All Chinese festivals in English

Sorted by date as follows:

1. New Year's Day (January 1): New Year's Day

2. Spring Festival (Lunar New Year's Day, New Year's Eve): Spring Festival

3. Lantern Festival (the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar year): Lantern Festival

4. Ching Ming Festival (the same day as Ching Ming on the lunar calendar): Tomb Sweeping? Day): Tomb Sweeping?Day

5, Dragon Boat Festival (Lunar Dragon Boat Day): The Dragon Boat Festival

6, Mid-Autumn Festival (Lunar Mid-Autumn Day): Mid-Autumn Festival

7, Chung Yeung Festival (Lunar September 9th): Double Ninth Strong>Extended information:

1, Spring Festival Introduction

Spring Festival, the first day of the first month of the Chinese lunar calendar, also known as the year of the lunar calendar, commonly known as the "New Year! ". It is one of the grandest and most lively traditional festivals in China's folklore. The Spring Festival has a long history, the Spring Festival origin on the synthesis of primitive beliefs, calendars and other human and natural cultural factors, as well as the remains of later festivals and customs to see, by the ancient times of the first of the year sacrificial activities evolved.

2, Qingming Festival Introduction

Qingming Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, but also one of the most important festival, is the day of sweeping the tomb and ancestor worship, Qingming Festival originated from the ancient spring festival activities. The Qingming Festival provides important conditions for the formation of Qingming festival customs in terms of time and meteorological and physical characteristics, and the festival is regarded as one of the sources of the Qingming Festival.

The Qingming Festival, also known as the Treading Green Festival, according to the solar calendar, it is between April 4 and 6 every year, which is the time of spring when the grass and trees spit out green, and it is also a good time for people to go on spring excursions [called trekking green in ancient times]. The name of Qingming Festival is related to the characteristics of the weather at this time. The Western Han Dynasty's "Huainanzi - Tianwenxun" said: "Fifteen days after the spring equinox, the bucket refers to B, then the wind of Qingming to."

3, the Dragon Boat Festival

Duanwu Festival is the oldest traditional festival of the Chinese nation, evolved from the ancient Yue people in the month of Wuzhi Wuzhi (Dry Calendar) held a dragon totem sacrifice. According to scholars Mr. Wen Yiduo's "Dragon Boat Festival Examination" and "Dragon Boat Festival of the history of education" listed in more than a hundred ancient records and expert archaeological evidence, the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, is the ancient south of ancient China, the ancient Yue people held a totem sacrifice of the festival, earlier than Qu Yuan.

The Dragon Boat Festival is not a festival established to honor Qu Yuan, but some of the customs that followed the festival were influenced by Qu Yuan. During the Tianbao years of the Tang Dynasty, to strengthen social control, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty ordered that the shrines and temples be added to the rituals, and Qu Yuan was named Marquis of Zhaoling, formally enjoying the official fireworks, once a year in the spring and once in the fall. Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the time of the official sacrifice of Qu Yuan was located in the Dragon Boat Festival, the Song Dynasty, Qu Yuan was named Marquis of Zhongjie, to the Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, the Oracle, "the year of May 5," to the sacrifice of Qu Yuan.

Under the constant encouragement of the imperial power, Qu Yuan's influence gradually overpowered Wu Zixu, Cao E, etc., and became the representative of the Dragon Boat Festival, and before all kinds of folklore, naturally, they are associated with Qu Yuan.

4, the Mid-Autumn Festival

The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena, harvest moon festival activities. The interpretation of the word "Autumn" is: "Crops are ripe in the fall". In August, mid-autumn, crops and various fruits are ripening one after another, in order to celebrate the harvest and express the joy, the day of "Mid-Autumn Festival" as a festival.

According to legend, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the vast majority of people in order to overthrow the brutal Yuan Dynasty, the date of the riot was written on a note, put in the mooncake filling, in order to pass each other in secret, and called for an uprising on August 15th. Finally, a nationwide peasant uprising broke out on that day, overthrowing the corrupt Yuan Dynasty. Since then, the custom of eating mooncakes at mid-autumn has spread even more widely.

5, National Day Introduction

Chinese people **** and the National Day is also known as eleven, National Day, National Day, China National Day, National Day Golden Week. The Central People's Government declared that since 1950, October 1 of each year, as the Chinese People's *** and the State proclaimed the establishment of the day, that is, the National Day. It is a symbol of the country that came into being with the founding of the new China and became especially important. It became a symbol of an independent country, reflecting our national and political system.

The National Day is a new, universal form of holiday that carries the function of reflecting the cohesion of our country and nation. At the same time the large-scale celebrations on the National Day is a concrete manifestation of the government's mobilization and appeal. With a show of national strength, enhance national confidence, reflect the cohesion, play the call is the three basic characteristics of the National Day celebrations.

Baidu Encyclopedia - Traditional Chinese Festivals