What are the seven traditional festivals of national intangible cultural heritage?

Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, China Valentine's Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival.

1, Spring Festival

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.

Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China.

The folk custom of Spring Festival was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

2. Tomb-Sweeping Day

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as outing festival, outing festival, March festival and ancestor worship festival, is celebrated at the turn of mid-spring and late spring.

Qingming has two connotations: nature and humanity. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival.

Tomb-Sweeping Day, Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China.

Besides China, some countries and regions in the world also have Tomb-Sweeping Day, such as Viet Nam, South Korea, Malaysia and Singapore.

In these countries, there are similarities and differences between the traditions of Tomb-Sweeping Day and China.

On May 20th, 2006, with the approval of the State Council, Tomb-Sweeping Day announced by People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Ministry of Culture was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

3. Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Noon Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhengyang Festival, Magnolia Festival and Tianzhong Festival, is a traditional folk festival in China.

Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional folk festivals in China.

Dragon Boat Festival culture has a wide influence in the world, and some countries and regions in the world also have the custom of celebrating Dragon Boat Festival.

In May 2006, the State Council listed the Dragon Boat Festival in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list; Since 2008, it has been listed as a national statutory holiday.

In September, 2009, UNESCO officially approved its inclusion in the representative list of intangible cultural heritage of mankind, and the Dragon Boat Festival became the first festival in China to be selected as a world intangible heritage.

4. Chinese Valentine's Day

China Valentine's Day, also known as Qiaoqi Festival, Qiaoqi Festival, Qixi Festival and Seven Sisters's birthday, is a comprehensive festival with love as the theme and women as the main body.

Valentine's Day in China is the earliest love festival in the world. It is a traditional folk custom in China to sit and watch the morning glory and the Weaver Girl, visit friends in the boudoir, worship the Weaver Girl, seek marriage, learn needlework, and pray for blessings.

In ancient times, when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl met at the "Queqiao Bridge" on Qixi night, countless sentient men and women in the world would pray for happiness in marriage before the stars.

Valentine's Day in China originated in China, and it is also celebrated in some Asian countries influenced by China culture, such as Japan, Korean Peninsula and Viet Nam.

On May 20th, 2006, China Valentine's Day was listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage by People's Republic of China (PRC) and the State Council.

5. Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Mid-Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, August Festival, Moon Chasing Festival, Moon Worship Festival, Daughter's Day or Reunion Festival, is a traditional cultural festival popular in many ethnic groups and countries with Chinese cultural circles in China, and 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.

The Mid-Autumn Festival began in the early years of the Tang Dynasty and prevailed in the Song Dynasty. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it had become one of the traditional festivals in China, which was as famous as the Spring Festival.

Influenced by China culture, Mid-Autumn Festival is also a traditional festival for overseas Chinese in some countries in East and Southeast Asia, especially local Chinese.

Since 2008, Mid-Autumn Festival has been listed as a national statutory holiday.

On May 20th, 2006, it was listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage by the State Council.

6. Double Ninth Festival

Double Ninth Festival, the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, is a traditional folk festival in China.

In the historical development and evolution, the Double Ninth Festival is a mixture of various folk customs, bearing rich cultural connotations.

In the folk concept, "nine" is the largest number, which means longevity, and it places people's wishes for the health and longevity of the elderly.

From 65438 to 0989, the ninth day of the ninth lunar month was designated as "Respect for the Elderly", which advocated the whole society to establish the atmosphere of respecting, respecting, loving and helping the elderly.

On May 20th, 2006, the Double Ninth Festival was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage in the State Council.

7. Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival, that is, the ancestor worship festival in July and a half, is also called Shigu Festival, Ghost Festival, Solitary Festival and Local Officials' Day. Festival customs mainly include ancestor worship, setting off river lanterns, worshipping the dead and burning paper ingots.

Mid-Autumn Festival evolved from the ancient "July and a half", harvesting crops in autumn and offering sacrifices to ancestors.

July and a half is a festival to celebrate the harvest and repay the earth in early autumn, and some crops have matured. As a rule, people should worship their ancestors and report Qiu Cheng to them with new rice. It is a traditional cultural festival to commemorate ancestors, and its cultural core is to respect ancestors and filial parents.

"July 30th" was originally an ancient folk festival to worship ancestors, but it was called "Central Plains Festival" and originated from Taoism after the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Taoism believes that July and a half is the birthday of local officials. On this day, they pray for forgiveness, all ghosts will be released from the underworld, and the deceased ancestors can go home for reunion, so it is called "Mid-Autumn Festival".

Buddhism is called "Kasahara Festival".

In the Tang Dynasty, the rulers respected Taoism, and the Taoist Mid-Autumn Festival became popular, and gradually fixed the "Mid-Autumn Festival" as the name of the festival.

Zhongyuan Festival, Shangyuan Festival and Xiayuan Festival are collectively called "Sanyuan Festival".

July 14/15 is a traditional cultural festival popular in Chinese cultural circle countries and overseas Chinese areas, and it is also a traditional festival to worship ancestors together with New Year's Eve, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Chung Yeung Festival.

20 10 in may, the "mid-autumn festival" declared by the Ministry of culture in the hong kong special administrative region was selected into the national intangible cultural heritage list.