1. Spring Festival

Time: the first day of the first lunar month in the narrow sense, and the first to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in the broad sense.

Origin: The Spring Festival is the first day of the lunar calendar. Another name for the Spring Festival is the New Year. It is the grandest, liveliest and most important ancient traditional festival in China, and is also a festival unique to the Chinese. It is the most concentrated expression of Chinese civilization. Since the Western Han Dynasty, the custom of the Spring Festival has been extended to this day. The Spring Festival generally refers to New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month. But among the people, the Spring Festival in the traditional sense refers to the period from the twelfth lunar month on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, or the twelfth lunar month on the 23rd or 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, of which New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month are the most popular ones.

2. Lantern Festival

Time: the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Origin: The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival. Also known as Shangyuan Festival, Yuan Ye Festival and Lantern Festival. According to legend, Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty (179 BC - 157 BC), in order to celebrate Zhou Bo's pacification of the Lu rebellion on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, would go out of the palace to play and have fun with the people every night. In the first month of the first lunar month, Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty designated the fifteenth day of the first lunar month as the Lantern Festival, and this night was called the Lantern Festival. Sima Qian created the "Taichu Calendar" and listed the Lantern Festival as a major festival. With the changes of society and times, the customs and habits of the Lantern Festival have already undergone major changes, but it is still a traditional Chinese folk festival.

3. Qingming Festival

Time: around April 5 in the Gregorian calendar.

Origin: The origin of the Qingming Festival is said to have begun with the ritual of "tomb sacrifice" for emperors and generals in ancient times. Later, the people also imitated it. On this day, they worshiped their ancestors and swept their tombs. It has been followed by generations and has become a fixed ritual of the Chinese nation. customs.

4. Dragon Boat Festival

Time: The fifth day of the fifth lunar month.

Origin: The Dragon Boat Festival originated in China. It was originally a festival for the tribes who worshiped the dragon totem in the ancient Baiyue region (the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the south) to hold totem sacrifices. Before the Spring and Autumn Period in the land of Baiyue, there was a festival in the lunar calendar. On the fifth day of May, it is the custom to hold tribal totem sacrifices in the form of dragon boat races. Later, because Qu Yuan, a poet of the Chu State (now Hubei) during the Warring States Period, committed suicide by bouldering into the Miluo River on that day, the rulers made the Dragon Boat Festival a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan in order to establish a loyal and patriotic label; in some areas, there are also commemorations of Wu Zixu and Cao E.

5. Qixi Festival

Time: The seventh day of the seventh lunar month.

Origin: Qixi Festival began in the Han Dynasty and is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the Chinese cultural circle. According to legend, women beg for wisdom from Vega in the courtyard on the night of the 77th day of the lunar calendar or the 6th day of the seventh lunar month, so it is called "begging for cleverness". It originated from the worship of nature and women begging for needlework, and was later given the legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl, making it a festival symbolizing love.