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Ask for the dates and names of all festivals!

1, Cold Food Festival

Time: before Tomb-Sweeping Day 1~2 days.

Cold food is a popular festival among the old customs in northern China. In ancient times, dates were not fixed. Some say it was the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day, and some say it was two days before Qingming Festival. Now I live in Dachuan, Tomb-Sweeping Day.

2. Tomb-Sweeping Day

Time: the day when the solar terms of the dry calendar are clear, around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar (Gregorian calendar).

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as outing festival, outing festival, March festival, ancestor worship festival, etc. It was celebrated at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day originated from the ancestral belief and the custom of worshipping spring in ancient times, which has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival.

3. Dragon Boat Festival

Time: Before the Han Dynasty, it was noon in the Ganzhi calendar, and after the Han Dynasty, it evolved into the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.

Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Noon Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhengyang Festival, Magnolia Festival, Tianyi Festival and Tianzhong Festival. It is a festival founded by our ancestors to worship their ancestors and pray for evil spirits.

4. Chinese Valentine's Day

Time: the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.

China Valentine's Day, also known as Qiaoqi Festival, Qijie Festival, Daughter's Day, Qiaoqi Festival, Qixi Festival, Qiaoxi Festival, Niuniupo Day, Shuangqi Festival, etc. It is a traditional folk festival in China, which is the birthday of Qi Jie in the traditional sense. Because the sacrificial ceremony was held on the seventh day of July, it was named Tanabata.

5. Mid-Autumn Festival

Time: the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month.

Mid-Autumn Festival is the name of Taoism, which is called July 30 and July 14 in folklore and ancestor worship festival in Buddhism. Festival customs mainly include offering sacrifices to ancestors, setting off river lanterns, offering sacrifices to the dead, burning paper ingots and offering sacrifices to the ground. Its appearance can be traced back to ancestor worship and related festivals in ancient times.