List of traditional festivals and customs in China.

The traditional festivals in China mainly include Spring Festival (the first day of the first month), Lantern Festival (the fifteenth day of the first month), Dragon Head Raising (February 2), Social Day Festival (February 2) and Tomb-Sweeping Day (around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar).

Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month), Qixi Festival (the seventh day of the seventh lunar month), July and a half (the 14th and 15th of the seventh lunar month), Mid-Autumn Festival (the 15th of the eighth lunar month), Double Ninth Festival (the 9th lunar month), Winter Solstice Festival (Gregorian calendar 65438+ February 2 1 ~ 23) and New Year's Eve (the last day of the year).

The following are some examples of five traditional holiday customs:

1, Spring Festival (the first day of the first month):

The Spring Festival, the Lunar New Year, is the beginning of a year and a traditional "festival". Commonly known as Spring Festival, New Year, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve and so on. It is also known verbally as New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve. The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from praying for the New Year at the beginning of the year in ancient times.

Customs: Celebrations during the Spring Festival are extremely colorful, including lion dancing, floating colors, dragon dancing, worship of gods, temple fairs, flower shopping, lantern viewing, beating gongs and drums, flying cursor flags, burning fireworks, praying for blessings, jumping spring dance, walking on stilts, running roller boats and dancing yangko.

The custom of offering sacrifices to gods (ancestors) prevails in the southern coastal areas, and it inherits the ancient customs. During the Spring Festival, there are many grand activities, such as offering sacrifices to heaven and earth and praying for the Spring Festival, which are rich in content, lively and festive, and full of flavor. During the Spring Festival, you can find it everywhere, such as posting New Year's greetings, observing New Year's Eve, having a reunion dinner and paying New Year's greetings. However, due to different local customs, the nuances have their own characteristics.

2. Lantern Festival (15th day of the first month):

Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Little Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival, is one of the traditional festivals in China on the 15th day of the first lunar month. 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".

Custom: Eating Yuanxiao, watching lanterns and dancing dragons and lions are several important folk customs of the Lantern Festival.

3. Tomb-Sweeping Day (around April 5, Gregorian calendar):

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 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.