The traditional festivals in China include New Year's Eve (the last day of the twelfth lunar month), Spring Festival (the first day of the first lunar month), Lantern Festival (the fifteenth day of the first lunar month), Cold Food Festival (the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day), Tomb-Sweeping Day (the solar calendar: around April 5th), Shangsi Festival (the third day of March), Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of May) and Chinese Valentine's Day (the third lunar month).

Formation:

Chinese traditional festivals are diverse in form and rich in content, and they are an important part of the long history and culture of the Chinese nation. It is the legal system of "a civilized society ruled by law". It is the basic framework of regional civilized countries. The origin and development of festivals is a "cultural process of gradual formation and perfection" of human society, and it is the product of the evolution and development of civilization from apes to humans.

The traditional festivals in China are loaded with myths, legends, astronomy, geography, magic numbers, calendars and other humanistic and natural cultural contents. Documentary records can be traced back at least to Xia Xiaozheng and Shangshu. By the Warring States Period, 24 solar terms were divided in a year, which was basically completed. Later traditional festivals were all closely related to these solar terms. Every Chinese traditional festival has its own origin and necessary conditions for its formation.