Table of 12 traditional festivals

The order of China's 12 traditional festivals are: Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Tanabata Festival, Mid-Yuan Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Chungyang Festival, Winter Solstice Festival, Lapa Festival, Lunar New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve.

1, Spring Festival

Time for the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar. Customs include paying homage to the New Year, putting up couplets, sweeping and dusting, eating dumplings, setting off firecrackers, and receiving New Year's money. The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations and carries a rich historical and cultural heritage in the development of inheritance. During the Spring Festival, families hold various celebrations, most of which focus on worshipping gods and Buddhas, honoring ancestors, getting rid of the old and bringing in the new, welcoming good fortune, and praying for a good year.

2, Lantern Festival

Time for the first month of the lunar calendar on the 15th. Customs include eating Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival, sacrifices to the gods, dragon and lion dances, stilt walkers and so on. The Lantern Festival is also known as Shangyuan Festival, Tianguan Festival, Spring Lantern Festival, Xiaozhengyue, and Yuanxi. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called "night" for "night", the first month of the fifteenth day of the first month of the first full moon of the year, so the first month of the fifteenth day of the first month of the "Lantern Festival".

3, Qingming Festival

Time for the fifth or sixth day of the fourth month of the Gregorian calendar. Customs include trekking, sweeping graves, planting trees, flying kites, eating green dumplings, and planting willows. The Qingming Festival, with both natural and humanistic connotations, is one of the "24 Solar Terms" and a traditional festival of ancestor worship. It is also a traditional festival of ancestor worship. The Qingming Festival is listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage.

4, Dragon Boat Festival

Time for the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Customs have to eat zongzi, dragon boat race, hanging moxa calamus, wrapped in colorful rope, drink xionghuang wine, to avoid the five poisons, avoiding the Dragon Boat Festival and so on. Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Day in the Festival, etc., and the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and known as China's four major traditional festivals, is called and customs of the most traditional festivals.

5, Tanabata Festival

Time for the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. Customs include incense bridge meeting, catching dew, worshipping ghosts and gods, praying for marriage, knotting the red head rope and so on. Tanabata is a traditional Chinese Valentine's Day. Tanabata is endowed with the beautiful love legend of "Cowherd and Weaving Maiden", which makes it a festival symbolizing love, and thus is considered the most romantic traditional festival in China.

6, Zhongyuan Festival

Time for the 15th day of the 7th month of the lunar calendar. Customs include offering sacrifices to ancestors, releasing river lanterns, worshipping the souls of the dead, burning paper ingots, and sacrificing to the land. July is the month of good luck, filial piety month, July 30 is the folk early fall to celebrate the harvest, pay thanks to the earth festival, there are a number of crops ripe, the folk routinely worship ancestors, with new rice and other offerings, to report to the ancestors of the fall into.

7, Mid-Autumn Festival

Time for the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar. Customs include family reunion, viewing the moon, moon worship, eating mooncakes, lighting lanterns, lantern festival, watching the tide, drinking osmanthus wine, and so on. The Mid-Autumn Festival symbolizes family reunion and happiness. The Mid-Autumn Festival is known as one of the four major traditional festivals in China, together with the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival and Dragon Boat Festival. It is listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage catalog.

8, Chongyang Festival

Time for the ninth day of the ninth lunar month. Customs include climbing high and autumn tour, sacrificing to ghosts and gods, eating Chongyang cake, drinking chrysanthemum wine and so on. Chongyang Festival in the historical development and evolution of a variety of folklore into one, carrying a rich cultural connotation. In folklore, "nine" is the largest number in the numerals, which has the meaning of longevity and sends people's blessings to the elderly for a long and healthy life.

9, winter solstice

Time for the calendar December 21 or 22. Customs include worshipping ancestors, eating dumplings, eating dumplings, and drinking mutton soup. The winter solstice is the twenty-second of the twenty-four solar terms, and in folklore there is a saying that "the winter solstice is as big as the year", but there are different customs in different parts of the world at the winter solstice, and most people in the north have the custom of eating dumplings, while most people in the south have the custom of eating sweets.

10, Laha Festival

Time for the first eight days of the twelfth lunar month. Customs have to eat Lapa congee, eat Lapa vinegar, pickled Lapa garlic, eat Lapa tofu, eat Lapa noodles and so on. In the north of China, there are "children children you do not want, after the Lahai is the year" said, the Lahai means that the prelude to the start of the New Year.

11, small year

Time for the lunar calendar December 23rd or 24th. Customs include cleaning the house, bathing, eating Zaosu candy, and sacrificing to ghosts and gods. Xiao Nian, also known as Zao Festival, Zao Wang Festival, Dust Sweeping Day, is a traditional Chinese festival, the date of which varies according to the region, the northern region is the twenty-third day of the lunar month, and most of the southern region is the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month.

12, New Year's Eve

Time for the lunar calendar December 29 or 30th. Customs include eating New Year's Eve dinner, putting up couplets, burning firecrackers, worshipping ancestors, observing the New Year's Eve, and hanging lanterns. New Year's Eve is the last day of the year. It is one of the traditional Chinese festivals. The word "New Year's Eve" means to remove, and the word "eve" refers to the night. "New Year's Eve" is the year in addition to the meaning of the night, also known as New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, etc., when the end of the last night of the year.