China’s traditional festivals include New Year’s Eve, Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Cold Food Festival, Qingming Festival, Spring Dragon Festival, Shangsi Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese Valentine’s Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Winter Solstice Festival, Laba Festival, Xiao Nian and so on.

1. Spring Festival

The Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation. It not only embodies the ideological beliefs, ideal wishes, life entertainment and cultural psychology of the Chinese nation, but also serves as a time to pray for blessings. A carnival-style display of food, drinks, games and entertainment activities. Influenced by Chinese culture, some countries and ethnic groups belonging to the Chinese character cultural circle also have the custom of celebrating the New Year.

2. Lantern Festival

The first month of the lunar calendar is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called "night" "xiao", so the first full moon night of the year is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. It is called the Lantern Festival. The Lantern Festival custom has been dominated by the warm and festive lantern viewing custom since ancient times. Traditional customs include going out to admire the moon, lighting lanterns and setting off flames, guessing lantern riddles, eating Yuanxiao, pulling rabbit lanterns, etc. In addition, many local Lantern Festivals also include traditional folk performances such as dragon lantern dancing, lion dancing, stilt walking, land boat rowing, Yangko dancing, and Taiping drum playing.

3. Qingming Festival

The name of Qingming Festival comes from solar terms, which is related to the characteristics of the celestial phenomena at this time. When the Qingming Festival comes, the temperature rises, the vitality begins to flourish, and the earth appears like spring and the scenery is bright. At this time, all things "let go of the old and adopt the new", clean and clear. "Huainanzi Tian Wen Xun" says: "On the fifteenth day after the spring equinox, when Douzhi Yi is on the right, the Qingming wind will arrive." The "Qingming wind" in the article refers to the refreshing, clear and pure wind.

4. Double Ninth Festival

The Double Ninth Festival falls on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month every year and is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation. "Nine" is defined as the Yang number in the "Book of Changes". On September 9, the two nines overlap, so it is called "Double Ninth Festival"; because both the sun and the moon coincide with nine, it is also called "Double Nine". In ancient times, during the Double Ninth Festival, people had customs such as climbing high to pray for blessings, going on autumn outings to appreciate chrysanthemums, wearing dogwood trees, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, and drinking banquets to pray for longevity.

5. Laba Festival

This day is also the day when Buddha Sakyamuni became enlightened. It is called the "Dharma Treasure Festival" and is one of the grand festivals of Buddhism. The name "La" for the month at the end of the year has three meanings: one is "La is the connection", which means the alternation of the old and the new (recorded in "Book of Sui·Li"); the other is "La is hunting together", which refers to hunting in the field. Obtaining animals is good for worshiping ancestors and gods. The word "wax" comes from the side of "meat", which means using meat for "winter sacrifice"; the third saying is "wax is used to drive away epidemics and welcome spring." Baidu Encyclopedia-Traditional Festivals