What are the 16 traditional festivals in China

There are 16 traditional festivals in China are Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Head Lifting, Flower Pilgrimage Festival, Cold Food Festival, Ching Ming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Tanabata Festival, Mid-Yuan Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Chungyang Festival, Cold Clothes Festival, Winter Solstice, Lahai Festival, Lunar New Year's Day and New Year's Eve.

Traditional Chinese festivals, an important part of the long history and culture of the Chinese nation, are diverse and rich in content. The formation of traditional festivals is a process of long-term accumulation and cohesion of the history and culture of a nation or country.

The ancient traditional festivals of the Chinese nation cover humanistic and natural cultural contents such as primitive beliefs, sacrificial cultures, astronomical calendars, and the arts and sciences, and contain profound and rich cultural connotations. The Chinese traditional festivals developed from the time of the ancient ancestors not only clearly record the rich and colorful social life and cultural contents of the Chinese ancestors, but also accumulate profound historical and cultural connotations.

In addition, among the twenty-four festivals, there are some individual natural festivals as well as traditional festivals, such as the Qingming Festival and the Winter Solstice Festival, which have both natural and humanistic connotations, and are both natural festivals and traditional festivals.

Traditional festivals are an important carrier for the inheritance of excellent history and culture, which not only enable people to increase their knowledge and be taught during the festivals, but also help to manifest culture, promote virtues, cultivate morals and carry forward traditions. Folk festival is a product of the evolutionary development of human civilization, most of the festival customs in the ancient times has been the first appearance.

The formation of traditional festivals:

The origin and inheritance of ancient traditional festivals is a "gradual cultural process" of human society, and is a product of the evolutionary development of human civilization. According to the research results of modern anthropology and archaeology, the two most primitive beliefs of human beings are the belief in heaven and earth and the belief in ancestors.

The belief in heaven and earth and the belief in ancestors arose in the early days of mankind's worship of the natural world as well as the ancestors, which gave rise to a variety of worship and sacrificial activities. Sacrifice, a faith activity, stems from the faith belief that heaven and earth are in harmony*** with life. Ancient festivals are folk cultures created by people based on primitive beliefs as well as in order to adapt to the needs of life, and some of the festivals and customs handed down in ancient times.

Clearly recorded the ancient people's colorful social life content, but also accumulated the profound Chinese history and culture connotation. Ancient farming society in the people in the peace and happiness of the day to choose a day to worship the gods and ancestors will have a variety of regular festivals, worship of the gods and ancestors of the abundance of tribute to the development of festivals feasts, but also gradually formed a number of agreed-upon ways of celebrating the so-called festivals and folklore.