What are the traditional Chinese festivals?

The winter solstice is a very important festival in China's lunar calendar, and also a traditional festival, and there are still a lot of places that have the custom of winter solstice festival. The winter solstice is commonly known as the "winter festival", "long solstice festival", "YaYu", etc. As early as two and a half thousand years ago, the winter solstice is the most important festival in the Chinese lunar calendar. As early as two thousand five hundred years ago in the Spring and Autumn Period, our country has used the earth to observe the sun to determine the winter solstice, it is the twenty-four solar terms in the earliest development of a. The time in December of each year, the solar calendar. The time is between December 22nd or 23rd on the solar calendar every year.

The Spring Festival

The Spring Festival is the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, also known as the lunar year, commonly known as "New Year's Eve". It is one of the grandest and most lively traditional festivals in China. The Spring Festival has a long history, which originated in the Yin Shang period at the end of the year to sacrifice to the gods and ancestors.

The Lantern Festival

Every year, on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, just after the Spring Festival, ushered in the traditional Chinese festival - the Lantern Festival.

Ching Ming Festival

Ching Ming is one of the 24 solar terms in China. Since the 24 solar terms reflect more objectively the changes in temperature, rainfall and physical conditions throughout the year, ancient working people used them to arrange agricultural activities. Huainanzi (淮南子). Tianwenxun" said, "Fifteen days after the vernal equinox, the bucket points to B, then the wind of Qingming arrives." According to the "time of the year and a hundred questions": "Everything grows at this time, are clean and clear. Therefore, it is called Qingming." Qingming, the temperature rises, rainfall increases, is a good time for spring plowing and planting. Therefore, there are "before and after the Qingming, point melon planting beans", "planting trees, no more than the Qingming" proverbs. It can be seen that this festival and agricultural production has a close relationship.

Duanwu Festival

The fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar is the traditional festival of Chinese folklore, the Dragon Boat Festival, which is one of the ancient traditional festivals of the Chinese nation. Duanwu is also known as Duanwu, Duanyang. In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival has many aliases, such as: Wuzhi Festival, heavy five festival, May Festival, Bath Orchid Festival, Daughter Festival, Tianzhong Festival, the ground wax, Poet's Day, Dragon Day and so on. Although the name is different, but on the whole, the people around the custom of the festival or more than different.

The Tanabata Festival

In our country, the night of the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the weather is warm, the grass and trees, which is commonly known as the Tanabata Festival, some people call it "Begging for coincidence" or "Daughter's Day", which is one of the most romantic Chinese traditional festival, and is also the most romantic festival in China. This is one of the most romantic festivals in the traditional Chinese festival, and it is also the most important day for the girls in the past.

Mid-Autumn Festival

The Mid-Autumn Festival is traditionally celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar. This is the middle of the fall season of the year, hence the name Mid-Autumn. In the Chinese lunar calendar, the year is divided into four seasons, each of which is subdivided into three parts: the Meng, the Midsummer, and the Quarter, hence the Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival. The moon on the 15th day of the 8th month is fuller and brighter than the full moons of other months, which is why it is also called "Moon Festival" and "August Festival". On this night, people look up at the bright moon in the sky like a jade disk and naturally look forward to family reunions. People who are far away from their hometowns also take this opportunity to express their nostalgia for their hometowns and loved ones. Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as the "reunion festival".

The Chongyang Festival

The 9th day of the 9th lunar month is the traditional Chongyang Festival. Because the ancient "I Ching" in the "six" as the number of yin, the "nine" as the number of yang, the ninth day of September, the sun and the moon and yang, the two nine heavy, so it is called Chung Yeung, also known as Chung Nine, the ancients believe that it is a worthy of celebrating the auspicious day, and from early on this holiday! The festival has been celebrated since a long time ago.