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What are the traditional Chinese festivals?

The traditional Chinese festivals are:

1. Spring Festival is the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, a day of family reunion, Lantern Festival is the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, to eat Lanterns and haunt the dragon lanterns.

2. Qingming Festival is around April 5 on the Gregorian calendar, offering sacrifices to ancestors and thinking of the distant future. The Dragon Boat Festival is on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar to honor Qu Yuan.

3. The Tanabata Festival is celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh month, when lovers are reunited, and the Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, when people enjoy the moon.

4. Chung Yeung Festival is the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, which is the festival of respecting, honoring, loving and helping the elderly.

5. The last day of the Lunar New Year's Eve is New Year's Eve, when firecrackers are set off, Spring Festival couplets are put up, and lanterns are lit to observe the New Year.