What are the top ten traditional festivals in China and China?

1. Ten traditional festivals in China: Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Qixi Festival, Ghost Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival and New Year's Eve. Most traditional festivals developed from ancient times. From these festival customs that have been passed down to this day, we can clearly see the wonderful pictures of ancient people's social life.

2. Spring Festival: Spring Festival is the first day of the first lunar month, also known as the lunar calendar, commonly known as "New Year". This is the biggest and most lively traditional festival in China. The Spring Festival has a long history, which originated from the activities of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors in the beginning and end of the Shang Dynasty. According to the China lunar calendar, the first day of the first month is called Yuanri, Chen Yuan, Jacky, Yuanshuo and New Year's Day. Commonly known as the first day of the first month. It was changed to Gregorian calendar in the Republic of China. The first day of the Gregorian calendar is called New Year's Day, and the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar is called Spring Festival.

Lantern Festival: The 15th day of the first lunar month is the first traditional festival in China after the Spring Festival. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called the night "Xiao", so they called the fifteenth day of the first month the Lantern Festival. The fifteenth day of the first month is the night of the first full moon in a year and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty. On the night of Spring Festival, people celebrate this festival and the continuation of the Spring Festival. Lantern Festival is also called "Shangyuan Festival". According to the folk tradition in China, on this bright night, people light thousands of lanterns to celebrate. Going out to enjoy the moon, lighting and setting fires, enjoying lantern riddles, eating Yuanxiao, family reunion and celebrating festivals are all enjoyment. It is also one of the favorite days for girls and boys in the past.

4. Tomb-Sweeping Day: Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the 24 solar terms in China, usually around April 5th in Gregorian calendar. As soon as Qingming arrives, the temperature rises and the rainfall increases, which is a good time for spring ploughing and planting. So before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, there was an agricultural proverb called "Planting trees is not as good as Tomb-Sweeping Day". It can be seen that this solar term is closely related to agricultural production. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival in China, and it is also the most important festival to worship ancestors and sweep graves. Grave-sweeping is commonly known as going to the grave and offering sacrifices to the dead. Most Han people and some ethnic minorities visit graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Dragon Boat Festival: The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is a traditional folk festival in China and one of the ancient traditional festivals of the Chinese nation. The Dragon Boat Festival is also called Dragon Boat Festival and Duanyang. Mainly in memory of Qu Yuan, a great poet in ancient China. On this day, people eat zongzi and row dragon boats.

6. China Valentine's Day: the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. In our country, this night, the weather is warm and the plants are fragrant, commonly known as Qixi, and some people call it "Begging for Cleverness Festival" or "Daughter's Day". According to folklore, this day is the day when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet. Few people see magpies because they went to the Milky Way in the sky to bridge the gap between the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. Therefore, this day is the most romantic day in traditional festivals in China, and it is also the most important day for girls in the past. Now, in order to correspond to February 14 of the western Gregorian calendar, people in China regard this day as Valentine's Day in China.

7. Mid-Autumn Festival: The 14th/15th day of the seventh lunar month is the Orchid Festival, also known as Mid-Autumn Festival, July 30th or Ghost Festival. In the past, people would prepare some dishes, wine, rice, gold and silver clothes and paper on this night to worship ghosts and gods at the intersection. It is said that on that day, Yan Xihui will spend the festive season with ghosts dressed in costumes. Let us living people bless them together and wish people in another world all their wishes come true and enjoy the happiness that this world has not had time to enjoy. Therefore, many local festivals in our country will hold activities such as offering sacrifices, chanting Buddha, sweeping graves, reviewing, enjoying flowers and fishing to celebrate.

8. Mid-Autumn Festival: August 15th of the lunar calendar is the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival. This is the middle of autumn, so it is called Mid-Autumn Festival. In China's lunar calendar, a year is divided into four seasons, and each season is divided into three parts: Meng, Zhong and Ji, so the Mid-Autumn Festival is also called the Mid-Autumn Festival. The moon on August 15 is rounder and brighter than the full moon in other months, so it is also called "moonlit night" and "August Festival". On this night, people look up at the bright moon like jade in the sky and naturally look forward to family reunion. Wanderers who are far away from home also take this opportunity to pin their thoughts on their relatives in their hometown. Therefore, Mid-Autumn Festival is also called "Reunion Festival".

9. Double Ninth Festival: The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the traditional Double Ninth Festival. Because in the ancient Book of Changes, "six" was defined as yin number, and "nine" was defined as yang number. On September 9, the sun and the moon combined with yang, and 29 was the most important, so it was called Chongyang, also called Chongyang. The ancients thought it was an auspicious day to celebrate, and this festival was celebrated from a very young age.

10, the activities to celebrate the Double Ninth Festival are colorful and romantic, generally including sightseeing, climbing to the top, watching chrysanthemums, planting dogwoods everywhere, eating double ninth festival cakes, drinking chrysanthemum wine and other activities. Double Ninth Festival, because it is homophonic with "long", and nine is the largest number in the number, which means long life. Moreover, autumn is also the golden season of harvest in a year, and the Double Ninth Festival has far-reaching influence. People have always had special feelings for this festival. There are many excellent poems in Tang poetry and Song poetry to congratulate the Double Ninth Festival and chant chrysanthemums.

1 1, off-year: Spring Festival folklore. Have a small year before the Chinese New Year. Off-year is the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month. In China, it is the beginning and foreshadowing of the whole Spring Festival celebration. There are two main customs: sweeping the year and offering sacrifices to stoves.

12, New Year's Eve: The last day of the twelfth lunar month is except the day, except for the night called New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, Big Festival, Daqing Festival and so on. People call it New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve. The zero point of New Year's Eve is a watershed for two years. As the saying goes, "One night for two years, five hours for two years."