What are the traditional festivals in China?

Our Chinese nation has a long history and culture. In the long history, many traditional festivals have been formed. Today, let's take a look at the traditional festivals in China.

Since we are talking about traditional festivals, we should take the lunar calendar as the reference line, that is, Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Rise, Social Day Festival, Shangsi Festival, Cold Food Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Qixi Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Next Yuan Festival, Winter Festival and New Year's Eve.

Next, let's take a look at these festivals respectively. The first thing to say is of course the Spring Festival, which is our Lunar New Year. During the Spring Festival, as long as there are people from China, various activities will be held to celebrate the Spring Festival.

After the Spring Festival, it is the Lantern Festival. On the 15th day of the first month, there will be a series of traditional folk activities all over the country, such as watching lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, solve riddles on the lanterns and setting off fireworks.

February 2 is not only the day when the dragon looks up, but also the "Social Day Festival" of the birthday of the land god. It is a traditional custom to have your hair cut on February 2nd. People hope to use the good luck of dragons to bless their children's healthy growth, while adults hope to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new in the new year, which will bring them good luck from scratch.

Shangsi Festival is commonly known as March 3rd. On this day, people have the custom of eating local dishes and boiling eggs. After Shangsi Festival, it is Cold Food Festival. The Cold Food Festival was a day or two before Tomb-Sweeping Day, and now Dachuan and Tomb-Sweeping Day have spent it together.

When it comes to cold food, Qingming is indispensable. Qingming is also one of the traditional twenty-four solar terms. When you arrive in Tomb-Sweeping Day, no matter where you are, you will go back to your hometown to worship your ancestors and remember your ancestors.

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival every year. On this day, people eat zongzi and race dragon boats, and at the same time commemorate the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan.

The seventh day of the seventh lunar month is Valentine's Day in China. Because of the love legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl, Tanabata has also become a festival symbolizing love.

At that time, it will be the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month. It is a festival to remember our ancestors, and its core content is to respect our ancestors and perform filial piety.

On the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, there have been folk customs such as enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes and enjoying osmanthus since ancient times.

On the ninth double ninth festival of the ninth lunar month, there are customs such as climbing to pray for blessings, enjoying chrysanthemums in autumn, wearing dogwood, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, and drinking birthday banquets.

10 15 Lunar New Year is a festival to worship ancestors, and it is also one of the 24 solar terms. In northern China, people eat jiaozi on the solstice in winter.

The last traditional festival every year is New Year's Eve, that is, the last night at the end of the year, that is,1February 29 or1February 30, when the whole family get together for a reunion dinner, which mainly includes the customs of posting New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, lucky money and saying goodbye to the old year.

Among these traditional festivals, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China.