China's top ten festivals

1. New Year’s Eve (the last day of the twelfth lunar month).

Because it often falls on the 29th or 30th day of the twelfth lunar month in the lunar calendar, it is also called the New Year's Eve. It is one of the most important traditional festivals in China.

Folks pay the most attention to it.

Every household is busy or cleaning their courtyards, welcoming their ancestors home for the New Year, and offering rice cakes and three animals as offerings.

2. Spring Festival (the first day of the first lunar month).

Commonly known as "New Year's Day", the traditional names are New Year, New Year, Tianla, and New Year. It is also known verbally as celebrating the New Year, celebrating the New Year, and celebrating the New Year.

Chinese people have celebrated the Spring Festival for at least 4,000 years.

Among the people, the Spring Festival in the old traditional sense refers to the twelfth month of the twelfth lunar month or the stove sacrifice on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month, until the 19th day of the first lunar month.

In modern times, people set the Spring Festival on the first day of the first lunar month, but it usually does not end until at least the fifteenth day of the first lunar month (the Lantern Festival).

3. Lantern Festival (the fifteenth day of the first lunar month).

Also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaozhengyue, Yuanxi Festival or Lantern Festival, it falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month every year and is the last important festival in the Chinese Spring Festival customs.

The first month of the lunar calendar is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called the night "xiao", so the fifteenth day of the first full moon of the year is called the Lantern Festival.

4. Cold Food Festival (the day before Qingming Festival).

It is 105 days after the winter solstice in the lunar calendar and one or two days before the Qingming Festival.

On the first day of the festival, no fireworks are allowed and only cold food is eaten.

In the development of later generations, customs such as sacrificial sweeps, outings, swings, Cuju, lead hooks, and cockfighting were gradually added. The Cold Food Festival lasted for more than two thousand years and was once known as the largest folk festival in China.

Cold Food Festival is the only traditional Chinese festival named after food customs.

5. Qingming Festival (around April 5 in the Gregorian calendar).

Also called the Outing Festival, it takes place at the turn of mid-spring and late spring.

Qingming Festival is a traditional Chinese festival and one of the most important sacrificial festivals. It is a day for sweeping tombs and worshiping ancestors.

The traditional Qingming Festival of the Chinese nation began around the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years.

Through the development and evolution of history, Qingming has extremely rich connotations, and different customs have been developed in various places. The basic themes are sweeping tombs, worshiping ancestors, and outings.

6. Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month).

May is midsummer, and the first noon day is a day of good weather for climbing to Shunyang. Therefore, the fifth day of May is also called the "Duan Yang Festival" and is one of the traditional Chinese festivals.

The Dragon Boat Festival is also known as "Zhengyang Festival, May Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, etc." Dragon Boat Festival customs include eating rice dumplings and racing dragon boats. The custom of eating rice dumplings has been popular in China for thousands of years, and dragon boat racing is very popular along the coast of southern China.

. 7. Qixi Festival (the seventh day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar). It is also known as Qixi Festival, Double Seventh Festival, Women's Day, etc. "Qixi Festival" originated from people's worship of natural celestial phenomena. As early as ancient times, the ancients worshiped the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.

The Qixi Festival is a traditional cultural festival in China. Women on the Qixi Festival perform needlework, pray for good fortune and longevity, worship the Seventh Sister, and display flowers, fruits and nühong (gōng).

The earliest love festival. It is a festival with love as the theme and women as the protagonist. It is also known as the Autumn Festival, August Festival and Reunion Festival.

, is a traditional cultural festival in China. It is named because it happens to be in the middle of the third autumn. In some places, the Mid-Autumn Festival is held on August 16th. The Mid-Autumn Festival uses the round moon to signify people's reunion and express their longing for their hometown and relatives.

The sentiments of praying for a good harvest and happiness have become a rich and precious cultural heritage. 9. The Double Ninth Festival (the ninth day of the ninth lunar month) falls on September 9th, so it is called "Double Ninth Festival" because the sun coincides with the ninth day.

The moon falls on the ninth day of the month, so it is also called "Double Ninth Festival". The ancients believed that the Double Ninth Festival was an auspicious day worth celebrating. In ancient times, people had the custom of climbing high to pray for blessings. Celebrating the Double Ninth Festival generally included climbing high and enjoying the autumn sun.

, chrysanthemum appreciation and other activities. 10. Laba Festival (the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month). Laba Festival, commonly known as "Laba", is a sacrificial ceremony for ancestors and gods (including door gods, household gods, house gods, kitchen gods, and well gods).

, praying for a good harvest and good luck. The name "La" at the end of the year has three meanings: one is "La is the one who receives the harvest", which means the alternation of the old and the new; the other is "La is hunting together", which refers to hunting in the field to obtain animals for sacrifice.

When ancestors offer sacrifices to gods, the word "wax" comes next to the word "meat", which means meat is used as a "winter sacrifice"; the third saying is "those who use wax will drive away epidemics and welcome spring."