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What is the holiday on February 28th on the lunar calendar?
Lunar holidays
Lunar holidays
Lunar New Year: the first day of the first month to the fifteenth
Widely known as The Spring Festival
i.e., New Year's Day, refers to the period from the Lunar New Year's Day on the eighth day of the first month of Lunar New Year, when Lunar New Year's Day is held, to the Lunar New Year's Day on the eighth or Zaosai (灶祭) on the 23rd or 24th day of the Lunar New Year, until the 15th day of the first lunar month. It culminates on New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month, when every family makes dumplings and eats New Year's Eve dinner, commonly known as the reunion dinner.
Breaking five: the fifth day of the first month
Wide: Magical birthday of road
In the north, this day before the many taboos over this day can be broken, also said to send poor, sacrificing the road god; in the south, this day is mainly worshipped in honor of the god of wealth, the god of wealth is also known as the god of the five roads, ushered in the five ways of the wealth of the east, west, south, north and south of the country, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other areas began to row all night dragon boat.
Lantern Festival: the 15th day of the first month
Widely known: Lantern Festival
The staple food Lantern Festival, the south more known as Tangyuan.
Spring Dragon Festival: The second day of February
Widely known: The dragon saves spring
Also known as the Dragon's Head Raiser, Green Dragon Festival. It is mainly celebrated in the south by rowing dragon boats. After this festival, the whole New Year is really over.
Cold Food Festival: The day before Qingming
Widely known as The cold food day is saved
Cold food means that fire is forbidden, and only cold or pre-cooked food can be eaten. Customs of the Cold Food Day include visiting graves, going on excursions, cockfighting, swinging on swings, beating blankets, and pulling hooks (tug-of-war). There is an overlap with the Qingming Festival.
Chingming Festival: The fifth and sixth days of April
Widely known as the Qingming Festival
To honor one's loved ones who have passed away, one goes to the graves to pay homage. The staple food is pastries and cakes made from Qingming vegetables.
Duanwu Festival: The fifth day of the fifth month
Widely known: The Dragon Boat Festival
To commemorate an ancestor, Qu Yuan, it is customary to race dragon boats and cook eggs. The Dragon Boat Festival is one of the four major festivals of the year. May is a poisonous month, the fifth day of the month is a poisonous day, and the noon of the fifth day is a poisonous time, which is the end of the three poisons. The Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the "May End".
Summer Festival: the sixth day of May
Widely known: Beginning of Summer is saved
Lunar Calendar says that this day is the day of farming and praying for rain, there are folk proverbs: "summer is not down, the drought to the wheat," "summer is not rain, the plow and harrow hanging high. Not rain, the plow and harrow high hanging up". Summer staple food have eaten fava beans, boiled tea eggs.
Tian Kuang Festival: June 6
The day present saves
On this day, there is a custom to take the daughter back to her mother's home to rest in summer, such as newlyweds, to be in the mother's home for a month, the seven coincidental (the seventh day of the seventh month) back to the in-laws, you must do two sets of clothes, a pair of socks.
Translates Festival: June 6
Widespread: Translates after festival
Buddhist festival, legend has it that the Tang Monk to the West to get the scriptures back, inadvertently all the scriptures will be thrown into the sea, fished out of the sun drying up, only to be preserved. Therefore, the temple collection of scriptures is also exposed to the sun on the day of Tian Kuang Festival.
The seventh evening of the seventh moon
The story of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden
The story of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden is a story that many women who were waiting to be married in ancient times met with their lovers on this day, praying for a happy marriage.
Additionally, in ancient times, scholars would worship Kuixing on this day to pray for his blessing for good luck in examinations. Kui Xing Master is Kui Dou Star, the twenty-eight hosts in the Kuixing, for the first star of the Big Dipper seven stars, also Kui Xing or Kui Shou. Ancient scholars in the Scholarship said "Da Kui world Shi" or "a lift to win the title", are because of the Kui Xing master in charge of the examination of the fate of the reason.
Bon Festival: July 15
The jar orchid basin saves
Indian Buddhist rituals in order to recommend the ancestors of the Buddhists held "Bon", the Buddhist scriptures in the Bon Sutra in order to practice filial piety to motivate the disciples of the Buddha's will, in line with the Chinese custom of memorializing the ancestors of the distant future. It was popularized in China because it was in line with the Chinese custom of memorializing ancestors and mourning for the past. There is a popular story about a monk named Meilian who saved his mother's life: "There was a monk named Meilian who had great magical power. When his mother fell into the path of the hungry ghosts, her food was turned into flames when she entered her mouth, and she suffered too much from hunger. Unable to save his mother, Meilian sought the Buddha's advice, and he preached the Bon Sutra, which teaches that a bon should be made on the fifteenth day of the seventh month in order to save his mother."
Middle Yuan Festival: July 15
Widely known as Is hit by yuan of festival
The Taoist religion is called Ghost Sacrifice, and in addition there is the Shangyuan Festival, the Lantern Festival. The Shangyuan Festival is the Lantern Festival on earth, where people celebrate the Lantern Festival with lanterns and colors. Zhongyuan comes from Shangyuan. It is believed that the Mid-Yuan Festival is a festival of ghosts, and lights should also be put up to celebrate the festival for ghosts. However, there is a difference between humans and ghosts, therefore, the lights are not the same on the Middle Yuan as on the Last Yuan. People are yang and ghosts are yin; land is yang and water is yin. The mysterious darkness under the water reminds people of the legendary Underworld, where ghosts sink. Therefore, Shangyuan Zhangliao is on land and Zhongyuan Zhangliao is in water.
Di Zang Festival: July 30
Widely known as: The field hides festival
The festival is of Buddhist origin. After the demise of Sakyamuni Buddha, it took 5,676 million years for Maitreya Bodhisattva to come forth and manifest as Buddha in our world. Sakyamuni Buddha's Dharma movement lasted only 12,000 years, so the time with Buddhism in this world was very short, and the time without a Buddha was very long. During this period of darkness, what person took the place of Buddhism and transformed all living beings? It was Jizo Bodhisattva (see Jizo Sutra's Testament of Accumulation of Human and Heavenly Beings). Therefore, he is a proxy Buddha, and among all the Bodhisattvas, he is not the same. The sentient beings in Yantra have a great and deep karma with Earth Store Bodhisattva. The Buddha World-Honored One who praises Bodhisattvas for having great karma praises only two, one is Earth Store Bodhisattva and the other is Guan Shiyin Bodhisattva.
Mid-Autumn Festival: August 15
Widely known as: The Mid-autumn Festival
The festival is the second largest traditional festival in China after the Spring Festival. It has the meaning of reunion and reunion, and the folk have the custom of eating moon cakes and enjoying lanterns.
Chongyang Festival: The 9th day of the 9th month of the 9th month of the 9th year of the 9th lunar month
Widely known as the Double Nineth Festival
The origin of the Chongyang Festival can be traced back to the early Han Dynasty at the earliest. It is said that in the imperial palace, on the ninth day of the ninth month of the year, one should wear cornelian cherry, eat pon bait and drink chrysanthemum wine for longevity; after Mrs. Qi, the beloved consort of Liu Bang, the Gaozu Emperor of the Han Dynasty, was tragically murdered by Empress Lu, the courtesan Jia was expelled from the palace as well, and the custom was introduced into the folklore of the people.
Staple food: Chongyang cake, Chongyang wine, climbing high mountains, inserting cornelian cherry, and so on. There are other customs in various places.
Ancestor Sacrifice Festival: The first day of October
Offer a sacrifice to ancestors section
Also known as the "October Morning", it has been a custom in our country since ancient times to offer sacrifices to the ancestors at the time of the new harvest to show filial piety and respect, and not to forget one's roots. Therefore, people also in the first day of October with millet sacrifice to ancestors. The first day of October sacrifices to ancestors, there are home sacrifices, there are also grave sacrifices, both in the north and south. Today, in many areas in the south of the Yangtze River, there is still the custom of sacrificing to new graves on the first day of October. The first day of October is also the first day of winter, after which the climate grows colder. People are afraid that the souls of the ancestors in the underworld lack clothes, therefore, in addition to food, incense and candles, paper money and other general offerings, there is also an indispensable offering - clothing. During the festival, people burn the clothes to their ancestors, which is called "sending cold clothes". Therefore, the first day of October is also known as the "Burnt Clothes Festival".
The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is saved
The staple food: the north has Lapa congee, Lapa garlic, the south began to make bacon, bologna, smoked at the time of the New Year
Winter Festival: December 21, 22
Widely: Winter is saved
Winter Festival is the day of the winter solstice in the twenty-four solar terms, but also the name of a traditional festival in China, also known as the "long solstice festival", "He Winter Festival", It is also called "Long Solstice Festival", "He Dong Festival", "Yayu", etc. It is called "Long Solstice". Called the "long solstice", is based on the ancient observation of changes in the sky: the winter solstice is the northern hemisphere in the year the shortest day, the longest night day, the so-called "south of the day to the day, the day is short of the day to the day, the sun is long to the shadow of the day, so it is called the winter solstice", and thereafter, the day, it is lengthened day by day. Called its "sub-year", is second only to New Year's Day (that is, today's Spring Festival). In our country, there are more folk, "Winter Festival is greater than the year" said.
Small year: December 23rd
Festival that falls on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth month of the lunar year
Commonly known as the sacrifice of the king of the stove, the countryside should be set up on the stove on the sugar cane, desserts, sesame seed cake lamp sweets for the king of the stove! to pray for good weather in the coming year and peace in the family.
New Year's Eve: The 30th day of the Lunar New Year
Widely known as New Year's Eve
This is the day when many people rush home from the road or from other countries to be reunited with their loved ones.
Solar Calendar Holidays
January Holidays
January 1: New Year's Day
January 6: China's 1.3 Billionth Population Day
First Sunday of January: Black People's Day
January 8: Anniversary of the Death of Zhou Enlai
January 21: Anniversary of the Death of Lenin
Last January Sunday: World Leprosy Day (International Leprosy Day)
February Festivals
February 2: World Wetlands Day
February 7: Memorial Day of the Strike on the Beijing-Hanking Railway (1923)
February 10: International Weather Day (1991)
February 14: Western Valentine's Day
February 15: China's 1.2 Billion People Day (1995)
February 19: Deng Xiaoping's Death Anniversary (1997)
February 21: Struggle Against Colonialism Day (1949)
February 21: International Mother Language Day (2000)
February 24: Third World Youth Day (2003)
February 28: World Day of the Survey of Habitat Conditions Survey Day (2003)
March Festivals
March 1: International Seal Day (1983)
March 3: National Ear Care Day (2000)
March 5: Anniversary of Zhou Enlai's Birth (1898)
March 5: "Learn from Comrade Lei Feng "Comrade Lei Feng" Memorial Day (1963)
March 5: China Youth Volunteer Service Day (2000)
March 8: International Working Women's Day (1910)
March 12: Anniversary of the death of Dr. Sun Yat-sen (1925)
March 12: China's Tree Planting Day (1979)
March 14: Memorial Day of Marx's Death (1883)
March 14: International Police Day (Day)
March 15: International Consumers' Rights Day (1983)
March 16: Hand-in-Hand with Poverty Pals National Day of Unified Action
March 17: International Maritime Day
March 17 March 18: National Day of Scientific and Technological Talents
March 21: World Forestry Day (1972)
March 21: International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (1966)
March 21: World Children's Songs Day (1976)
March 21 : World Sleep Day (2001)
March 22: World Water Day (1993)
March 23: World Meteorological Day (1960)
March 24: World Tuberculosis Day (1996)
March 30: Land of Palestine Day (1962)
The last Monday in March: National Day of Safety Awareness and Education in Primary and Secondary Schools (1996)
April Holidays
April 1: International April Fool's Day
April 2: International Children's Book Day
April 7: World Health Day (1950)
April 15: African Freedom Day
April 21: National Entrepreneurs' Day ( 1994)
April 22: Lenin's Birth Anniversary (1870)
April 22: World Earth Day (1970)
April 22: World Law Day
April 23: World Book and Copyright Day (1995)
April 24: World Youth Day against Colonialism (1957)
April 24: Asian-African Journalists Day
April 25: National Childhood Vaccination Awareness Day (1986)
April 26: World Intellectual Property Day (2001)
April 27: United Townships Day
April 30: National Day of Reflection on Traffic Safety
Fourth April Sunday: World Children's Day (1986)
Last Wednesday in April: Secretary's Day
May Holidays
May 1: International Workers' Day (1889)
May 3: World Press Freedom Day
May 4: China's Youth Day (1939)
May 4: May Fourth Movement Memorial Day (1919)
May 5: Anniversary of the Birth of Marx (1818)
May 8: World Red Cross Day (1948)
May 8: World Smile Day
Tuesday of the second week of May: World Asthma Day (1998)
May 10 (i.e., every year, the second Sunday of May) Mother's Day
May 12: International Nurses' Day (1912)
May 15: National Iodine Deficiency Disease Prevention and Control Day (1994)
May 15: International Day of the Family (Counseling) (1994)
May 17: World Telecommunication Day (1969)
May 18: International Museum Day ( 1977)
May 20: National Breastfeeding Awareness Day (1990)
May 20: China's Student Nutrition Day (1990)
May 22: International Day for Biological Diversity (2000)
Third Tuesday in May: International Milk Day (1961)
Third Sunday in May: National Day for the Disabled (1990)
May 25: African Liberation Day (1963)
May 26: World Day for Challenging the Human Condition (1993)
May 27: Shanghai Liberation Day (1949)
May 30: "May 30" Memorial Day of the Anti-Imperialist Movement (1925)
May 31: World No Tobacco Day (1988)
June Festivals
June 1: International Children's Day (1949)
June 4: International Day of the Innocent Children Killed and Maimed by Aggression (1983)
June 5: World Environment Day (1974)
June 6: National Eye Care Day (1996)
June 11: China's Population Day (1974)
June 15 (i.e., the third Sunday of June every year): Father's Day (1934)
June 17: World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought (1995)
June 20: World Refugee Day (2001)
June 22: China Children's Charity Day
June 23: International Olympic Day (1948)
June 23: World Handball Day
June 25: National Land Day (1991)
June 26: International Day Against Drug Abuse (International Day Against Drugs) (1987)
June 26: International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking (1987)
June 26: International Charter Day (United Nations Charter Day) (1945)
June 26: International Day in Support of Victims of Torture (1997)
July Festivals
July 1: Birthday of the Chinese ****anese Communist Party ( 1921)
July 1: Hong Kong Reunification Day (1997)
July 1: International Day of Architecture (1985)
July 1: Asia's 3 Billion People Day (1988)
July 2: International Sportswriters' Day
July 1: International Day of Cooperatives (International Day of Cooperatives) ( 1995)
July 7: Memorial Day of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1937)
July 11: World Population Day (1987)
July 11: China's Maritime Day
July 26: Esperanto (Language) Creation Day
July 31: African Women's Day (1962)
August Monthly Festivals
August 1: Chinese People's Liberation Army Founding Day (1927)
August 5: Engels' Death Anniversary (1895)
August 6: International Film Festival (1932)
August 8: Chinese Men's Day (Papa's Day) (1988)
August 9: International Day of the World's Indigenous People (1994)
August 12: International Youth Day
August 13: International Left-Handed Person's Day (1976)
August 15: Day of the Formal Declaration of Unconditional Surrender of Japan (1945)
August 22: Anniversary of the Birth of Deng Xiaoping (1904)
August 23: The Slave Trade and its Abolition International Day of Remembrance
August 26: National Lawyers' Consultation Day (1993)
September Holidays
September 1: National Primary and Secondary Schools' Opening Day
September 3: Memorial Day of China's Victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1945)
September 8: International Journalists' Day (1958)
September 8: World Literacy Day (1966)
September 9: Anniversary of Mao Zedong's death (1976)
September 10: Teachers' Day in China (1985)
September 14: World Clean Earth Day
September 16: International Ozone Layer Protection Day (1994)
September 18: "September 18th Incident Commemoration Day (China's National Shame Day) (1931)
September 20th: National Dental Day (1989)
September 21st: International Day of Peace (1981)
The third Saturday of September: National Defense Education Day (2001)
< p>September 21: World Alzheimer's Awareness DaySeptember 27: World Tourism Day (1980)
Fourth Sunday in September: International Day of the Deaf (1958)
Last Sunday in September: World Heart Day (2000)
Last Sunday in September: World Maritime Day
October Holidays
October 1: National Day (1949)
October 1: International Day of Music (1980)
October 1: International Day of Older Persons (International Day of Older Persons) (1990)
October 4: World Animal Day
October 5: World Teachers' Day (1944)
First Monday in October: International Housing Day (World Habitat Day) (1986)
Second Thursday in October: World Sight Day
October 9: World Postal Day (Universal Postal Union Day) (1969)
October 10: Memorial Day of the Xinhai Revolution (1911)
October 10: World Mental Health Day ( World Mental Health Day (1992)
The second Wednesday of October: International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction (1990)
October 11: Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners in South Africa
October 11: World Day for Analgesia (2004)
October 12: World Population Day (6 billion) (1999)
October October 13: Birthday of the Chinese Young Pioneers (1949)
October 14: World Standards Day (1969)
October 15: International Day of the Blind (White Cane Day)
October 16: World Food Day
October 17: World Day for the Eradication of Poverty (International Day for the Eradication of Poverty)
October 22: World Traditional Medicine Day
October 24: United Nations Day
October 24: World Development Advocacy Day (World Development Information Day)
October 25: Anti-USA and North Korea Remembrance Day (1950)
October 28: Day of Concern for Men's Reproductive Health
October 31: World Day of Thrift and Frugality
November Festivals
November 1: Tree Planting Day
November 6: International Day for Preventing War and Armed Conflict from Spoiling the Environment (2001)
November 7: Memorial Day of the October Revolution of the USSR (1917)
November 8: China's Journalists' Day
November 9: China's Fire Protection Awareness Day (Fire Prevention Day)
November 10: World Youth Day (Day)
November 12: Anniversary of Liu Shaoqi's death (1969)
November 12: Anniversary of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's birth (1866)
November 14: World Diabetes Day (1995)
November 16: International Day of Tolerance ( International Day of Tolerance)
November 17: International Students' Day (International Day of the Student)
November 20: Africa Industrialization Day (1989)
November 20: International Children's Day
November 21: World Television Day
November 21: World Greetings Day (1973)
Nov. 24: Anniversary of Liu Shaoqi's Birth (1898)
Nov. 25: International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (1999)
Nov. 28: Anniversary of the Birth of Friedrich Engels (1820)
Nov. 29: International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People (1977)
Fourth Thursday in November: American Thanksgiving Day
December Holidays
December 1: World AIDS Day
December 2: International Day for the Abolition of Slavery (World Day for the Abolition of All Forms of Slavery)
December 3: World Day of Persons with Disabilities
December 4: China's Legal Awareness Day
December 5: International Day of Volunteers for Economic and Social Development
December 5: World Day for Enhanced Immunization
December 5: World Day for People with Disabilities
December 7: International Day of Civil Aviation
December 9: Commemoration Day of the 12 September Movement
December 9: International Anti-Corruption Day
December 9: International Anti-Corruption Day
December 10: World Human Rights Day (1950)
The second Sunday of December: International Children's Day of Television and Radio
December 11: World Asthma Day
December 12: Anniversary of the Xi'an Incident
December 13: Anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre
December 18: International Migrants Day
December 19: International Migrants Day
December 20: Anniversary of the return of Macau
December 21: International Basketball Day
December 25: Western Christmas Day
December 26: Anniversary of the birth of Mao Zedong
December 29: International Day for Biological Diversity (1994)
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