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Cold Food one day before the Qingming Festival

(A festival in the old custom, one day before the Qingming Festival [i.e. two days before the Qingming Festival]. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the Duke of Jin, Chong Er, who had been dead for many years, returned to his throne [i.e., the Duke of Jin] and rewarded his ministers who had died with him, but only Jie Zi Tui was left out. Jie Zi Tui then took his mother to live in seclusion in Mianshan Mountain [now southeast of Jiexiu County, Shanxi Province]. Duke Wen of Jin learned that he wanted to increase the reward, searching to Mianshan, could not find him, so he wanted to burn the mountain to force him out. But Jie Zi Tui insisted not to come out, and both mother and son were burned to death. Duke Wen of Jin then stipulated that every year on this day, people were forbidden to start fires to burn rice, to express their condolences with cold food. Later, the custom of eating cold food and sweeping graves on the day of cold food was formed.)

Ching Ming Festival on the eighth day of the third month of the lunar calendar

(Qingming Festival is a traditional festival in China and the most important festival of sacrifices, a day for offering sacrifices to ancestors and sweeping tombs. Tomb-sweeping is commonly known as visiting the graves, an activity to honor the dead. Most Han Chinese and some ethnic minorities sweep their tombs on Qingming Day. According to the old custom, when sweeping tombs, people should bring wine, food, fruits, paper money and other items to the cemetery, offer the food in front of their loved ones' graves, then incinerate the paper money, cultivate new soil for the graves, fold a few tender green new branches and stick them on the graves, then bow down and perform rituals and worship, and then eat the wine and food and go home at last. Du Mu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem entitled "Qingming": "The rain falls one after another during the Qingming Festival, and the pedestrians on the road want to break their souls. Where can I find a tavern? The shepherd boy points to the apricot blossom village." It writes about the special atmosphere of Qingming Festival.

The Qingming Festival, also known as the Treading Green Festival, according to the solar calendar, it is between April 4 and 6 every year, which is the time of spring when the grass and trees spit out the green, and it is also a good time for people to go on spring excursions [called trekking in ancient times], so the ancients had the custom of trekking in the Qingming Festival and carrying out a series of sports activities.)

Duanwu Festival on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar

(The fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar is the "Dragon Boat Festival". Duanwu" was originally called "Duanwu", and "Duan" means "beginning". "Five" and "Wu" for each other as a harmonic and universal. It is an ancient festival in China. China's earliest ancient patriotic poet Qu Yuan was banished by slander, witnessed the growing political corruption in Chu, and could not realize their own political ideals, unable to save the dying motherland, so he threw himself into the Bioluo River to martyrdom. After that, people in order not to make the fish and shrimp eat their bodies, have used glutinous rice and flour into various shapes of cakes into the river, which later became the Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi, fried cake source. This custom has spread abroad.

--The clear wind smiles at the boldness.

The seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar

(The evening of the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is called "Tanabata". China's folklore is that the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden meet on this night at the Magpie Bridge on the River Tianhe, and then there are women who wear needles to the Weaving Maiden on this night to beg for coquettishness and other customs. The so-called begging for coquettish, that is, under the moonlight to the Vega star with colored thread through the needle, such as can pass through seven different sizes of the eye of the needle, even if it is very "coquettish". Farmer's proverbs say "the seventh day of the seventh month is clear and bright, grinding sickle cut good rice." This is the time to sharpen the sickle and prepare for the early rice harvest.)

[edit]Respect for the Elderly Festival

September 9 of the lunar calendar is the traditional Chongyang Festival in China. It is also China's Respect for the Elderly Day. In 1989, China designated the ninth day of the ninth month of the year as the Day of the Elderly, which is a clever combination of tradition and modernity, and has become a festival of respect for the elderly, honoring the elderly, loving the elderly, and helping the elderly.

Whenever it comes to Chung Yeung Festival, people will think of Wang Wei's words, "Being a stranger in a foreign land, I think of my relatives twice as much during the festivals. I know from afar where my brothers are climbing up to the top, and there are fewer dogwoods to be found." This poem. Since ancient times, the Chongyang Festival has been a day for people to honor and love the elderly, miss their parents and long for reunion.

Historically, the 13th day of the 7th month of the lunar calendar was also said to be the festival of respect for the elderly, but it was modified in 1989.

[edit]Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival

The fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar

(The fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, this day is in the middle of the autumn, so it is known as "Mid-Autumn Festival. In the evening, the moon is full and the fragrance of laurel, the old custom people see it as a symbol of reunion, to prepare a variety of fruits and cooked food, is a good festival to enjoy the moon. Mid-Autumn Festival also eat moon cakes. According to legend, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, in order to overthrow the brutal Yuan Dynasty, the people wrote the date of the riot on a slip of paper and put it in the mooncake filling, so as to pass it to each other secretly, calling for an uprising on August 15th. Finally, a nationwide peasant uprising broke out on that day, overthrowing the corrupt Yuan Dynasty. (Since then, the custom of eating mooncakes at mid-autumn has spread even more widely.)

Edit]Chongyang Festival

The 9th day of the 9th lunar month

The 9th day of the 9th lunar month is traditionally the Chongyang Festival. Chongyang Festival is also known as the "Double Nine Festival" "Old Man's Day" because the ancient "I Ching" in the "six" as the number of yin, "nine" as the number of yang, the ninth day of the ninth month, the sun and the moon and the sun, the two nines are heavy, so it is called the Chongyang, also known as the heavy nine, the ancients believe that it is a worthy of celebrating the The ancient people considered it an auspicious day to celebrate, and have been celebrating this festival since a long time ago. Celebrate the Chongyang Festival activities colorful and romantic, generally include trips to enjoy the scenery, climbing high and far away, viewing chrysanthemums, dogwood, eat Chongyang cake, drink chrysanthemum wine and other activities. Nine nine Chongyang, because and "long time" the same sound, nine in the number is the largest number, there is the meaning of long life, and autumn is also the golden season of the year's harvest, Chongyang Festival, meaning far-reaching, people have always had a special feeling about this festival, Tang poetry and Song Dynasty has a lot of congratulations on the Chongyang, chrysanthemum poetry masterpieces.

The legend says that in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ru Nan Huan Ying, Fei Changfang said to him, September 9, Ru Nan will have a big disaster, quickly ask the family to sew a small bag, filled with cornelian cherry blossom, tied to the arm, climbed the mountain, drink chrysanthemum wine, to take refuge. Huanjing this day the whole family mountaineering, home at night, really home chickens, dogs, sheep all dead. Since then, the folk have been in the Chongyang Festival to do cornelian cherry bag, drink chrysanthemum wine, hold a temple fair, climb high and other customs. Because "high" and "cake" sound the same, so the Chongyang Festival and eat "Chongyang cake" custom. Wang Wei, a poet of Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem "Remembering the Brothers of Shandong on September 9", which reads: "Being a stranger in a foreign land, I think of my relatives twice as much at festivals. I know from afar where my brothers are climbing up, and I have less Cornus officinalis to plant." The poem records the customs of the time. Because of its sincere feelings, the poem is still popular today.

[edit]Winter Solstice

The twenty-second day of the eleventh month of the lunar calendar

(In ancient times in China, the winter solstice is very important, the winter solstice is treated as a large festival, there was "winter solstice is as big as the year", and there are customs to celebrate the winter solstice. The book of han said: "winter solstice yang qi up, jung dao long, so congratulations." People think: after the winter solstice, the day is longer than one day, Yang Qi rise, is the beginning of a cycle of festivals, is also an auspicious day, should be celebrated. The Book of Jin" on the record "Wei Jin winter solstice day by all the countries and bureaucrats to congratulate ...... its instrument subdivided into the first day." This shows the importance of the winter solstice in ancient times.

Now, some places still take the winter solstice as a festival. Northern regions have the custom of slaughtering sheep, eating dumplings and wontons on the winter solstice, while southern regions have the habit of eating winter solstice rice balls and winter solstice long thread noodles on this day. All regions also have the custom of offering sacrifices to heaven and ancestors on this day of the winter solstice.)

[edit]Lunar New Year's Day

The eighth day of the Lunar New Year

Anciently, the December festival was called Lunar New Year, and it was called Lunar New Year. On the eighth day of the first month of the Lunar calendar, the old custom is to drink Laha congee. Legend has it that Siddhartha Gautama attained Buddhahood on this day, in order to celebrate the virtues of Siddhartha Gautama, the temple will be held in honor of the grand Buddha, to burn incense to Buddha, the bells and drums sound congee for Buddha. Laha Festival in the north of the coldest days, people with grains and cereals, dried fruits boiled into, Laha congee, eaten on the morning of the festival. Simmering Lapa congee ingredients for at least eight kinds. Materials vary from place to place, generally have rice, millet, glutinous rice, barley, wheat rice, barley rice, red beans, mung beans, kidney beans, lotus seeds, white fruit, peanut kernels, cinnamon, almonds, melon nuts, raisins, jujubes, chestnuts, preserved fruits and so on. In addition, in the folk there are salty Lapa congee, meat Lapa congee and other ingredients of the system. People in the north of the day in addition to drinking Laha congee, but also to worship ancestors, looking forward to the next year, a good harvest of wind and rain. Lapa Festival, people in order to meet the arrival of the new spring, in this day began to make the food in the next year's goods, do Lapa vinegar, soak Lapa garlic, do preserved meat, preserved duck, preserved fish and other food. After the folk custom, until today.

[Edit paragraph] New Year's Eve

Sacrifice stove festival, sacrificial stove day, commonly known as "over the small year", also known as the small year, the small year under the small year, small year festival, and so on.

Lunar month 23. People called "small year", means that the year will end.

In the past, over the small year is "official three people four Taoist soil monk five", that is to say, where the family has a show more than the merit of the small year in the waxing moon twenty-third, the people are twenty-fourth, Taoist monks and monks are twenty-five days. Nowadays, the northern region is more in the twenty-third day of the small year.

The main folkloric activities of the small year is "quit stove". That is, "Zao Wang". The king of the stove is also called "Zaojun", folk called "Zao Wangzhi".

[edit]Traditional Festival List

The following festivals are counted according to the lunar calendar (also known as the summer calendar, the lunar calendar):

1, the first day of the first month of the Spring Festival, in ancient times, there are more than 30 kinds of names such as New Year's Day, New Year's Day, First Day of the First Month, New Year's Day, New Year's Day, New Year's Day, New Year's Day, New Year's Day, New Year's Day, New Year's Day, New Year's Day, New Year's Day, New Year's Day, New Year's Day, New Year's Day and other names

2, the fifth day of the first month of the first month of the birthday of the god of the road

3 The 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the Shangyuan Festival (Lantern Festival)

4, the second day of the second month of February, the Spring Dragon Festival, also known as the Dragon Head-raising Festival, the Green Dragon Festival

5, the 15th day of the second month of February, the Flower Dynasty Festival

6, the day before Ching Ming Festival, the Cold Food Festival

7, the third day of the third month of March, the Festival of the Peach Legend says that the Queen Mother had a peach banquet

8, the fifteenth day after the vernal equinox, Ching Ming Festival (now set on the 5th of the fourth month of the Chinese lunar calendar)

9, the fourth day of the fourth month of the Chinese calendar, the Qingming Festival

9, the eighth day of April Buddha's Birthday, also known as the Cow Festival after this day the cow will come down to earth.

10, the fifth day of May, Dragon Boat Festival

11, Summer Solstice

12, June 6, Sun Fu Festival "June 6, sun red and green." "Auntie Festival" "June 6, please auntie", in ancient times or another festival, called Tian Kuang (give gift meaning) Festival, June 6 is also a festival in Buddhist temples, called the festival of turning the scriptures.

13, July 7, commonly known as Tanabata, July 7, Beggar's Day

14, July 15 Zhongyuan Festival, also known as the Ghost Festival, Bon Festival.

15, July 30 Jizi Festival

16, August 15 Mid-Autumn Festival

17, September 9 Chung Yeung Festival

18, October 1 October Dynasty, also known as Ancestor's Day

19, October 15 Xiayuan Festival

20, November 22 Winter Solstice

21, December 8 Lunar New Year's Day

22, the 23rd day of the lunar month, the festival of sacrificial stoves, stove day, commonly known as "over the small year", also known as the small year, the small year under the small year, the small year festival

23, the last day of the month of Lunar New Year's Day, in addition to the day, in addition to the evening of the day, called New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, the night of the festival, the end of the big, etc., the folk said that the New Year's Eve, the New Year's Eve, the New Year's Eve

There are also several birthdays of sages:

Guandi's Birthday: June 24

The Most Sacred Teacher Confucius' Birthday: August 27

Cangjie's Most Sacred Teacher's Birthday: March 28

Lu Ban Gong's Birthday: June 13th (the seventh day of the month of May)

Fu Xi's Birthday: May 13th (the birthday of the dragon, according to legend)

Yandi's Shennong's Birthday: April 26th

Birthday of Yellow Emperor: 2nd February

Birthday of Zhuge Kongming: 23rd July

Birthday of Mencius: 2nd April

Birthday of Yue Fei: 15th February

Birthday of Laozi: 15th February

Birthday of Sakyamuni Buddha: 8th April

Birthday of Qu Yuan: 21st January

Sixth ancestor Huineng birthday: February 8

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Lunar New Year's Eve on the 23rd/24th of the lunar month

Lunar New Year's Eve on the 27th/28th of the lunar month

The second day of the first month of the God of Wealth

The third day of the first month of the first month of burning the paper of the God of the Door/Guzi's birthday/Small New Year's day

The fifth day of the first month of the first month of the first month of the fifth commonly known as the fifth of the folklore that many taboo before the break of the fifth day of the folklore. The first five days of the first month of the lunar calendar, many taboos can be broken on this day

The seventh day of the first month of the first year of the lunar calendar, People's Day, pancake spreading, eating seven treasures, also known as the "People's Victory Festival", "People's Celebration Festival", "Population Day", "The Seventh Day of Man

The eighth day of the first month, the Valley Day, the day when the stars come down to the world, also known as the "Star Sacrifice" and "Star Receiving"

The tenth day of the first month, the birthday of the stone. "Mouse Marriage

Attachment 2: Other Festivals:

Semi-annual Festivals: June 15th, June 14th, June 6th, June 5th, and also June 10th. The first day of June is also said to be the first day of June!

Guanyin Festival: February 19th, June 19th, September 19th, November 19th, the belief of Guanyin Bodhisattva has gone beyond the scope of Buddhism, he is a culture, a wish!

Every year, the 23rd day of the third month of the lunar calendar is the birthday of A-Ma!

The first day of the seventh month, commonly known as the opening of the interest door

Fill the Cang Festival: Chinese Han folk traditional festival, on the 25th day of the first month of the lunar calendar. It is also called Tim Cang Festival and Tian Cang Festival, and is a festival to honor the god of Cang.

[Edit Paragraph]Chinese Traditional Festivals in Chinese and English

1. Spring Festival (January 1, Lunar Calendar) Spring Festival; Chinese New Year's Day

2. Lantern Festival (January 15, Lunar Calendar) Lantern Festival

3. Ching Ming Festival (April 5,) Tomb-Sweeping Day

4. Tomb-Sweeping Day

4. Dragon Boat Festival

5. Mid-Autumn (Moon) Festival

6. Double-ninth Day

7. Day

7. New Year's Eve (December 30th of the lunar calendar) New Year's Eve

China's New Year's Day origin

China's New Year's Day, according to legend, from one of the three emperors Zhuanxu, more than 5,000 years of history. The word "New Year's Day" first appeared in the "Book of Jin": "Zhuan Di to the first month of Meng Xia for the first year, in fact, the first spring of the first month of the first day of the spring" in the poem. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Xiao Ziyun, a writer and historian of the Southern Dynasties, also wrote in his poem "Jieya" that "New Year's Day of the Four Seasons, the first spring day of all life". Song Dynasty Wu Zimu "Dream Liang Records" Volume 1 "first month" entry: "the first day of the first month, known as New Year's Day, commonly known as New Year's Day. A year of festival order, this is the first." In the Han Dynasty, Cui Yuan's "Inscription on the Hairpin of the Three Sons" was called "Yuanzheng"; in the Jin Dynasty, Yu Emanuel's "Yangdu Fu" was called "Yuanchen"; in the Northern Qi Dynasty, a "Yuanhui Daxiangge Huangxia Rhetoric" was called "Yuanchun"; in the Tang Dynasty, Emperor Li Shi's "New Year's Day" was called "New Year's Day". ; Tang Dezong Li Shi, "the first day of the retreat to watch the military battles to return to the camp" poem called "Yuan Shuo"

China in the excavation of the Dawenkou culture relics, found that a picture of the sun rising from the mountain, the middle of the cloudy picture. After examination, this is China's oldest "Dan" character writing. Later, in the Yin and Shang bronze casting inscription, and appeared to be simplified "Dan" hieroglyphic characters. The character "Dan" is represented by the round sun. The character "一" under "日" represents the horizon, meaning that the sun rises from the horizon.

Chinese New Year's Day traditionally refers to the first day of the first month of the summer (lunar) calendar. Yuan is the "first", "beginning" meaning, Dan refers to the "day", Yuan Dan together that is "the initial day", that is, the first day of the year. That is, the first day of the year. There are different dialects in different parts of the Chinese language called "Dainianchuyi", called "Daitianchuyi", called "the first day of the year", generally also called "The first day of the first month of the first year of the first year of the new year.

The first day of the first month from which day to count, in the Han Wu Di before is also very inconsistent. As a result, the month and day of New Year's Day have not been consistent throughout the ages. The Xia Calendar of the Xia Dynasty took the month of Meng Xi (January) as the first month, the Yin Calendar of the Shang Dynasty took the month of La (December) as the first month, and the Zhou Calendar of the Zhou Dynasty took the month of Winter (November) as the first month. After the unification of China by Emperor Qin Shi Huang, the first day of the month of Yangchun (October) was used as the first month, i.e., the first day of October was New Year's Day. It was only from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty that the first day of the month of Mengxi (New Year's Day) was called New Year's Day, and it was used until the end of the Qing Dynasty. But this was the summer calendar, the lunar or lunar calendar, and not yet what we call New Year's Day today.

In 1911 A.D., Dr. Sun Yat-sen led the Xinhai Revolution, which overthrew the Manchu Qing Dynasty and established the Republic of China. Representatives of the provincial governors met in Nanjing and decided to use the Gregorian calendar, calling the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar "Spring Festival" and January 1 of the Gregorian calendar "New Year's Day". However, it was not officially announced and named at that time. In order to "conduct Xiazheng, so as to comply with the agricultural time, from the western calendar, so as to facilitate the statistics", the first year of the Republic of China decided to use the Gregorian calendar (the actual use of 1912), and stipulated that the solar calendar (Gregorian calendar) on January 1 for the "New Year's Day", but did not call it "New Year's Day".

Today's "New Year's Day" is the eve of the founding of the new China on September 27, 1949, the first Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, decided to establish the Chinese People's Republic, but also decided to adopt the world's common dating system, that is, what we call the solar calendar.

In contemporary times, New Year's Day refers to the first day of the year in the AD calendar. In order to differentiate between the two New Years in the lunar and solar calendars, and in view of the fact that the first day of the twenty-four solar terms in the lunar calendar falls around the time of the New Year, the first day of the first month in the lunar calendar was renamed the Spring Festival, and January 1 in the solar calendar was designated as the beginning of the New Year, which is the New Year's Day. "New Year's Day", and included in the legal holidays to become the joy of the people of the country.