What are the traditional festivals in China?

Traditional festivals should be based on the lunar calendar, that is, Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Head Rise, Social Day Festival, Shangsi Festival, Cold Food Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Qixi Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Xiayuan Festival, Winter Solstice Festival and New Year's Eve.

1. The first thing to say is, of course, the Spring Festival, which is our Lunar New Year. During the Spring Festival, whenever there are Chinese people, various activities will be held to celebrate the Spring Festival.

After the Spring Festival, it is the Lantern Festival. On the 15th day of the first month, there will be a series of traditional folk activities all over the country, such as watching lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, solve riddles on the lanterns and setting off fireworks.

Qingming is also one of the traditional twenty-four solar terms. When you arrive in Tomb-Sweeping Day, no matter where you are, you will go back to your hometown to worship your ancestors and remember your ancestors.

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival every year. On this day, people eat zongzi and race dragon boats, and at the same time commemorate the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan.

The seventh day of the seventh lunar month is Valentine's Day in China. Because of the love legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl, Tanabata has also become a festival symbolizing love.

6. Time comes to the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, and it is the Mid-Autumn Festival. This is a festival to remember the ancestors, and its core content is to respect the ancestors and do filial piety;

7. The Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th day of August in the lunar calendar has had folk customs such as enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes and enjoying osmanthus since ancient times.