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What are the traditional festivals?
Traditional festivals are:

1, New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve: also known as New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, etc., refers to the last night of the twelfth lunar month (December) every year, and there are customs such as eating New Year's Eve, posting Spring Festival couplets and giving lucky money.

2. Spring Festival

Spring Festival: the Lunar New Year, commonly known as the "New Year Festival". China people have celebrated the Spring Festival for more than 4,000 years, which is the most solemn festival of the Chinese nation, and there are customs such as greeting the New Year and setting off firecrackers.

3. Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival: Also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaoyuanyian Festival, Yuanxi Festival or Lantern Festival, it is the first important festival after the Spring Festival, and there are customs such as eating Yuanxiao, lanterns and solve riddles on the lanterns.

4. Tomb-Sweeping Day

Tomb-Sweeping Day: Also known as the Walking Festival, at the turn of mid-spring and late spring, that is, the first 108 day after the winter solstice, there are customs such as sweeping graves and walking.

5. Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival: Also known as Duanyang Festival and Dragon Boat Festival, it is popular in China and other countries in the cultural circle of Chinese characters, and there are customs such as rowing dragon boats and eating zongzi. In September, 2009, UNESCO officially approved China Dragon Boat Festival to be included in the world intangible cultural heritage, becoming the first festival in China to be included in the world intangible cultural heritage.

6. Chinese Valentine's Day

Chinese Valentine's Day: Also known as Begging for Clevership Festival, it began in the Han Dynasty, and originated from the worship of nature and the begging for cleverness by women. Later, it was endowed with the legend of Cowherd and Weaver Girl, making it a festival symbolizing love.

7. Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival: Also known as Mid-Autumn Festival and Reunion Festival, it began in the early Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it had become one of the major festivals in China, enjoying the moon and eating moon cakes.

8. Double Ninth Festival

Double Ninth Festival: Also known as the Double Ninth Festival and the Autumn Festival, celebrating the Double Ninth Festival generally includes activities such as traveling to enjoy autumn, climbing to the distance, watching chrysanthemums, inserting dogwoods all over the place, eating double ninth cake and drinking chrysanthemum wine, and climbing with relatives to avoid disasters. 1989, the double ninth festival was designated as the festival for the elderly.

9. Laba Festival

Laba Festival: commonly known as "Laba", the ancients had a tradition of offering sacrifices to ancestors and gods and praying for a bumper harvest and good luck. In some areas, there was a custom of drinking Laba porridge.