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What are the traditional festivals in China?

There are 17 traditional festivals in China, namely: Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Head Rise, Social Day Festival, Shangsi Festival, Cold Food Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Qixi Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Cold Clothes Festival, Winter Solstice Day, Laba Festival and New Year's Eve.

1, Spring Festival

Time: Before the Han Dynasty, the Spring Festival was a dry calendar that started in spring and later evolved into the first day of the first month of the summer calendar (that is, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar). At present, the Spring Festival time is: the first day of the first lunar month in a narrow sense, and the first day of the first lunar month to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in a broad sense.

Nicknames: year-end, Spring Festival, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, etc. This is also called "Celebration, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve" and so on.

2. Lantern Festival

Time: the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Lantern Festival, also known as Lantern Festival, Little First Month, Yuanxi Festival and Shangyuan Festival, is the 15th day of the first lunar month and one of the traditional festivals in China. According to the Taoist "Sanyuan Festival", the fifteenth day of the first month is also called "Shangyuan Festival". The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called "night". The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night in a year, so it is called "Lantern Festival".

3. The dragon raised its head

Dragon Head Rise (the second day of the second lunar month), also known as Spring Farming Festival, Farming Festival, Qinglong Festival and Spring Dragon Festival, is a traditional folk festival in China. "Dragon" refers to the astrology of the oriental black dragon in seven of the twenty-eight lodges. At the beginning of mid-spring every year, the "Dragon Horn Star" rises from the eastern horizon, so it is called "Dragon Head Up".

4. Social Day Festival

Social Day Festival, also known as Native Festival (the second day of the second lunar month), is an ancient traditional festival in China. Social days are divided into Spring Club and Autumn Club. In ancient times, the festival of social day was determined according to the calendar of cadres and branches. Later, due to the change of calendar, festivals were decided by the lunar calendar. The Spring Festival is calculated on the fifth day after beginning of spring (e, the five elements belong to the earth), which is generally around the second day of February in the lunar calendar, and the Autumn Festival is based on the fifth day after beginning of autumn, which is about August in the lunar calendar.

5. Shangsi Festival

Shangsi Festival, commonly known as March 3rd, is a traditional festival of the Han nationality. It was designated as the fourth day of March before the Han Dynasty, and was later designated as the third day of March in the summer calendar. Shangsi Festival has a long history. In ancient times, Shangsi Festival has become a large-scale folk festival. In spring and quiet time, people go out of their homes and gather at the water's edge to hold ceremonies to clear up the ominous.