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What other traditional festivals are there?

Traditional festivals in China include Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Head Rise, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival.

1, Spring Festival is usually celebrated on the first day of the first lunar month, with a long history, which evolved from praying for the New Year at the beginning of the year in ancient times. During the Spring Festival, people will hold many celebrations, such as putting up Spring Festival couplets, hanging lanterns, setting off firecrackers, enjoying lanterns and having a reunion dinner.

Lantern Festival is the first important festival after the Spring Festival, usually celebrated on the 15th day of the first lunar month. Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, is a night festival. People will light lanterns to pray, eat Yuanxiao and enjoy lanterns, solve riddles on the lanterns.

People usually celebrate the birth of the dragon on the second day of the second lunar month. Legend has it that the dragon looks up, symbolizing that spring returns to the earth and everything recovers. On the other hand, the Social Day Festival is a day for offering sacrifices to the land gods, which is usually held on the second day of the second lunar month.

4. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a festival to worship ancestors and sweep graves, which is usually celebrated around April 5th in Gregorian calendar. People will worship their ancestors and sweep graves, burn paper money and set off firecrackers.

Dragon Boat Festival is a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. It is usually celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. People will eat zongzi, race dragon boats and hang wormwood.

6. Mid-Autumn Festival is a festival to celebrate the autumn harvest. It is usually celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month. People will enjoy the moon and eat moon cakes.

Characteristics of traditional festivals:

1, with a long history: traditional festivals in China have a history of thousands of years, such as Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. These festivals have a long history and profound cultural heritage.

2. Folk characteristics: Traditional festivals in China have unique folk customs, such as dragon and lion dances and lantern festivals during the Spring Festival; Dragon boat race and hanging mugwort leaves on the Dragon Boat Festival. These activities are both entertaining and have strong cultural characteristics.

3. Far-reaching influence: There are rich cultural connotations and implications behind the traditional festivals in China. For example, the Spring Festival symbolizes New Year's Eve, reunion and happiness; Tomb-Sweeping Day expressed his admiration and gratitude to his ancestors; Dragon Boat Festival symbolizes exorcism, avoiding diseases and praying for blessings.

4. Pay attention to family ties: Traditional festivals in China pay attention to family ties, such as family ties in the Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, and emphasize family ties and harmony.

5. Attach importance to the inheritance and promotion of traditional culture: China traditional festivals are an important part of China culture and an important carrier for inheriting and promoting China culture. During traditional festivals, people will inherit and carry forward China culture in various ways.