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What are the four traditional festivals in China?

The four traditional festivals in China are Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival.

1. Spring Festival: It begins on the 23rd lunar month, passes through New Year's Eve and Spring Festival, and ends on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar. Its main festival activities include: organizing new year's goods, sleeping, making new clothes, dusting, offering sacrifices to the stove, worshipping ancestors, having a family reunion dinner, keeping the New Year's Eve, putting up Spring Festival couplets, hanging New Year pictures, etc.

2. Tomb-Sweeping Day: in March of the lunar calendar, that is, around April 5 of the solar calendar; Need to sweep the grave.

3. Dragon Boat Festival: on the fifth day of May in the lunar calendar; There are mainly dragon boat races and eating zongzi.

4. Mid-Autumn Festival: on August 15th of the lunar calendar; There are mainly activities such as enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes, having a reunion dinner and dancing dragon lanterns.