Introduction of Traditional Chinese Festivals
1. Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year is the most important traditional festival of the Chinese nation. It not only focuses on the ideological beliefs, ideals and aspirations, life and entertainment and cultural psychology of the Chinese nation, but also is a carnival-like display of prayers, food and entertainment activities.
2. Lantern Festival
The Lantern Festival is one of the traditional festivals of China and the Chinese cultural circle as well as overseas Chinese. The Lantern Festival is characterized by a series of traditional folk activities, such as viewing lanterns, eating dumplings, guessing lantern riddles, and setting off fireworks.
3, Dragon Head Raising
Dragon Head Raising, also known as Spring Plowing Festival, Agricultural Festival, Green Dragon Festival, Spring Dragon Festival, etc., is a traditional Chinese folk festival. Dragon refers to the twenty-eight stars in the east of the Canglong seven stars, every mid-spring at the beginning of the month of Mao, "Longjiaoxing" will rise from the eastern horizon, so it is called the dragon head.
4, on the Si Festival
On the Si Festival, commonly known as March 3, is a traditional Chinese folk festival. On the Si Festival is the most important festival held in ancient times in addition to the purification of the bath activities, people go to the water bathing, known as the purification of purification, and since then has increased the rituals and banquets, goblets, the countryside, such as the content of the spring tour.
5, Cold Food Festival
Cold Food Festival in the summer calendar after the winter solstice 105 days, one or two days before the Qingming Festival. It is the first day of the festival, the ban on fireworks, only eat cold food. And in the development of later generations gradually added sweeping, trekking, swinging, cuju, holding hooks, cockfighting and other customs.
6, Qingming Festival
Qingming Festival, also known as the festival of trekking, line Qing Festival, March Festival, Festival of Ancestors, etc., the festival is in the mid-spring and the turn of late spring. The Qingming Festival originates from the belief in ancestors and the rituals of spring festival in the ancient times, which has both natural and humanistic connotations, and is both a natural festival and a traditional festival.
7, Dragon Boat Festival
Duanwu Festival, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zheng Yang Festival, Bathing Orchid Festival, Tianzhong Festival, and so on, is a traditional Chinese folk festival. The Dragon Boat Festival originates from the worship of heavenly signs, evolving from the dragon totem sacrifice in ancient times.
8, Tanabata Festival
The Tanabata Festival, also known as the Festival of the Seven Coincidences, the Festival of the Seven Sisters, the Daughter's Festival, the Begging for Coincidence Festival, the Seven Nymphets, the Tanabata Festival, the Day of the Oxen and the Oxen's Grandmother, the Coincidence of the Eve, and so on, is a traditional festival of Chinese folklore. The Tanabata Festival is derived from the worship of the stars and hosts.
9, Zhongyuan Festival
Mid-Yuan Festival, also known as the half of the seventh month, the fourteenth day of the seventh month, Festival of Ancestors, Bon Festival, Di Guan Festival, the festival customs are mainly ancestor worship, put the river lanterns, the souls of the dead, burning paper ingots, and sacrifices to the land, and so on.
10, the Mid-Autumn Festival
The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, August Festival, August Meeting, Moon Chasing Festival, Playing with the Moon Festival, Moon Worshipping Festival, Daughter's Festival, or Festival of Reunion, is a traditional cultural festival that has become popular among the many ethnic groups of China and the countries of the Chinese character cultural circle.
11, Chongyang Festival
Chongyang Festival is the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar every year, is a traditional Chinese folk festival. In the I Ching, nine is designated as the number of yang, and the two yang numbers of nine and nine coincide with each other, so it is called Chung Yeung. Because the sun and the moon both coincide with nine, it is also known as the ninth day of the ninth month.
12, Cold Clothes Festival
Cold Clothes Festival, the first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar every year, also known as the "October Dynasty", "Ancestor Festival", "Hades yin Festival ", "Autumn Festival", the people called the ghost head day, is a traditional Han folk festival. Legend has it that it originated in the Zhou Dynasty, and was actually formed not earlier than the Song Dynasty. Cold Clothes Festival is popular in the northern region of China, people will be in this day to clean up and burn offerings to commemorate the immortal loved ones, called sending cold clothes.
13, Xiaoyuan Festival
Xiaoyuan Festival, a traditional Chinese festival, is the 15th day of the 10th month of the lunar calendar, and is also known as "Xiaoyuan Day. It is also known as the "Day of the Lower Yuan" and the "Lower Yuan". It is one of the traditional Chinese folk festivals.
The 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar is known as the Shangyuan Festival, which is a celebration of the Lantern Festival, and has been celebrated since ancient times; the 15th day of the 7th month of the lunar calendar is known as the Zhongyuan Festival, which is a festival to honor ancestors; and the 15th day of the 10th month of the lunar calendar is known as the Xiaoyuan Festival, which is a festival to honor ancestors.
14, Winter Solstice
Winter Solstice, also known as the Winter Festival, the year of the year, the festival of the longest, both natural and human connotations, is one of the twenty-four seasons in an important festival, but also a traditional Chinese folk festival.
15, Lahai Festival
Lahai Festival, commonly known as Lahai, the date of the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. In ancient times, some parts of our country have in the month of Lunar sacrifices to ancestors and gods, praying for a good harvest tradition, but also "drink Laha congee" custom.
16, small year
Small year, not exclusively refers to a day, due to local customs, known as the small year of the day is not the same. The main folk activities during the New Year include dust sweeping and sacrificing to the stove.
17, New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve, the last night of the year. The last day of the end of the year is called the year in addition, meaning that the old year to this year, another new year. In addition, that is, the meaning of removal. The night is the last day of the year. New Year's Eve is the year in addition to the meaning of the night, also known as New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, etc., when the end of the last night of the year.
