the Spring Festival; Chinese New Year

the Lantern Festival

Dragon Head Raising Day (Dragon Head Raising Festival)

Qingming Festival

Dragon Boat Festival

Qixi Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival

Double Ninth Festival

Winter solstice festival

Spring Festival is the first day of the first lunar month, also known as lunar calendar, commonly known as "Chinese New Year". This is the biggest and most lively traditional festival in China. The Spring Festival has a long history, which originated from the activities of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors in the beginning and end of the Shang Dynasty. According to the China lunar calendar, the first day of the first month is called Yuanri, Chen Yuan, Jacky, Yuanshuo and New Year's Day. Commonly known as the first day of the first month. It was changed to Gregorian calendar in the Republic of China. The first day of the Gregorian calendar is called New Year's Day, and the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar is called Spring Festival.

origin

The Spring Festival refers to the traditional Spring Festival in the cultural circle of Chinese characters. The traditional names are New Year, New Year and New Year, but they are also verbally called New Year, Celebrating New Year and New Year. In ancient times, the Spring Festival refers to the beginning of spring in solar terms and is 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, and it is generally believed that it will not end until at least the fifteenth day of the first lunar month (Shangyuan Festival). The concepts of Spring Festival and New Year originally came from agriculture. In ancient times, people called the growth cycle of the valley "year". Hebe: "It's ripe." . It is difficult to know when the Spring Festival (the New Year in the summer calendar) originated, but it is generally believed that it originated from the activities of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors at the end of the Yin and Shang Dynasties (La Worship) in China.

The summer calendar produced in Xia and Shang Dynasties takes the moon's profit and loss period (now called the first lunar month) as a month, and a year is divided into twelve months, starting with the day when the moon is not seen (the first lunar month) and taking the return period from winter to the sun (now called the tropic year or the solar year, later called the solar year) as a year, and setting leap months to adjust the lunar year. A year begins at midnight on the first day of the first month, which is the beginning of the year. At the end of the year and the beginning of the year, we will celebrate the harvest of the old year and pray for the harvest of the new year, so there will be a series of activities such as offering sacrifices to gods, ancestors, celebrations and prayers.

The name "nian" began in the Zhou Dynasty. As for the determination of the beginning time of a year (in other words, the arrangement of the order of months), it is also related to the astronomical calendar (as mentioned above). According to legend, summer was in the lunar month (the first month of the lunar calendar), Shang was in the ugly month (the December of the lunar calendar), Zhou was in the child month (the November of the lunar calendar, that is, the winter month), Qin was in the sea month (the October of the lunar calendar), and it was restored in the Western Han Dynasty.

But in ancient times, the first day of the first month was called New Year's Day, Yuanri, Xinzheng and so on. Until the victory of the Revolution of 1911 in modern China, in order to conform to the agricultural season and facilitate statistics (in fact, the solar calendar part of the summer calendar guided the agricultural season-the twenty-four solar terms), it was stipulated that the people used the summer calendar (the lunar calendar), and the organs, factories, mines, schools and organizations implemented the Gregorian calendar (the chronological law of the Republic of China should be adopted instead of the AD law). On the eve of the founding of New China,1September 27th, 949, China People's Political Consultative Conference officially designated the Lunar New Year as the "Spring Festival", so many people still call it the Spring Festival.

Lantern Festival Lantern Festival has the custom of decorating lanterns and watching lanterns, which is also called "Lantern Festival" among the people. In addition, there are customs such as eating Yuanxiao, walking on stilts, solve riddles on the lanterns, dragon dancing, watching lanterns and lion dancing.

Dragon Head Raising (February 2nd), also known as Spring Farming Festival, Farming Festival and Spring Dragon Festival, is a traditional folk festival of Han nationality. The dragon heads up on the second day of the second lunar month every year, commonly known as the Qinglong Festival. Legend has it that this is the day when dragons look up. It is a traditional festival in urban and rural areas of China. People celebrate "Dragon Head Festival" to show respect for dragons and pray for rain, so that God can help ensure a bumper harvest.

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the Walking Festival, is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring, that is, the first 108 day from winter to the future. It is a traditional festival in China, and it is also one of the most important sacrificial festivals. This is the day to worship ancestors and sweep graves. It is said that the origin of Tomb-Sweeping Day began with the "grave-sweeping" ceremony of the ancient emperor, and later people followed suit. On this day, ancestor worship and grave sweeping have been carried on from generation to generation, which has become a fixed custom of the Chinese nation.

The Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month is an ancient traditional festival in China. The real name of "Dragon Boat Festival" is "Dragon Boat Festival", which means the beginning. Because people think that May is an evil month and the fifth day is an evil day, they avoid May and change it to Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon Boat Festival was recorded as early as the early Western Zhou Dynasty. This is not a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan, but some customs after the Dragon Boat Festival have been influenced by Qu Yuan.

China Valentine's Day, time: the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.

Source: The night on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month is called "Qixi". China folk legend Cowherd and Weaver Girl meet tonight at the Tianhe Magpie Bridge. The real name of Tanabata is the Beggar's Day, which means to thread a needle with colored thread in front of a weaver girl in the moonlight. It would be a "coincidence" if you could pass through seven pinholes of different sizes. The agricultural proverb goes: "On the seventh day of July, it is clear, and the sickle is used to cut rice." It's time to sharpen the sickle and get ready to harvest the early rice.

Mid-Autumn Festival Time: August 15th of the lunar calendar Source: August 15th of the lunar calendar, which is in the middle of autumn, so it is called "Mid-Autumn Festival". In the evening, the full moon in Gui Xiang is regarded as a symbol of happy reunion by the old customs. This is a festival to prepare all kinds of fruits and cooked food to enjoy the moon. Eat moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival. Legend has it that at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, in order to overthrow the brutal rule of the Yuan Dynasty, the broad masses of the people wrote the date of the uprising on a piece of paper, put it in the stuffing of moon cakes, and secretly passed it on to each other, calling on everyone to revolt on August 15. Finally, a nationwide peasant uprising broke out on this day and overthrew the decadent Yuan Dynasty. Since then, the custom of eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival has spread more widely.

Time of Double Ninth Festival: On the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, Double Ninth Festival was formed as early as the Warring States Period. In the Tang Dynasty, the Double Ninth Festival was officially designated as a folk festival and passed down from generation to generation. The Double Ninth Festival on March 3, also known as "stepping in autumn" and "stepping in spring", is a family matter. On this day, all relatives of the Double Ninth Festival will climb the mountain together to "avoid disaster", insert dogwood and enjoy chrysanthemums. Since the Double Ninth Festival in Wei and Jin Dynasties, the atmosphere has become increasingly strong, which is one of the traditional festivals sung by scholars in past dynasties.

Winter solstice time:1February 2 1 day or 22nd in the solar calendar.

In ancient China, people attached great importance to the winter solstice and thought it was a grand festival. There is a saying that the winter solstice is as big as a year, and there is a custom to celebrate it. "Han Shu" said: "The sun shines on the winter solstice, and you are long, so congratulations." People think that after the winter solstice, the days become longer and longer and the sun rises. This is the beginning of a solar cycle and an auspicious day, which should be celebrated. The Book of Jin records: "On the winter solstice of Wei and Jin Dynasties, people from all over the world celebrated ... its appearance was not as good as that of Zheng Dan." Explain the ancient emphasis on the winter solstice.