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What are the English names of Chinese holidays?

Sorted by date as follows:

1. New Year's Day (January 1): New Year's Day

2. Spring Festival (Lunar New Year's Day, New Year's Eve): Spring Festival

3. Lantern Festival (the fifteenth day of the first month of the Lunar calendar): Lantern Festival

4. Qingming Festival (the day of Qingming on the lunar calendar): Tomb Sweeping? Qingming Day): Tomb Sweeping?Day

5, Dragon Boat Festival (the day of the Dragon Boat Festival on the lunar calendar): The Dragon Boat Festival

6, Mid-Autumn Festival (the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival on the lunar calendar): Mid-Autumn Festival

7, Chung Yeung Festival (the ninth day of the ninth month on the lunar calendar): Double Ninth Festival

8, National Day (October 1): National Day

9, Winter Solstice (December 21 or 22): Winter Solstice

one, the Spring Festival

Spring Festival Chinese New Year

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". It is one of the grandest and most lively traditional festivals in China.

The Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival

The Lantern Festival is an important traditional festival in China. The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon of the year, but also the beginning of a new year, the night of the earth back to spring, people celebrate this, but also to celebrate the continuation of the new year, so it is also known as the "on the Yuan Festival", that is, the fifteenth day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar.

Three, Dragon Boat Festival

Duanwu Festival English words for: Dragon Boat Festival

Duanwu Festival is one of the oldest traditional festivals of the Chinese nation, the evolution of the Dragon Totem Festival by the ancient Yue people dry calendar Wu month, Wuzhi Dragon Totem Festival.

Four, Tanabata Festival

Tanabata Festival in English words: Tanabata Festival

Tanabata Festival is the earliest from the people of the worship of natural phenomena, as early as the ancient times, the ancients have been to the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden of the heavenly signs of understanding.

Fifth, the Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival English word for: the mid-autumn festival

Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the worship of heavenly phenomena, the harvest moon festival activities. The interpretation of the word "Autumn" is: "Crops are said to be ripe in the fall". In August, mid-autumn, crops and various fruits are ripening one after another, in order to celebrate the harvest and express the joy, the day of "mid-autumn" as a festival.

Sixth, Chongyang Festival

The Double Ninth Festival

The Chongyang Festival is the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, is a traditional festival, also known as the "Festival of the Elderly ".

Expanded Information:

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Christmas

Christmas, also known as Christmas Day, the birth of Jesus, the translation of the name of the "Christ Mass", is a traditional Western holiday.

Christmas originated in Christianity, on December 25th of the Gregorian calendar each year. The Mass is a liturgy of the Church. Christmas is a religious holiday, because it is celebrated as the birth of Jesus, so the name "Christmas".

Two, Halloween

Halloween (All Saints' Day), also known as All Saints' Day, on November 1 every year, is a traditional Western holiday; and the night before Halloween, October 31, is the most lively moment of this holiday. In Chinese, Halloween is often falsely translated as Halloween.

Three, Easter

Easter Day is an important Western holiday, celebrated on the first Sunday after the full moon on the spring equinox. Christians believe that Easter symbolizes rebirth and hope, and commemorates the day Jesus Christ rose on the third day after his crucifixion between 30 and 33 A.D.

Easter Day is a major Western holiday.