What are the specific times of traditional Chinese festivals?

Date Festival Name Beginning of the year Related links

January 1 New Year's Day

February

February 14 Valentine's Day

February 15 China's 1.2 Billion Population Day 1995

March

March 5 China Youth Volunteer Service Day

March 8 International Working Women's Day 1910 Spare a thought for World Women's Day

March 12 China's Tree Planting Day 1979

March 16 Hand-in-Hand for the Underprivileged National Day of Unified Action

China's National Doctor's Day 1929

March 18 National Science and Technology Talent Activity Day

Last Monday in March National Safety Education Day for Primary and Secondary School Students 1996

April

April 25 National Vaccination Awareness Day 1986

April 30 National Traffic Safety Reflection Day

May

May 1 International Workers' Day 1889

May 4 Youth Day 1939

May 4 Movement Day 1919

The May Fourth Movement Memorial Day 1919

May 5 National Iodine Deficiency Disease Prevention and Control Day 1994

May 20 National Breastfeeding Awareness Day 1990

Chinese Students' Nutrition Day 1990

The second Sunday in May Mother's Day 1914

Relief for Mothers in Poverty Day 1997

The third Sunday in May National Day for the Disabled 1990

June

June 1 International Children's Day 1949

June 6 National Eye Care Day 1996

June 11 China Population Day

June 22 China Children's Charity Day

June 25 National Land Day 1991

Third Sunday in June Sunday Father's Day

July

July 1 Birthday of the Chinese ****production Party 1921

July 1 Anniversary of the Handover of Hong Kong 1997

July 7 Anniversary of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression 1937

August

August 1 Founding of the People's Liberation Army 1927

August 26: National Lawyer's Consultation Day 1993

September

September 3: Memorial Day of China's Victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression 1945

September 10: Teacher's Day 1985

September 18: Memorial Day of the September 18 Incident (China's National Shame) 1931

September 18: National Shame Day 1931

September 20 National Dental Day 1989

Third Saturday of September National Defense Education Day 2001

October

October 1 National Day 1949

October 8 National High Blood Pressure Day 1998

October 10 Memorial Day of the 1911 Revolution

October 13 Birthday of the Chinese Young Pioneers 1949

Annual Chung Yeung Festival Chinese Old People's Day (Day of Volunteer Help for the Elderly) 1989

November

November 8 Chinese Journalist's Day 2000

November 9 China's Fire Prevention and Public Awareness Day (Fire Prevention and Public Awareness Day) 1992

November 10 World Youth Day 1946

Third Thursday of November Thanksgiving Day

December

December 4 China Legal Awareness Day

December 12 Xi'an Incident Commemoration Day 1936

December 13 Nanjing Massacre Commemoration Day 1937

December 20 Macao Handover Day 1999

December 24th Christmas Eve

December 25th Christmas Day

◆◆◆ Lunar Calendar Festivals ◆◆◆

The first day of the first month of the lunar calendar Spring Festival

The 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar Lantern Festival

The second day of the second month of the lunar calendar Longtaitou Festival

The fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar Dragon Boat Festival

The seventh day of the seventh month of the seventh month of the lunar calendar Valentine's Day

August 15th Mid-Autumn Festival

Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival

The following is a description of the festivals and festivals:

Motivation Day

Yuanshan Day (New Year's Day) is the first day of the first month of the lunar year.

People's Day: the seventh day of the first month, according to legend, the first day of the first month is for chickens, the second day for dogs, the third day for pigs, the fourth day for sheep, the fifth day for oxen, the sixth day for horses, and the seventh day for people.

Shangyuan (Lantern Festival): the 15th day of the first month. The old custom is to open the lanterns on the night of the New Year as a play, so it is also called the Festival of Lights.

Social day: the day of the farmers to pray for the year, the fifth e day after the spring (before and after the vernal equinox) called the spring social. The fifth e day after the beginning of autumn is called the Autumn Society, around the autumnal equinox.

Cold food: two days before Qingming. According to the Jing Chu Chronicle, one hundred and five days after the winter solstice is called the Cold Food, and fire is forbidden for three days. Therefore, some people to "one hundred and five" as a substitute for cold food. However, the same method of projection, the first two days of Qingming is not necessarily a hundred and five days, sometimes a hundred and six days.

Ching Ming: the Qingming Festival. The ancients often associated Qingming with cold food.

Flower Dynasty: February 12 is the Flower Dynasty, also known as the Birthday of a Hundred Flowers.

Superior: originally scheduled for the first half of March, a Si Day (so called on the Si), the old custom of this day in addition to the ominous water, called repair. But since Cao Wei, the festival fixed for March 3rd. Later turned into a waterfront feast, the countryside tour of the spring festival.

Bathing Buddha Festival: Legend has it that the eighth day of April is the birthday of Shakyamuni. The Jing Chu chronicle said, Jing Chu to April 8, the temple incense soup bath Buddha, *** for the Longhua will.

Duanwu (Danyang): the fifth day of May. Jing Chu chronicle said that Qu Yuan threw himself into the river on the fifth day of the fifth month, and people raced on this day to save Qu Yuan. (Later, boats were made in the shape of dragons and called dragon boat races.) There are many legends about the Dragon Boat Festival. After the Tang Dynasty, the Dragon Boat Festival was prescribed as a great festival and often rewarded.

Volts: The third gengri after the summer solstice is called the first volts, the fourth gengri is called the middle volts, and the first gengri after the beginning of autumn is called the final volts (the last volts), collectively known as the three volts. It is said that the volts are hidden to avoid the meaning of the summer heat. The festival is also a big festival because it is celebrated on the day of Fushigi. The general so-called voltaic day refers approximately to the first voltaic.

Seven eve: the seventh day of the seventh month. According to the Jingchu Shoushi Ji, the evening of July 7 is the night of the meeting of Altair and Weaving Maiden, and all the women knotted colorful wisps and pierced seven-hole needles, and displayed wine and dried fruits and melons in the court to beg for coincidences.

Chinese yuan: June 15. Buddhist legend: Meilian's mother fell into the hungry ghosts, food into the mouth, that is, into a blazing fire, Meilian asked for advice from the Buddha, the Buddha said for him the Bon Sutra, told him to make a Bon on July 15 to save his mother. In later times, the festival was regarded as a ghost festival, and there were superstitious activities such as giving alms to hungry ghosts.

Mid-Autumn Festival: August 15th. People thought that the moon was the brightest at this time, so it was a good festival to enjoy the moon.

Chongyang (9th day of the 9th month): the 9th day of the 9th month of the 9th lunar month. The ancients thought that nine is the number of Yang, the hundred months are nine, so it is called Chongyang. The ancients had the habit of drinking wine on this day. According to the "renewed Qi Harmonious Records" contained, Fei Changfang when Ru Nan Hengjing said, September 9 Ru Nan has a catastrophe, with cornelian cherry bladder mountaineering drink chrysanthemum wine can be free from disaster.

Winter Solstice: is the winter solstice festival. The day before the winter solstice is called the small solstice. The ancients regarded the winter solstice as the starting point of the festival, from the winter solstice, the day grows up, called "winter solstice, a Yang Sheng". The ancients also believed: winter is coming, spring will follow.

La Day: La is the name of the festival. "said the text" "after the winter solstice, three elevenths of wax sacrifices to the gods", visible in the Han dynasty wax day is the third eleventh day after the winter solstice. But "Jing Chu chronicle" to the eighth day of December for the wax day, and said that the village people hit the fine waist drum, as the vajra force to chase fatigue. The eighth day of December is the general interpretation, to this day, there is a "Laha congee" custom.

New Year's Eve: the last night of the year. The last day of the year is called "New Year's Eve". The last day of the year is called "New Year's Eve", so that night is called "New Year's Eve".

The last day of the year is called "New Year's Eve".