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What are the 24 traditional festivals in China?

1 There are not 24 traditional festivals in China, but only 17, namely Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Head Lifting Festival, Social Day Festival, Shangsi Festival, Cold Food Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese Valentine's Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Xiayuan Festival, Winter Solstice Festival, Laba Festival, Lunar New Year Festival and New Year's Eve.

2. Traditional festivals in China are an important part of the long history and culture of the Chinese nation, with various forms and rich contents. The formation of traditional festivals is a process of long-term accumulation and cohesion of national or national history and culture. The ancient traditional festivals of the Chinese nation include primitive beliefs, sacrificial culture, astronomical calendar, Yi Shushu and other humanistic and natural cultural contents, which contain profound and rich cultural connotations. The traditional festivals in China, which developed from ancient ancestors, clearly recorded the colorful social life and cultural content of Chinese ancestors, and also accumulated profound historical and cultural connotations.

3. The traditional festivals in China mainly include the Spring Festival (the first day of the first lunar month); Lantern Festival (15th day of the first lunar month); Dragon heads up, social day festival (the second day of the second lunar month); Shangsi Festival (the third day of the third lunar month); Cold food festival (from winter to the future 105 or 106 days); Tomb-Sweeping Day (around April 5th of Gregorian calendar); Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month); China Valentine's Day (the seventh day of the seventh lunar month); Mid-Autumn Festival (the 15th day of the seventh lunar month); Mid-Autumn Festival (August 15th of the lunar calendar) and Double Ninth Festival (September 9th of the lunar calendar); Next Yuan Festival (October 15th of the lunar calendar); Laba Festival (the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month); Winter solstice festival (Gregorian calendar 65438+February 21~ 23); Off-year (due to the different customs between the north and the south, the days called off-year are also different. Generally, it is the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month in the north, and the 24th of the twelfth lunar month and New Year's Eve (the 29th or 30th of the twelfth lunar month) in most parts of the south. A *** 17, not 24.