1, 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.
Since the Mid-Autumn Festival, there have been customs such as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating Yue Bai, enjoying osmanthus flowers and drinking osmanthus wine, which have been passed down to this day and last forever. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a colorful and precious cultural heritage. The full moon is a symbol of people's reunion, a sustenance for missing their hometown and relatives, and hopes for a bumper harvest and happiness. Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day are also called the four traditional festivals in China.
2. Spring Festival
Spring Festival, one of the four traditional festivals in China, is the beginning of a year, the traditional China New Year. The Spring Festival is usually called "the festival of the year". The traditional names are New Year, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve and New Year's Eve. It is also called "Chinese New Year" and "Chinese New Year" verbally. People in China have celebrated the Spring Festival for at least 4000 years.
The Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation, and it is also an important carrier for China people to release their emotions and satisfy their psychological demands. It is also the annual carnival and eternal spiritual pillar of the Chinese nation. Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China.
3. Tomb-Sweeping Day
Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the outing festival, is at the turn of the vernal equinox and the end of spring, usually around April 5, after the vernal equinox 15 on the Gregorian calendar. Qingming has two connotations: nature and humanity. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival.
Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as the outing festival, is at the turn of the vernal equinox and the end of spring, usually around April 5, after the vernal equinox 15 on the Gregorian calendar. Qingming has two connotations: nature and humanity. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival.
4. Dragon Boat Festival
The Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month is one of the four traditional festivals in China. According to the Chronicle of Jingchu, midsummer is because the sun is on the mountain in midsummer, and May is midsummer. Its first afternoon is a sunny day, so the fifth day of May is also called "Duanyang Festival". In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival is also called Zhengyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Noon Festival, May Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Bathing Orchid Festival, Tianzhong Festival and so on.
Dragon Boat Festival originated in China. It was originally a totem festival held by the tribes who worshipped dragon totem in ancient Baiyue area. Before the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a custom of offering sacrifices to dragon ancestors and racing dragon boats in Baiyue area.
Extended data
The formation of traditional festivals is a process of long-term accumulation and cohesion of national or national history and culture. The festivals listed below are all developed from ancient times. From these festivals and customs that have been passed down to this day, we can clearly see the wonderful pictures of the ancient people's social life.
The origin and development of festivals is a process of gradual formation, subtle influence and gradual infiltration into social life. Like the development of society, it is the product of the development of human society to a certain stage. These festivals in ancient China were all related to the astronomy, calendar, mathematics and the solar terms divided later. This can be traced back to Zheng Xiao and Shangshu in Xia Dynasty at least in literature. By the Warring States period, the 24 solar terms in a year were basically complete, and later traditional festivals were also closely related to these solar terms.
In the long history, scholars and poets of past dynasties have written many famous works for festivals. These poems are well-known and widely praised, which makes the traditional festivals in China permeated with profound cultural connotations, beautiful, romantic, elegant and elegant.
Festivals in our country have strong cohesion and extensive inclusiveness, which are celebrated all over the country as soon as they are over. They are in the same strain as our nation's long history and are valuable spiritual and cultural heritage.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia: Traditional Festival in China