2. Lantern Festival: The Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month, also known as the Lantern Festival, is a traditional folk festival in China. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called it "Xiao", and the fifteenth day is the first full moon night in a year, so the fifteenth day of the first month is called the Lantern Festival. Also known as the first lunar month, Lantern Festival or Lantern Festival, it is the first important festival after the Spring Festival. China has a vast territory and a long history, so the customs of celebrating the Lantern Festival are different all over the country, among which eating Yuanxiao, watching lanterns and dancing dragons and lions are several important folk customs.
3. Shen Lu's birthday: the fifth day of the first month;
4. Spring Dragon Festival: the second day of February, also known as Dragon Head Up and Qinglong Festival; There is a custom of haircut among the people.
5. Flower Festival: February 15; Referred to as Flower Dynasty, it is commonly known as Flower God Festival, Hundred Flowers Birthday, Flower God Birthday and Picking Vegetables Festival. Traditional festivals of Han nationality. Popular in Northeast China, North China, East China, Central South and other places. It is held on the second day of February in the lunar calendar, and there are also flower festivals on February 12 and 15. During the festival, people go to the suburbs to enjoy flowers together, which is called "outing". Girls cut five-color paper and stick it on the flower branches, which is called "enjoying the red". There are also customs such as "putting lion flowers" and "putting magic lanterns" in various places.
6. Shangsi Festival: On the third day of March, the legendary Queen Mother held a flat peach party;
7. Cold Food Festival: the day before Tomb-Sweeping Day; The Cold Food Festival, also known as "No-smoking Festival", "Cold Food Festival" and "Hundred Five Days Festival", is one hundred and five days after the summer calendar and one or two days before Tomb-Sweeping Day. When the first day of the day is a holiday, smoking is forbidden and only cold food is eaten. In the development of later generations, the customs of sweeping, hiking, swinging, cuju, pulling hooks and breaking eggs were gradually increased. The Cold Food Festival lasted for more than 2,000 years and was once called the largest folk festival.
8. Tomb-Sweeping Day: Fifteen days after the vernal equinox, April 5 in the general solar calendar and April 4 in leap years; Tomb-Sweeping Day is a festival for ancestor worship, mainly for grave-sweeping, which is a concrete embodiment of being cautious in pursuing the future and caring for the family. Tomb-Sweeping Day is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring, that is, after the winter solstice 106 days. On May 20th, 2006, this folk festival was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. In addition, there are many poems about Qingming, among which Du Mu's poem Qingming is the most famous.
9. Buddha's Birthday: The Buddha's Birthday on the eighth day of April is the day when northern Buddhism commemorates and celebrates the birth of Sakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism. Buddha's Birthday Festival is also called Bath Buddha Festival, Buddha Irrigation Festival, Longhua Festival and Huayan Festival. Since ancient times, Buddhist temples have held a series of grand bathing ceremonies and celebrations on that day, praying for the Buddha to benefit the society and eliminate disasters, and inviting monks to open an altar to preach. Buddhists will review and learn from the Buddha's merciful teachings on this day. Also known as the festival of cows-after this day, cows will go to the fields;
10, Dragon Boat Festival: the fifth day of May, also known as Duanyang Festival; Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, also known as Duanyang Festival, Noon Festival, May Festival, May Festival, Ai Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Noon Festival, Noon Festival and Summer Festival. It was originally a festival to drive away the plague in summer. Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival of Han nationality in China. The essential activities of this day gradually evolved into eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, hanging calamus, wormwood and wormwood leaves, smoking Atractylodes rhizome and angelica dahurica, and drinking realgar wine. It is said that eating zongzi and dragon boat racing is to commemorate Qu Yuan, so after liberation, the Dragon Boat Festival was named "Poet's Day" to commemorate Qu Yuan. As for hanging calamus, wormwood leaves, smoked atractylodes rhizome and angelica dahurica, drinking realgar wine is said to ward off evil spirits.
1 1, Summer Solstice Festival: Summer Solstice Festival is one of the earliest 24 festivals in the history of China, and it is also a traditional folk festival. At that time, the temperature rose, the crops grew vigorously, and intertillage was urgently needed to weed. There were three days off in ancient times. The fifteenth day after the festival of awn seeds in the lunar calendar is the summer solstice, on which the sunshine is the longest and the days in the northern hemisphere are getting shorter and shorter. The summer solstice is the longest day in the lunar calendar.
12, Sunday: the sixth day of the sixth lunar month, except "menstruation Festival". In ancient times, it was another festival called "China". Sunlight is the name of Taoism, which originated late. On the sixth day of the sixth lunar month, Huai 'an folk used to have the custom of sunbathing red and green on June 6. According to legend, the custom of "basking in red and green on June 6th" originated in the Tang Dynasty. Xuanzang, a monk in the Tang Dynasty, returned to China from the Western Heaven (India). When crossing the sea, the scriptures were soaked in the sea. On the sixth day of June, when the scriptures are learned and dried, this day becomes an auspicious day. At first, the emperor wore a dragon robe in the palace, and later it spread from the palace to the people. On this day, every household reveals their clothes in front of the gate, and it has become a custom since then.
13, Tanabata: The seventh day of the seventh lunar month is a traditional festival of the Han nationality in China, Tanabata. Because the main participants in this day's activities are girls, the content of the festival activities is mainly begging skills, so people call this day "begging skills festival" or "daughter's day" or "daughter's day". Tanabata is one of the most romantic traditional festivals in China and the most important day for girls in the past. On this evening, women put on needles to pray for Fu Lushou. On the seventh day, the ceremony was pious and grand, filled with flowers, fruits and needles, and all kinds of furniture and utensils were exquisite and small, which made people fondle. On May 20th, 2006, China Valentine's Day was listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage by the State Council. Now it is also considered as "Valentine's Day in China".
14 Mid-Autumn Festival: The 15th day of the seventh lunar month, which is also called Ghost Festival, Half Moon Festival or Bonsai Festival. Mid-Autumn Festival is a Taoist saying. The name "Mid-Autumn Festival" originated from the Northern Wei Dynasty. In some places, it is usually called "Ghost Festival" and "Stone Drum", also known as the Day of the Dead and July 30th. According to ancient records: "The Taoist scriptures are Shang Yuan on the 15th day of the first month, Zhong Yuan on the 15th of July, and Xia Yuan on the 15th of October." Mid-Autumn Festival, New Year's Eve, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Double Ninth Festival (except September, Qing Dynasty) are the four major festivals for ancestor worship in China. "Taoist Collection" contains: "On the day of the mid-Yuan Dynasty, local officials collected people to distinguish good from evil ... They recited classics, ten sages and Qi Yongling's articles day and night. The prisoners are all hungry ghosts, and they will be free at that time. " Most people miss their loved ones on this festival and place good wishes for the future.
15, Dizang Festival: July 30th;
16, Mid-Autumn Festival: August 15th of the lunar calendar, one of the traditional festivals in China. There are many theories about the origin of this festival, and there are also many legends and traditions about this day. Mid-Autumn Festival, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Dragon Boat Festival are also called the four traditional festivals of the Han nationality in China.
17, Chung Yeung Festival: Chung Yeung Festival is a traditional Chung Yeung Festival, also known as "Old People's Day". Because the Book of Changes defines "six" as the yin number and "nine" as the yang number, on September 9, the sun and the moon are combined with yang, and 29 is the most important, so it is called Chongyang, also known as Jiujiu. The Double Ninth Festival was formed as early as the Warring States Period. In the Tang Dynasty, the Double Ninth Festival was officially designated as a folk festival, which has been inherited ever since. The Double Ninth Festival on March 3, also known as "stepping in autumn" and "stepping in spring", is a family matter. On this day, all relatives of the Double Ninth Festival will climb the mountain together to "avoid disaster", insert dogwood and enjoy chrysanthemums. Since the Double Ninth Festival in Wei and Jin Dynasties, the atmosphere has become increasingly strong, which is one of the traditional festivals sung by scholars in past dynasties.
18, October Dynasty: The first day of October in the lunar calendar, commonly known as October Dynasty, is another "Ghost Festival" after Qingming and Zhongyuan. Also known as "ancestor worship festival";
19, Xiayuan Festival: This is a traditional folk festival in China, which is also called "Xiayuan Day" and "Xia Yuan" on October 15th of the lunar calendar.
20. Winter solstice: Winter solstice is a very important solar term in the China lunar calendar and a traditional festival of the Chinese nation. The winter solstice is commonly known as "Winter Festival", "Dragon Solstice Festival" and "Asian New Year Festival". As early as more than 2,500 years ago in the Spring and Autumn Period, China had observed the sun with the earth and determined the winter solstice, which was the earliest of the 24 solar terms. In most parts of northern China, it is also the custom to eat jiaozi and jiaozi on this day. Rumors: winter solstice is coming, eat jiaozi 2 1, Laba Festival: the eighth day of December;
22. Cooking Festival: Off-year "does not specifically refer to a festival. Due to local customs, festivals called off-year are different. In most northern areas, the festival of offering sacrifices to stoves on the 23rd/24th of the twelfth lunar month is called off-year. Many areas in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai call it off-year. Many areas in China are also called off-year and some places are called off-year. Off-year also means that people begin to prepare new year's goods for a clean and beautiful year, which means that the new year should have a new atmosphere. It mainly includes three meanings: 1, which means that the twelfth lunar month is Xiao Jiannian; 2. Festivals, twenty-three or twenty-four of the twelfth lunar month, and old customs to sacrifice stoves; It refers to a year when fruit trees and bamboo grow slowly.
23. New Year's Eve: New Year's Eve is one of the most important traditional festivals in China. It refers to the night on the last day of the Lunar New Year, that is, the night before the Spring Festival. Because it often falls on the 30th or 29th of the twelfth lunar month in the summer calendar, it is also called the 30th. The last day of the year is called "New Year's Eve" and that night is called "New Year's Eve". People often stay up all night on New Year's Eve, which is called keeping watch. Su Shi has "Shousui": "Children can't sleep, and they are happy at night." On New Year's Eve, people should not only clean their homes and outside, but also put up door gods, Spring Festival couplets, New Year pictures and hanging door cages. People put on new clothes with festive colors and patterns.
Take mine. Take mine. People searched Baidu Encyclopedia for a holiday. It took half an hour. It's really hard. Besides, this is all I can find. There are 56 ethnic groups in China, and each ethnic group has its own festival. How can we find out? But these common ones should be enough.