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There are three major traditional festivals in China.

They are Lantern Festival, Ghost Festival and Yuan Jia Festival, we have deep feelings for the moon, that's why there are so many myths and legends about the moon, and naturally there are a lot of traditional festivals related to the moon.And these three festivals are held on January 15, July 15, and October 15 respectively, which are held when the moon is at its fullest, and that's why we attach so much importance to them.

The Lantern Festival is a festival that we still like to celebrate nowadays, and we have a lot of traditions inside such a festival, in this festival we can eat soup dumplings, go to temple fairs, and guess the riddles of lanterns which are the happiest time of the year for us, and we can be so happy at the very beginning of the year, which signifies that Our year is a happy year with auspicious blessings.

The Ghost Festival sounds a little scary, but this festival was originally intended to honor the ancestors, Legend has it that on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, the gates of hell will be opened by the king of hell, in order to solve the problem of all the ghosts miss their homes, the hell allows them to roam around in the mortal world to find their own descendants, of course, if you do not do anything bad ancestors will bless you, so do not be afraid of this day you only have to do something bad, and then you have to do something bad, and you will not have to worry. So don't be afraid to worship your ancestors on this day

Next Yuan Festival is also known as Yuan Jia Festival, which is one of the most unfamiliar festivals in the world, and was banned from being held in the Republic of China. October 15 is the last festival of the year related to the moon, at this time the crops are almost finished, in order to celebrate the festival, this time the custom is that all people need to use their own year planted out of the grain milling powder to make dumplings, and at the same time this time to worship the three officials, "heavenly palace, earth officials, water officials," used to pray for the next year's harvest.