China's seven traditional festivals

China's seven traditional festivals: Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Tanabata Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and Chongyang Festival.

1, the universal celebration of the new spring to the Spring Festival

The Chinese nation's first big festival, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar. The Spring Festival is the end of winter, when the spring sun is budding, its origin can be traced back to the ancient times of the "wax festival", it is said to be the original Shennong's era, "the ghosts and gods and sacrifices," "together with the gathering of all the things to enjoy the "It is said to be the year-end sacrificial custom of the Shennong clan to thank the gods for their blessings and to pray for good weather and good harvests in the coming year.

2, the fire tree and silver flowers never night sky - the Lantern Festival

The fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. The Lantern Festival means the first full moon of the year, and is also known as the "Festival of the New Year". The Lantern Festival originated in the Han Dynasty and is associated with religion and culture.

The custom of burning lanterns at the Lantern Festival originated from the Taoist "Three Elements", the 15th day of the first month of the year is the Upper Elemental Festival, the 15th day of the seventh month is the Middle Elemental Festival, and the 15th day of the tenth month is the Lower Elemental Festival, and those who are in charge of the Upper, Middle, and Lower Elemental Festivals are respectively the "Heaven", "Earth", and "Earth". "Earth" and "people" three palaces, the sky is happy, so the lanterns should be lit on the Day of the First Emperor.

3, cold food east wind Royal willow - Qingming

April 5 of the solar calendar. Qingming is the only major folk festival that is both a festival and a holiday, mainly referring to natural festivals, and later became an important festival for ancestor worship. It really became a folk festival after the Tang and Song dynasties. Sweeping the graves of ancestors was the main focus of the Qingming Festival, which later evolved from a purely ceremonial activity to a green trekking activity with a tour of the spring and a visit to the victory, and swinging and kite-flying also became recreational programs. The day before Qingming is the Cold Food Festival, and there is a custom of eating cold food.

4, Ai Fu Pu wine words of peace - Dragon Boat Festival

The fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar. As the name of the festival on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, began in the Wei and Jin dynasties, the origin of its say quite a lot, the most widely circulated is to commemorate Qu Yuan. Dragon boat races, eating zongzi, hanging Ai Ye is the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival.

5, the year beg in the human coincidence - Tanabata

The seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the ancient Chinese Valentine's Day. It is also known as the "Beggar's Day" or "Daughter's Day", Tanabata Beggar's Day, this festival originated in the Han Dynasty. The Tanabata Festival has always been linked to the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden. Threading needles and begging for coquettish objects is one of the programs for small women in the Tanabata Festival, which is said to have been prevalent in the Han Dynasty. It is a folk custom to sit and watch the stars of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden on the eve of the seventh day of the seventh month.

6, the moon to the Mid-Autumn Festival is very bright - the Mid-Autumn Festival

The fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, after the Spring Festival, the second largest traditional festival. China's Mid-Autumn Festival is in the ancient autumn equinox and the moon god worship on the basis of the development of change, and finally fixed in the August 15 every year, ancient times there is "autumn sunset" custom.

7, the wine enjoy chrysanthemum times think of relatives - Chongyang

The ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar. The will of the Chongyang in the "I Ching". Ancient folk in the day and the custom of climbing high, so the Chongyang Festival is also called "Denggao Festival", in the Tang Dynasty was officially established. The customs of Chongyang Festival include going out to enjoy the scenery, climbing high to look into the distance, viewing chrysanthemums, inserting dogwoods all over the place, eating chrysanthemum cakes, drinking chrysanthemum wine, etc. Now, China has designated the ninth day of September as the "Chongyang Festival". Now China will be the first nine days of September as the Festival of Respect for the Elderly.