Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional festivals - Are Teachers' Day, Labor Day, National Day and August 1st Army Day traditional festivals?

Are Teachers' Day, Labor Day, National Day and August 1st Army Day traditional festivals?

Don't belong. The traditional festivals in China mainly include Spring Festival (the first day of the first month), Lantern Festival (the fifteenth day of the first month), Dragon Head Raising (February 2), Social Day Festival (February 2), Tomb-Sweeping Day (around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar) and Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month).

China Valentine's Day (the seventh day of the seventh lunar month), July 30 (the 14th/15th of the seventh lunar month), Mid-Autumn Festival (the 15th of the eighth lunar month), Double Ninth Festival (the 9th of the ninth lunar month), Winter Solstice Festival (Gregorian calendar 65438+ February 2 1 ~ 23), New Year's Eve (the last day of the year), etc.

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Most holiday customs appeared in ancient times, but their richness and popularity have gone through a long process of development. Folk festivals come from humanities and natural culture, and the earliest folk activities are related to primitive worship and sacrificial culture. Every traditional festival has its own activity carrier, such as Lantern Festival, dragon boat race and ancestor worship.

Most traditional festivals were formed in ancient times. In the pre-Qin period, due to the different customs between the north and the south, the customs between the north and the south have not been integrated and popularized, and many ancient festivals and customs activities are rarely recorded in the Central Plains literature. The Han Dynasty was the first great development period after the reunification of China. The economic and cultural exchanges between the North and the South made customs and habits merge with each other, which provided good social conditions for the spread and popularization of festival customs.