Are the four major traditional Chinese festivals related to the rotation of the Earth or the motion of the Moon around the Earth?

China's four major traditional festivals are the Spring Festival, Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, of which Qingming is related to the Earth's rotation around the sun; and Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are related to the movement of the moon around the Earth.

One, the Spring Festival

The Spring Festival, that is, the Lunar New Year, commonly known as "New Year's Day", generally from the Lunar New Year's twenty-third of the sacrificial stove to the first month of the fifteenth, or from the beginning of Lunar New Year's eighth, and until the end of the first month of the New Year, which New Year's Eve and the first day of the Lunar New Year for the climax. Since the first year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the first day of the first month of the summer year (lunar calendar) was taken as the "first day of the year" (i.e., the "year"), and the date of the festival was thus fixed and continues to this day. The Spring Festival, with its long duration, wide geographical span and rich festive activities, is the most important and grandest traditional festival in China, as well as the one with the longest and most lively history. The Spring Festival originated in the Yinshang period, when sacrifices were made to the gods and ancestors at the end of the year.

Two, Qingming Festival

China's traditional Qingming Festival began around the Zhou Dynasty,

has a history of more than two thousand five hundred years. Qingming is a very important festival in the beginning, Qingming, the temperature rises, it is a good time for spring plowing and planting, so there is "before and after Qingming, planting melons and beans". "Tree planting, no more than the Qingming" proverbs. Later, due to the Qingming and cold food days close, and cold food is the folk ban on fire sweeping days, gradually, cold food and Qingming on the merger of one, and cold food has become the alias of Qingming, but also become a custom for the Qingming festival, Qingming day does not move the fireworks, only eat cold food.

Three, the Dragon Boat Festival

On the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, there are many different historical data, such as: to commemorate the Qu Yuan said; to commemorate the Wu Zixu said; to commemorate the Cao'e said; the summer solstice festival in the third generation said; the evil month of the bad day to drive to avoid that the ancient Vietnamese national totem sacrifices said and so on. Each of the above said, each of its origin. According to Mr. Wen Yiduo's "Dragon Boat Festival" and "Dragon Boat Festival History Education" listed more than a hundred ancient records and expert archaeological evidence, the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, is the ancient Chinese southern Wu Yue people held a totem festival, earlier than Qu Yuan. But over the centuries, Qu Yuan's patriotic spirit and touching poetry have been widely popular, so the idea of honoring him

has the widest and deepest impact and occupies a mainstream position.

Four, Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival, the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, originated from the ancient activities of the moon festival to welcome the cold, one of China's traditional festivals. Since 2008, the Mid-Autumn Festival has been listed as a national legal holiday. The state attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage, on May 20, 2006, the festival was approved by the State Council included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.