Traditional Chinese Festivals

The traditional festivals of China are diverse in form and rich in content, and are an integral part of the long history and culture of our Chinese nation.

The formation process of traditional festivals is a process of long-term accumulation and cohesion of the history and culture of a nation or country, the following list of these festivals, none of which is not developed from ancient times, from these festivals handed down to the present day customs, but also can be clearly seen in the ancient people's social life of the wonderful picture.

The origin and development of festivals is a process of gradual formation, subtle refinement, and slow penetration into social life. It is the same as the development of society, is the product of the development of human society to a certain stage, China's ancient festivals, most of the astronomical, calendrical, mathematical, as well as later divided into festivals, which can be traced back at least in the literature to the "Xia Xiaozheng", "Shangshu", to the period of the Warring States period, the division of twenty-four seasons of a year, has basically complete, and later traditional festivals, all of them are closely related to these festivals.

The festivals provided the preconditions for the emergence of festivals, most of the festivals in the pre-Qin period, has been the first appearance, but the richness of the content of the customs and popularity, but also need to have a long development process. The earliest customary activities were related to primitive worship and superstitious taboos; myths and legends added a touch of romance to the festivals; there was also the impact and influence of religion on the festivals; and some historical figures were given eternal remembrance to penetrate into the festivals, all of which were fused into a cohesive festival content, making Chinese festivals have a deep sense of history.

By the Han Dynasty, the main traditional festivals in China had been finalized, and it is often said that these festivals originated in the Han Dynasty, which was the first period of great development after the unification of China, with political and economic stability, and great development of science and culture, which provided good social conditions for the final formation of the festivals.

The development of festivals to the Tang Dynasty, has been freed from the primitive worship, taboo and mysterious atmosphere, turned into entertainment ceremonial type, become a real festival of good times. Since then, the festival has become joyful and festive, rich and colorful, many sports, enjoyment of the content of the activities appeared, and soon became a fashionable popular, these customs have continued to develop, enduring.

It is worth mentioning that, in the long history, the generations of literati, poets and ink masters, for a festival composed many ancient masterpieces, these poems and texts are popular and widely celebrated, so that China's traditional festivals permeated with a deep cultural heritage, wonderful and romantic, the great vulgarity in the great elegance, elegance and vulgarity **** appreciation.

China's festivals have a strong cohesion and broad inclusiveness, a festival, the country celebrated together, which is a valuable spiritual cultural heritage with the long history of our nation's long history.

Here introduced only some of the larger traditional festivals of the Han Chinese people, China is a multi-ethnic country, each ethnic group has its own cultural practices, numerous ethnic festivals, is a cultural treasure to be mined.