What are the traditional "eight festivals" in China?

Eight solar terms refer to eight of the 24 solar terms: beginning of spring, Spring Equinox, Long Summer, Summer Solstice, beginning of autumn, Autumn Equinox, beginning of winter and Winter Solstice, which are used to guide folk farming in China.

The eight traditional festivals in China are Shangyuan, Qingming, Long Summer, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Winter Solstice and New Year's Eve.

1, Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaoyuanyuan Festival, Yuanxi Festival or Lantern Festival, is the 15th day of the first lunar month every year and one of the traditional festivals in China. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called "night". The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night in a year, so it is called "Lantern Festival".

Tomb-Sweeping Day celebrates at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day originated from the ancestral belief and the custom of worshipping spring in ancient times, which has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival.

Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional folk festival in China. Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of astronomical phenomena and evolved from the ancient dragon totem sacrifice. Dragon Boat Festival is a festival founded by the ancestors of Baiyue in ancient times to worship their ancestors. According to legend, Qu Yuan, a Chu poet in the Warring States Period, committed suicide by jumping into the Miluo River on May 5th. Later, people also took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan.

4. Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular among many ethnic groups and countries in China Chinese character cultural circle, which falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. Because its value is only half that of Sanqiu, it is named, and some places set the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 16.

5. New Year's Eve is the last night at the end of a year. The last day of the end of the year is called "year's minute", which means that the old year is divided and replaced by the new year.

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