Chinese traditional festivals are an important part of the long history and culture of the Chinese nation, with various forms and rich content. The formation of traditional festivals is a process of long-term accumulation and cohesion of the history and culture of a nation or country. The ancient traditional festivals of the Chinese nation cover humanistic and natural cultural contents such as primitive beliefs, sacrificial culture, astronomy, calendar, and Yili calculations, and contain profound and rich cultural connotations. The traditional Chinese festivals that developed from the ancient times not only clearly record the rich and colorful social life and cultural content of the ancestors of the Chinese nation, but also accumulate profound historical and cultural connotations.
The main traditional festivals in China are: Spring Festival (the first day of the first lunar month); Lantern Festival (the fifteenth day of the first lunar month); Dragon Head Head and Sheri Festival (the second day of the second lunar month); Shangsi Festival (the first day of the third lunar month) 3); Cold Food Festival (105 or 106 days after the winter solstice); Qingming Festival (after April 5 in the Gregorian calendar); Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month); Qixi Festival (the seventh day of the seventh lunar month); Hungry Ghost Festival (the seventh lunar month) 15th); Mid-Autumn Festival (the 15th day of the eighth lunar month); the Double Ninth Festival (the ninth day of the ninth lunar month); Xiayuan Festival (the 15th day of the 10th lunar month); Winter Solstice (December 21st-23rd); New Year's Eve (the 10th day of the lunar calendar) February 29 or 30) etc.
In addition, among the twenty-four solar terms, there are some that are both natural solar terms and traditional festivals, such as Qingming Festival, Winter Solstice, etc. These festivals have both natural and humanistic connotations. They are both natural solar terms and also traditional festivals. traditional festival.