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Traditional Chinese festivals?

The Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Cold Food Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Tanabata Festival, Mid-Yuan Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Chrysanthemum Festival, Lunar New Year's Day, New Year's Eve.

One, the Spring Festival

The first day of the first month for the Spring Festival, for the beginning of the new year, is the Chinese nation's grandest traditional festival. The Spring Festival originated in the Yin Shang period at the end of the year, the gods and ancestral activities, is China's grandest, most lively and most important of an ancient traditional festivals. The main activities of the festival include paying homage to the New Year, putting up spring couplets, setting off firecrackers and making dumplings.

Second, Lantern Festival

The 15th day of the first month for the Lantern Festival, also known as the first year, Yuanxi, Yuan night, there is the custom of watching the lanterns, eating Lantern Festival (dumplings). Southern package of dumplings northern rolling Lantern.

Three, Cold Food Festival

Cold food in the Qingming two days before or one day, no fire, eat cold food for three days. Legend has it that when Duke Wen of Jin was in exile, Jie Zi Pui had cut his stock for him to fill his hunger, but after Duke Wen of Jin returned to his country as the king, he forgot about Jie Zi Pui by dividing his land and Jie Zi Pui was unwilling to boast of his achievements and compete for favor, so he lived in seclusion with his mother;

Later, Duke Wen of Jin repeatedly asked Jie Zi Pui to come out of the mountain, he was unwilling to serve as a government official, and finally, Duke Wen of Jin set the mountain on fire and Jie Zi Pui burned to death under the tree with his mother in his arms. In order to commemorate the loyal and righteous people, the descendants do not make fire and eat cold food on the day of Jie Zi Tui's death.

Four, Qingming Festival

Qingming Festival is April 5 every year, the main activities are sweeping graves and trekking. Qingming is also one of the twenty-four solar terms. Poems describing the Qingming Festival include "Qingming" by Du Mu of the Tang Dynasty: "The rain falls one after another during the Qingming Festival, and the pedestrians on the road want to break their souls. Where can I find a tavern? The shepherd boy pointed to the apricot blossom village.

Fifth, Dragon Boat Festival

Duanwu is the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, customary dragon boat races, eating zongzi, picking mugwort leaves, tie the red thread and so on. It is said to commemorate the death of Qu Yuan, who threw himself into the Miluo River on this day.