What are the traditional festivals in China?

Spring Festival generally refers to the first day of the first lunar month to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month (Lantern Festival). Its activities are mainly to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, welcome the new year and receive the blessings, offer sacrifices to the gods and ancestors, and pray for a bumper harvest, which has strong national characteristics. It not only embodies the Chinese nation's ideological beliefs, ideals and aspirations, life, entertainment and cultural psychology, but also is a carnival display of blessing, eating and entertainment activities.

Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaoyuanyuan Festival, Yuanxi Festival or Lantern Festival, is the first important festival after the Spring Festival and one of the traditional festivals in China and overseas Chinese. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called the night "night", so the fifteenth day of the first full moon in a year was called the Lantern Festival. Traditional customs include going out to enjoy the moon, lighting lanterns and setting off flames, liking solve riddles on the lanterns, eating Yuanxiao and pulling rabbit lanterns. In addition, in many places, traditional folk performances, such as playing dragon lanterns, playing lions, walking on stilts, boating, yangko dancing and playing Taiping drums, have all joined the Lantern Festival.

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the outing festival, is at the turn of the vernal equinox and the end of spring, usually around April 5, after the vernal equinox 15 on the Gregorian calendar. It is one of the four traditional festivals in China. Grave sweeping and outing are the basic themes of etiquette and custom.

Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, also known as Duanyang Festival, Noon Festival and May Festival. "Dragon Boat Festival" is one of the national legal holidays in China, and has been included in the world intangible cultural heritage list. Dragon Boat Festival originated in China. It was originally a festival for China people to get rid of diseases and prevent epidemics. Before the Spring and Autumn Period in Wuyue, there was a custom of holding tribal totem sacrifices in the form of dragon boat races on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.

Mid-Autumn Festival (also known as Mid-Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon Chasing Festival, Moon Worship Festival, Daughter's Day or Reunion Festival) is a traditional cultural festival popular in many ethnic groups and countries with Chinese cultural circles in China. It falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. Influenced by China culture, Mid-Autumn Festival is also a traditional festival for overseas Chinese in some countries in East and Southeast Asia, especially local Chinese. Mid-Autumn Festival has the custom of enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes, enjoying osmanthus and drinking osmanthus wine since ancient times.

Double Ninth Festival refers to the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, which is a traditional folk festival in China. 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 feasting on the Double Ninth Festival. So far, it has added the connotation of respecting the elderly, feasting on the day of Chongyang, and being grateful for respecting the elderly. Climbing mountains and enjoying autumn and giving thanks and respecting the elderly are two important themes of today's Double Ninth Festival.