Festivals of all ethnic groups in China

Four traditional festivals of the Han nationality:

A. Spring Festival: From the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, through New Year's Eve and Spring Festival, to the end of the Lantern Festival on the 15th of the first month; Its main festival activities include: sorting out new year's goods, sleeping, making new clothes, dust removal, offering sacrifices to the stove, worshipping ancestors, having a reunion dinner, keeping New Year's Eve, putting up Spring Festival couplets and hanging New Year pictures. During the festival, people also pay New Year greetings to each other, set off firecrackers, eat rice cakes, eat jiaozi, eat Yuanxiao, dance lions, dance yangko and play with lanterns.

B, Tomb-Sweeping Day: March of the lunar calendar, that is, around April 5 of the solar calendar; The main festival activities are: sweeping graves, inserting willows, hiking, shooting willows, flying kites and swinging.

C. Dragon Boat Festival: the fifth day of the fifth lunar month; There are mainly dragon boat races, eating zongzi, hanging Zhong Kui statues, hanging sachets, drinking realgar wine, inserting calamus and picking herbs.

D. Mid-Autumn Festival: August 15th of the lunar calendar; There are mainly activities such as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes, having a reunion dinner and dancing dragon lanterns;

Names, festivals, festival times and major festivals of ethnic minorities in China;

A, Gewei Festival: Zhuang nationality; Spring and autumn; Expressing feelings with songs, holding activities such as throwing hydrangeas, touching red eggs, kicking shuttlecock and grabbing fireworks;

B. Nadam Congress: Mongolians; Summer and autumn are held on different days; Horse racing, wrestling, archery, storytelling, singing and dancing, chess, track and field, tug-of-war and ball games, as well as film screenings and cultural performances.

C Lusheng Festival: Miao nationality; The 16th to 20th of the first lunar month and the 17th to 29th of September; Dance Lusheng dance, and also carry out bullfighting, horse racing, cultural performances, ball games and other activities;

D torch festival: yi people, etc. Around June 24 of the lunar calendar; Burning torches, running around the house, singing and dancing, drinking together, horse racing, singing, bullfighting, wrestling, archery, tug-of-war, swinging and other activities;

E. Water-splashing Festival: Dai people; Before and after the Lunar Tomb-Sweeping Day; Build towers with sand, bathe in Buddha's light, splash water on each other, hold dragon boat races, lose packets, fly high, light lamps, sing and dance, etc.

F. March Street: Bai people; The fifteenth day of the third lunar month; Material trade, horse racing;

G, Section 3: Naxi nationality; Sheep days in February and August of the lunar calendar; Worship three flowers and engage in various recreational activities.