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What are the four major festivals?

The four major festivals in China are Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. There are also professional documents about these four festivals that can be used for reference from the book China Festival Code-Four Traditional Festivals.

1, Spring Festival: Spring Festival refers to the traditional Lunar New Year in the cultural circle of Chinese characters, commonly known as "Chinese New Year Festival". The traditional names are New Year, New Year and New Year, but it is also called New Year verbally, celebrating New Year and New Year, which is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation.

2. Tomb-Sweeping Day: Qingming is the fifth solar term in the 24 solar terms of the lunar calendar, which indicates the official start of the Ji Chun season; When the sun reaches longitude 15 degrees, it will be Tomb-Sweeping Day gas. This time of year is a time to pay homage to ancestors.

3. Dragon Boat Festival: Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, also called Duanyang Festival, Noon Festival and May Festival. "Dragon Boat Festival" is one of the national legal holidays in China, and has been included in the world intangible cultural heritage list.

4. Mid-Autumn Festival: Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, August Festival, Moon Chasing Festival, Moon Appreciating Festival, Daughter's Day or Reunion Festival, is a popular traditional cultural festival in many ethnic groups and countries in China Chinese character cultural circle, which falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month; Because its value is only half that of Sanqiu, it is named, and some places set the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 16.