The traditional festivals in China are the Spring Festival (the first day of the first lunar month) and the Lantern Festival (the fifteenth day of the first lunar month). Dragon Head Up, Social Day Festival (the second day of the second lunar month); Shangsi Festival (the third day of the third lunar month); Cold food festival (105 or 106 days after the winter solstice); Tomb-Sweeping Day (around April 5th of Gregorian calendar); Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month); Chinese Valentine's Day (the seventh day of the seventh lunar month).
Mid-Autumn Festival (the 15th day of the seventh lunar month); Mid-Autumn Festival (August 15th of the lunar calendar); Double Ninth Festival (the ninth day of the ninth lunar month); Next Yuan Festival (October 15th of the lunar calendar); Winter solstice festival (Gregorian calendar1February 21~ 23rd); Laba Festival (the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month); Off-year (the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month); New Year's Eve (the 29th or 30th day of the twelfth lunar month).
The 24 solar terms are: beginning of spring, Rain, Sting, Vernal Equinox, Qingming, Grain Rain, long summer, Xiaoman, Mangzhong, Summer Solstice, Slight Summer, Great Summer, beginning of autumn, Chushu, Bailu, Autumn Equinox, Cold Dew, first frost, beginning of winter, Light Snow, Heavy Snow, Winter Solstice, Slight Cold and Severe Cold.
The significance of traditional festivals
The emergence of traditional festivals reflects the Chinese nation's understanding and respect for nature, awe and love for life, and the inheritance and protection of history and culture! Through various forms, the Chinese nation expresses its values and thoughts, morality and ethics, behavior and norms, aesthetics and interest in festivals.
Chinese traditional festivals condense the national spirit and feelings of the Chinese nation, bear the cultural blood and ideological essence of the Chinese nation, and are an important spiritual link to maintain national unity, national unity and social harmony.