Intangible Cultural Heritage Festivals Introduction to Traditional Chinese Festivals

The Spring Festival, also known as the Lunar New Year, is the beginning of the year and is also a "New Year's Day" in the traditional sense. Commonly known as New Year, New Year, New Year, New Year, Nian Xi, New Year, etc., it is also known verbally as celebrating the new year, celebrating the new year, celebrating the new year, and celebrating the new year.

The Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also known as the four traditional festivals in China. Spring Festival folk customs were approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists.

2. Qingming Festival

Qingming Festival, also known as Outing Festival, Qingming Festival, March Festival and Ancestor Worship Festival, falls at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Qingming has both natural and cultural connotations. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival.

3. Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Duanyang Festival, Chongwu Festival, Midday Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhengyang Festival, Bath Orchid Festival, Tianzhong Festival, etc., is a traditional Chinese folk festival.

4. Chinese Valentine’s Day

Qixi Festival, also known as Qiqiao Festival, Qiqiao Festival, Double Seventh Festival, Qixi Festival, etc., is a comprehensive festival with the folk legend of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl" as the carrier, love as the theme, and women as the main body.

The Chinese Valentine's Day is the earliest love festival in the world. On the night of the Chinese Valentine's Day, you can sit and watch the Altair and the Vega, visit your close friends, pay homage to the Weaver, pray for marriage, compete with women, beg for cleverness and pray for blessings, etc. These are traditional Chinese folk customs.

5. Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Eve, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, August Festival, August Meeting, Moon Chasing Festival, Moon Playing Festival, Moon Worshiping Festival, Daughter's Day or Reunion Festival, is popular among many ethnic groups and Chinese character cultural circles in China. The traditional cultural festival of various countries falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. Because it happens to be in the middle of the third autumn, hence the name, some places also set the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 16th day of the eighth month.