The traditional festivals in China are as follows: 1. The Spring Festival is the New Year of the Xia calendar (lunar calendar). English: Chinese New Year Time: Before the Han Dynasty, the Spring Festival was the beginning of spring in the Ganzhi calendar, and later evolved into the first day of the first month of the Xia calendar (i.e. The first day of the first lunar month). The current Spring Festival time is: the first day of the first lunar month in the narrow sense, and the first to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in the broad sense. Significance The New Year and New Year celebrations center around offering sacrifices and praying for a good year, and are carried out in the form of activities such as removing the old and bringing in the new, welcoming the new year and receiving good fortune, worshiping gods and ancestors, and praying for a good harvest. The content is rich and colorful, lively and festive, and has a strong flavor of the new year. Our country has a long history of celebrating the New Year, and some relatively fixed customs have been formed during the inheritance and development. Many of them are still passed down to this day, such as making New Year goods, sweeping dust, sticking New Year's red cards, family reunion dinner, keeping the New Year's Eve, New Year's money, paying New Year greetings, paying New Year greetings, and dragon dance. Customs include lions, worshiping gods and ancestors, burning firecrackers, burning fireworks, traveling to gods games, annual events, boat racing, praying for blessings, temple fairs, playing with gongs and drums, lighting lanterns and wine, admiring lanterns and other customs. Traditional festival rituals and related customary activities are important elements of festivals and carry rich and colorful festival cultural connotations. 2. Lantern Festival, time: the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, English: Lantern Festival (literal translation of Dragon Lantern Festival) meaning
The formation of the Lantern Festival customs has a long process. According to general information and folklore, the first month of the Lantern Festival The fifteenth day of the first lunar month has been taken seriously in the Western Han Dynasty. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty worshiped "Taiyi" in Ganquan Palace on Xinye night of the first month of the first month, which was regarded by later generations as the precursor to worshiping the gods on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. However, the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month truly became a folk festival after the Han and Wei dynasties. The custom of lighting lanterns on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is related to the spread of Buddhism to the East. During the Tang Dynasty, Buddhism flourished, and officials and common people generally "light lanterns to worship Buddha" on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Buddhist lanterns spread among the people. From the Tang Dynasty, lighting up Lantern Festival lanterns became a legal matter and gradually became a folk custom. 3. The dragon raises its head (the second day of the second lunar month), also known as the Spring Plowing Festival, Farming Festival, Green Dragon Festival, Spring Dragon Festival, etc., is a traditional Chinese folk festival. "Dragon" refers to the seven-constellation star of the Eastern Blue Dragon among the twenty-eight constellations. Every year at the beginning of the Mao lunar month in mid-spring, the "Dragon-horned Star" rises from the eastern horizon, so it is called "Dragon Heads Up". Meaning: The day when the dragon raises its head is between the hibernation of Mao and the vernal equinox; Mao means "mao", and all things emerge from the ground. It is an elephant of growth, which represents the growth of vitality. "Mao" is one of the twelve earthly branches in the Ganzhi calendar, and the five elements It belongs to wood, and the hexagram image is "shock". Ninety-two is in the Lin Gua mutual shock, and the shock is a dragon, which means that the dragon has left its latent state and has appeared on the surface of the earth and emerged. "The dragon raises its head" is a reflection of the seasons in ancient Chinese farming culture. It marks the emergence of Yang Qi from the ground, spring thunder, increased rain, rising temperatures, and all things are full of vitality, and spring plowing begins.