2. Spring Festival: Spring Festival is the first day of the first lunar month, also known as the lunar calendar, commonly known as "Chinese New Year". This is the most grand and lively traditional festival among Chinese people. The Spring Festival has a long history, which originated from the activities of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors at the beginning and end of the Yin and Shang Dynasties. According to the Chinese lunar calendar, the first day of the first month was called Yuanri, Yuanchen, Yuanzheng, Yuanshuo, New Year's Day, etc., commonly known as the first day of the first month. In the Republic of China, it was changed to the Gregorian calendar. The first day of the Gregorian calendar was called New Year's Day, and the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar was called the Spring Festival.
Lantern Festival: The 15th day of the first lunar month, which is the first traditional festival in China after the Spring Festival. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called the night "Xiao", so they called the fifteenth day of the first month the Lantern Festival. The 15th day of the first month is the night of the first full moon in a year, and it is also the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty. On the night in spring returns, people celebrate this and celebrate the continuation of the Spring Festival. Lantern Festival is also called "Shangyuan Festival". According to the folk tradition in China, on this bright night, people light up thousands of lanterns to celebrate. Going out to enjoy the moon, burning lamps and setting off flames, enjoying solve riddles on the lanterns, eating Lantern Festival, family reunion and celebrating the festive season are enjoyable. It is also one of the favorite days for girls and boys in the past.
4. Tomb-Sweeping Day: Qingming Festival is one of the twenty-four solar terms in China, which usually falls around April 5th in the Gregorian calendar. As soon as Qingming arrives, the temperature rises and the rainfall increases, which is a good time for spring ploughing and spring planting. Therefore, before and after the Qingming Festival, there is an agricultural proverb that "planting trees is better than Qingming Festival". It can be seen that this solar term is closely related to agricultural production. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival in China, and it is also the most important festival for offering sacrifices to ancestors and sweeping graves. Grave-sweeping is commonly known as going to the grave and offering sacrifices to the dead. Most of the Han people and some ethnic minorities visit graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day.
5. Dragon Boat Festival: The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is a traditional folk festival in China, which is one of the ancient traditional festivals of the Chinese nation. Dragon Boat Festival is also called Duanwu and Duanyang. The main point is to commemorate Qu Yuan, a great poet in ancient China. On this day, people eat zongzi and row dragon boats.
6. Chinese Valentine's Day: The seventh day of the seventh lunar month. In our country, on this night, the weather is warm and the plants are fragrant, which is commonly known as Chinese Valentine's Day, and some people call it "Begging for Clever Skills Festival" or "Daughter's Day". According to folklore, this day is the day when the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl meet, and few people see magpies, because they went to the Milky Way in the sky to bridge the gap between the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl. Therefore, this day is the most romantic of the traditional festivals in China, and it is also the most important day for girls in the past. Now, in order to correspond to February14th in the western Gregorian calendar, China people regard this day as Chinese Valentine's Day.
7. Mid-Autumn Festival: Every year, the 14th/15th day of the seventh lunar month is the Orchid Festival, also known as Mid-Autumn Festival, July 30 or Ghost Festival. In the past, people prepared some dishes, wine, rice, gold and silver clothes and paper to worship ghosts and gods at the intersection on this night. It is said that on that day, Yan will also spend the festive season with ghosts in costumes, and let us living people bless them together, wishing people in another world all their wishes come true and enjoy the happiness that the world has not had time to enjoy. Therefore, many local festivals in our country will hold activities such as offering sacrifices, attending Buddha, cleaning tombs, reviewing, enjoying flowers and fishing to celebrate.
8. Mid-Autumn Festival: August 15th of the lunar calendar is the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival. This is the middle of autumn, so it is called Mid-Autumn Festival. In China's lunar calendar, a year is divided into four seasons, and each season is divided into three parts: Meng, Zhong and Ji, so Mid-Autumn Festival is also called Mid-Autumn Festival. The moon on August 15th is rounder and brighter than the full moons in other months, so it is also called "Moon Night" and "August Festival". On this night, people look up at the bright moon in the sky like jade, and naturally look forward to family reunion. Wanderers who are far away from home also take this opportunity to pin their thoughts on their hometown and relatives. Therefore, Mid-Autumn Festival is also called "Reunion Festival".
9. Double Ninth Festival: September 9th of the lunar calendar is the traditional Double Ninth Festival. Because in the ancient Book of Changes, "six" is defined as the yin number and "nine" as the yang number, on September 9th, the sun and the moon are combined with yang, and the two nine are heavy, so it is called Chongyang, also called Double Ninth. The ancients thought it was an auspicious day to celebrate, and this festival was celebrated from a very early age.
10, the activities to celebrate the Double Ninth Festival are colorful and romantic, which generally include traveling to enjoy the scenery, climbing high and overlooking, watching chrysanthemums, inserting dogwoods all over the place, eating double ninth festival cakes, drinking chrysanthemum wine and other activities. Double Ninth Festival, because it is homophonic with "for a long time", and nine is the largest number in numbers, has the meaning of long life. Moreover, autumn is also the golden season for a year's harvest, and the Double Ninth Festival has far-reaching implications. People have always had special feelings for this festival. There are many excellent poems in Tang poetry and Song poetry to congratulate Double Ninth Festival and chant chrysanthemums.
1 1, off-year: Spring Festival folklore. Spend a small year before the Spring Festival. Off-year is the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month every year. In China, it is the beginning and foreshadowing of the whole Spring Festival celebration. There are two main customs: sweeping the year and offering sacrifices to stoves.
12, New Year's Eve: The last day of the twelfth lunar month is except for the day, except for the night called New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, Great Festival, Great Celebration, etc., which is called the New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve by the people. The zero point of New Year's Eve is a watershed for two years. As the saying goes, "One night is even two years old, and five hours is divided into two years."