Spring Festival:

Spring Festival refers to the New Year's Day of the traditional Chinese calendar (different from the current Gregorian New Year's Day in China), and the first day of the first lunar month, also known as the Lunar New Year, the New Year's Day, the beginning of the year, Zhengdan, and the first lunar month, also known as the Lunar New Year, commonly known as the Chinese New Year, the New Year's Day and the celebration of the New Year.

During the Spring Festival, Han people and some ethnic minorities in China will hold various activities to celebrate. The main contents of these activities are offering sacrifices to ancestors, paying homage to ancestors, getting rid of the old and spreading the new, welcoming the new year, and praying for a good harvest. The activities of the Spring Festival are colorful and full of ethnic characteristics. Influenced by Chinese culture, some countries and nations belonging to the Chinese character cultural circle also have the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival.

Duanjie Festival:

The Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, also known as Duanyang Festival, Noon Festival, May Festival, 5th Festival, Ai Festival, Duanwu Festival, Chongwu Festival, Midday Festival, Summer Festival and Pujie Festival. It was originally a festival to drive away the plague in summer. Later, Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State, threw himself into the river on the Dragon Boat Festival and became a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan.

According to legend, people who originated in the ancient state of Chu were reluctant to part with the death of Qu Yuan, a sage, and many people rowed to catch up and save. They scrambled to catch up with each other and disappeared when they reached Dongting Lake. After that, I will row a dragon boat on May 5th every year to commemorate it. Dispel the fish in the river by rowing dragon boats, so as not to eat Qu Yuan's body. The habit of racing is prevalent in Wu, Yue and Chu.

Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is another traditional custom of China people. Zongzi, also known as "horn millet" and "tube zongzi". It has a long history and various patterns. On the morning of Dragon Boat Festival, families eat zongzi to commemorate Qu Yuan. Generally, they wrap zongzi the day before, cook them at night and eat them in the morning. Dumplings are mainly made of tender reed leaves which are abundant along the river pond, and bamboo leaves are also useful in some areas, collectively called zongye. The traditional form of zongzi is triangle, which is generally named after the inner pulp. The glutinous rice dumplings are called rice dumplings, the ones mixed with adzuki beans are called adzuki dumplings, and the ones mixed with red dates are called jujube dumplings, which are collectively called glutinous rice dumplings. Jujube dumplings are homophonic for "early middle school", so they are eaten the most, and children who intend to study can win the championship early. In the past, scholars used to eat jujube dumplings in the morning on the day of taking the imperial examination. Up to now, parents have to make jujube dumplings for candidates on the morning of the entrance examination day for middle schools and universities.

Mid-Autumn Festival:

Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most important traditional festivals in China, which falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month every year. Eat moon cakes to show "reunion" Moon cakes, also known as Hu cakes, palace cakes, moon groups, harvest cakes, reunion cakes, etc., are offerings to worship the moon god in ancient Mid-Autumn Festival. According to legend, in ancient China, emperors had a ritual system of offering sacrifices to the sun in spring and the moon in autumn. In the folk, every Mid-Autumn Festival in August, there are also customs about Yue Bai or offering sacrifices to the moon. The famous proverb "The moon is full on August 15th, and the moon cakes in Mid-Autumn Festival are sweet and fragrant" tells the custom of urban and rural people eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival night. At first, mooncakes were used as sacrifices to the moon god. Later, people gradually regarded the Mid-Autumn Festival as a symbol of family reunion, and gradually, mooncakes became a necessary gift for festivals.

Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most important traditional festivals in China, which falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month every year. The word "Mid-Autumn Festival" was first seen in Zhou Li. According to the ancient Chinese calendar, there are four seasons in a year and three months in each season, which are called Meng Yue, Mid-month and Quarter Month respectively. Therefore, the second month of autumn is called Mid-autumn, and it is called "Mid-Autumn Festival" because it falls on August 15th of the lunar calendar. It was not until the early years of the Tang Dynasty that the Mid-Autumn Festival became a fixed festival. Mid-Autumn Festival generally has the custom of eating moon cakes and enjoying the moon.