The origin and allusion of each traditional festival

1, the Spring Festival

Time: the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar in the narrow sense, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar in the broad sense to the first month of the 15th.

Originality: the Spring Festival, the first day of the year in the lunar calendar, the Spring Festival, another name is called the New Year, is China's grandest, most lively and most important of an ancient traditional festivals, but also unique to the Chinese people's festivals. It is the most concentrated expression of Chinese civilization. Since the Western Han Dynasty, the custom of Spring Festival has been extended until today. The Spring Festival generally refers to New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month. However, in folklore, the Spring Festival in the traditional sense refers to the Lunar New Year's festival on the eighth day of the Lunar New Year or the sacrificial stove on the twenty-third or twenty-fourth day of the Lunar New Year until the fifteenth day of the first month of the first month of the lunar calendar, of which New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar.

2. Lantern Festival

Time: the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar.

Originality: the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar is the Lantern Festival. Also known as the Shangyuan Festival, the night of the first yuan, Lantern Festival. According to legend, the emperor of han wen di (179 - 157 years ago) to celebrate zhou bo in the first month of the fifteenth survey leveling zhu lu chaos, every night, must go out of the palace to play, and the people of the same music, in ancient times, the night with the night, the first month is also known as the yuan month, the emperor of han wen di the first month of the fifteenth day of the first month of the yuan yuanshan festival, the night is called the yuan yuanshan. Sima Qian created the Taichu Calendar, which listed the Lantern Festival as a major festival. When with the changes in society and the times, the customs of the Lantern Festival has long been a big change, but it is still a traditional Chinese folk festival.

3, Qingming Festival

Time: around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar.

Origin: the origin of the Qingming Festival, according to legend, began in ancient times, emperors and generals "tomb sacrifice" of the ceremony, and then the folk also follow suit, in this day to ancestral tomb, and has become a fixed custom of the Chinese nation.

4, Dragon Boat Festival

Time: the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.

From: Dragon Boat Festival originated in China, initially for the ancient Baiyue region (the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the south of the belt) worship of the dragon totem tribes held totem sacrifice festival, Baiyue place before the Spring and Autumn in the fifth day of the fifth month of the Lunar Calendar in the form of a dragon boat race held in the tribal totem sacrifice custom. Later, because of the Warring States period of Chu (now Hubei) poet Qu Yuan in the day to hold the stone jump Miluo River to kill themselves, the rulers to establish the loyalty of the ruler and patriotism label will be the Dragon Boat Festival as a memorial to Qu Yuan; part of the region also commemorates the Wu Zixu, Cao E and other sayings.

5, Tanabata Festival

Time: the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.

From: Tanabata began in the Han Dynasty, is popular in China and the Chinese cultural circle of the countries of the traditional cultural festivals. Legend has it that on the night of the seventh day of the seventh lunar month or the night of the sixth day of the seventh lunar month, women in the courtyard to the star of the Weaving Maiden to beg for wisdom and skill, so it is called "begging for skill". Its origins in the worship of nature and the women's needle begging, after being given the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden so that it symbolizes the festival of love.