What are the traditional festivals in China, and what are their origins?

Reasons why it is not good to celebrate western festivals:

1. Culturally, the constant invasion of western festivals is impacting the traditional festivals in China, especially the young people, who are even more unfamiliar with the traditional festivals in China.

2. In terms of time, many festivals in China are in the lunar calendar, and young people are not familiar with the timing method of the lunar calendar, so they often ignore traditional festivals.

Historically speaking, it is easy to forget one's own history and culture through too many western festivals. As a country with profound cultural background, China should maintain a state of pride and passion for every festival in its own country.

The origin of this festival:

1, calendar solar terms

Calendar reflects the laws of agricultural production, plays a positive guiding role in agricultural production, and also provides the necessary premise for the emergence of festivals at the age of 20. Some festivals, such as beginning of spring, summer solstice, autumn solstice and winter solstice, are directly derived from solar terms.

The 20-year-old festival is closely related to the solar terms, but the solar terms themselves are not festivals. Apart from the above, they only provide the premise for the emergence of festivals, and the formation of festivals must also have certain customs as its content.

2. Totem worship

The primitive ancestors in China often worshipped some animals as gods, and the most typical one was the dragon totem worship.

Dragon totem worship has a far-reaching influence on the Chinese nation. The ancients held a "Dragon Boat Race" on the Dragon Boat Festival every year to worship the dragon totem, which is one of the origins of the Dragon Boat Festival custom.

The worship of land gods plays an important role in primitive worship. In ancient times, the sacrifice to the earth god was called "social sacrifice", and there were many sacrifices to Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Oracle Bone Inscriptions of Yin Ruins. February 2nd is the birthday of the land god, also known as Social Day or Social King Day. It is a major folk activity to worship the land god and pray for a bumper harvest in agriculture.

Step 3 sacrifice

The most obvious examples are Tomb-Sweeping Day, Mid-Autumn Festival and Cold Clothes Festival. These three festivals were originally called "Ghost Festival" because they are based on ancestor worship and are mainly used to worship ghosts.

Qingming sweeping graves contains the meaning of remembering ancestors and encouraging future generations; The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Orchid Festival, has the custom of putting out river lanterns to save the lonely and shine on ghosts. On the Cold Clothes Festival, people burn paper clothes in front of their ancestors' graves.

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