What are the traditional festivals

The Spring Festival has a long history, commonly known as the New Year, the new year, the New Year's Day, etc., people often say but over the New Year, New Year's Day is this day. Now the Spring Festival time in the narrow sense of the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the broad sense of the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar to the first month of the first fifteen, during the Spring Festival, there are a variety of celebrations held throughout the country to celebrate the Spring Festival activities, with a strong regional characteristics.

2, Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival, also known as the Festival of Lights, the small first month, the Festival, etc., for the first month of the lunar calendar on the fifteenth day of the year, since ancient times, the Lantern Festival to the warmth and festivity of the Lantern Festival custom-based. The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon of the year, so people call the fifteenth day of the first month for the "Lantern Festival".

3, Cold Food Festival

Cold Food Festival, also known as the "Smoke Festival", "Cold Festival", "Hundred and Five Festival", is an old custom popular in the north of China, a festival. Time is 1-2 days before the Qingming Festival, in ancient times the date is not fixed, there are said to be a day before the Qingming Festival, there is another saying is two days before the Qingming Festival, and now most of the Qingming Festival and Qingming Festival over.

4, Qingming Festival

Qingming Festival, also known as the Treading Green Festival, Ancestor Festival, etc., the festival in the middle of spring and late spring at the turn of the year, is China's traditional major spring festival, its customary grave sweeping and sacrifices, in memory of ancestors, is the Chinese nation for thousands of years of fine traditions. In addition, the time of the Qingming Festival for the calendar (solar calendar) around April 5 or so.

5, Dragon Boat Festival

Duanwu Festival, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, etc., before the Han Dynasty for the Dry Calendar noon noon, the Han Dynasty evolved into the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar. Dragon Boat Festival has a rich and colorful festivities, as with the Spring Festival, its customs imply a blessing, eliminate disasters and other cultural connotations, hosting people a welcome good luck and blessings, to ward off evil in addition to the good wishes.

6, Tanabata Festival

The Tanabata Festival is also known as the Seven Sisters Festival, Beggar's Day, etc., the time for the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year. Tanabata Festival by the star worship derived from the traditional meaning of the seven sisters birthday, because the worship of "seven sisters" activities in the seventh month of the seventh _ on, so named "Tanabata".

7, Zhongyuan Festival

Zhongyuan Festival, is the name of Taoism, folk secular known as the half of the seventh month, the fourteenth day of the seventh month, ancestor festival, the Buddhist known as the Bon Festival, the time of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the fifteenth. The main customs of the festival include ancestor worship, releasing river lanterns, worshipping the souls of the dead, burning paper ingots, and offering sacrifices to the land.

8. Mid-Autumn Festival

The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Moon Festival, the Festival of Reunion, etc., takes place on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar. Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has been characterized by folk customs such as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating mooncakes, playing with lanterns, enjoying osmanthus flowers, and drinking osmanthus wine, etc. The festival is also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival.

9, Chongyang Festival

Chongyang Festival is the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar every year, is a traditional folk festival. In ancient times, the folk in the Chongyang Festival have climbed high to pray for blessings, autumn tour to enjoy chrysanthemums, wear dogwood, God and ancestor worship and drinking feasts to seek life and other customs. Since then, it has added the connotation of honoring the elderly, enjoying feasts and honoring the elderly on the day of the Chrysanthemum Festival.

10, the winter solstice

Winter solstice is an important festival in the twenty-four solar terms, but also a traditional folk festival of ancestor worship, the time for the 22nd of December or so; in the southern region, there is a winter solstice ancestor worship, the custom of feasting; in the northern region, the winter solstice every year, there is the custom of eating dumplings.

11, Lapa Festival

Lapa Festival through the evolution of generations, gradually become a household name of folk festivals, commonly known as the "Lapa", the festival period in the eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar each year, mainly popular in the north of China, the festival's customs are mainly "drinking Lapa congee "

The festival is held on the eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar.

12, small year

Because of the customs of the "small year" day will be different with the early and middle of the Qing Dynasty, the sacrificial stove has been the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, and at least until the Qianlong period, are the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month sacrifice; in addition to the small year period of the main folk activities are sweeping the dust, sacrificial stove, and so on.

13, New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve is also known as the New Year's Eve, in the New Year's Eve, families busy or clean the court house, in addition to the old cloth new, lights and colors, and there are stickers red, New Year's Eve dinner, the New Year's Eve money, resignation, and the New Year's Eve and other customs.