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What are the days of the festival?

1. Qingming Festival

The Qingming Festival, also known as the Treading Green Festival, is celebrated at the intersection of mid-spring and late spring, which is the 108th day after the winter solstice. It is a traditional Chinese festival and one of the most important festivals for ancestor worship and tomb-sweeping. The traditional Qingming Festival of the Chinese people began around the Zhou Dynasty, more than 2,500 years ago.

2. Zhongyuan Festival

The Zhongyuan Festival, commonly known as the Ghost Festival, Shi Ku, and the half of the seventh month, is known as the Bon Festival in Buddhism. With New Year's Eve, Qingming Festival, Chongyang Festival three sections is the traditional Chinese ancestor festival, but also popular in the Chinese character cultural circle of the countries of the traditional cultural festivals. It is also a traditional cultural festival popular in the countries of the Chinese character culture circle. The Zhongyuan Festival has the custom of releasing river lanterns and burning paper ingots.

3, Chongyang Festival

Chongyang Festival has been formed as early as the Warring States period, to the Tang Dynasty, Chongyang was officially designated as a folk festival, in the old days by convention, all the relatives have to be together on this day, "disaster avoidance". To date, in Tonglu, Zhejiang Province, Fujian Province, Putian and Taiwan, Singapore and many other places, people in September 9, still "prepared pigs and goats to ancestor", known as the autumn festival.

4, New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve, also known as New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, year in addition. It is the last night of the Lunar New Year (December) every year. In addition, that is, the meaning of the removal; Xi, refers to the night. New Year's Eve is also the festival of the resignation of the old and the welcome to the new, the beginning of a new year, the renewal of all things. Along with Qingming Festival, Zhongyuan Festival and Chongyang Festival, it is a traditional Chinese festival of ancestor worship and a traditional cultural festival popular in the countries of the Chinese character culture circle.

5, Dragon Boat Festival

Duanwu Festival is also a national holiday, people in the Dragon Boat Festival, in addition to organizing all kinds of traditional activities, will also be worshipped in the great patriotic poet - Qu Yuan. Some regions also choose to worship their deceased relatives on the Dragon Boat Festival to express their remembrance of their loved ones.