What are the 24 traditional festivals in China?

There are no 24 traditional festivals in China, only 17, namely Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Head Rise, Social Day Festival, Shangsi Festival, Cold Food Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese Valentine's Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Next Yuan Festival, Winter Festival, Laba Festival, New Year's Festival and New Year's Eve.

Traditional festivals in China are an important part of the long history and culture of the Chinese nation, with various forms and rich contents. The formation of traditional festivals is a process of long-term accumulation and cohesion of national or national history and culture. The ancient traditional festivals of the Chinese nation include primitive beliefs, sacrificial culture, astronomical calendar, Yi Shushu and other humanistic and natural cultural contents, which contain profound and rich cultural connotations. The traditional festivals in China, which developed from ancient ancestors, not only clearly recorded the colorful social life and cultural content of Chinese ancestors, but also accumulated profound historical and cultural connotations.

The traditional festivals in China mainly include the Spring Festival (the first day of the first lunar month); Lantern Festival (15th day of the first lunar month); Dragon heads up, social day festival (the second day of the second lunar month); Shangsi Festival (the third day of the third lunar month); Cold food festival (from winter to the future 105 or 106 days); Tomb-Sweeping Day (around April 5th of Gregorian calendar); Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month); China Valentine's Day (the seventh day of the seventh lunar month); Mid-Autumn Festival (the 15th day of the seventh lunar month); Mid-Autumn Festival (August 15th of the lunar calendar); Double Ninth Festival (the ninth day of the ninth lunar month); Next Yuan Festival (October 15th of the lunar calendar); Laba Festival (the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month); Winter solstice festival (Gregorian calendar 65438+February 21~ 23); Off-year (due to the different customs between the north and the south, the days called off-year are also different. Generally, it is the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month in the north, and the 24th of the twelfth lunar month and New Year's Eve (the 29th or 30th of the twelfth lunar month) in most parts of the south. A *** 17, not 24.

In addition, some of the 24 solar terms are both natural solar terms and traditional festivals, such as Tomb-Sweeping Day and winter solstice. These festivals have both natural and humanistic connotations. They are both natural solar terms and traditional festivals. The origin and development of festivals is a "cultural process of gradual formation and perfection" of human society, and it is the product of the evolution of civilization from apes to humans. The traditional festivals in China are loaded with myths, legends, astronomy, geography, numbers, calendars and other humanistic and natural cultural contents.