Chinese traditional festival time and customs
Laba Festival (The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month) New Year’s Eve (the last day of the twelfth lunar month) Spring Festival (the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar) Lantern Festival (the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar) (The fifth day of the fifth lunar month) Qixi Festival (the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar) Zhongyuan Festival (the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month) Mid-Autumn Festival (the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar) 15th of the month).
Traditional festivals Time
Chinese traditional festivals mainly include:Spring Festival (the first day of the first lunar month); Lantern Festival (the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar); The third day of March); Cold Food Festival (105 or 106 days after the winter solstice); Qingming Festival (after April 5th in the Gregorian calendar); Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth month in the lunar calendar); Qixi Festival (the seventh day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar); July 15); Mid-Autumn Festival (August 15 of the lunar calendar); Double Ninth Festival (Ninth of the ninth lunar month); Xiayuan Festival (October 15 of the lunar calendar); Winter Solstice Festival (December 21 to 23 of the Gregorian calendar); New Year’s Eve ( December 29th or 30th of the lunar calendar) and so on.
Traditional Chinese Festival Customs
1.Spring Festival:Every family gathers together to have a New Year’s Eve dinner together, called "Tuan Nian", to observe the New Year together, to recite old stories and new stories, and to congratulate and encourage each other.There are also customs in various places such as visiting each other’s doors to pay New Year’s greetings, lion dances, dragon lanterns, performing club fires, visiting flower markets, and lantern festivals.
2.Lantern Festival:Lantern Festival is also known as Shangyuan Festival and Lantern Festival.On the night of Lantern Festival, the streets and alleys are decorated with lanterns.People enjoy lanterns, guess lantern riddles, and eat Lantern Festival, which has become a custom that has been passed down from generation to generation.
3.Qingming Festival:Qingming Festival is one of the twenty-four solar terms.
4.Dragon Boat Festival:The Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the Duanyang, Chongwu, and Duanwu Festivals.On this day, every household eats zongzi, and dragon boat competitions are held in various places.At the same time, the Dragon Boat Festival is also a "sanitation festival" that has been passed down since ancient times.On this day, people swept the courtyard, hung mugwort sticks, hung calamus, sprinkled realgar water, and drank realgar wine to stimulate the removal of rot, sterilization and disease prevention.
5.Mid-Autumn Festival:On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, in addition to viewing the moon, offering sacrifices to the moon and eating moon cakes, there are also activities such as dancing grass dragons and building pagodas in some places.
Led by the Centennial Year, the Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation.Influenced by Chinese culture, some countries and regions in the world also have the custom of celebrating Chinese New Year.According to incomplete statistics, nearly 20 countries and regions have designated the Chinese Spring Festival as a legal holiday for the whole or some cities under their jurisdiction.The Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are known as the four traditional festivals in China.The Spring Festival folk customs were approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists.
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