What are the major Buddhist festivals?

Buddhism has many festivals, there are two important festivals of Buddhism in China's Han area:

One is the Buddha's Birthday on the eighth day of the fourth month, also known as the festival of the bathing Buddha. On this day, the monastery to hold a "bathing ceremony", the monks to incense, lamps and candles, tea, fruits, treasures to feed the statue of Buddha, and with a variety of famous incense dipped in water to wash the birth of Sakyamuni statue, as a commemoration of the birth of Sakyamuni Buddha.

The second is the Bon Festival on July 15, also known as the Festival of the Middle Ages, folk customs known as the Ghost Festival. "Bon" is the translation of Sanskrit, meaning "to save the upside down". According to Buddhist scriptures, Shakyamuni's disciple Megane saw his dead mother suffering in hell, like being hanged upside down, so he went to ask Buddha to save him. Shakyamuni asked him to prepare a hundred flavors of food and drink on the fifteenth day of the seventh month and make offerings to the monks in ten directions, so that his mother could be relieved. Later, on this day, many kinds of Buddhist activities were held in the monasteries, which were used to recommend all generations of ancestors.

Buddhist festivals:

First day of the first month Maitreya Bodhisattva's Christmas

Eighth day of the first month of February Siddhartha Gautama Buddha's birth

Fifteenth day of the fifth month Siddhartha Gautama Buddha's nirvana

Nineteenth day of the nineteenth month of February Goddess of Mercy's Christmas

The twenty-first day of the twenty-first month of February Pratyekabuddha Bodhisattva's Christmas

April 4, Manjushri's Christmas

April 8, Sakyamuni Buddha's Christmas

June 3, Vaisravana's Christmas

June 19, Goddess of Mercy's Enlightenment

July 13, Mahasthamapravartanavatara's Christmas

July 24, Dragon Tree Bodhisattva's Christmas

September 30, Medicine Buddha's Christmas

November 17th: Amitabha's Christmas

December 8th: Sakyamuni Buddha's Enlightenment