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What are the four traditional festivals in China?

The four traditional festivals in China are Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival.

1, Spring Festival, one of the four traditional festivals in China, is the beginning of a year, the traditional Lunar New Year. Spring Festival is commonly known as "Chinese New Year". The traditional names are New Year, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve. It is also known verbally as New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve.

2. Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the Walking Festival, is celebrated at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Qingming has two connotations: nature and humanity. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival.

The Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month is one of the four traditional festivals in China.

4. Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, August Festival, Moon Chasing Festival, Moon Appreciating Festival, Daughter's Day or Reunion Festival, is a popular traditional cultural festival among many ethnic groups and countries in China Chinese character cultural circle, which falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. Because its value is only half that of Sanqiu, it is named, and some places set the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 16.

The Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation. During the Spring Festival, various activities to celebrate the Spring Festival were held all over the country, and the atmosphere was warm. These activities are mainly to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, welcome the new year and receive the blessings, worship the gods and ancestors, and pray for a bumper harvest. They are rich in forms and have strong national characteristics.

Influenced by China culture, some countries and nationalities belonging to the Chinese character cultural circle also have the custom of Spring Festival. Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. The folk custom of Spring Festival was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

The weather in Tomb-Sweeping Day is usually around April 5th of the Gregorian calendar, that is, the first15th day after the vernal equinox. Tomb-Sweeping Day period is very long, 8 days before 10 and 10 days before 10. These nearly 20 days belong to the Tomb-Sweeping Day period.

Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. From 65438 to 0935, the government of the Republic of China designated April 5th as a national statutory holiday in Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the National Tomb Sweeping Festival. On May 20, 2006, Tomb-Sweeping Day declared by People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Ministry of Culture was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage (category: folk customs; No.: X-2). ?

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Spring Festival

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Tomb-Sweeping Day