What are the traditional festivals of the Han nationality? What are the traditional festivals of the Han nationality?

Traditional festivals of the Han nationality include Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Shangyuan Festival, Chinese Valentine's Day, Mid-Autumn Festival and Double Ninth Festival. Among many festivals, Mid-Autumn Festival, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Dragon Boat Festival are called the four traditional festivals in China.

I. Spring Festival

The traditional names of the Spring Festival are New Year, New Year and New Year. In ancient times, the Spring Festival refers to the beginning of spring in the solar terms and is also regarded as the beginning of a year. Later, it was changed to the first day of the first lunar month as the New Year. Generally speaking, it doesn't end until the fifteenth day of the first month (Shangyuan Festival). Spring Festival, commonly known as "Chinese New Year", is the biggest traditional festival of the Chinese nation. It also symbolizes reunion, prosperity and new hope for the future. According to records, the Chinese nation has celebrated the Spring Festival for more than 4,000 years.

During the Spring Festival, Han people and many ethnic minorities in our country will hold various activities to celebrate. The main contents of these activities are to get rid of the old cloth and make new ones, to offer sacrifices to gods and buddhas, to pay homage to ancestors, to welcome the New Year and to pray for a bumper harvest. The activities are rich and colorful, with strong national characteristics.

In 2006, the folk custom of "Spring Festival" was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

In 2007, the198th executive meeting in the State Council approved the Spring Festival as a national legal holiday.

Second, Tomb-Sweeping Day.

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the outing festival, is one of the traditional festivals in China, and it is also one of the most important sacrificial festivals. It is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring, that is, 104 days after the winter solstice. This is the day to worship ancestors and sweep graves. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival in China, which started in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. China Han, Zhuang, Korean, Miao and other ethnic minorities all have the customs of Tomb-Sweeping Day. The day before in Tomb-Sweeping Day, it was forbidden to cook with fire and only eat cold food. This day is called "cold food". On that day, Tomb-Sweeping Day visited ancestors' graves and mowed their graves and added soil. After the Song Dynasty, the custom of forbidding fire in cold food gradually disappeared, and tomb sweeping in Qingming was still popular among the people.

In addition, people in Tomb-Sweeping Day have the custom of going for an outing, flying kites and swinging.

In 2006, Tomb-Sweeping Day was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

Third, Dragon Boat Festival.

Every year on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, we have the custom of eating zongzi and rowing dragon boats. This is to commemorate Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet of Chu in the Warring States Period. Qu Yuan loves patriotism, but he can't serve his country. After Chu was invaded by Qin, he died on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. In order to mourn Qu Yuan, people throw zongzi into the river on this day every year, so as to satisfy the fish and crabs, so as not to hurt Qu Yuan's health, and hold a dragon boat race to express their grief.

In 2006, the State Council listed it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

In 2009, China Dragon Boat Festival was included in the world intangible cultural heritage, becoming the first festival in China to be included in the world intangible cultural heritage.

Fourth, Mid-Autumn Festival.

Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, which falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month every year, and it is also the second largest traditional festival in China after the Spring Festival. The legend is to commemorate Chang 'e.

In the past, women or girls in some areas had to go to Yue Bai at night. The offerings of Mid-Autumn Festival are all kinds of moon cakes and watermelons cut into flower baskets, which are round and symbolize family reunion. After the worship, the whole family sat around the yard, eating moon cakes, drinking osmanthus wine and enjoying the moon. The Mid-Autumn Festival also has the custom of sending male prostitutes to children. Nowadays, the ritual of offering sacrifices to the moon has gradually disappeared, and the Mid-Autumn Festival has become a festival for people's reunion and entertainment.

In 2006, Mid-Autumn Festival was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.