Names and dates of Chinese festivals?

The traditional Chinese festivals are:

New Year's Eve (the last day of the Lunar month);

Chinese New Year's Eve (the first day of the first month);

Lunar New Year's Eve (the fifteenth day of the first month);

Chinese Cold Food Festival (the day before Ching Ming);

Chinese Ching Ming Festival (lunar calendar: around the 5th day of the 4th month);

Shangsi Festival (Chinese lunar calendar: the 3rd day of the 3rd month);

Duanwu (Dragon Boat) Festival (Lunar calendar: the fifth day of the fifth month);

Seventh Night of the Dragon Boat Festival (Lunar calendar: the seventh day of the seventh month);

Mid-Autumn Festival (Lunar calendar: the fifteenth day of the eighth month);

Chongyang (Lunar calendar: the ninth day of the ninth month);

Cold Clothing Day (Lunar calendar: the first day of the tenth month);

Laiba (Lunar calendar: the eighth day of the first month of the Lunar month);

Laolian New Year (Lunar calendar 23~~Lunar New Year's Day) and so on.

Introduction of the Spring Festival

The Spring Festival, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, also known as the lunar year, commonly known as "New Year's Day". It is one of the grandest and most lively traditional festivals in China. The Spring Festival has a long history, which originated in the Yin Shang period at the end of the year to sacrifice to the gods and ancestors.

Lantern Festival

Time: 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar

English: Lantern Festival

It is an important traditional festival in China. The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon of the year, but also the night of the beginning of the year, the earth back to spring, people celebrate this, but also to celebrate the continuation of the new year, so it is also known as the "Festival of the New Year", that is, the fifteenth day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar. In ancient books, this day is called "on the Yuan", the night called "Yuan night", "Yuan Xi" or "Lantern Festival". The name "Lantern Festival" has been used until now.

Ching Ming Festival

(Time): The day of the festival Qingming, around the fifth day of the fourth month of the Gregorian calendar (solar calendar)

The Qingming Festival is China's most important festival of worship, and is the most suitable for ancestor worship and tomb-sweeping. Tomb-sweeping is commonly known as visiting the graves, an activity to honor the dead. Most Han Chinese and some ethnic minorities sweep their tombs on the Qingming Festival.

Customs

According to the old custom, when sweeping tombs, people should bring wine, food, fruits, paper money and other items to the cemetery, offer the food to their loved ones' graves, then burn the paper money, cultivate new soil for the graves, fold a few young green twigs and stick them in the graves, then kowtow and worship, and finally eat the wine and food and go home. Du Mu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem entitled "Qingming": "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 points to the apricot blossom village." It writes about the special atmosphere of Qingming Festival.

Mid-Autumn Festival

Time: 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar

English: the mid-autumn festival

Origin

On the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar, the day is right in the middle of the autumn season, so it is called the "Mid-Autumn Festival". In the evening, the moon is full and the fragrance of laurel, the old custom people see it as a symbol of reunion, to prepare a variety of fruits and cooked food, is a good festival to enjoy the moon. Mid-Autumn Festival also eat moon cakes.

Expanded:

Traditional Chinese festivals are varied in form and rich in content, and they are an important constituent of the long history and culture of the Chinese nation. It is an important component of the long history and culture of the Chinese nation, and is the legal system of a "civilized society based on the rule of law" and the basic framework of a regional civilized country.

The origin and development of festivals is a "gradually formed, gradually perfected cultural process" of human society, and is a product of the evolutionary development of civilization from ape to human.

China's traditional festivals are characterized by myths, legends, astronomy, geography, numerology, calendars, and other humanistic and natural cultural contents.

Documentary records can be traced back to at least "Xia Xiaozheng", "Shangshu", to the period of the Warring States period, the division of the year into twenty-four festivals, has basically completed, and later on, the traditional festivals, and these festivals are all closely related.

Each traditional Chinese festival has its own origin and the necessary conditions for its formation.

The festivals provided the prerequisites for the creation of the festival, and most of the festivals were already in their infancy during the pre-Qin period, but the enrichment and popularization of their customary content required a long process of development.

The earliest customs were related to primitive worship and taboos; myths and legends added a touch of romance to the festivals; there was also the impact and influence of religion on the festivals; and the eternal remembrance of historical figures seeped into the festivals, all of which blended into a cohesive festival content, giving the Chinese festivals a deep sense of history.

By the Han Dynasty, China's major traditional festivals had already been finalized, and it is often said that these festivals originated in the Han Dynasty, which was the first period of great development after the unification of China, characterized by political and economic stability, and a great development of science and culture, which provided good social conditions for the final formation of the festivals.

Festivals developed into the Tang Dynasty, which had been liberated from the atmosphere of primitive worship and forbidden mystery. Turned into entertainment ceremonial type, become a real festival of good times. Since then, the festival has become joyful and festive, colorful, many sports, enjoyment of the content of the activities appeared, and soon became a fashionable popular, these customs have continued to develop, enduring.

Reference:

Baidu Encyclopedia: Traditional Chinese Festivals