What are the national festivals in China?

The customs and habits of traditional festivals in China are:

1, Spring Festival: The Spring Festival is the grandest and most lively ancient traditional festival in China, commonly known as "Chinese New Year". The first day of the first lunar month is the beginning of a year.

On the first day of New Year's Day, people have Spring Festival customs, such as greeting the New Year, posting Spring Festival couplets, hanging New Year pictures, stick grilles, setting off firecrackers, giving out red envelopes, wearing new clothes, eating jiaozi, observing the New Year, dancing lions and dragons and hanging lanterns.

2. Lantern Festival: On the fifteenth night of the first lunar month, it is a traditional Lantern Festival in China, which is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Eating Yuanxiao, enjoying lanterns and dancing dragons and lions are several important folk customs of the Lantern Festival.

Tomb-Sweeping Day: Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival with a long history. The day before in Tomb-Sweeping Day was called Cold Food Festival, and the two festivals coincided with spring and March, with bright spring and pink and green. The establishment of the Cold Food Festival is to commemorate the intermediary of the Jin Dynasty in the Spring and Autumn Period that "it is unfair to burn people to death".

Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the important sacrificial festivals, and it is a day to worship ancestors and sweep graves. There is a custom of outing.

4. Dragon Boat Festival: The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the traditional Dragon Boat Festival in China. Many activities of the Dragon Boat Festival are related to commemorating Qu Yuan, a great writer in China. On this day, every household will eat zongzi, and dragon boat races will be held all over the south. On this day, people carry out traditional activities such as sweeping the courtyard, hanging mugwort leaves, hanging calamus, sprinkling realgar wine, drinking realgar wine, sterilizing and preventing diseases.

5. Mid-Autumn Festival: August 15th of the lunar calendar is the middle of autumn, so it is called Mid-Autumn Festival. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, when people look up at the bright moon like jade, they will naturally look forward to family reunion, and wanderers who are far away from home will also take this opportunity to pin their thoughts on their loved ones in their hometown. Therefore, Mid-Autumn Festival is also called "Reunion Festival". The traditional custom of enjoying the moon, offering sacrifices to the moon and eating moon cakes in the evening of Mid-Autumn Festival.

6. New Year's Eve: New Year's Eve is the last day of the year. On this day, people try to get together. Every New Year's Eve, families get together for dinner. On New Year's Eve, we will celebrate the New Year, bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and congratulate and encourage each other. When the new year comes, set off firecrackers to welcome the new year.