What are the contents of China s festivals? How did each festival come about?

Chinese New Year's Eve 【Origin】The Spring Festival was originally called Yuan Ri, and related celebrations began in the Xia Dynasty. As the first festival of the year, it was established in the Han Dynasty. In the first year of the Taichu Dynasty of the Han Dynasty (104 BC), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty promulgated the "Taichu Calendar", which determined that the first day of the first month of the summer calendar was the first year of the year.

The last day of the year is Chinese New Year's Eve.

Connotation] As the first major festival of the Chinese nation, the Spring Festival is the core festival in the festival system, with the longest duration and the richest content. The meaning of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new year and family reunion contained in the Spring Festival has become an important force for cohesion of national feelings, and it has also become a cultural symbol of the Chinese nation's self-identity. Chinese New Year's Eve family reunion to eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner and stay up late to watch the New Year is an annual cultural knot for Chinese, and wanderers who are away from home have to rush home.

The Qingming Festival is suitable for both sacrifices.

Origin] Qingming Festival is a rare festival in the traditional festival determined by the solar calendar, fixed around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar every year. The customs such as tomb sweeping and walking on the Qingming Festival are mainly held in the ancient cold food festival and Shangsi festival.

Connotation] In the past two years, every Qingming Festival, the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum, Xuanyuan Temple, and Yandi Mausoleum have to hold large-scale public sacrifices, and Chinese at home and abroad have experienced the compatriot affection that blood is thicker than water from the sacrificial ceremony. Sacrificing the ancestors has always been a major event in the folk life of the Chinese nation, during the Qingming Dynasty, the ancestors of the tomb show the tradition of "chasing the distance in the end", and a large number of Chinese, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan compatriots living abroad have also rushed back to their homeland to pay tribute to the ancestral spirits. Spring is the best in the Qingming season, which is suitable for people to go to the suburbs to get close to nature and embrace spring.

In many parts of our country, there is still the habit of planting trees in Qingming.

There are many customs of fragrant dumpling leaves during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Origin] Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Chongwu Festival, Yu Lan Festival, Pu Festival, etc. The earliest written record of the Dragon Boat Festival is found in the Eastern Han Dynasty, on the fifth day of the fifth month of the fifth month, people use colorful ribbons to tie on their arms, which are used to avoid military service and ghosts, and to prevent diseases and plagues. Eating zongzi and rowing dragon boats were customs that continued to form later.

Connotation] Around the Dragon Boat Festival and its customs, some influential folklore has been formed, and new customs and cultural connotations have been added to the Dragon Boat Festival. For example, the customs such as eating zongzi and rowing dragon boats are more commonly explained to commemorate the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan, which increases the spiritual core of patriotism, and on this basis, a variety of sports and competitive activities such as dragon boat racing are also derived to help cultivate the spirit of cooperation.

The Mid-Autumn Festival flowers are full moon and people are reunited.

Origin] In China's folk festival system, the Mid-Autumn Festival was formed relatively late. During the Han and Wei dynasties, there was no trace of the Mid-Autumn Festival, in the Tang and Song dynasties, the Mid-Autumn Festival with moon viewing as the center of the festival appeared, and in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Mid-Autumn Festival rose to become a folk festival.

Connotation] Mid-Autumn Festival is the traditional festival of Chinese autumn, its status is second only to the Spring Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival is the time when the moon is full, people associate the reunion of personnel from the full moon in the sky, so the Mid-Autumn Festival is regarded as the "reunion festival" in ancient times. The artistic conception of the reunion of people and the moon is an ideal in life for Chinese, and "I hope that people will be long, and they will be together for thousands of miles" entrusts the good wishes of life. The traditional Mid-Autumn Festival customs attach great importance to the cultivation and expression of family affection, which plays an irreplaceable role in promoting social harmony.

Traditional Chinese festivals (the following are the lunar dates).

Chinese festivals have strong cohesion and wide inclusiveness, and the whole country celebrates the festival together, which is in line with the long history of our nation, and is a valuable spiritual and cultural heritage.

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month: Lantern Festival. It is also known as the "Shangyuan Festival", that is, the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar.

It is an important traditional festival in our country. In ancient books, this day is called "Shangyuan", and its night is called "Yuan Night", "Yuan Xi" or "Lantern Festival". The name Lantern Festival has been used to this day.

Because the Lantern Festival has the custom of putting up lanterns and watching lanterns, the folk are also accustomed to call it the "Lantern Festival". In addition, there are customs such as eating Lantern Festival, stepping on stilts, and guessing lantern riddles. The ancient Chinese calendar has a close relationship with the phases of the moon, and on the fifteenth day of each month, people ushered in the first full moon night of the year, which is rightfully regarded as an auspicious day.

As early as the Han Dynasty, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month has been used as a day to worship the Emperor of Heaven and pray for blessings. Later, the ancients called the fifteenth day of the first lunar month "Shangyuan", the fifteenth day of July "Zhongyuan", and the fifteenth day of October "Xiayuan". At the latest, in the early days of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Sanyuan was already the day to hold a ceremony.

Among the three elements, Shangyuan is the most valued. Later, the celebrations of the Middle Yuan and the Lower Yuan were gradually abolished, while the Upper Yuan endured.

April 5th: Qingming Festival. Qingming Festival is a traditional festival in our country, and it is also the most important sacrificial festival, which is a day to worship ancestors and sweep tombs.

Tomb sweeping is commonly known as going to the grave, an activity to sacrifice the dead. Most of the Han and some ethnic minorities sweep the tombs on the Qingming Festival. According to the old custom, when sweeping the tomb, people should bring wine, food, fruits, paper money and other items to the cemetery, offer food to the grave of their relatives, and then incinerate the paper money, cultivate new soil for the tomb, break a few tender green new branches and insert them on the grave, and then kowtow and worship, and finally eat the wine and food and go home.

Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu's poem "Qingming": "During the Qingming Festival, it rains a lot, and pedestrians on the road want to break their souls. Where is the restaurant?

The shepherd boy refers to Xinghua Village. "Write about the special atmosphere of the Qingming Festival. Qingming Festival, also known as the Qingqing Festival, according to the solar calendar, it is between April 4 and 6 every year, it is the spring bright and beautiful grass and trees spit green season, and it is also a good time for people to go on a spring outing (called Qingqing in ancient times), so the ancients had the custom of Qingming outing and carrying out a series of sports activities.

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month: Dragon Boat Festival. The fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar is the "Dragon Boat Festival".

The original name of the Dragon Boat Festival is "Duanwu", and the end is the meaning of the beginning. "Five" and "noon" are homophonic and common to each other. It is an ancient festival in our country.

After Qu Yuan, the earliest patriotic poet in ancient China, was exiled by slander, he witnessed the increasing corruption of Chu politics, and was unable to realize his political ideals and was unable to save the motherland in danger, so he threw himself into the Miluo River to martyr the country. Since then, in order to prevent fish and shrimp from eating their corpses, people have used glutinous rice and flour to knead cakes of various shapes into Jiangxin, which has become the ** of eating zongzi and fried cakes during the Dragon Boat Festival. This custom has spread abroad.