Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional stories - Which traditional festival has no fixed date?

Which traditional festival has no fixed date?

The Qingming Festival is no fixed period, Qingming Festival in the spring of each year after the vernal equinox of fifteen days, the solar calendar for the April 4 to 6 between a day, the specific date needs to be based on the year's festivals projected; Qingming Festival's origin and the Spring and Autumn period of the Prince of Jin, Chong Er to commemorate the jie zi tui related to the festival, also known as the festival of the Cold Food, and then the Qingming Festival and the festival of the Cold Food is gradually merged into a single day, but also has become an important day of folk worship and sweeping.

In chronological order, China's traditional festivals include:

The Spring Festival (the first day of the first month of the lunar year), the Lantern Festival (the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar year), Dragon's Head Raising (the second day of the second month of the lunar year), the Social Day Festival (the second day of the second month of the lunar year), the Ching Ming Festival (around the 5th day of the 4th month), the Dragon Boat Festival (the 5th day of the 5th month of the lunar year), the Tanabata Festival (the seventh day of the 7th month on the lunar calendar), the half of the seventh month (the 14th/15th day of the seventh month on the lunar calendar), the Mid-Autumn Festival (the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar), and the Chongyang Festival (the 15th day of the 8th month on the lunar calendar). 15th), Chung Yeung Festival (9th day of the 9th month of the lunar calendar), Winter Solstice Festival (21st~23rd day of the 12th month of the lunar calendar), and New Year's Eve (last day of the year).

Among the twenty-four solar terms, there are also many that have turned into traditional festivals, such as Qingming and the Winter Solstice, which have both natural and humanistic connotations, and have become both natural points of festivals and popular traditional festivals. In addition, all the ethnic minorities in China also keep their own traditional festivals, such as the Water Splashing Festival of the Dai, the Naadam Conference of the Mongols, the Torch Festival of the Yi, the Danu Festival of the Yao, the March Street of the Bai, the Song Wei of the Zhuang, the Tibetan New Year and the Wang Guo Festival of the Tibetans, and the Flower Jumping Festival of the Miao, and so on.