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What are the general folklore about the date of the festival?

As follows:

1. Spring Festival: Traditionally, the Spring Festival refers to the period from the Lunar New Year Festival on the eighth day of the first month of the lunar calendar or the Zao Festival on the twenty-third or twenty-fourth day of the lunar calendar until the nineteenth day of the first month of the first year of the Chinese lunar calendar, which culminates in the New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month of the first year of the first year of the lunar calendar. During the Spring Festival, the Han Chinese and many ethnic minorities in China celebrate with a variety of activities. These activities all focus on worshipping gods and buddhas, honoring ancestors, getting rid of the old and bringing in the new, welcoming good fortune, and praying for a good year.

2, Ching Ming Festival: Ching Ming Festival is a festival of ancestor worship, the traditional activities for sweeping graves.

3, Dragon Boat Festival: Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan, a poet of the State of Chu in the Warring States period.

4. Zhongyuan Festival: On Zhongyuan Festival, rituals are held to remember loved ones and to wish for the future.

5. Chung Yeung Festival: Chung Yeung Festival has always had the custom of climbing up to the top of the mountain, and it is often used to pay homage to ancestors and promote activities to honor the elderly.

6, Lantern Festival: the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, also known as the Festival of the New Year, the Lantern Festival is now more guessing lantern riddles, play lanterns, but this festival also belongs to the festival of sacrifice part of the festival, some areas, the Lantern Festival is required to give the ancestral tomb, "send lamps".

7, on the Si Festival: the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar, the earliest belongs to the sacrificial festival, the main activities of spring, bathing, praying, enjoying the flowers and so on.

8, Qingming Festival: around April 5 on the solar calendar, this festival is no stranger to the standard traditional festival, the main activities of this day is to sweep the graves, graves, is one of the three major ghost festivals in China.