What are the five traditional festivals in China?

New Year's Day, commonly known as "New Year" in most countries in the world, is the first day of the Gregorian New Year. Yuan, meaning "first"; Dan means "day"; New Year's Day means "the first day". The word "New Year" first appeared in the Book of Jin, but its meaning has been used for more than 4000 years.

2. Spring 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.

3. Tomb-Sweeping Day

Tomb-Sweeping Day is one of the twenty-four solar terms in China, which generally falls around April 5th in the Gregorian calendar. As soon as Qingming arrives, the temperature rises and the rainfall increases, which is a good time for spring ploughing and planting. Therefore, there is an agricultural proverb that "before and after Qingming, point melons and plant beans" and "planting trees is not as good as Qingming". It can be seen that this solar term is closely related to agricultural production. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional festival in China, and it is also the most important festival to worship ancestors and sweep graves. Grave-sweeping is commonly known as going to the grave and offering sacrifices to the dead. Most Han people and some ethnic minorities visit graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day. According to legend, in the Spring and Autumn Period, Jin Wengong Zhong Er assisted Jietui, who had the function of "protecting the monarch by cutting shares". After returning to China, he made great contributions and disappeared with his mother. Jin Wengong couldn't get it, so he clung to a tree. Later, in order to mourn him, Jin Wengong forbade China people to make a fire to cook and eat only cold food on the day of his death. Later, it became a custom, and this day was designated as "Cold Food without Fire Festival".

4. Dragon Boat Festival?

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is a traditional folk festival in China-Dragon Boat Festival, which is one of the ancient traditional festivals of the Chinese nation. The Dragon Boat Festival is also called Dragon Boat Festival and Duanyang. Mainly in memory of Qu Yuan, a great poet in ancient China. On this day, people eat zongzi and row dragon boats.

5. Mid-Autumn Festival?

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, August Festival, Moon Chasing Festival, Moon Appreciating Festival, Daughter's Day or Reunion Festival, is a popular traditional cultural festival in many ethnic groups and countries in the Chinese character cultural circle in China, and falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. Because its value is only half that of Sanqiu, it is named, and some places set the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 16.

Extended data

The traditional festivals in China are diverse in form and rich in content, and they are an integral part of the long history and culture of the Chinese nation. The formation of traditional festivals is a process of long-term accumulation and cohesion of national or national history and culture. Most of these festivals in ancient China were related to primitive beliefs, astronomical phenology, calendars, mathematics and the solar terms divided later. ? Traditional festivals in China, developed from ancient ancestors, clearly record the rich and colorful social life and cultural content of the Chinese nation, and are unique to the Chinese nation.

reference data

Baidu Encyclopedia-China Traditional Festival