What is the time of the eight traditional Chinese festivals?

The time and customs of China's eight traditional festivals are:

1, Spring Festival: the first day of the first month of the Spring Festival, the Spring Festival has a long history, evolved from the ancient times of the first year of the year to pray for the year of sacrifice. All things are based on the sky, people are based on the ancestors, praying for the year of sacrifice, honoring the sky and ancestors, the report of the beginning of the beginning of the opposite also. The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations and carries a rich historical and cultural heritage in the development of inheritance.

2, Lantern Festival: the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called "night" for "night", the first month of the fifteenth day of the first full moon of the year, so the first month of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month for the "Lantern Festival". According to Taoism's "Three Elements", the 15th day of the first month is also known as the "Festival of the Upper Elements". Since ancient times, the Lantern Festival has been dominated by the warm and festive custom of watching lanterns.

3, Qingming: Qingming Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, but also the most important festival of sacrifice, is the day of ancestor worship and sweep the tomb. The Qingming of the festival is a great opportunity for spring plowing and planting; the Qingming of the festival is a traditional day for folk to send their emotions and comfort themselves. Qingming festival in time and weather and climate characteristics for the formation of Qingming festival customs provide important conditions.

4, Dragon Boat Festival: the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Dragon Boat Festival is popular in China and the Chinese cultural circle of the countries of the traditional cultural festivals, legend has it that during the Warring States period of the Chu poet Qu Yuan jumped Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month to kill himself, later generations will also be the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan; also commemorates the Wu Zixu, Cao E and Jie Zi Tui and other sayings.

5, Tanabata: the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, Tanabata is not only the festival of worship seven sisters, but also the festival of love, is a "Cowherd and Weaving Maiden" folklore as a carrier to pray for blessings, begging for coquettishness, love as the theme of the women as the main body of the comprehensive festival.

6, Mid-Autumn Festival: On the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar every year, is the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival. This is the middle of the fall season of the year, so it is called the Mid-Autumn Festival. In the Chinese lunar calendar, the year is divided into four seasons, each of which is further divided into three parts: the Meng, the Middles and the Quarter, hence the Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival. The moon on the 15th day of the 8th month is fuller and brighter than the full moons of other months, which is why it is also called "Moon Festival" and "August Festival". On this night, people look up at the bright moon in the sky like a jade disk and naturally look forward to family reunions. People who are far away from their hometowns also take this opportunity to express their nostalgia for their hometowns and loved ones. Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as the "reunion festival".

7, Chongyang: the first nine days of the ninth lunar month. Called "Denggao Festival", Chongyang Festival, is a traditional Chinese folk festival, the festival in the first nine days of the ninth lunar month every year. "Nine" number in the "I Ching" for the number of Yang, "nine nine" two Yang heavy, so it is called "Chongyang"; because the sun and the moon are nine, so it is also known as "heavy nine "

8

8, the winter solstice: December 21 to 23 each year, is a very important in China's lunar calendar, but also a traditional festival, there are still many places have had the winter solstice festival custom. Winter solstice is commonly known as the "winter festival", "long solstice festival", "sub year" and so on.