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What festivals are ancestor worship days What are the festivals for ancestor worship?

1. New Year's Eve, Qingming Festival, Zhongyuan Festival and Cold Clothes Festival are all days for ancestor worship, among which Zhongyuan Festival is rumored to have been a folk festival for ancestor worship in ancient times. People will worship their ancestors, hang lanterns, put up couplets, have a reunion dinner, and observe the New Year's Eve, worship their ancestors and go trekking on Qingming, and sweep the graves, worship their ancestors, and burn cold clothes on the Cold Clothes Festival.

2, there are many festivals in China with the custom of ancestor worship, people will divide some of these festivals together and called "China's four major festivals of ancestor worship", they are New Year's Eve, Qingming Festival, the Mid-Yuan Festival, Cold Weather Festival.

3. New Year's Eve is also known as the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, on which people pay homage to their ancestors, hang lanterns, put up couplets, and get together to have a reunion dinner and observe the New Year. Qingming Festival is the most solemn and grand festival of ancestor worship, but in addition to ancestor worship, trekking is also an important custom of Qingming.

4, Zhongyuan Festival is also known as the half of the seventh month, it is said that it is in the ancient times is already a folk festival of ancestor worship, until later was given the name "Zhongyuan Festival". Cold Clothes Festival is popular in the north of China, this day people will sweep the tomb, ancestor worship, burning cold clothes.