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Time: the first day of the first lunar month in a narrow sense, and the first to fifteenth day of the first lunar month in a broad sense.

Origin: The Spring Festival, the first year of the lunar calendar, is another name for the Spring Festival, the grandest, most lively and most important ancient traditional festival in China, and a unique festival for China people. It is the most concentrated embodiment of Chinese civilization. Since the Western Han Dynasty, the custom of the Spring Festival has continued to this day. Spring Festival generally refers to New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month. However, among the people, the traditional Spring Festival refers to the sacrificial ceremony from the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month or the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month to the 15th of the first lunar month in La Worship, taking New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month as examples.

2. Lantern Festival

Time: the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Origin: The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival. Also known as Shangyuan Festival, Lantern Festival and Lantern Festival. According to legend, Emperor Wendi (179- 157) celebrated the 15th day of the first month to investigate the Zhu Lu rebellion. Every night, he goes to the palace to play with people. In ancient times, night was the same as night, and the first month was also called January. Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty designated the fifteenth day of the first month as the Lantern Festival, and this night was called Yuanxiao. Sima Qian founded the taichu calendar, which listed the Lantern Festival as a major festival. With the changes of society and times, the custom of Lantern Festival has changed greatly, but it is still a traditional folk festival in China.

3. Tomb-Sweeping Day

Time: April 5, Gregorian calendar.

Origin: It is said that the origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day began with the "grave-sweeping" ceremony of ancient emperors and generals. Later, people followed suit, and it became a fixed custom of the Chinese nation to worship ancestors and sweep graves on this day.

4. Dragon Boat Festival

Time: the fifth day of the fifth lunar month

Origin: Dragon Boat Festival originated in China. Originally, it was a totem festival for the tribes who worshipped dragon totem in Baiyue area (the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the south area). Before the Spring and Autumn Period in Baiyue area, it was customary to hold totem festivals in the form of dragon boat races on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Later, because Qu Yuan, a poet of the State of Chu (now Hubei) in the Warring States period, threw a huge stone into the Miluo River that day, the ruler took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan in order to establish the label of loyalty to the monarch and patriotism. In some areas, Wu Zixu and Cao E are also commemorated.

5. Chinese Valentine's Day

Time: the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.

Origin: The Qixi Festival, which started in the Han Dynasty, is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the cultural circle of Chinese characters. According to legend, on the night of the seventh or sixth day of the seventh lunar month, women begged the Weaver girl for cleverness in the courtyard, so they called it "begging for cleverness". It originated from the worship of nature and women's needlework, and was later endowed with the legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl, making it a festival symbolizing love.

6. Mid-Autumn Festival

Time: August 15th of the lunar calendar.

Origin: Mid-Autumn Festival began in the early years of the Tang Dynasty and prevailed in the Song Dynasty. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it had become one of the traditional festivals in China, which was as famous as the Spring Festival. 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. Since 2008, Mid-Autumn Festival has been listed as a national statutory holiday. On May 20th, 2006, it was listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage by the State Council.

7. Double Ninth Festival

Time: the ninth day of the ninth lunar month.

Origin: The Double Ninth Festival has a history of more than two thousand years. The origin of the Double Ninth Festival can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. During the Warring States period, Chongyang was paid attention to by people, but it was only an activity in the palace.

In the Han Dynasty, the custom of celebrating the Double Ninth Festival gradually became popular. According to legend, Lady Qi, the concubine of Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang, was killed, and Jia Shi, the maid in front of her, was expelled from the palace and married the poor. Jia brought the activities of Chongyang to the people. Jia told people: in the palace, on the ninth day of September every year, we should wear dogwood, eat tent bait and drink chrysanthemum wine in order to live longer. Since then, the custom of Chongyang has spread among the people.

8. Laba Festival

Time: the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month

Origin: Laba has been a sacrificial ceremony for ancestors and gods (including door gods, household gods, house gods, kitchen gods and well gods) since ancient times to pray for good harvest and good luck. According to the Book of Rites, La Worship was "the year of December, when everything gathered and everything wanted something." The Xia dynasty called Lari "Jiaping", the Shang dynasty called it "moss" and the Zhou dynasty called it "big wax". Because it is held in December, it is called the twelfth lunar month, and La Worship is called the twelfth lunar month. The twelfth lunar month in the pre-Qin period was the third day after the winter solstice, and then Buddhism was introduced. In order to expand its influence in the local area, traditional culture attaches Laba Festival as the Buddhist calendar enlightenment day. Later, with the prevalence of Buddhism, the Buddha's enlightenment day merged with the twelfth day, which was called the "magic weapon festival" in Buddhism. The Northern and Southern Dynasties began to be fixed on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.

9. New Year's Eve

Time: The last night of the twelfth lunar month (December)

Origin: New Year's Eve refers to the night on the last day of the twelfth lunar month, which is connected with the Spring Festival (the first day of the first month). The word "except" in "New Year's Eve" means "going, changing and alternating", and New Year's Eve means "the month is poor and the old year is exhausted". People should bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Here, they will bid farewell to the old and change to the new year next year. At this time, it is also the best time for children to understand the traditional Spring Festival and receive traditional education.