Dates of the four major traditional Chinese festivals

1, Spring Festival

2008 Spring Festival is on February 7th. The first day of January in the lunar calendar every year, deservedly is the most traditional Chinese festival, the Spring Festival customs include: go home, sticking Spring Festival couplets, firecrackers, eating dumplings, eating reunion dinner, visiting friends and relatives, etc., with a strong Chinese flavor.

2. Qingming Festival

The Qingming Festival in 2008 is on April 4th. Every year around April 5 on the Gregorian calendar, the 15th day after the vernal equinox, Qingming Festival is an important festival of worship in China, and an important activity for people on this day is sweeping tombs.

3, Dragon Boat Festival

2008 Dragon Boat Festival on June 8th. Every year on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, is to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan (calligraphy varies from place to place) of the grand festival, the Dragon Boat Festival customs include: wrapping zongzi, dragon boat races, hanging moxa leaves, Pei jiangbao, tie flowers and ropes, drink xionghuang wine, etc., Dragon Boat Festival is a national QiLe's beautiful day.

4, Mid-Autumn Festival

2008 Mid-Autumn Festival on September 14th. It is celebrated on the 15th day of the 10th month of the lunar calendar every year. Mid-Autumn Festival is a festival of reunion, and the customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival include eating mooncakes, enjoying the moon, and drinking osmanthus wine, etc. Autumn is also the season of harvest, so Mid-Autumn Festival also means to celebrate the autumn harvest.

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History of the Four Great Traditional Festivals of Dragon Boat Festival

Generally speaking, the older the traditional festivals are, the more they are related to the ancient people's beliefs and sacrifices. This is because ancient people, faced with unexplainable natural phenomena or events, would be categorized into theology, for their own well-being, and thus perform some activities similar to sacrifices. For example, the dragon boat race was a sacrifice to the dragon god, and the dumplings were a "sacrifice" made to minimize flooding.

This time is probably in the period of Wuyue ancestors activities, that is, the primitive society period, but the history of Wuyue ancestors is really long, so can only be generalized for the pre-Qin period, that is, more than two thousand years ago. Of course, it may also be three thousand years ago, because the time is really unable to carry out a precise examination.

Later in the Han Dynasty, the north and south were unified, as the history of another unified dynasty, in order to the north and south of the economic and cultural integration and exchanges, it will be the Dragon Boat Festival time unified as the lunar calendar of the fifth day of the fifth month. Later, the Sui and Tang dynasties, Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, but also the Dragon Boat Festival tradition to carry forward, the formation of a very strong festive atmosphere, and become the country's official traditional festivals.