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What are all the festivals in 12 months?

The festivals in 12 months include Lantern Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Labor Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Children's Day.

1. Lantern Festival

The Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaoyuan Festival, Yuanxi Festival or Lantern Festival, is one of the traditional festivals in China, which falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month every year. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called "night" "night". The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night in a year, so it is called "Lantern Festival".

Second, Tomb-Sweeping Day

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the Walking Festival, the Qingming Festival, the March Festival, and the ancestor worship festival, is celebrated at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day, which originated from ancestral belief and custom of spring worship in ancient times, has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is both a natural solar point and a traditional festival. Grave-sweeping and outing are two major themes of Tomb-Sweeping Day's etiquette and customs, and these two traditional themes have been passed down in China since ancient times.

Third, Labor Day

International Labor Day, also known as "May Day" and "International Workers' Day", is a national holiday in more than 8 countries in the world. It is scheduled for May 1st every year. It is a festival owned by working people all over the world.

Fourth, the Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival was originally founded by the ancestors of Wu Yue in the south to worship the dragon ancestors and pray for evil spirits. Legend has it that Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State in the Warring States Period, jumped into the Miluo River on May 5 and committed suicide. Later, people also took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. There are also sayings in memory of Wu Zixu, Cao E and meson tui.

v. Children's Day

International Children's Day (also known as Children's Day) is scheduled for June 1st every year. In order to mourn the Lidice tragedy on June 1, 1942 and all the children who died in the war all over the world, we should oppose the cruelty and poisoning of children and protect their rights.