

Historical origin-formation

The origin, inheritance and development of ancient traditional festivals are the "cultural process of gradual formation and perfection" of human society and the product of the evolution and development of human civilization. According to the research results of modern anthropology and archaeology, the two most primitive beliefs of human beings are the belief in heaven and earth and the belief in ancestors. The belief in heaven and earth and ancestors originated from the worship of nature and ancestors in the early days of mankind, which led to various worship and sacrifice activities.

Sacrifice is a belief activity, which stems from the belief in the harmony between heaven and earth. Ancient festivals are folk cultures created by people based on primitive beliefs to meet the needs of life. Some festivals and customs in ancient times clearly recorded the rich and colorful social life of the ancients and accumulated profound historical and cultural connotations of China.

In the ancient farming society, people lived and worked in peace and contentment. They chose a day to worship the gods and ancestors, and they had various regular festivals. Abundant offerings to gods and ancestors developed into festival feasts, and gradually formed some established ways of celebration, that is, the so-called festival folk customs.

The early festival culture embodies the ancient people's humanistic spirit of advocating nature, the unity of man and nature, cautiously pursuing the future, and firmly thinking about the source; A series of sacrificial activities contain profound cultural connotations, such as respecting morality, ritual and music civilization, etc. The traditional festivals of the Chinese nation are diverse in form and rich in content. They are an important part of the long history and culture of the Chinese nation and the basic framework of a civilized country.

Refer to the above? Baidu Encyclopedia-the origin of traditional festivals in China; Baidu Encyclopedia-China Traditional Festival