Time: the first day of the first lunar month in a narrow sense, and the first day of the first lunar month to the fifteenth lunar month in a broad sense.
The Spring Festival refers to the traditional Spring Festival in the cultural circle of Chinese characters. The traditional names are New Year, New Year and New Year, but they are also verbally called New Year, Celebrating New Year and New Year. In ancient times, the Spring Festival refers to the beginning of spring in solar terms and is also regarded as the beginning of a year. Later, it was changed to the first day of the first lunar month as the New Year, and it is generally believed that it will not end until at least the fifteenth day of the first lunar month (Shangyuan Festival).
The concepts of Spring Festival and New Year originally came from agriculture. In ancient times, people called the growth cycle of the valley "year". Hebe: "It's ripe." . It is difficult to know when the Spring Festival (the New Year in the summer calendar) originated, but it is generally believed that it originated from the activities of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors at the end of the Yin and Shang Dynasties (La Worship) in China.
2. Lantern Festival
The fifteenth day of the first month is the night of the first full moon in a year and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty. On the night of the Spring Festival, people celebrate it and celebrate the continuation of the Spring Festival, so it is also called "Shangyuan Festival", that is, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. In ancient books, this day is called Shangyuan, and its night is called Yuanye, Yuanxi or Yuanxiao. The name Yuanxiao has been used ever since.
3. Tomb-Sweeping Day
Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the Walking Festival, is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring, that is, the first 108 day from winter to the future. It is a traditional festival in China, and it is also one of the most important festivals to worship ancestors and sweep graves.
The traditional Tomb-Sweeping Day of the Han nationality in China began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Influenced by the Han culture, 24 ethnic minorities in China, such as Manchu, Hezhe, Zhuang, Oroqen, Dong, Tujia, Miao, Yao, Li, Shui, Jing and Qiang, also have the customs of Tomb-Sweeping Day.
4. Dragon Boat Festival
Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, also known as Duanyang Festival, Noon Festival, May Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Bathing Orchid Festival and so on. It is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the Chinese character cultural circle.
Dragon Boat Festival originated in China, and it was originally a festival to get rid of diseases and prevent epidemics. Before the Spring and Autumn Period in Wuyue, there was a custom of holding tribal totem sacrifices in the form of dragon boat races on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Later, because the poet Qu Yuan died in the Miluo River, it became a traditional festival in China to commemorate Qu Yuan. In some areas, Wu Zixu and Cao E are also commemorated.
5. China People's Liberation Army Memorial Day.
August 1 day is the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army in China, commonly known as "August 1st Army Day". It originated from the Nanchang Uprising led by China during China's domestic democratic revolution.
In August 1927, 1, China led the Northern Expeditionary Army with more than 30,000 men. Under the leadership of Zhou Enlai, He Long, Ye Ting, Zhu De and Liu Bocheng, an armed uprising was held in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, and the first shot against the Kuomintang reactionaries was fired. It marks that China has entered a new era of armed revolution led by China, and marks the birth of a new type of people's army in China.