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What are the traditional Chinese festivals in order all of them

There are many traditional Chinese festivals, in order from the beginning of the year to the end of the year Chinese New Year's Day (the first day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar); Lantern Festival (the fifteenth day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar); Dragon Boat Raiser's Head (the second day of the second month of the Lunar Calendar); Shezhi Festival (the second day of the second month of the Lunar Calendar); Cold Food Festival (the day before the Chingming Festival); Ching Ming Festival (on or around the fifth day of the fourth month of the Lunar Calendar);

Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar); Tanabata Festival (the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar); Mid-Yuan Festival (the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar); Mid-Autumn Festival (the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar); Chung Yeung Festival (the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar); Xia Yuan Festival (the fifteenth day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar); Winter Solstice Festival (the 21st to 23rd day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar); and New Year's Eve (the last day of the Chinese New Year).

Some of the festivals are introduced:

I. Spring Festival

Spring Festival, the first day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar, also known as the Lunar New Year, is commonly known as ? New Year? This is one of the grandest and most lively traditional festivals in China. Spring Festival means that spring is coming, everything is recovering, grass and trees flourish, a new round of sowing and harvesting season will begin again.

In the cold winter, people have just passed through the long winter of grass and trees withered, have long been looking forward to the warmth of spring, when the new spring is coming, naturally, we must be full of joy singing and dancing to meet the festival.

Two, Lantern Festival

The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called ? night? for? night? The Lantern Festival is also known as the Lantern Festival. Lantern Festival is also known as the Festival of Lights, the custom of the Festival of Lights began in the Han Dynasty, to the Tang Dynasty, the more prosperous activities to enjoy the lights, the court, hanging lights everywhere in the streets, and build a tall lamp wheel, lamp building, lamp tree.

Three, Qingming Festival

In China, Qingming Festival is a traditional holiday, but also the most important festival to pay tribute to ancestors, sweeping the tomb. Tomb-sweeping is commonly known as tomb-sweeping, in order to pay tribute to the dead. In the Qingming Tomb Sweeping, Han Chinese and some ethnic minorities account for the majority.

Four, the Mid-Autumn Festival

In the Chinese lunar calendar, the year is divided into four seasons, and each season is divided into Mengzi, Zhongzi and Jizi, so the Mid-Autumn Festival is also called Zhongqiu. Compared with other months, the moon is fuller and brighter on August 15, so it is also called ? Lunar New Year's Eve ? , ? August Festival ?