How many festivals are there in a year in China

There are 18 traditional Chinese festivals.

The traditional Chinese festivals are New Year's Eve (the last day of the Lunar New Year), Chinese New Year (the first day of the first month), Lantern Festival (the fifteenth day of the first month), Cold Food Festival (the day before Ching Ming Festival), Ching Ming Festival (solar calendar: around the fifth day of the fourth month), Shangsi Festival (Lunar calendar: the third day of the third month), Duanwu Festival (Lunar calendar: the fifth day of the fifth month), Tanabata Festival (Lunar calendar: the seventh day of the seventh month), Mid-Autumn Festival (Lunar calendar: the fifteenth day of the eighth month), Chongyang Festival (Lunar calendar The festival is held on the 9th day of the 9th month of the lunar calendar, the Cold Clothes Festival on the 1st day of the 10th month of the lunar calendar, the Lunar New Year Festival on the 8th day of the 12th month of the lunar calendar, and the Lunar New Year Festival on the 23rd day of the lunar month, and the 24th day of the lunar month, and so on.

Expanded Information:

Festivals developed in the Tang Dynasty, has been liberated from the primitive worship, taboo and mysterious atmosphere. Turned into entertainment ceremonial type, become a real festival of good times. Since then, the festival has become joyful and festive, colorful, many sports, enjoyment of the content of the activities appeared, and soon became a kind of fashion popular, these customs have continued to develop, enduring.

The Xia calendar produced in the Xia and Shang dynasties to the cycle of the moon (now known as the lunar month, that is, after the said "yin month") for the month, the year is divided into twelve months, to not see the moon on the day (solstice) for the first of the month, and at the same time to the winter solstice to return to the movement of the cycle (now known as the return of the year or the solar year, that is, after the said "yang year"), the year is divided into twelve months. "yang year") as the year, with a leap month to adjust the yin and yang years.

To the eve of the founding of New China, on September 27, 1949, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference officially designated the summer (lunar) New Year as the "Spring Festival", and thus many people still call the Spring Festival the New Year.

References:

Traditional Chinese Festivals-Baidu Encyclopedia