1, the Spring Festival is the evolution of the year from the first year of prayer rituals, ancient times, people in the end of a year of agricultural work at the beginning of the new year of the first year of the year, held sacrifices to pay tribute to the gods of the heavens and the earth, the ancestors of the benevolence of the gods, and pray for a good year.

2, Lantern Festival, Lantern Festival popularity of the formation of a longer process, according to general information and folklore, the 15th day of the first month in the Western Han Dynasty has been attached importance to the first month of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, "on the night of the Xin," in the Ganquan Palace to sacrifice to the "too much" of the activities, by later generations As a precursor to the first month of the fifteenth day of sacrifice to the gods of heaven.

3. The Qingming Festival originated from the belief in ancestors and the rituals of the spring festival in ancient times. According to the results of modern anthropological and archaeological research, the two most primitive beliefs of mankind, one is the belief in heaven and earth, and the other is the belief in ancestors.

4, the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of heaven, evolved from the ancient times of dragon totem sacrifice. The formation of Dragon Boat Festival rituals and primitive beliefs, sacrificial culture, the dry calendar and the Canglong seven hosts are located in the south of the celestial phenomenon of the middle.

5, Mid-Autumn Festival, originated in the ancient imperial rituals, in the Spring and Autumn Period, the emperor has begun to sacrifice the moon, moon worship. Later, noble officials and literati and scholars followed suit and gradually spread to the people.

6, Chung Yeung Festival, according to legend, Chung Yeung for the Emperor's epoch of Taoism. At that time, there were already in September when the autumn harvest of crops sacrificed to the emperor, ancestor worship, in order to thank the emperor, ancestor grace activities. In ancient times, the Chongyang Festival existed in its original form as a ritual activity.

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