The order of the eight traditional festivals is the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese Valentine's Day, Hungry Ghost Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Double Ninth Festival.
1. Spring Festival
The Spring Festival, also known as the Lunar New Year, is the beginning of the year. In the traditional sense, it falls on the first day of the first lunar month of each year. The Spring Festival has a long history and evolved from the ancient times when people prayed for good luck at the beginning of the year.
2. Lantern Festival
The Lantern Festival, also known as the Lantern Festival, Xiaozhengyue, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival, is one of China’s traditional festivals and takes place on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year. . The Lantern Festival custom has been dominated by the warm and festive lantern viewing custom since ancient times.
3. Qingming Festival
Qingming Festival, also known as Outing Festival, Qingming Festival, March Festival, Ancestor Worship Festival, etc., takes place at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. The Qingming Festival originates from ancestral beliefs and spring festival rituals in ancient times. It has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival.
4. Dragon Boat Festival
The Dragon Boat Festival falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. It is also known as the Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival, Dragon Festival, Zhengyang Festival, and Tianzhong Festival. etc., originated from the worship of celestial phenomena and evolved from dragon sacrifices in ancient times. Dragon Boat Festival and rice dumpling eating are the two major customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. These two customs have been passed down in China since ancient times and continue to this day.
5. Chinese Valentine's Day
The Chinese Valentine's Day is derived from the worship of stars. It is the birthday of the Seventh Sister in the traditional sense. The activity of worshiping the "Seventh Sister" is held on the seventh night of July. It is held, hence the name "Qixi Festival". Worshiping the Seventh Sister, praying for blessings and making wishes, begging for skills, sitting and watching the Altair and Vega, praying for marriage, and storing water for the Chinese Valentine's Day are traditional customs of the Chinese Valentine's Day.
6. Hungry Ghost Festival
Hungry Ghost Festival is the name of Taoism. It is popularly known as July 15th, July 14th, and Ancestor Worship Festival. Buddhism calls it Ullambana. Festival. The main festival customs include worshiping ancestors, setting off river lanterns, worshiping dead souls, burning paper ingots, and offering sacrifices to land.
7. Mid-Autumn Festival
The Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional Chinese folk festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena and evolved from worshiping the moon on the autumn eve of ancient times. Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has included worshiping the moon, appreciating the moon, eating moon cakes, playing with lanterns, appreciating osmanthus flowers, drinking osmanthus wine and other folk customs, which have been passed down to this day and lasted for a long time.
8. Double Ninth Festival
The Double Ninth Festival is a traditional Chinese festival that falls on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month every year. Ninety-Nine Returns to True Truth and One Yuan Begins. The ancients believed that the Double Ninth Festival was an auspicious day. In ancient times, during the Double Ninth Festival, people had customs such as climbing high to pray for blessings, going on autumn tours to appreciate chrysanthemums, planting dogwood trees, worshiping gods and ancestors, and drinking banquets to pray for longevity.