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Seek symbols and explanations of six traditional festivals in China.

Six traditional festivals in China

1. Spring Festival (the first day of the first lunar month)

2. Lantern Festival (15th day of the first lunar month)

3. Tomb-Sweeping Day (the eighth day of the third lunar month)

4. Dragon Boat Festival

(fifth day of the fifth lunar month)

5. Mid-Autumn Festival (August 15th of the lunar calendar)

6. Double Ninth Festival (the ninth day of the ninth lunar month)

the Spring Festival; Chinese New Year

The Spring Festival refers to the traditional Spring Festival in the cultural circle of Chinese characters. The traditional names are New Year, New Year and New Year, but they are also verbally called New Year, Celebrating New Year and New Year. In ancient times, the Spring Festival once referred to beginning of spring in the solar terms, which was also regarded as the beginning of a year. Later, it was changed to the first day of the first lunar month as the New Year. It is generally believed that it will not end until at least the fifteenth day of the first month (Shangyuan Festival). The Spring Festival is the most solemn and distinctive traditional festival in China, and it is also the most lively festival.

Dragon Boat Festival

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Daughter's Day, Noon Festival, May Festival, Ai Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival, Summer Festival, Tianzhong Festival, Yulan Festival, Quyuan Festival and Poet's Day. Duan means "beginning" and "beginning", and the fifth day can be called Dragon Boat Festival. The essential activities on this day gradually evolved into eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, hanging calamus, wormwood, wormwood, smoked Atractylodes macrocephala, angelica dahurica, drinking realgar wine, tying Cynanchum atratum, making fragrant grooves, sticking five poisons, sticking symbols, putting yellow tobacco seeds and eating twelve reds.

the Lantern Festival

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the traditional Lantern Festival in China. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, which the ancients called "Xiao". The formation of Lantern Festival custom has a long process. According to general data and folklore, the fifteenth day of the first month was paid attention to in the Western Han Dynasty.

Mid-Autumn Festival

The 15th day of the eighth lunar month is a traditional festival in China, and the word "Mid-Autumn Festival" first appeared in Li. According to the ancient calendar of China, the 15th day of the eighth lunar month is in the middle of August in autumn, so it is called the Mid-Autumn Festival. There are four seasons in a year, and each season is divided into three parts: Bangladesh, China and Kyrgyzstan. Because the second month of autumn is called Mid-Autumn Festival, it is also called "Mid-Autumn Festival".

Double Ninth Festival

The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the traditional Double Ninth Festival, also called "Old People's Day". Because in the ancient Book of Changes, "six" was defined as yin number, and "nine" was defined as yang number. On September 9, the sun and the moon combined with yang, and 29 was the most important, so it was called Chongyang, also called Chongyang. The Double Ninth Festival was formed as early as the Warring States Period. In the Tang Dynasty, the Double Ninth Festival was officially designated as a folk festival.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is also known as the Youth Day. At the turn of mid-spring and late spring, that is, 108 days from winter to the future, it is one of the traditional festivals in China, and it is also one of the most important sacrificial festivals, and it is a day to worship ancestors and sweep graves. The traditional Tomb-Sweeping Day of the Han nationality in China began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the important "eight festivals a year" in China. Generally speaking, it is around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar, and the festival is very long. There are two sayings: 8 days before 10 and 10 after 10, and these 20 days belong to Tomb-Sweeping Day. Tomb-Sweeping Day originally meant grave-sweeping day, and the government of the Republic of China designated 15 days after the vernal equinox in 935 as a national holiday, also known as the national grave-sweeping day.