Which are the four major festivals in China

The four major festivals in China are the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival.

1, the Spring Festival

The Spring Festival is the traditional Chinese New Year, commonly known as "Nianzhi" (年节), and is traditionally known as the New Year, Nian (新年), or New Year's Day (新岁), but is also known as the Year of the Year (度岁), New Year's Day (新歲) and New Year's Eve (新年) in the oral tradition.

The Chinese people have been celebrating the Spring Festival for more than 4,000 years. In modern times, people set the Spring Festival on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, but the New Year is usually not over until at least the fifteenth day of the first month (Shangyuan Festival). In folklore, the Spring Festival traditionally refers to the festival from the wax festival in the month of Lunar New Year, or the sacrifice of stoves on the 23rd or 24th day of Lunar New Year, all the way up to the 19th day of the first month.

2, Qingming Festival

Qingming Festival, also known as the Treading Green Festival, is celebrated at the intersection of mid-spring and late spring, the 108th day after the winter solstice. It is a traditional Chinese festival and one of the most important festivals for ancestor worship and tomb-sweeping. The traditional Qingming Festival of the Chinese nation began around the Zhou Dynasty, more than 2,500 years ago.

3, Dragon Boat Festival

Duanwu Festival, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. According to the "Jing Chu chronicle" records, because of the mid-summer, Shunyang on the May is the mid-summer, it is the first noon of the day is the first day of Shunyang good weather, so the fifth of May is also known as "DuanYang Festival". In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the "Noon Festival, May Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Bathing Orchid Festival, Poet's Day" and so on.

4, Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, August Festival, August Meeting, Moon Chasing Festival, Moon Festival, Moon Worshipping Festival, Daughter's Festival, or Festival of Reunion, is a traditional cultural festival that is popular among many ethnic groups in China and the countries of the Chinese Cultural Circle, and it is celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival because it falls on the halfway point of the third quarter of the lunar calendar, and in some places, the Mid-Autumn Festival is set on the 16th day of the eighth month. Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has been characterized by the customs of sacrificing to the moon, enjoying the moon, worshipping the moon, eating mooncakes, enjoying osmanthus flowers and drinking osmanthus wine, which have been passed down to the present day and are still going on today.

The significance of the four major festivals:

Traditional Chinese festivals carry the civilization of the Chinese nation, and the profound Chinese civilization has created a colorful festival culture, in the long history of the development of Chinese civilization, traditional festivals have always been closely related to the people's production and life.

Festivals have really become a good time for people to relax and pursue happiness. Traditional festivals are the carrier of a nation's culture and the bond of people's emotional solidarity.

In the endless river of time, it is these festivals for us to leave a frame of our ancestors live a vivid picture. Thick feelings of kinship, romantic love between men and women, profound patriotic feelings, as well as the fear of life, the worship of gods and goddesses, and the pursuit of nature, are not expressed in a festival folklore that has been passed down to us.