What are the four major traditional Chinese festivals

The four major traditional Chinese festivals are the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival.

Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year, that is, the Lunar New Year, is the first year of the year, the traditional meaning of the New Year's Day. Commonly known as Xinchun, New Year, New Year, New Year's Day, New Year's Jubilee, Dahnian, etc., and verbally known as the degree of age, celebrating the age of the New Year, over the New Year, over the New Year. The Spring Festival has a long history, evolved from the ancient times, the first year of prayer and sacrifice. All things are based on the sky, people are based on the ancestors, praying for the New Year, honoring the sky and the ancestors, to report the origin and the beginning. The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations and carries a rich historical and cultural heritage in its development. During the Spring Festival, all over the country are held a variety of activities to celebrate the New Year, with a strong regional characteristics, lively and festive atmosphere overflowing; these activities to get rid of the old and new, to drive away the evil and disaster, worship the gods and ancestors, Nafu pray for the New Year as the main content of the form of colorful and cohesive essence of traditional Chinese culture.

In ancient times, people from the end of the year 23 or 24 of the sacrificial stove will begin to "busy year", the New Year to the first month of the 19th before the end. In modern times, people set the Spring Festival on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, but generally at least until the first month of the fifteenth New Year is not considered to be over. The exchange of greetings during the festival conveys an ethic of kinship between friends and relatives, and it is an important festival for people to deepen their feelings, a traditional festival of joy and harmony, and a gathering of friends and relatives.

The Spring Festival is the grandest traditional festival of the Chinese nation, which not only centrally embodies the ideological beliefs, ideals and aspirations, life and entertainment and cultural psychology of the Chinese nation, but also is a carnival-like display of prayers for blessings and calamities, food and entertainment activities. Influenced by Chinese culture, some countries and regions in the world also have the custom of celebrating the New Year. According to incomplete statistics, nearly 20 countries and regions have designated Chinese New Year as a legal holiday for the whole or some cities under their jurisdiction. The Spring Festival, together with the Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, is known as the four major traditional festivals in China. The Spring Festival folklore was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list

Ching Ming Festival

The Qingming Festival, also known as the Treading Green Festival, Hsingching Festival, March Festival, and Ancestor Sacrifice Festival, is celebrated at the intersection of mid-spring and late spring. The Qingming Festival originates from the belief in ancestors and the rituals of spring festival in the ancient times, which has both natural and humanistic connotations, and is both a natural festival and a traditional festival. Sweeping tombs and offering sacrifices to ancestors and going on excursions are the two main themes of the Qingming Festival, which have been passed down in China since ancient times and continue to be practiced to this day.

The Qingming Festival is an ancient festival of the Chinese nation, which is not only a solemn festival for sweeping tombs and paying homage to ancestors, but also a joyful festival for people to get close to nature, trekking and enjoying the fun of spring. The Qingming Festival is celebrated on the Doji B (or when the sun's yellow meridian reaches 15°), and is held around April 5 on the Gregorian calendar. At this time of year, the angry and vigorous, the decline of yin gas, everything "spit out the old and new", the earth presents the image of spring and landscape, it is the countryside trekking and spring tour and line Qing Tomb Sacrifice is a good time. Qingming ancestor festival period is very long, there are 10 days before 8 days after and 10 days before 10 days after the two say, this nearly 20 days are Qingming ancestor festival period.

The Qingming Festival is a traditional major spring festival, tomb-sweeping rituals, in memory of ancestors, is a fine tradition of the Chinese nation since ancient times, not only to promote filial piety and affection, awakening the family *** with the memory, but also to promote the cohesion of the family members and even the nation's cohesion and sense of identity. Qingming Festival integration of natural festivals and human customs as a whole, is the unity of time, place and people, fully embodies the ancestors of the Chinese people in pursuit of "heaven, earth, people" harmony and unity, pay attention to conform to the time and place, follow the laws of nature of the idea.

Duanwu Festival

Duanwu Festival, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Festival, Dragon Festival, Day of the Sun Festival, Day of the Dragon Festival, etc., the festival on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, is a traditional Chinese folk festival. The Dragon Boat Festival originates from the worship of heavenly phenomena and evolved from the sacrifice of dragons in ancient times. Mid-summer Dragon Boat Festival, Canglong seven lodges soared to the south in the sky, is the day of the dragon, that is, such as the "I Ching - Qian Gua" lines of the fifth line of the lines said: "Flying Dragon in the sky". Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Star both "to get in" and "get positive", is a great sign of good fortune. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects, containing a profound and rich cultural connotation; in the inheritance and development of a variety of folklore as one, the festival is rich in customary content. Dragon boat and rice dumplings are the two major rituals of the Dragon Boat Festival, which have been handed down in China since ancient times and are still practiced today.

Mid-Autumn Festival

The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, Moonlight Festival, Moon Festival, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon Worshipping Festival, Moon Lady's Festival, Moon Festival, and the Festival of Reunion, is a traditional Chinese folk festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the worship of heavenly phenomena, and evolved from the moon festival in the autumn eve in the ancient times. Initially, the "Moon Festival" was held on the day of the "Autumn Equinox" in the twenty-fourth solar term of the dry calendar, and later it was transferred to the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the summer calendar (Lunar Calendar), and there are some places where the Mid-Autumn Festival is set to be held on the sixteenth day of the eighth month of the summer calendar. Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has been sacrificing the moon, enjoying the moon, eating mooncakes, playing lanterns, enjoying osmanthus, drinking osmanthus wine and other folk customs, which have been passed down to the present day and are still uninterrupted.