How many traditional festivals are there?

1, Spring Festival (Spring Festival), one of the four traditional Chinese festivals, is traditionally the lunar New Year. The Spring Festival is commonly known as the "New Year's Day", and is traditionally known as New Year's Day, Dainian, Tianla, and New Year's Day, and is also known verbally as Dusui, Qingxin, and New Year's Day.

2, Lantern Festival (Lantern Festival), also known as the Festival of the New Year, the small first month, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival, for the first month of the lunar calendar on the fifteenth day of the first month of each year, is the last important festival in the Chinese New Year customs.

3. Ching Ming Festival (Ching Ming Festival), also known as the Treading Green Festival, is held at the intersection of mid-spring and late spring. Ching Ming Festival is a traditional Chinese festival and one of the most important sacrificial festivals, a day for sweeping tombs and offering sacrifices to ancestors. The traditional Qingming Festival of the Chinese people began around the Zhou Dynasty, more than 2,500 years ago.

4, Dragon Boat Festival (Dragon Boat Festival), for the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, is one of the four traditional Chinese festivals. According to the "Jing Chu chronicle" records, because of the mid-summer, Shunyang on the May is mid-summer, it is the first day of the afternoon of the first day of Shunyang good weather, so the fifth of May is also known as the "Duan Yang Festival"; in addition to the Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the "Festival of the first day of the Dragon Day, Dragon Day Festival, Noon Day Festival, the May Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, Bathing Orchid Festival, Tianzhong Festival and so on.

5, Tanabata (The Double Seventh Day), for the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar each year, also known as the Begging for Coincidence Festival, seven coincidental festival, double seven, incense day, week, orchid night, daughter of the Festival or the seven Sisters of the Birthday and so on. The earliest "Tanabata" originated from people's worship of natural celestial phenomena, as early as in ancient times, the ancients had knowledge of the celestial phenomena of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden.

6, Double Ninth Festival (Double Ninth Festival), for the first nine days of the ninth month of the lunar calendar every year, is a traditional festival of the Chinese people.

7, Laba Festival (Laba Festival), commonly known as "Laba", that is, the eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, the ancients have sacrificed to the ancestors and the gods, praying for a good harvest and auspicious traditions, and some regions have the custom of drinking Laba congee.

8, New Year's Eve (New Year's Eve), also known as New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, and so on. It is the last night of the Lunar New Year (December) every year. In addition, that is, the meaning of the removal; evening, refers to the night.

Reference:

Baidu Encyclopedia - Traditional Chinese Festivals