What are the four traditional festivals for ancestor worship in China? A. Tomb-Sweeping Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, New Year's Eve B. Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival.

The four traditional ancestral festivals in China are Tomb-Sweeping Day, Double Ninth Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and New Year's Eve.

1, Tomb-Sweeping Day

Also known as outing festival, outing festival, March festival, ancestor worship festival, etc. This festival is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day, which originated from the ancestor belief of early human beings, is the biggest ancestor worship festival of the Chinese nation.

2. Double Ninth Festival

The ancients thought the Double Ninth Festival was an auspicious day. In ancient times, there were customs such as climbing to pray for blessings, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, and drinking and praying for blessings. Inherited to this day, it has increased the connotation of respecting the elderly. Climbing mountains and enjoying autumn and giving thanks and respecting the elderly are two important themes of today's Double Ninth Festival.

3. Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival is the name of Taoism, commonly known as July 30 in folk, and Arahara Festival in Buddhism. Its birth can be traced back to ancestor worship and related sacrifices in ancient times. July is auspicious month and filial month, and July 30 is a festival for people to celebrate the harvest and repay the earth in early autumn. Some crops are ripe, so people should worship their ancestors according to the law and report Qiu Cheng to them with new rice and other sacrifices.

4. New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve is the last night at the end of the year. The last day of the end of the year is called "year's minute", which means that the old year is divided and replaced by the new year. New Year's Eve is a time to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, to reunite the whole family and to worship the ancestors. It is also a traditional festival to worship ancestors in China, along with Tomb-Sweeping Day, July 30th and the Double Ninth Festival.

On the Cultural Connotation of Tomb-Sweeping Day

Tomb-Sweeping Day is the most solemn festival for ancestor worship of the Chinese nation, and it belongs to a traditional cultural festival for ancestor worship. Tomb-Sweeping Day embodies the national spirit, inherits the sacrificial culture of Chinese civilization, and expresses people's moral feelings of respecting and honoring their ancestors. Tomb-Sweeping Day has a long history, which originated from the ancestors' beliefs and spring sacrificial customs of early human beings.

According to the research results of modern anthropology and archaeology, the two most primitive beliefs of human beings are the belief in heaven and earth and the belief in ancestors. According to archaeological excavations, a 10,000-year-old tomb was found at the Qingtang site in Yingde, Guangdong Province, which is the earliest tomb in China, indicating that ancient ancestors had a clear sense of burial behavior and customs thousands of years ago.