What are the traditional festivals of the Han nationality?

The four traditional festivals of Han nationality in China are Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival.

Spring Festival: It begins on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, passes through New Year's Eve and the Spring Festival, and ends on the 15th of the first month. Main festival activities: sorting out new year's goods, making new clothes, removing dust, hanging New Year pictures, pasting Spring Festival couplets, worshipping ancestors, having a reunion dinner, observing the New Year, setting off firecrackers, eating rice cakes, dancing lions, yangko and playing lanterns.

Tomb-Sweeping Day: In the third month of the lunar calendar, that is, around April 5 of the solar calendar, the main festival activities include sweeping graves, inserting willows, taking an outing, shooting willows, flying kites and swinging.

Dragon Boat Festival: On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, the main activities are dragon boat racing, eating zongzi, hanging Zhong Kui statues, hanging sachets, drinking realgar wine, planting cattails and collecting herbs.

Mid-Autumn Festival: August 15th of the lunar calendar; There are mainly activities such as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes, having a reunion dinner and dancing dragon lanterns.

Cultural characteristics of Han nationality

Since ancient times, the Han people have adopted an inclusive attitude towards various religious beliefs. Fate worship and ancestor worship are the main traditional concepts of Han religion. For thousands of years, Confucianism, which focuses on benevolence and attaches importance to ethical education, has had a far-reaching impact on the Han nationality.

The Han nationality has always been famous for its hard work and creative spirit. In the history of Han nationality, the economy was dominated by agriculture, which was a typical natural economy of men plowing and women weaving. The agricultural production of the Han nationality has been very developed in history, especially for irrigation and intensive cultivation, and the handicraft industry of the Han nationality also has a fairly high level of development.