What festivals and traditional cultures are there in China?

As an ancient civilization with a long history, rich national traditional festivals are an indispensable part of China culture. Every festival has its historical origin, wonderful legends, unique flavor and deep mass base. They reflect the traditional habits, moral customs and religious ideas of the nation, and entrust the vision of the whole nation. They are distant happy events handed down from generation to generation for thousands of years.

The main traditional festivals in China are Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese Valentine's Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Winter Solstice, Laba and so on.

The Spring Festival is the largest and most lively ancient traditional festival in China. Commonly known as "Chinese New Year". According to the China lunar calendar, the first day of the first month is the beginning of a year. Traditional celebrations last from New Year's Eve to the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month. Every New Year's Eve, every family gets together to have a New Year's Eve dinner, which is called "reunion dinner". In the meantime, I talked and laughed, and I was happy. Then we celebrate our old age together, catch up with the old and talk about the new, and congratulate and encourage each other. When the new year comes, firecrackers and fireworks push the festive atmosphere to a climax. In northern China, there is a custom of eating jiaozi at this time, which means "having sex when you are young". There is a habit of eating rice cakes in the south, which symbolizes a better life. Putting up Spring Festival couplets, beating gongs and drums, saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new are very lively. In addition, there are customs such as visiting each other to celebrate the New Year, dancing lions, playing dragon lanterns, performing social fires, visiting flower markets, and watching lantern festivals.