What are the main traditional festivals in China?

The traditional festivals in China mainly include Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival.

1, Spring Festival

Spring Festival is the Chinese New Year in China, commonly known as Spring Festival, Chinese New Year and New Year's Eve, also known as Chinese New Year and New Year's Eve. It is a folk festival that integrates the old and the new, worships ancestors, prays for evil spirits, reunites relatives and friends, and entertains food.

2. Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival, falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month every year. Since ancient times, the custom of Lantern Festival has been based on the warm and festive custom of watching lanterns. Traditional customs include going out to enjoy the moon, lighting lanterns and setting off flames, liking solve riddles on the lanterns, eating Yuanxiao and pulling rabbit lanterns.

3. Tomb-Sweeping Day

Also known as outing festival, outing festival, March festival, ancestor worship festival, etc. This festival is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day is the biggest ancestor worship festival of the Chinese nation, which originated from ancestors' beliefs and spring worship customs. Tomb-Sweeping Day has two connotations: nature and humanity. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival. Grave-sweeping and outing are two major themes in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

4. Dragon Boat Festival

Also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Zhongyuan Festival and Tianzhong Festival. The date is on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. It is a folk festival that integrates offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, praying for evil spirits, celebrating entertainment and eating. The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of natural phenomena and evolved from the ancient Dragon Boat Festival.

5. Mid-Autumn Festival

Also known as Mid-Autumn Festival, Moonlight Birthday, Moon Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon Worship Festival, Moon Festival, Moon Festival and Reunion Festival, it is a traditional folk festival in China. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena and evolved from the worship of the moon in autumn night in ancient times. Since ancient times, Mid-Autumn Festival has had folk customs such as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes, watching lanterns, enjoying osmanthus and drinking osmanthus wine. It has been circulating for a long time.