What are the main traditional festivals in China?

The eight traditional festivals in China are Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, China Valentine's Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival and Winter Solstice Festival.

Spring Festival customs include eating glutinous rice balls, setting off firecrackers, paying New Year greetings and sweeping graves. The customs of Lantern Festival include eating Yuanxiao and solve riddles on the lanterns. Tomb-Sweeping Day customs include sweeping graves and hiking; The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival include eating zongzi and racing dragon boats. The custom of Tanabata is skillful with needles and worships Seven Sisters. The customs of Mid-Autumn Festival include eating moon cakes and enjoying the moon. The custom of climbing dogwood on Double Ninth Festival; The custom of winter solstice is to eat jiaozi and drink mutton soup.

1, Spring Festival

Spring Festival has a long history, commonly known as Spring Festival, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve and so on. People often say that this is the day. At present, the Spring Festival is the first day of the first lunar month in a narrow sense, and the first day of the first lunar month to the fifteenth lunar month in a broad sense. During the Spring Festival, various activities will be held all over the country to celebrate the Spring Festival, which has strong regional characteristics.

2. Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival, also known as Lantern Festival, the first lunar month, Shangyuan Festival, etc. It is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year. Since ancient times, the Lantern Festival has been dominated by the warm and festive custom of watching lanterns. The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night in a year, so people call it the Lantern Festival.

3. Tomb-Sweeping Day

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the outing festival and ancestor worship festival, is an important traditional Spring Festival in China, and its custom of sweeping graves to worship ancestors has been a fine tradition of the Chinese nation for thousands of years. In addition, the time in Tomb-Sweeping Day is around April 5th in the Gregorian calendar.

4. Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Double Ninth Festival and Dragon Boat Festival. Before the Han dynasty, it was noon in the dry calendar, and after the Han dynasty, it evolved into the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. There are all kinds of festival activities in the Dragon Boat Festival. Its customs, like the Spring Festival, contain cultural connotations such as praying for blessings and eliminating disasters, and place people's good wishes for welcoming blessings and ward off evil spirits and eliminating disasters.

5. Chinese Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day in China, also known as Qixi Festival and Qiaoqiao Festival, falls on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month every year. Valentine's Day in China, which originated from the worship of stars, is Seven Sisters's birthday in the traditional sense. Because of the worship of Seven Sisters on the seventh day of July, it was named Tanabata.

6. Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon Worship Festival and Reunion Festival. It happened on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month. Since ancient times, Mid-Autumn Festival has had folk customs such as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes, playing with lanterns, enjoying osmanthus and drinking osmanthus wine.

7. Double Ninth Festival

Double Ninth Festival is the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, which is a traditional folk festival. In ancient times, there were folk customs such as climbing to pray for blessings, enjoying chrysanthemums in autumn, wearing dogwood, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, and holding birthday banquets. So far, it has added the connotation of respecting the elderly, feasting on the day of Chongyang, and being grateful for respecting the elderly.

8. Winter solstice festival

The winter solstice is not only an important solar term among the 24 solar terms, but also a traditional folk festival of ancestor worship, which usually lasts until about1February 22nd. In the southern region, there are customs of offering sacrifices to ancestors and feasting on the winter solstice; In the northern region, there is a custom of eating jiaozi from winter to Sunday every year.