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Lunar New Year's Eve 65438+February 30th (or 65438+February 29th)

Lunar New Year 65438+1 October1

Lantern Festival Lunar New Year 15

Tomb-Sweeping Day Gregorian calendar every year after the vernal equinox from April 4th to 6th,15th.

On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, Dragon Boat Festival.

On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, Valentine's Day in China.

Mid-Autumn Festival in August 15

The winter solstice festival is between 65438 and February 22 and 23 in Gregorian calendar.

As an ancient civilization with a long history, rich national traditional festivals are an indispensable part of China culture. Every festival has its historical origin, wonderful legends, unique flavor and deep mass base. They reflect the traditional habits, moral customs and religious ideas of the nation, and entrust the vision of the whole nation. They are distant happy events handed down from generation to generation for thousands of years.

The main traditional festivals in China are Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese Valentine's Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Winter Solstice, Laba and so on.

The Spring Festival is the largest and most lively ancient traditional festival in China. Commonly known as "Chinese New Year". According to the China lunar calendar, the first day of the first month is the beginning of a year. Traditional celebrations last from New Year's Eve to the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month. Every New Year's Eve, every family gets together to have a New Year's Eve dinner, which is called "reunion dinner". In the meantime, I talked and laughed, and I was happy. Then we celebrate our old age together, catch up with the old and talk about the new, and congratulate and encourage each other. When the new year comes, firecrackers and fireworks push the festive atmosphere to a climax. In northern China, there is a custom of eating jiaozi at this time, which means "having sex when you are young". There is a habit of eating rice cakes in the south, which symbolizes a better life. Putting up Spring Festival couplets, beating gongs and drums, saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new are very lively. In addition, there are customs such as visiting each other to celebrate the New Year, dancing lions, playing dragon lanterns, performing social fires, visiting flower markets, and watching lantern festivals.

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The 15th night of the first lunar month is the traditional Lantern Festival in China, also known as Shangyuan Festival and Lantern Festival. The Lantern Festival will be held on the fifteenth day of the first month, which will push the celebration on New Year's Eve to another climax. On the night of Lantern Festival, the streets are decorated with lanterns and people appreciate them. Solve riddles on the lanterns and eating Yuanxiao have become the customs of several generations.

The custom of enjoying lanterns on the Lantern Festival began in the Han Dynasty. During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, it developed into a grand lantern market. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the Kyoto lantern market often stretched for dozens of miles. The Lantern Festival was limited to the 11th night of the first month in Han Dynasty, extended to three nights in Tang Xuanzong, and lasted from the eighth day of the first month to the seventeenth day of the first month in Ming Dynasty. Acrobatics appeared in the Lantern Festival in the Tang Dynasty, and lantern riddles began to appear in the Song Dynasty. Opera performances were added in the Ming Dynasty. The colored lanterns used in the lantern market are also interpreted as orange lanterns, silk lanterns, colorful sheepskin lanterns, boneless wheat straw lanterns, lantern lanterns and Kongming lanterns. Lantern riddles, which began in the Southern Song Dynasty, are lively and interesting. After the development and creation of past dynasties, there are more than 100 crossword puzzles still in use, such as basic grid, swinging grid, rolling grid, white grid, Xu He grid and so on. Most of the formats are limited, the requirements are clever, and they are all clever.

The custom of eating Yuanxiao began in the Song Dynasty. It is intended to wish the whole family reunion, harmony and happiness in the new year. Yuanxiao is divided into solid and stuffing. There are five flavors: spicy, sweet, sour and salty. Can be boiled, fried, fried and steamed. Sweet-scented osmanthus wine makes Yuanxiao, five-flavor Yuanxiao made of meat stuffing, bean paste, sesame, sweet-scented osmanthus and nuts, and five-flavor Yuanxiao made of onion, mustard, garlic, leek and ginger have their own characteristics.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is not only one of the 24 solar terms, but also a traditional festival with a long history. The day before in Tomb-Sweeping Day was called Cold Food Festival. The two festivals coincide with the spring of March, with bright spring, pink and green, and a thriving atmosphere. The establishment of the Cold Food Festival is to commemorate the intermediary of the Jin Dynasty in the Spring and Autumn Period that "it is unfair to burn people to death". During the Qingming cold food period, there were folk customs such as forbidding fire and cold food, worshipping ancestors and sweeping graves, and going out for an outing. There are also traditional activities such as swinging, flying kites, tug-of-war, cockfighting, willow crossing, weeding and ball games. Let Qingming become a poetic festival.

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the traditional Dragon Boat Festival in China, also known as Duanyang, Chongwu and Dragon Boat Festival. As early as the Zhou Dynasty, there was a custom of "storing orchids and bathing on May 5th". But many activities of the Dragon Boat Festival today are related to the memory of Qu Yuan, a great writer in China. On this day, every household will eat zongzi, and dragon boat races will be held all over the south, all of which are related to mourning Qu Yuan. At the same time, the Dragon Boat Festival is also a "health festival" handed down from ancient times. On this day, people sweep the courtyard, hang branches of Artemisia argyi, hang calamus and sprinkle realgar wine to remove rot, sterilize and prevent diseases. These activities also reflect the fine traditions of our nation.

The Milky Way, composed of countless stars, spans the night sky like the Milky Way. People say it separates the enthusiastic cowherd from the weaver girl. Only on the seventh day of July every year can the magpies in the world build a magpie bridge and meet each other. This wonderful legend began in the Han dynasty and has been handed down from generation to generation for more than 1000 years. On this day, people have the custom of asking the Weaver Girl for help. It's usually a game to see who is more scheming. Therefore, Tanabata is also called Beggar's Day or Daughter's Day. Every Tanabata is coming, Petunia and Weaver will stay through the night until the sun rises. Therefore, it is also called the meeting of dead couples. On this night, there is also the custom of watching the Tianhe River and praying for a bumper harvest. In some places, a "seedling conference" will be held.

August 15th of the lunar calendar is the middle of autumn, so it is called Mid-Autumn Festival. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, in addition to enjoying the moon, offering sacrifices to the moon and eating moon cakes, there are activities such as dancing grass dragons and building stupas in some places. In addition to moon cakes, all kinds of seasonal fresh fruits and dried fruits are also delicious in the Mid-Autumn Festival. This night, people look up at the bright moon as jade, and naturally look forward to family reunion. Wanderers who are far away from home also take this opportunity to pin their thoughts on their relatives in their hometown. Therefore, Mid-Autumn Festival is also called "Reunion Festival".

Autumn is refreshing and sweet-scented osmanthus is fragrant. The activities of the Double Ninth Festival on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month are extremely rich, including climbing mountains, enjoying chrysanthemums, drinking chrysanthemum wine, eating double ninth cake and inserting dogwood. The Double Ninth Festival is also the "Festival for the Elderly". On this day, the old people either admire chrysanthemums to cultivate their sentiments or climb mountains to exercise, adding infinite fun to the evening scenery in Sang Yu.

Solstice is a very grand festival in ancient China. Up to now, China Taiwan Province Province still retains the tradition of offering nine-layer cakes to ancestors from winter to the sun, as a sign of not forgetting to change books, and wishing the whole family a reunion. There is a custom of slaughtering sheep to eat jiaozi in the winter solstice in the north, and traditional foods in the south include dumplings and noodles in the winter solstice.

Laba Festival is a Buddhist festival. This day is the day when Sakyamuni became a Buddha, also known as the "Taoist Festival". The most important activity on this day is to eat Laba porridge. The earliest Laba porridge only added adzuki beans to rice porridge, and later it evolved into a very complicated and exquisite one. The main ingredients are dozens of kinds such as white rice, yellow rice, glutinous rice, millet and water chestnut rice. , as well as walnuts, almonds, melon seeds, peanuts, pine nuts, raisins, longan, lilies, lotus seeds and so on. The fragrance floated for miles. In addition to Laba porridge, there are Laba noodles, Laba garlic and other flavor foods. They can not only nourish the body, but also be a form of festival harvest, which opens the prelude of the Spring Festival.

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