How many traditional festivals are there in China?

The main traditional festivals in China are:

The Spring Festival (the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar), the Lantern Festival (the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar), the Dragon's Head-raising (the second day of the second month of the lunar year), the Shezhi Festival (the second day of the second month of the lunar year), the Chingming Festival (on or around the 5th day of the 4th month of the calendar year), the Dragon Boat Festival (the 5th day of the 5th month of the lunar calendar year), the Tanabata Festival (the seventh day of the 7th month of the calendar year), the Half of the 7th Moon (the 14th/15th day of the 7th month of the Chinese calendar year), the Mid-Autumn Festival (the 15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese lunar year), the Chung Yeung Festival ( September 9 on the lunar calendar), Winter Solstice Festival (December 21~23 on the Gregorian calendar), New Year's Eve (the last day of the year), and so on.

Traditional festivals are an important carrier of Chinese traditional culture, and also an important part of the excellent traditional Chinese culture, which contains many excellent cultural factors and has an irreplaceable role in changing customs and culture.

Traditional Chinese festivals condense the national spirit and feelings of the Chinese nation, carry the cultural blood and ideological essence of the Chinese nation, and are an important spiritual bond that maintains national unity, national unity and social harmony.

Unlike Western civilization and Islamic civilization, Chinese civilization has almost no mythological heroes or religious fundamental heritage of universal festival system.

From ancient times to the present, China has had universal worship or celebration ceremonies only on major festivals related to agricultural production and healthy life, such as the Spring Festival, Ching Ming, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Chung Yeung Festival, Winter Solstice and so on, which constitute a system of cultural festivals inherited from China for thousands of years and affecting the countries in East and Southeast Asia.

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The civilizational value of traditional Chinese festivals is the spirit of harmony between heaven, earth and man, which is grander than the highest logical sphere of any religion, and is thus capable of absorbing and accommodating the culturally reasonable contents of various religious experiences, and has the significance of constituting a modern civilization and a future civilization.

Archaeological findings show that the astronomical calendar mechanism of Chinese civilization has a history of at least 6,500 years. There are thousands of astronomical calendars in ancient and modern times, basically divided into three categories: the solar calendar, the lunar calendar, and the combined lunar and solar calendars. The ancient Chinese calendar is a combination of the first two, supplemented by astrological and physical features of the yin-yang calendar system.

The criteria for its formulation include the objective observation of the movement of the sun to prepare the day, the year, and the objective observation of the movement of the moon to prepare the month and the phases of the moon, the concepts of "Shuowang" and "ten days", *** with the composition of the seasons and festivals, the Chinese traditional festivals are thus created. The traditional Chinese festivals are thus created.

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