1, Spring Festival
The traditional names of the Spring Festival are New Year, New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve, but they are also called "Celebrating the New Year" and "Celebrating the New Year" verbally. In ancient times, the Spring Festival used to refer to beginning of spring in solar terms, which was also regarded as the beginning of a year. Later, it was changed to the first day of the first lunar month as the New Year. Generally speaking, it doesn't end until the 15th day of the first month (Shangyuan Festival). The Spring Festival, commonly known as the "New Year Festival", is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation.
2. Dragon Boat Festival
Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. According to the Records of Jingchu's Years, it is recorded that it is midsummer when the sun is on the mountain in midsummer, and it is midsummer in May. Its first afternoon is the day when it is sunny to climb the mountain in the sun, so the fifth day of May is also called "Duanyang Festival". In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Noon Festival, May Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Bathing Orchid Festival".
3. Mid-Autumn Festival
Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, which falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month every year, and it is also the second largest traditional festival in China after the Spring Festival. The legend is to commemorate Chang 'e. Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festival in China. According to historical records, the word "Mid-Autumn Festival" first appeared in the book Zhou Li.
It was not until the early years of the Tang Dynasty that the Mid-Autumn Festival became a fixed festival. The Book of Tang Taizong records the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th. The prevalence of Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Song Dynasty, and by the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it was as famous as New Year's Day and became one of the major festivals in China. This is also the second largest traditional festival in China after the Spring Festival.
Other festivals in China:
1, Chinese Valentine's Day
Chinese Valentine's Day, also known as Qiqiao Festival, Qijie Festival, Daughter's Day, Begging for Cleverness Festival, Qixi Festival, Cow and Bull's Day, Qiaoxi and so on, is a traditional folk festival in China. Chinese Valentine's Day, which evolved from the worship of the stars, is the birthday of the seventh sister in the traditional sense. Because the worship of the seventh sister was held on the seventh day of July, it was named Tanabata.
2. Cold Food Festival
Cold Food Festival, a traditional festival in China, falls on 105 after the summer solstice and 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 of Han nationality named after food customs.
3. Lantern Festival
The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called "night" "night". The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night in a year, so it is called "Lantern Festival". According to the Taoist saying of "Sanyuan", the fifteenth day of the first month is also called "Shangyuan Festival". Since ancient times, the Lantern Festival custom has been dominated by the warm and festive custom of watching lanterns.
Baidu Encyclopedia-China Traditional Festival