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What are the traditional festivals in China? What are their meanings?

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 (the second day of February), Social Day Festival (the second day of February), Tomb-Sweeping Day (around the fifth day of April in Gregorian calendar), Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month), Tanabata (the seventh day of the seventh lunar month), July and a half (the fourteenth and fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month) and Mid-Autumn Festival (the eighth lunar month). [ 1]

In addition, some of the 24 solar terms are both natural solar terms and traditional festivals, such as Tomb-Sweeping Day and winter solstice. These festivals have both natural and humanistic connotations. They are both natural solar terms and traditional festivals.