China Festival List

There are only sixteen traditional festivals and twenty-four solar terms in China:

The traditional festivals in China are Spring Festival (the first day of the first lunar month) and Lantern Festival (the fifteenth day of the first lunar month). Dragon heads up, social day festival (the second day of the second lunar month); Shangsi Festival (the third day of the third lunar month); Cold food festival (from winter to the future 105 or 106 days); Tomb-Sweeping Day (around April 5th of Gregorian calendar); Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month); Valentine's Day in China (the seventh day of the seventh lunar month).

Mid-Autumn Festival (the 15th day of the seventh lunar month); Mid-Autumn Festival (August 15th of the lunar calendar); Double Ninth Festival (the ninth day of the ninth lunar month); Next Yuan Festival (October 15th of the lunar calendar); Winter solstice festival (Gregorian calendar 65438+February 21~ 23); Laba Festival (the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month); Off-year (23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month); New Year's Eve (the 29th or 30th day of the twelfth lunar month).

The 24 solar terms are: beginning of spring, Rain, Sting, Equinox, Qingming, Grain Rain, Changxia, Xiaoman, Mangzhong, Summer Solstice, Xiaoxia, Daxia, beginning of autumn, Early Summer, Bailu, Autumnal Equinox, Cold Dew, Early Frost, beginning of winter, Light Snow, Heavy Snow, Winter Solstice, Slight Cold.

The significance of traditional festivals

The emergence of traditional festivals reflects the Chinese nation's understanding and respect for nature, its awe and love for life, and its inheritance and protection of history and culture! The Chinese nation expresses its values and thoughts, morality and ethics, behavior and norms, aesthetics and interest in festivals through various forms.

China traditional festivals condense the national spirit and feelings of the Chinese nation, bear the cultural blood and ideological essence of the Chinese nation, and are an important spiritual link to safeguard national unity, national unity and social harmony.