Introduction of traditional culture

Traditional festivals in China include Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Chinese Valentine's Day. Their customs and spiritual values are as follows:

1, Spring Festival

Spring Festival is the most important festival in China, and it is also a family reunion, harmonious and joyful festival. On this day, people will take various ways to celebrate, such as setting off fireworks, pasting happy characters, sweeping dust and offering sacrifices to gods. The most important thing is to have a reunion dinner, which means reunion and blessing. The Spring Festival represents a new beginning and hope, and it is the most anticipated time of the year. This festival is of great commemorative significance and cultural value to China people.

2. Qingming

Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the most memorable traditional festivals in China. On this day, people will worship their ancestors, and burning incense, worshipping and sweeping graves are all important ceremonies in the festival. Tomb-Sweeping Day is an important part of traditional culture in China, and it is also the embodiment of filial piety and family virtues of the Chinese nation. Because of this, Tomb-Sweeping Day began to spread in China in the Spring and Autumn Period.

3. Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival is a festival to celebrate harvest and reunion. On this day, people will get together to eat moon cakes, enjoy the moon and solve riddles on the lanterns, and offer sacrifices to the moon and ancestors. In modern society, Mid-Autumn Festival is also used to express love and care, and its core spirit is family reunion and gratitude. This festival plays an important role in the inheritance and promotion of China culture, and has a strong modern value in strengthening family ties and humanistic care.

4. Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival is an important traditional festival in China. It is usually held on the fifth day of May every year. In this festival, people will eat zongzi, row dragon boats, stick mugwort leaves, drink realgar wine, swim and so on. This festival has a long history, has its own unique legends and allusions, and represents the unique charm of China culture and human wisdom. In modern society, the Dragon Boat Festival can provide us with an opportunity to attach importance to traditional culture and health.

5.tanabata

Tanabata is a traditional folk festival in China. Valentine's Day in China evolved from the worship of the stars, and it is Seven Sisters's birthday in the traditional sense. Because of the worship of Seven Sisters on the seventh day of July, it was named Tanabata. It is the traditional custom of Qixi to worship the seven sisters, pray, seek skillful art, sit and watch morning glory and weave stars, pray for marriage and store water on Qixi.

After historical development, Tanabata has been endowed with the beautiful love legend of "Cowherd and Weaver Girl", making it a festival symbolizing love, thus being regarded as the most romantic traditional festival in China, and even having the cultural meaning of "China Valentine's Day" in contemporary times.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Four Traditional Festivals in China