There are 17 main traditional festivals in China, namely: Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Heading Up, Sheri Festival, Shangsi Festival, Cold Food Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese Valentine's Day, Hungry Ghost Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Winter Clothes Festival, Winter Solstice, Laba Festival, New Year's Eve, and New Year's Eve.

1. Spring Festival

Time: Before the Han Dynasty, the Spring Festival was the beginning of spring in the Ganzhi calendar, and later evolved into the first day of the first lunar month in the lunar calendar (i.e. the first day of the first lunar month). The current Spring Festival time is: 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.

Other names: New Year, New Year, New Year, New Year, New Year, Nian Xi, New Year, etc. It is also known verbally as celebrating the new year, celebrating the new year, celebrating the new year, celebrating the new year, etc.

2. Lantern Festival

Time: the fifteenth day of the first lunar month

The Lantern Festival, also known as Lantern Festival, Xiaozhengyue, Lantern Festival, and Shangyuan Festival, is held every year The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is one of China's traditional festivals. According to the Taoist "Three Yuan" theory, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is also called the "Shangyuan Festival". The first lunar month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called "night" "xiao". The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the first full-moon night of the year, so the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is called the "Lantern Festival".

3. The dragon raises its head

The dragon raises its head (the second day of the second lunar month), also known as the Spring Plowing Festival, Farming Festival, Green Dragon Festival, Spring Dragon Festival, etc., is a traditional Chinese folk festival. "Dragon" refers to the seven constellations of the Eastern Blue Dragon among the twenty-eight constellations. At the beginning of the Mao month in mid-spring every year (Dou Zhizhidong), the "Dragon Horn Star" rises from the eastern horizon, so it is called "Dragon Heads Up".

4. Sheri Festival

Sheri Festival, also known as Land Festival (the second day of the second lunar month), is an ancient traditional Chinese festival. Sheri is divided into spring society and autumn society. . In ancient times, the social festival dates were determined based on the Ganzhi calendar. Later, due to changes in the calendar, the lunar calendar was used to determine the festival dates. The Spring Society is established on the fifth Wu day after the beginning of spring (Wu, the five elements belong to earth), which is generally around the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar. The Qiu society is established on the fifth Wu day after the beginning of autumn, which is about the eighth month of the lunar calendar when the new grains appear.

5. Shangsi Festival

Shangsi (sì) Festival, commonly known as March 3, is a traditional festival of the Han nationality. Before the Han Dynasty, the festival was designated as Si day in early March. Later, it was fixed on the third day of March in the lunar calendar. The Shangsi Festival has a long history. In ancient times, Shangsi has become a large-scale folk festival. When spring comes and the scenery is bright, people go out of their homes and gather at the waterside to hold a ritual of purging ominous things.