A list of all festivals in a year.

The order of all festivals in a year is Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Cold Food Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Qixi Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Laba Festival, off-year and New Year's Eve.

I. Spring Festival

The first day of the first month is the Spring Festival, which is the beginning of a new year and the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation. The Spring Festival originated from the activities of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors in the beginning and end of the Shang Dynasty. It is the biggest, most lively and most important ancient traditional festival in China.

Second, Lantern Festival.

Lantern Festival, also known as Lantern Festival, Little First Month, Yuanxi Festival and Shangyuan Festival, is the 15th day of the first lunar month and one of the traditional festivals in China. 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".

Third, the Cold Food Festival.

Cold Food Festival, also known as "No-smoking Festival", "Cold Food Festival" and "Hundred Days Festival", was held two days before or the day before in Tomb-Sweeping Day. Smoking is forbidden and only cold food is eaten on this day, so it is called "Cold Food Festival".

Fourth, Tomb-Sweeping Day

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as outing festival, outing festival, March festival, ancestor worship festival, etc. It is on April 5 every year, and the festival period is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day originated from the ancestral belief and the custom of worshipping spring in ancient times, which has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival.

Five, Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Dragon Boat Festival is also called Duanyang Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhengyang Festival, Magnolia Festival, Tian Yue Festival, Vanilla Festival and Tianzhong Festival.

The ancients always advocated the way of center and right. The original meaning of the word "Duan" in the Dragon Boat Festival is "right" and "noon" is "middle". "Dragon Boat Festival" and "Chiang Kai-shek" are also right, and noon on this day is right in the middle. Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of astronomical phenomena and evolved from the ancient Dragon Boat Festival.

Sixth, Tanabata.

Tanabata is the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. China Valentine's Day, also known as Qiaoqi Festival, Qijie Festival, Daughter's Day, Qiaoqi Festival, Qixi Festival, Qiaoxi Festival, Niuniupo Day, Shuangqi Festival, etc. It is a traditional folk festival in China, which is the birthday of Qi Jie in the traditional sense. Because the sacrificial ceremony was held on the seventh day of July, it was named Tanabata.

Seven, Mid-Autumn Festival

The Central Plains is the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month. Mid-Autumn Festival is the name of Taoism, which is called July 30 and July 14 in folklore and ancestor worship festival in Buddhism. Festival customs mainly include offering sacrifices to ancestors, setting off river lanterns, offering sacrifices to the dead, burning paper ingots and offering sacrifices to the ground.

Eight, Mid-Autumn Festival

The Mid-Autumn Festival is August 15, which is in the center of the three months in autumn. At this time, it is around the autumnal equinox, the autumn is crisp, and the moon is brighter at the full moon, which is the time for family reunion.

Nine, Double Ninth Festival

Double Ninth Festival, the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, is a traditional folk festival in China. The Book of Changes defines "nine" as yang number, and the two yang numbers of "nine nine" are heavier, so it is called "Chongyang"; It is also called "Double Ninth Festival", because both the date and the month conform to nine.

Laba festival

Laba Festival, commonly known as Laba, is celebrated on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month and is mainly popular in northern China. The custom of this festival is "drinking Laba porridge". Laba is one of the grand festivals in Buddhism, and it is also the day when Buddha Sakyamuni became a monk and became a Taoist, also known as "magic weapon festival", "Buddhist and Taoist festival" and "Taoist meeting".

Xi。 Little?New?Year

Off-year, not just a day, is called "off-year" because of local customs. During the off-year period, the main folk activities include sweeping dust and offering sacrifices to stoves. In the early and middle Qing Dynasty, the sacrificial furnace was always the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, at least until the Qianlong period.

Since the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the emperor's family held a ceremony to worship heaven on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. In order to "save money", they also offered sacrifices to the kitchen god, so people in the northern region followed suit and celebrated the festival on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. In most parts of the south, the ancient tradition of celebrating the Lunar New Year on the 24th of the twelfth lunar month is still maintained.

Twelve, New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve is the last night at the end of the year. The last day of the end of the year is called "year's minute", which means that the old year is divided and replaced by the new year. In addition, it means to remove, and night means night. "New Year's Eve" means the day before the New Year, also known as New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve, which is the last night of the year.