Can you name a few holidays?

The main festivals in ancient China were as follows:

Yuan Day: the first day of the first month, the beginning of the year.

People's Day: the seventh day of the first month, the main children.

Shangyuan: the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, when lanterns are opened for theater, also known as the "Festival of Lights".

Social Day: around the spring equinox, sacrifices and prayers for agriculture.

Cold Food: the day before Ching Ming, a three-day fire ban (Jie Zi Tui).

Chingming: early April, tomb sweeping and rituals.

Duanwu (Dragon Boat Festival): the fifth day of the fifth month, eating zongzi and rowing the dragon (Qu Yuan).

Seventh day of the seventh month: the seventh day of the seventh month, women beg for money (Cowherd and Weaving Maiden).

Chinese New Year: July 15, sacrifices to the gods and ghosts, also known as the "Ghost Festival".

Mid-Autumn Festival: August 15, enjoying the moon and thinking of home.

Chongyang: the ninth day of the ninth month of the ninth lunar month, when people climb up to the top of the mountain and insert dogwoods to avoid disasters.

Winter Solstice: also known as the "Day of the Dead", the starting point of the festival.

La Ri: On the eighth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, we drink La Ba congee.

New Year's Eve: the night of the last day of the year, when the old is removed and the new is welcomed.

Yuan Day, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, is the traditional Han Chinese festival of Spring Festival. This day the Han Chinese folk have many traditional folk activities, including posting spring couplets and door god, New Year's Eve vigil, open the door firecrackers one refers to the auspicious day, from the "Book of Han - Wang Mang biography," "Crown to the wu zi for the yuan day, fainting (marriage) to the ten days of the wu yin as a taboo, the people more than those who do not follow." ; Yan Shigu note: "Yuan, good also." Secondly, it refers to the first day of the first month, from the Book of Shun: "On the first day of the first month, Shun Ge in Wen Xiangzu."

People's Day, also known as People's Day, People's Celebration Day, Population Day, People's Seventh Day, etc., the seventh day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar every year is an ancient traditional Han Chinese festival. Legend has it that Nuwa first created the world, after making animals such as chickens, dogs, pigs, sheep, cows and horses, she made people on the seventh day, so this day is the birthday of mankind. Han Dynasty began to have human day festival, Wei Jin began to emphasize. Ancient people day have to wear "people win" custom, people win is a kind of headdress, also known as color win, Huasheng, from the Jin Dynasty began to cut color for the flowers, cut color for the people, or openwork gold foil for people to paste the screen, but also to wear in the hair. In addition, there is also the custom of climbing high and writing poems. After the Tang Dynasty, more attention to this festival. Every day, the emperor gave the qunchen colorful wisps people win, and high feast qunchen. If the weather on the seventh day of the first month of the year is sunny, the main population of the year safe, smooth entry and exit.

The Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, also known as the "Lantern Festival" (Lantern Festival), is one of China's traditional festivals, but also one of the traditional festivals of the Chinese character cultural circle of the region and overseas Chinese. The Lantern Festival began more than 2,000 years ago during the Qin Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Wen of Han Dynasty, the 15th day of the first month was designated as the Lantern Festival. During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the worship of the god "Taiyi" was scheduled for the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar. (Taiyi: the god who dominates everything in the universe). When Sima Qian created the "Taichu Calendar", the Lantern Festival was already recognized as a major festival. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called the night "night", and the fifteenth day is the first full moon in a year, so the fifteenth day of the first month is called the Lantern Festival. It is also known as the Small New Year's Day, the Lantern Festival, or the Lantern Festival, and is the first major festival after the Spring Festival.

Social Day is an ancient festival for farmers to worship the land god. Before the Han Dynasty, there was only the Spring Festival, and after the Han Dynasty, there began to be the Autumn Festival. Since the Song Dynasty, the fifth e day after the establishment of spring and autumn is the social day.

Cold Food, or Cold Food Festival, also known as the "Smoke-free Festival", "Cold Festival", "Hundred and Five Festival". In the summer calendar, one hundred and five days after the winter solstice, one or two days before the Qingming Festival. On this day, fireworks were forbidden and only cold food was eaten, so it was called the "Cold Food Festival". In the development of later generations, gradually increased in sweeping, trekking, swinging, Cuju, pulling hooks, fighting eggs and other customs. The Cold Food Festival has stretched for more than two thousand years and was once called the first major folk festival. Many literati have written poems about the Cold Food Festival.

The Qingming Festival is an important traditional Chinese folk festival, is one of the important "eight festivals" (Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Qingming, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Winter Solstice and New Year's Eve), generally in the Gregorian calendar, April 5; but the festival period is very long, there are "ten days before the eight day after "and" ten days before ten days after "two say, this nearly twenty days are Qingming Festival.

Duanwu Festival (Dragon Boat Festival) is the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, also known as the Duanyang Festival, Wuzhi Festival, May Festival. "The Dragon Boat Festival is one of China's national holidays and has been inscribed on the World Intangible Cultural Heritage List.

The Tanabata Festival, also known as the Beggar's Nest, the Seven Coincidences Festival or the Seven Sisters Festival, originated in China, is a traditional festival in the Chinese region and some East Asian countries affected by the Han culture, the night of the seventh month of the seventh lunar calendar, or the night of the sixth month of the seventh month of the night of the women in the courtyard of the Weaving Maiden star begging for wisdom and skill, so it is called ""Begging for Coincidence"".

The 15th day of the 7th month of the lunar calendar, the Chinese New Year Festival, is also one of the traditional Chinese ghost festivals. It is also one of the important "eight festivals" (Shangyuan (Lantern Festival), Qingming, Lixia, Duanwu, Zhongyuan, Mid-Autumn, Winter Solstice and New Year's Eve).

The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, the Autumn Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the August Festival, the August Meeting, the Moon Chasing Festival, the Moon Playing Festival, the Moon Worshipping Festival, the Daughter's Festival, or the Festival of Reunion, is a traditional cultural festival that has been popular among many ethnic groups of China and the countries of East Asia and is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar; it is so named because it falls at the halfway point of the third quarter of the lunar calendar and is also celebrated in the sixteenth month of the eighth month in some places.

The Chrysanthemum Festival, also known as the Festival of the Heavy Nine and "Treading Autumn", is a traditional Han Chinese festival. Celebration of the Chongyang Festival usually includes activities such as traveling to enjoy the scenery, climbing to a high altitude, viewing chrysanthemums, inserting dogwoods, eating Chongyang cakes and drinking chrysanthemum wine. It is also one of the four major traditional Chinese festivals for ancestor worship, and is celebrated on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar. Chongyang Festival, as early as in the Warring States period has been formed, to the Tang Dynasty was officially designated as a folk festival, and since then it has been inherited by successive dynasties. Chrysanthemum and the first three days of March "spring" are all family out of the room, Chrysanthemum on this day all the relatives should be together to climb high "to avoid disaster".

Winter Solstice (Winter Solstice), is an important festival in the Chinese lunar calendar[1], but also a traditional festival of the Chinese people, the winter solstice is commonly known as the "Winter Festival", "long solstice festival", The winter solstice is commonly known as "winter festival", "long solstice festival", "sub year" and so on. As early as two thousand five hundred years ago in the Spring and Autumn Period, China has been using the earth gui observation of the sun, determined the winter solstice, it is the twenty-four seasons in the earliest formulation of a time in the annual calendar between December 21 to 23 days.

Laha Festival, commonly known as "Laha", that is, the eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, the ancients have sacrificed to the ancestors and the gods, praying for a good harvest and auspicious traditions, and some regions have the custom of drinking Laha congee. Legend has it that this day is also the Buddha Shakyamuni became the day, called "Dharma treasure festival", is one of the grand Buddhist festival.

New Year's Eve is the evening of the last day of the lunar calendar at the end of each year, that is, the night before the first day of the New Year. Because often in the summer lunar month 29 or 30, so also known as the day for the year 30, is one of the most important traditional festivals of the Han people. Han Chinese folk are the most important. Families are busy or cleaning house, welcome the ancestors home for the New Year, and to the New Year's cake, three sacrificial offerings. The last day of the year is called "New Year's Eve", and that night is called "New Year's Eve". On New Year's Eve, people often stay up all night to observe the New Year's Eve." On New Year's Eve, not only do you have to clean your house, but you also have to put up door gods, spring scrolls, New Year's paintings and lanterns.