What are the folk festivals in China

The eight traditional festivals in China are the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Tanabata Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Chung Yeung Festival and Winter Solstice Festival.

The Spring Festival customs include eating dumplings, setting off firecrackers, paying homage to the New Year and visiting ancestral graves; the Lantern Festival customs include eating Lantern Festival and guessing lantern riddles; the Qingming Festival customs include sweeping tombs and trekking in the green; the Dragon Boat Festival customs include eating zongzi and racing dragon boats; the Tanabata Festival customs include piercing needles to beg for coquettishness and worshipping the Seven Sisters; the Mid-Autumn Festival customs include eating mooncakes and enjoying the moon; the Chrysanthemum Festival customs include ascending to high altitudes and inserting cornelian cherry blossoms; and the Winter Solstice Festival customs include eating dumplings and drinking goat soup. The custom of winter solstice is to eat dumplings and drink sheep soup.

1, the Spring Festival

The Spring Festival has a long history, commonly known as the New Year, the new year, the New Year's Day, etc., people often say but over the New Year, New Year's Day is this day. Now the Spring Festival time in the narrow sense of the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the broad sense of the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar to the first month of the first fifteen, during the Spring Festival, there are a variety of celebrations held throughout the country to celebrate the Spring Festival activities, with a strong regional characteristics.

2, Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival, also known as the Festival of Lights, the small first month, the Festival, etc., for the first month of the lunar calendar on the fifteenth day of the year, since ancient times, the Lantern Festival to the warmth and festivity of the Lantern Festival custom-based. The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon of the year, so people call the fifteenth day of the first month for the "Lantern Festival".

3, Qingming Festival

Qingming Festival, also known as the Festival, Festival of Ancestors, etc., the festival in the middle of spring and late spring at the intersection of China's traditional major spring festival, the custom of sweeping tombs and sacrifices, in memory of ancestors, is the Chinese people thousands of years of fine traditions. In addition, the time of the Qingming Festival for the Gregorian calendar (solar calendar) around April 5 or so.

4, Dragon Boat Festival

Duanwu Festival, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, etc., before the Han Dynasty for the Dry Calendar noon noon, the Han Dynasty evolved into the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar. Dragon Boat Festival has a rich and colorful festivities, as with the Spring Festival, its customs imply a blessing, eliminate disasters and other cultural connotations, hosting people a welcome good luck and blessings, to ward off evil in addition to the good wishes.

5, Tanabata Festival

The Tanabata Festival is also known as the Seven Sisters Festival, Beggar's Day, etc., the time for the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year. The festival is derived from the worship of the starry hosts and is traditionally called the "Seven Sisters' Festival" because it is held on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar.

6. Mid-Autumn Festival

The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Moon Festival, and the Festival of Reunion, is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar. Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has been characterized by folk customs such as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating mooncakes, playing with lanterns, enjoying osmanthus flowers, and drinking osmanthus wine, etc. The festival is also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival.

7, Chongyang Festival

Chongyang Festival is the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar every year, is a traditional folk festival. In ancient times, the folk in the Chongyang Festival have climbed high to pray for blessings, autumn tour to enjoy chrysanthemums, wear dogwood, sacrifices to the gods and ancestors and feasts to seek longevity and other customs. To this day, it has added the connotation of honoring the elderly, enjoying feasts and honoring the elderly on the day of Chung Yeung.

8, winter solstice

Winter solstice is both the twenty-four seasons in an important festival, but also the folk tradition of ancestor festivals, the time for the twenty-second day of December or so; in the southern region, there are winter solstice ancestor worship, feasts and drinks; in the northern region, the winter solstice every year, there are dumplings of the custom of eating.