When are Shangyuan Festival and Zhongyuan Festival? What are the customs?

The dates and customs of Shangyuan Festival and Zhongyuan Festival are as follows:

1, Shangyuan Festival, also known as Lantern Festival and Yuanxiao, is the 15th day of the first lunar month every year. Shangyuan Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities, such as watching lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, solve riddles on the lanterns and setting off fireworks. In addition, in many places, traditional folk performances, such as playing dragon lanterns, playing lions, walking on stilts, boating, yangko dancing and playing Taiping drums, have all joined the Lantern Festival. In June 2008, the Lantern Festival was selected as the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage.

2. Mid-Autumn Festival, alias July 30th, July 14th, ancestor worship day, local officials' day, etc. The fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month is the Mid-Autumn Festival. On this day, people take sacrifices to the graves to pay homage to their ancestors, similar to Tomb-Sweeping Day's grave-sweeping. It is one of the biggest folk festivals in China, in order to remember ancestors and deceased relatives and friends, and to convey the feelings of missing.

Sacrificing ancestors on July 14/ 15 is a traditional cultural festival popular in Chinese character cultural circles of various countries and overseas Chinese areas, and it is also a traditional festival to worship ancestors on the same footing as 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.