Chinese Memorial Day Festivals

1, the Spring Festival

Time: the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar in the narrow sense, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar in the broad sense to the first month of the 15th.

The Spring Festival refers to the traditional Chinese New Year in the Chinese character culture circle, the traditional name for the new year, the big year, the new year, but also known verbally as the degree of the year, celebrate the new year, the New Year. In ancient times, the Spring Festival used to refer exclusively to the beginning of spring in the solar calendar, which was also considered the beginning of the year, but later it was changed to the beginning of the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar as the New Year, and it is generally believed that the New Year does not end until at least the fifteenth day of the first month of the first lunar month (Shangyuan Festival).

The concepts of Spring Festival and New Year's Day originally came from agriculture, where people called the growth cycle of grain "year". The ancient people called the growth cycle of the grain "Nian", "Shuowen. It is difficult to know when the Spring Festival (Summer New Year) originated, but it is generally believed to have originated from the end of the year in the Yin Shang period in China, when sacrifices to the gods and ancestors were performed (La Sacrifice).

2, Lantern Festival

The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon of the year, but also the beginning of the year, the night of the return of spring to the earth, people celebrate this, but also to celebrate the continuation of the New Year, and therefore is also known as the "Festival of the New Year", that is, the first day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar. In ancient books, this day is called "on the Yuan", the night called "Yuan night", "Yuan Xi" or "Lantern Festival". The name "Lantern Festival" has been used until now.

3, Qingming Festival

Qingming Festival, also known as the Treading Green Festival, in the mid-spring and late spring at the intersection of the winter solstice, that is, the 108th day after the winter solstice. It is a traditional Chinese festival and one of the most important festivals for ancestor worship and tomb-sweeping .

The traditional Qingming Festival of the Han Chinese people began around the Zhou Dynasty, more than 2,500 years ago. Influenced by Han culture, 24 ethnic minorities in China, including Manchu, Hezhen, Zhuang, Oroqen, Dong, Tujia, Miao, Yao, Li, Shui, Jing and Qiang, also have the custom of celebrating Qingming Festival.

4, Dragon Boat Festival

Duanwu Festival, for the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, also known as the Duanyang Festival, Wuzhi Festival, May Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Bath Orchid Festival. It is a traditional cultural festival that is popular in China as well as the countries in the Chinese character cultural circle.

The Dragon Boat Festival originated in the country, initially for the festival of disease prevention, Wu and Yue before the Spring and Autumn in the form of dragon boat race on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar to hold a tribal totem sacrifices custom; after the poet Qu Yuan held the stone threw himself into the Miluo River death, and became a traditional Chinese festival to commemorate the qu yuan; part of the region is also in memory of Wu Zixu, Cao E, and other sayings.

5, the People's Liberation Army Army Anniversary

August 1 every year is the People's Liberation Army Anniversary, commonly known as "August 1" Army Day. It originated from the Nanchang Uprising led by the Chinese ****producers during China's domestic democratic revolution.

August 1, 1927, China's ****-producing party led the Northern Expeditionary Army of more than 30,000 people, under the leadership of Zhou Enlai, He Long, Ye Ting, Zhu De, Liu Bocheng and other leaders, in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, held an armed insurrection, the first shot against the Kuomintang reactionaries. Marking the entry of China into a new period of independent leadership of the Chinese ****production party armed revolution, marking the birth of China's new people's army.