1, New Year's Eve (the last day of the twelfth lunar month)
Because it often falls on the 29th or 30th day of the twelfth lunar month in the summer calendar, it is also called New Year's Eve, which is one of the most important traditional festivals in China. The people attach the most importance to it. Every household is busy or cleaning the courtyard, welcoming their ancestors home for the New Year, and offering sacrifices with rice cakes and three sacrifices.
2. Spring Festival (the first day of the first month)
Commonly known as "New Year's Festival", the traditional names are New Year, New Year's Day, Tianla and New Year's Day, and they are also called "New Year's Day", "Celebrating the New Year" and "New Year" verbally. People in China have celebrated the Spring Festival for at least 4,000 years. In the folk, the Spring Festival in the old traditional sense refers to the sacrificial stove from La Worship in the twelfth lunar month or on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month until the 19th of the first month. In modern times, people set the Spring Festival on the first day of the first lunar month, but generally it doesn't end until the 15th day of the first lunar month (Shangyuan Festival).
3. Lantern Festival (the fifteenth day of the first month)
Also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaoyuanyian Festival, Yuanxi Festival or Lantern Festival, it is the 15th day of the first lunar month every year, and it is the last important festival in China Spring Festival customs. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called "night" "night", so the fifteenth day of the first full moon in a year is called the Lantern Festival.
Since ancient times, the Lantern Festival custom has been dominated by the warm and festive custom of watching lanterns. Traditional customs include going out to enjoy the moon, burning lanterns and setting off flames, enjoying solve riddles on the lanterns, eating Lantern Festival and pulling rabbit lanterns. In addition, in many places, traditional folk performances such as playing with dragon lanterns, playing with lions, walking on stilts, rowing on dry boats, dancing yangko and playing Taiping drums have been added to the Lantern Festival.
4. Cold Food Festival (the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day)
After the summer solstice 105, one or two days before Tomb-Sweeping Day. When the first day of the day is a festival, smoking is forbidden and only cold food is eaten. In the development of later generations, customs such as sweeping, hiking, swinging, cuju, hooking and cockfighting were gradually added. The Cold Food Festival lasted for more than 2,000 years, and it was once called the largest folk festival in China. Cold Food Festival is the only traditional festival in China named after food customs.
5. Tomb-Sweeping Day (Gregorian calendar: around April 5)
Also known as the outing festival, at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival in China, and it is also one of the most important sacrificial festivals, and it is a day to sweep graves and worship ancestors. Tomb-Sweeping Day, a traditional Chinese nation, began in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Through historical development and evolution, Qingming Festival has extremely rich connotations, and different customs have been developed in various places, and sweeping graves to worship ancestors and outing are the basic themes.
6. Dragon Boat Festival (Lunar calendar: the fifth day of May)
According to the Records of Jingchu's Years, it is recorded that it is midsummer because the sun is on the mountain in midsummer, and May is midsummer. Its first afternoon is the day when it is sunny and sunny, so the fifth day of May is also called "Duanyang Festival". In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival is also called Zhengyang Festival? Dragon Day, Noon Day, May Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Bathing Orchid Festival, Mid-Day Festival and so on.
The Dragon Boat Festival customs mainly include eating zongzi and dragon boat racing. The custom of eating zongzi has been popular in China for thousands of years. Dragon boat race is very popular in the southern coastal area of China, and it is deeply loved by people from all over the world and has formed an international competition.
7. Mid-Autumn Festival (lunar calendar: August 15th)
The Mid-Autumn Festival began in the early years of the Tang Dynasty and prevailed in the Song Dynasty. By the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it had become one of the traditional festivals in China with the same reputation as the Spring Festival. Influenced by Chinese culture, Mid-Autumn Festival is also a traditional festival for overseas Chinese in some countries in East and Southeast Asia, especially local Chinese. Mid-Autumn Festival has been listed as a national legal holiday since 2008. On May 20th, 2006, the State Council was listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage.
Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has had customs such as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating Yue Bai, enjoying osmanthus flowers and drinking osmanthus wine, which have spread to this day and lasted for a long time. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a colorful and precious cultural heritage, with the full moon as a sign of people's reunion, as the sustenance of missing their hometown and their loved ones, and hoping for a bumper harvest and happiness. Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day are also called the four traditional festivals in China.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia _ China Traditional Festival