What are the traditional holidays in China?

There are currently eight main traditional cultural festivals in China, listed below in order of date:

1. New Year's Eve - the thirtieth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar.

2. Spring Festival - the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar.

Customs of the Spring Festival are generally based on eating rice cakes, dumplings, dumplings, large meatballs, whole fish, fine wines, apples, peanuts, melon seeds, candies, fragrant teas and delicacies.

3. Lantern Festival - the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar.

The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called it "night", and the 15th is the first full moon of the year, so the first 15 days of the first month is called the Lantern Festival. Also known as the small first month, the first night or lantern festival, is the first important festival after the Spring Festival.

4. Qingming Festival - the third day of the third lunar month.

The customs of Qingming Festival are rich and interesting, in addition to preaching the prohibition of fire, sweeping the tomb, there are also a series of customs and sports activities, such as trekking, swinging, kicking Cuju, playing polo, sticking willow and so on.

5. Dragon Boat Festival - the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.

The activities on this day are now gradually evolving into eating zongzi, racing dragon boats, hanging calamus, artemisia, moxa, fumigating Cangzhu, Angelica dahurica, drinking xionghuang wine, tying Baixiaozi, making incense horns, sticking five poisons, sticking talismans, releasing the yellow smoke, and eating the twelve reds.

6. Tanabata Festival - the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.

The Tanabata Festival is one of the most romantic of China's traditional festivals, and the most important day for girls in the past.

7. Mid-Autumn Festival - the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar.

Mid-Autumn Festival moon worship is a very ancient custom in China. The custom of enjoying the moon comes from the moon sacrifice.

8. Chung Yeung Festival - the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar.

The Chrysanthemum Festival has the custom of ascending the heights, in September of the golden autumn, the sky is high and cool, this season to ascend the heights and look around can be achieved to the heart, fitness to get rid of the purpose of the disease. And climbing high associated with chrysanthemum poetry, insert dogwood, eat Chongyang cake and other customs.