What are the traditional Chinese national festivals Chinese traditional festivals introduction

1, New Year's Eve, also known as New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve and so on. It is the last night of the Lunar New Year (December) every year. In addition, that is, the removal of the meaning of; Xi, refers to the night. New Year's Eve is also the festival of the old and welcome the new, the beginning of a new year, the renewal of all things.

New Year's Eve is one of the most important traditional festivals in China because it is often held on the twenty-ninth or thirtieth day of the waxing moon in the summer calendar, so it is also known as the New Year's Eve, which is one of the most important traditional festivals in China. It is one of the most important traditional festivals in China. Families are busy or clean their homes to welcome their ancestors home for the New Year, and offer sacrifices of New Year's cakes and three animals.

2, the Lantern Festival, also known as the Festival of the first yuan, the small first month, Yuanxi or Lantern Festival, for the first month of the lunar calendar on the fifteenth day of the year, is the last important festival in the Chinese Spring Festival yearly custom. The Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China and the Han Chinese Cultural Circle area as well as for overseas Chinese. The first month of the lunar year is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called the "night" "night", so the first full-moon night of the year, the 15th day of the first month, is called the Lantern Festival.

China is a vast country with a long history, so the customs of the Lantern Festival are not the same throughout the country, in which eating Lantern Festival, lanterns, dragon dances, lion dances and so on are several important folk customs of the Lantern Festival. The Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, so all over the country, most of the region's customs are more or less the same, but each region also still has its own characteristics.

3, Qingming Festival, also known as Treading Green Festival, the festival in the middle of spring and late spring. Qingming has both natural and humanistic connotations, and is both a natural festival point and a traditional festival. Qingming Festival is a traditional major spring festival, tomb-sweeping rituals, remembering ancestors, is the Chinese nation for thousands of years left behind a fine tradition, not only conducive to promote filial piety and affection, awakening the family *** with the memory, but also to promote the cohesion of family members and even the nation's cohesion and sense of identity.

The Qingming Festival is one of China's important "eight festivals". Qingming Festival ancestor worship customs, inherited over the generations and become a fixed custom of the Chinese nation. Although the Qingming Festival fire ban cold food customs in the Song Dynasty only kneaded stereotypes popularized as a national folk customs, but the Qingming Festival tomb sweeping and ancestor worship, respect for ancestors custom has long been there.

4, the Dragon Boat Festival, the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar each year, is one of China's four traditional festivals. According to the "Jing Chu chronicle" records, because of the mid-summer heights, Shunyang on the May is mid-summer, it is the first noon of the day is the first day of good weather Shunyang, so the fifth day of May is also known as the "Duanyang Festival".

Duanwu Festival, the Chinese nation's oldest folk festival, evolved from the ancient times of the dragon totem sacrifice, Baiyue land in ancient times in the form of dragon boat race to sacrifice the dragon ancestor's custom. Due to the Warring States period of the Chu poet Qu Yuan in the Dragon Boat Festival to hold the stone jump Miluo River to kill themselves, after the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan; individual places also commemorate the Wu Zixu, Cao E and Jie Zi Tui and other sayings.

5, the Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, August Festival, August Meeting, Chasing the Moon Festival, Playing the Moon Festival, Moon Worship Festival, the Daughter's Festival or Reunion Festival, is popular in many ethnic groups in China and the countries of the Chinese character cultural circle of the traditional cultural festivals, the time in the 15th of the eighth month of the Lunar Calendar; because of the value of the three half of the Autumn Festival, so the name, there are some places will be the Mid-Autumn Festival in the sixteenth day of the eighth month.

The Mid-Autumn Festival has been practiced since ancient times, with customs such as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, paying homage to the moon, eating mooncakes, enjoying osmanthus blossoms, and drinking osmanthus wine, which have been passed down to the present day and are still practiced today. The Mid-Autumn Festival has become a colorful and precious cultural heritage, with the fullness of the moon signifying the reunion of people, as a token of nostalgia for the hometown and relatives, and as a prayer for a good harvest and happiness.

6, Chrysanthemum Festival, for the first nine days of September on the lunar calendar each year, is a traditional festival of the Chinese people. I Ching" in the "nine" as the number of Yang, September 9, two nine overlap, so it is called "Chung Yeung"; because the day and the month are nine, so it is also known as "Chung Kau". Nine nine to the true, the beginning of a yuan, the ancients believe that the nine suns are auspicious days.

Ancient folk in the Chongyang Festival have climbed high to pray for blessings, autumn tour to enjoy chrysanthemums, wear dogwood, God and ancestor worship and feasts to seek longevity and other customs. Nowadays, it has added the connotation of honoring the elderly, enjoying feasts and honoring the elderly on the day of the Chrysanthemum Festival. The two important themes of the Chrysanthemum Festival today are the appreciation of autumn and gratitude to the elderly.