What are the traditional festivals? Introduction to traditional festivals.
The Spring Festival has a long history, commonly known as Spring Festival, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve and so on. People often say that this is the day. At present, the Spring Festival is the first day of the first lunar month in a narrow sense, and the first day of the first lunar month to the fifteenth lunar month in a broad sense. During the Spring Festival, various activities will be held all over the country to celebrate the Spring Festival, which has strong regional characteristics.
2. Lantern Festival
Lantern Festival, also known as Lantern Festival, the first lunar month, Shangyuan Festival, etc. It is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year. Since ancient times, the Lantern Festival has been dominated by the warm and festive custom of watching lanterns. The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night in a year, so people call it the Lantern Festival.
3. Cold Food Festival
Cold Food Festival, also known as "Smoke-free Festival", "Cold Food Festival" and "Hundred Days Festival", is a popular festival in northern China. The time is 1-2 days before Tomb-Sweeping Day. In ancient times, dates were not fixed. Some say it was from Tomb-Sweeping Day the day before, and some say it was from Tomb-Sweeping Day two days ago. It's a celebration in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Okawa.
4. Tomb-Sweeping Day
Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the outing festival and ancestor worship festival, is an important traditional Spring Festival in China, and its custom of sweeping graves to worship ancestors has been a fine tradition of the Chinese nation for thousands of years. In addition, the time in Tomb-Sweeping Day is around April 5th in the Gregorian calendar.
5. Dragon Boat Festival
Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Double Ninth Festival and Dragon Boat Festival. Before the Han dynasty, it was noon in the dry calendar, and after the Han dynasty, it evolved into the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. There are all kinds of festival activities in the Dragon Boat Festival. Its customs, like the Spring Festival, contain cultural connotations such as praying for blessings and eliminating disasters, and place people's good wishes for welcoming blessings and ward off evil spirits and eliminating disasters.
6. Chinese Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day in China, also known as Qixi Festival and Qiaoqiao Festival, falls on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month every year. Valentine's Day in China, which originated from the worship of stars, is Seven Sisters's birthday in the traditional sense. Seven Sisters was worshipped on July 7th, so it was named Tanabata.
7. Mid-Autumn Festival
Mid-Autumn Festival is the name of Taoism, which is called July 30th, July 14th and ancestor worship festival in folklore, and it is called Kasahara Festival in Buddhism, and the time is July 15th in the lunar calendar. Festival customs mainly include offering sacrifices to ancestors, setting off river lanterns, offering sacrifices to the dead, burning paper ingots and offering sacrifices to the ground.
8. Mid-Autumn Festival
Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon Worship Festival and Reunion Festival. It happened on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month. Since ancient times, Mid-Autumn Festival has had folk customs such as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes, playing with lanterns, enjoying osmanthus and drinking osmanthus wine.
9. Double Ninth Festival
Double Ninth Festival is the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, which is a traditional folk festival. In ancient times, there were folk customs such as climbing to pray for blessings, enjoying chrysanthemums in autumn, wearing dogwood, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, and holding birthday banquets. So far, it has added the connotation of respecting the elderly, feasting on the day of Chongyang, and being grateful for respecting the elderly.
10, winter solstice
The winter solstice is not only an important solar term among the 24 solar terms, but also a traditional folk festival of ancestor worship, which usually lasts until about1February 22nd. In the southern region, there are customs of offering sacrifices to ancestors and feasting on the winter solstice; In the northern region, there is a custom of eating jiaozi from winter to Sunday every year.
1 1, Laba Festival
Laba Festival has gradually become a well-known folk festival, commonly known as "Laba", which is celebrated on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year and is mainly popular in northern China. The custom of this festival is mainly "drinking Laba porridge".
12, off-year
Because the days of "off-year" will be different due to local customs, in the early and middle period of the Qing Dynasty, the sacrificial stove was always the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, at least until the Qianlong period. In addition, the main folk activities during the off-year period include sweeping dust and offering sacrifices to stoves.
13, New Year's Eve
On New Year's Eve, people also call it New Year's Eve. On that day, every household was busy or cleaning the courtyard. In addition to the old cloth and new ones, there were also customs such as posting New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, lucky money, saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new.