What are the traditional Chinese festivals?

1, the Spring Festival, is the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, also known as the lunar year, commonly known as "New Year". This is one of the grandest and most lively traditional festivals in China. Spring Festival is here, meaning that spring will come, the recovery of grass and trees renewed, a new round of sowing and harvesting season will begin.

2, the Spring Festival means the beginning of the year, but also the farewell to the past year, this day out of the travelers have returned home to enjoy the reunion celebration.

3. Every year, on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, just after the Spring Festival, the traditional Chinese festival, the Lantern Festival, is ushered in. According to Chinese folk tradition, on this day the moon is high in the night, people want to light up the colorful lanterns, in order to celebrate. Going out to enjoy the moon, burning lanterns and fireworks, guessing lantern riddles, *** eating Lantern Festival, family reunion, celebrating the festival together, a happy and harmonious.

4, Qingming is our country's traditional festival, but also the most important festival of sacrifice, is the ancestor and tomb sweeping days. Tomb-sweeping is commonly known as tomb-sweeping, an activity to honor the dead.

5, the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, is a traditional Chinese folk festival - Dragon Boat Festival, which is one of the ancient traditional festivals of the Chinese nation. Duanwu is also known as Duanwu, Duanyang. In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival has many aliases, such as: Wuzhi Festival, heavy five festival, May Festival, Bath Orchid Festival, Daughter's Festival, Tianzhong Festival, the ground wax, the Poet's Day, Dragon Day and so on.

6, in our country, the night of the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the weather is warm, grass and trees, which is commonly known as the Tanabata Festival, some people call it "Begging for coincidence festival" or "Daughter's Day", which is one of the most romantic of the traditional Chinese festival! This is one of the most romantic of the traditional Chinese festivals, and also the most important day for girls in the past. Nowadays, it is also called Chinese Valentine's Day.

7. The traditional Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar. This is the middle of the fall season of the year, so it is called the Mid-Autumn Festival. On this day, people look up at the bright moon in the sky, which is like a jade disk, and naturally look forward to family reunions. People who are far away from their hometowns also take this opportunity to express their longing for their hometowns and loved ones. Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as the "reunion festival".

8, the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, for the traditional Chongyang Festival. Because the ancient "I Ching" in the "six" as the number of yin, the "nine" as the number of yang, September 9, the sun and the moon and yang, the two nine heavy, so it is called Chung Yeung, also known as Chung Kau. On this day, people climbed to see the distance, eat heavy sun cake, drink chrysanthemum wine and so on. Nowadays, Chongyang is also endowed with respect for the elderly and filial piety, for the Festival of Respect for the Elderly.

9, the winter solstice festival is according to the festival, the time in the annual solar calendar between December 22nd or 23rd. The winter solstice is the day with the shortest day and longest night in the whole year in the northern hemisphere, and after the winter solstice, the day will become longer day by day. People cook many delicacies on this day, such as dumplings in the north and mutton in the south.

The main traditional Chinese festivals are Spring Festival (the first day of the first month), Lantern Festival (the fifteenth day of the first month), Dragon Head-raising (the second day of the second month), Shezhi Festival (the second day of the second month), Chingming Festival (around the fifth day of the fourth month on the Gregorian calendar), Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth month of the Gregorian calendar), Tanabata Festival (the seventh day of the seventh month on the Gregorian calendar), the half of the seventh moon (the fourteenth/fifteenth day of the seventh month on the Gregorian calendar), Mid-Autumn Festival (the fifteenth day of the eighth month on the Gregorian calendar), and Chongyang Festival (the ninth day of the ninth month on the Gregorian calendar), Winter Solstice Festival (December 21~23 on the lunar calendar), and New Year's Eve (the last day of the year). [1]

10. In addition, among the twenty-four solar terms, there are some individual natural points as well as traditional festivals, such as: Qingming, winter solstice, etc. These festivals have two major connotations of both nature and humanities, and they are both natural points as well as traditional festivals.