What is the latest information about traditional cultural festivals?

There are eight traditional cultural festivals in China. In chronological order, the dates, customs and related poems of each traditional festival are extracted as follows for the landlord's reference.

1. New Year's Eve-the 29th or 3th day of the twelfth lunar month (January 22nd of the Gregorian calendar). People often stay up all night on New Year's Eve, which is called "Shounian". On New Year's Eve, not only do you have to clean up at home and outside. People put on new clothes with festive colors and patterns. The poems describing New Year's Eve are:

Except for the Night

Wen Tianxiang in Song Dynasty

Gan Kun is empty, and the years go on;

The end of the road is full of wind and rain, and the poor side is full of snow and frost.

Life is dying with the years, and the body is forgotten;

There is no dream of killing the Soviet Union again, and night is still young is the lamp.

2. Spring Festival-the first day of the first lunar month (January 23rd of the Gregorian calendar). The custom of the Spring Festival is generally to eat rice cakes, jiaozi, glutinous rice balls, big meatballs, whole fish, wine, apples, peanuts, melon seeds, sweets, fragrant teas and Yaozhuan. Accompanied by many activities, such as dusting dust, washing bedding, preparing new year's goods, pasting Spring Festival couplets, pasting New Year's pictures (Zhong Kui, the door god), pasting paper-cuts in jiaozi, stick grilles, pasting blessings, lighting candles, lighting fires, setting off firecrackers, giving lucky money, paying New Year's greetings, visiting ancestors' graves, visiting flower markets, making social fires and so on, it is extremely enjoyable. Always change the new peach for the old one.

3. Lantern Festival-the 15th day of the first lunar month (February 6th in Gregorian calendar). The first lunar month was called "Xiao" by the ancients, and the 15th day was the first full moon night in a year, so it was called the Lantern Festival. It is also called the first important festival after the Spring Festival. China has a vast territory and a long history. Among them, eating Lantern Festival, enjoying lanterns, dancing dragons and lions are several important folk customs. The poems describing Lantern Festival are:

Yuanxi

Song Ouyang Xiu

Last year, the lights at the flower market were like day.

When the moon arrived at the end of the willow tree, it was after dusk.

This year, the moon and lights remained the same. < Tears wet the sleeves of the spring shirt.

4. Tomb-Sweeping Day —— the 14th day of the third lunar month (4th April of the Gregorian calendar). The customs in Tomb-Sweeping Day are rich and interesting. Besides forbidding fire and sweeping graves, there are a series of customs and sports activities such as hiking, swinging, playing cuju, playing polo and inserting willows. The poems describing Tomb-Sweeping Day are: Qingming Festival

Tang Du Mu

. The shepherd boy points to Xinghua Village.

5. Dragon Boat Festival —— the fifth day of the fifth lunar month (June 23rd in Gregorian calendar). Now the activities on this day have gradually evolved into eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, hanging calamus, wormwood, mugwort leaves, smoked atractylodes rhizome, angelica dahurica, drinking realgar wine, tying baisuozi, making fragrant slots, sticking five poisons, sticking symbols, putting yellow tobacco seeds and eating.

It's a shame that the Chu River is so empty that it can't be washed straight.

6. Chinese Valentine's Day —— the seventh day of the seventh lunar month (August 23rd in Gregorian calendar). Chinese Valentine's Day is the most romantic festival among Chinese traditional festivals, and it was also the day that girls paid the most attention to in the past. On this night, women put on needles to pray for Fu Lushou, and the ceremony was pious and grand. All kinds of furniture and appliances are exquisite and attractive. The poems describing Chinese Valentine's Day are:

Chinese Valentine's Day

Tang Luo Yin

The starry sky is winding around the corner, and a family laughs and holds a red banquet.

We should thank the maiden beads and write all the splendid articles of Tan Lang.

The fragrant accounts are clustered in rows. It is a very old custom in our country. The custom of enjoying the moon comes from offering sacrifices to the moon, and serious sacrifices turn into light pleasures. "Folk Yue Bai" becomes people's longing for reunion, recreation and happiness, and presents their feelings with the moon. A big incense table is set up, and moon cakes, watermelons, apples, red dates, plums and grapes are offered, among which moon cakes and watermelons are absolutely indispensable. The poems describing the Mid-Autumn Festival are:

"looking at the moon and thinking of one far away" Tianya * * * at this time.

brings to separated hearts, the long thoughtfulness of night.

it is no darker though I blow out my candle, it is no warmer though I put on my coat.

so I leave my message with the moon, and turn to my bed, hoping for dreams.

8. Chung Yeung Festival-the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar (October 23rd of the Gregorian calendar). Chung Yeung Festival has the custom of climbing mountains. In September, the sky is crisp. Climbing high in this season can achieve the purpose of relaxing, keeping fit and getting rid of diseases. Climbing high is associated with customs such as appreciating chrysanthemums, composing poems, inserting dogwoods, eating double ninth festival cakes, etc. Poems describing double ninth festival include:

on the mountain holiday thinking of my brothers in shandong

Tang Wangwei

Being a stranger in a foreign land, he misses his relatives twice every festive season,

Knowing from afar where his brother climbs, he inserts dogwoods every time.