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Introduction to traditional festivals: 5, each with 50 words.

1, Spring Festival

The Spring Festival, the Lunar New Year, is the beginning of a year and a traditional "festival". Commonly known as Spring Festival, New Year, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve and so on. It is also known verbally as New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve. The Spring Festival has a long history, which evolved from praying for the New Year at the beginning of the year in ancient times.

Everything is based on the sky, and people are based on their ancestors. It is also the opposite to pray for the ancestors who worship the sky. The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations, and it carries rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development. During the Spring Festival, various activities are held all over the country to celebrate the Spring Festival, with a lively and festive atmosphere.

2. Double Ninth Festival

Double Ninth Festival, the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, is a traditional folk festival in China. In the Book of Changes, "nine" is defined as yang number, and "nine-nine" is called "Chongyang" because of its heavy yang number. It is also called "Double Ninth Festival", because both the date and the month conform to nine. Returning to the truth of 1999, the ancients thought that 1999 Chongyang was an auspicious day.

In ancient times, there were folk customs such as climbing to pray for blessings, enjoying chrysanthemums in autumn, wearing dogwood, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, and feasting on the Double Ninth Festival. So far, it has added the connotation of respecting the elderly, feasting on the day of Chongyang, and being grateful for respecting the elderly. Climbing mountains and enjoying autumn and giving thanks and respecting the elderly are two important themes of today's Double Ninth Festival.

3. Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Little Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival, is one of the traditional festivals in China on the 15th day of the first lunar month. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called "night". The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night in a year, so it is called "Lantern Festival".

According to the Taoist "Sanyuan Festival", the fifteenth day of the first month is also called "Shangyuan Festival". Since ancient times, the custom of Lantern Festival has been based on the warm and festive custom of watching lanterns.

4. Tomb-Sweeping Day

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as outing festival, outing festival, March festival and ancestor worship festival, is celebrated at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day originated from the ancient Spring Festival, which has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is not only a natural solar term, but also a traditional festival. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional major Spring Festival, and sweeping graves to worship ancestors is a fine tradition of the Chinese nation for thousands of years.

It is not only conducive to promoting filial piety, awakening family memories, but also conducive to promoting the cohesion and identity of family members and even the nation. Tomb-Sweeping Day's integration of natural solar terms and humanistic customs is a combination of humanistic and natural conditions, which fully embodies the Chinese ancestors' pursuit of harmony between heaven, earth and people, pays attention to conforming to the right time, place and people, and follows the laws of nature.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is rich in festivals and customs. Grave-sweeping and hiking are two major themes of etiquette and custom in Tomb-Sweeping Day. The two traditional themes of etiquette and custom have been passed down in China since ancient times and have never stopped.

5. Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Noon Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhengyang Festival, Magnolia Festival and Tianzhong Festival, is a traditional folk festival in China. Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of astronomical phenomena and evolved from the ancient dragon totem sacrifice. On the midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, the black dragon rises to the south of Zhongtian for seven nights, which is the day when the dragon ascends to heaven.

That is, as the fifth divination in the Book of Changes says: "The flying dragon is in the sky"; At this time, Longxing is both "middle" and "middle", which is bound to win, and Enshi is also the aspiration of the people. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers the ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects, and contains profound and rich cultural connotations.

The Dragon Boat Festival combines a variety of folk customs in its inheritance and development, and the festival customs are rich in content. Picking dragon boats and eating zongzi are the two major themes of the Dragon Boat Festival, which have been handed down in China since ancient times and have never stopped.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-China Traditional Festival