Chinese traditional festivals

The traditional festivals in China include: 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 2nd), Social Day Festival (February 2nd), Flower Festival (February 6438 +03- February 65438 +07), Tomb-Sweeping Day (around April 5th of the Gregorian calendar) and Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month).

1, Spring Festival (the first day of the first lunar month) is the Lunar New Year, the beginning of a year, a traditional festival and the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation.

2. Lantern Festival (the fifteenth day of the first lunar month) is also called Lantern Festival, the first month, Yuanxi and Shangyuan Festival. The ancients called "night" night, and the fifteenth day of the first month was the first full moon night in a year, so it was called "Lantern Festival".

3. Tomb-Sweeping Day (around April 5th, Gregorian calendar) is also called outing festival, outing festival, March festival, ancestor worship festival, etc.

The Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month) is also called Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhengyang Festival and Tianzhong Festival.

5. Valentine's Day in China (the seventh day of the seventh lunar month) is also called Qiaoqi Festival, Qijie Festival, Daughter's Day, Qiaoqi Festival, Chinese Valentine's Day, Chinese Valentine's Day, Niuniu Festival, Chinese Valentine's Day and so on. Because the sacrifice to Qi Jie is held on the seventh day of July, it is called Qixi.

6. Mid-Autumn Festival (the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month) The Mid-Autumn Festival is the name of Taoism, which is called July 30 in folk customs and Arahara Festival in Buddhism, commonly known as Ghost Festival.

7. The Mid-Autumn Festival (August 15th of the lunar calendar) is also called Mid-Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon Worship Festival, Reunion Festival, etc. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena and evolved from the ancient sacrifice to the moon.

8. Double Ninth Festival (the ninth day of the ninth lunar month). The number of "Nine" is the number of Yang in the Book of Changes. The number of "Nine Nine" is heavy, so it is called "Double Ninth Festival", and it is called "Double Ninth Festival" because both the day and the month meet nine.

9. Winter solstice (Gregorian calendar 65438+February 2 1 or 22), also known as short day, winter festival, next year, winter worship, etc. It is one of the eight seasons and is regarded as the Great Winter Festival. In ancient times, there was a saying that the winter solstice was as big as a year, so it was called "sub-year" or "off-year".

10, Laba Festival (the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month) is commonly known as Laba. In ancient times, the sacrifice to "God" in December was called the twelfth lunar month, so the twelfth lunar month was called the twelfth lunar month, which was mainly popular in northern China.