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Chinese Excellent Traditional Festivals

1. The Lantern Festival, also known as the Festival of Lights, the Small First Moon, the First Night, and the Festival of the Upper Elements, falls on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called "night" for "night", the first month of the fifteenth day is the first full moon in a year, so the first month of the fifteenth day of the first month for the "Lantern Festival".

2. Spring Festival, the Lunar New Year, commonly known as New Year, New Year, New Year's Day, etc., also known as the verbal New Year, the New Year. The Spring Festival has a long history, evolved from the ancient times of the first year of prayer and sacrifice. All things are based on the sky, people are based on the ancestors, praying for the year of sacrifice, honoring the sky and the ancestors, to report the beginning of the reverse.

3. The Qingming Festival, also known as the Treading Green Festival, the Hsing Ching Festival, the March Festival, the Ancestor Festival, etc., is held at the intersection of mid-spring and late spring. The Qingming Festival originates from the belief in ancestors and the rituals and customs of the spring festival in ancient times, and has both natural and humanistic connotations; it is both a natural festival point and a traditional festival. Qingming Festival is a traditional major spring festival, tomb-sweeping rituals, remembering ancestors, is the fine tradition of the Chinese nation for thousands of years, is not only conducive to the promotion of filial piety and affection, awakening the family *** with the memory, but also to promote the cohesion of the family members and even the nation's cohesion and sense of identity.

The Spring Festival