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English for major festivals

1, Spring Festival: Spring Festival.

2. Lantern Festival: Lantern Festival.

Tomb-Sweeping Day: Tomb-Sweeping Day.

4. Dragon Boat Festival: Dragon Boat Festival.

5. Mid-Autumn Festival: Mid-Autumn Festival.

6. Double Ninth Festival.

1. Spring Festival: Spring Festival, that is, Chinese New Year in China, commonly known as Spring Festival, Chinese New Year and Chinese New Year, also known as Chinese New Year and Chinese New Year. It is a folk festival that integrates the old and the new, worships ancestors, prays for evil spirits, reunites with relatives and friends, celebrates entertainment and food.

2. Lantern Festival: Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival, falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month every year.

The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called "night". The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night in a year, so it is called "Lantern Festival". According to the Taoist "Sanyuan Festival", the fifteenth day of the first month is also called "Shangyuan Festival". Since ancient times, the custom of Lantern Festival has been based on the warm and festive custom of watching lanterns.

3. Tomb-Sweeping Day: Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as Walking Festival, Walking Festival, March Festival, ancestor worship festival, etc. It was celebrated at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day, which originated from the ancestor belief of early human beings, is the biggest ancestor worship festival of the Chinese nation. Tomb-Sweeping Day has two connotations of nature and humanity, which are both natural solar terms and traditional festivals. Grave-sweeping and hiking are two major themes of Tomb-Sweeping Day's customs and habits, which have been circulating in China since ancient times and have never stopped.

4. Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Zhongyuan Festival and Tianzhong Festival. Every year on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. It is a folk festival that combines offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, praying for evil spirits, celebrating entertainment and eating. The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of natural phenomena and evolved from the ancient Dragon Boat Festival. On the midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, the Black Dragon spent seven nights in Nanzhong, which is the most "positive" position in the whole year, just like the fifth poem in the Book of Changes: "The flying dragon is in the sky". Dragon Boat Festival is an auspicious day when dragons fly in the sky. Dragon and dragon boat culture have been running through the inheritance history of Dragon Boat Festival.

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival, Moonlight Birthday, Moon Festival, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon Festival, Moon Festival and Reunion Festival, is a traditional folk festival in China. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena and evolved from the worship of the autumn moon in ancient times. Since ancient times, Mid-Autumn Festival has had folk customs such as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes, watching lanterns, enjoying osmanthus and drinking osmanthus wine. It has been circulating for a long time.

6. Double Ninth Festival: Double Ninth Festival is a traditional folk festival in China, which falls on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month every year. The number of "Nine" is a positive number in the Book of Changes, and the two positive numbers of "Nine Nine" are heavy, so it is called "Chongyang"; It is also called "Double Ninth Festival", because both the date and the month conform to nine. Returning to the truth of 1999, the ancients thought that 1999 Chongyang was an auspicious day. In ancient times, there were customs such as climbing to pray for blessings, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, and drinking and praying for blessings. Inherited to this day, it has increased the connotation of respecting the elderly. Climbing mountains and enjoying autumn and giving thanks and respecting the elderly are two important themes of today's Double Ninth Festival.