A brief introduction to folk festivals, what are the traditional folk festivals

1. Spring Festival, the first day of January of the lunar calendar every year, has a long history, and evolved from the first year of the year in ancient times. Led by the 100th year, the Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation, which not only embodies the Chinese nation's ideological beliefs, ideals and aspirations, life entertainment and cultural psychology, but also is a carnival display of blessings, food and entertainment activities.

2. The Lantern Festival, which is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year, is one of the traditional festivals in China. The Lantern Festival mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities such as viewing lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, guessing lantern riddles, and setting off fireworks.

3. Qingming Festival, around April 5 in the Gregorian calendar, and the 15th day after the vernal equinox. Qingming Festival is the most grand and grand ancestor worship festival of the Chinese nation, and it belongs to a kind of cultural traditional festival that respects ancestors and chases the distance cautiously.

4. Qixi Festival, the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year, is the earliest love festival in the world, the night of Qixi Festival sits to watch the morning glory and the weaver girl, visits the boudoir, worships the weaver girl, prays for marriage, discusses the female red, begs for blessings, etc., is the traditional Chinese folk Qixi custom.

5. Mid-Autumn Festival, August 15 of the lunar calendar every year, the Mid-Autumn Festival began in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, prevailed in the Song Dynasty, and became one of the traditional Chinese festivals with the same name as the Spring Festival in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Since ancient times, there have been customs such as worshipping the moon, admiring the moon, worshipping the moon, eating moon cakes, appreciating osmanthus flowers, and drinking osmanthus wine.

Since ancient times, China has a vast land and rich resources, giving birth to many splendid cultures, and Chinese traditional festivals are an important part of the long history and culture of the Chinese nation, and are the process of long-term accumulation and condensation of the history and culture of a nation or country, so what are the traditional festivals in China?

Traditional Chinese festivals mainly include Spring Festival (the first day of the first lunar month), Lantern Festival (the fifteenth day of the first lunar month), Qingming Festival (around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar), Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month), Qixi Festival (the seventh day of the seventh lunar month), Mid-Autumn Festival (the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar), Chongyang Festival (the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar), Winter Solstice Festival (December 21 and 23 of the Gregorian calendar), Chinese New Year's Eve (the last day of the end of the year), etc.

Spring Festival is a particularly grand festival for Chinese, no matter how far away they are, they will rush home to reunite with their families on this festival, every December 30 of the lunar calendar, families will gather around the table to have a reunion dinner, and every family will go to the homes of relatives and friends to pay New Year's greetings during the Spring Festival, and the whole country celebrates.

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival, which has a long history, which is a festival produced to commemorate Qu Yuan of Chu State. Chinese have a tradition of celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival, that is, they will definitely eat zongzi, race dragon boats, and eat yellow wine. People on the banks of the Miluo River will also throw zongzi into the river water to feed the fish and insects in the Miluo River, and these creatures will not eat Qu Yuan's body.

On August 15, everyone will gather around to eat moon cakes and admire the moon during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and if you live near the Qiantang River, you may also go to watch the tide on this day. Every day on this day, everyone will think of Su Shi's particularly famous poem "I wish people a long time, thousands of miles together", in order to express their thoughts about their family.

Because Qixi Festival is one of the most romantic festivals in China, Qixi Festival has the cultural meaning of Chinese Valentine's Day. The beautiful legend of the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl is well known, so the Qixi Festival is generally a festival for lovers, with the theme of praying for blessings, begging and love, and is deeply loved by many young people.

The rest of the festivals will not be detailed here.

Spring Festival: China has a long history of the New Year, and some relatively fixed customs have been formed in the inheritance and development, many of which are still passed down from generation to generation, such as doing New Year's goods, sweeping dust, pasting New Year's red, and having a New Year's dinner. Lantern Festival:

Because the Lantern Festival has the custom of putting out lanterns and watching lanterns, the folk are also accustomed to calling it the "Lantern Festival", which mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities such as appreciating lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, guessing lantern riddles, and setting off fireworks. Qingming Festival: Originating from the ancestral beliefs and spring rites and customs of ancient times, it has both natural and humanistic connotations, which is not only a natural solar term, but also a traditional festival.

1. Spring Festival: China's New Year's calendar has a long history, and some relatively fixed customs have been formed in the inheritance and development, many of which are still passed down from generation to generation, such as doing New Year's goods, sweeping dust, pasting New Year's red, and New Year's dinner.

2. Lantern Festival: Due to the custom of lanterns and lanterns during the Lantern Festival, the folk are also known as the "Lantern Festival", which mainly includes a series of traditional folk activities such as appreciating lanterns, eating glutinous rice balls, guessing lantern riddles, and setting off fireworks.

3. Qingming Festival: Originating from the ancestral beliefs and spring festival customs in ancient times, it has both natural and humanistic connotations, which is not only a natural solar term, but also a traditional festival.

4. Dragon Boat Festival: The festival customs are in the form of praying for blessings and blessings, suppressing evil spirits and disasters, etc., with rich and colorful content and lively and festive. The customs of praying for blessings and auspiciousness mainly include dragon boats, dragon sacrifices, and paper dragons.

5. Mid-Autumn Festival: Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has folk customs such as worshipping the moon, admiring the moon, eating moon cakes, playing with lanterns, appreciating osmanthus flowers, drinking osmanthus wine, etc., which have been passed down for a long time.

6. Chinese New Year's Eve: There are mainly customs such as sticking New Year's Red, Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, pressing New Year's money, resigning the New Year, and keeping the New Year.

The 8 traditional festivals in China are the Spring Festival, the Lantern Festival, the Qingming Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Qixi Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Double Ninth Festival, and the Winter Solstice Festival.

The customs of the Spring Festival include eating rice balls, setting off firecrackers, paying New Year's greetings, and going to the ancestral graves; The customs of the Lantern Festival include eating Lantern Festival, guessing lantern riddles, etc.; The customs of the Qingming Festival include tomb sweeping and outing; The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival include eating zongzi and dragon boat racing; The customs of the Qixi Festival include needle-threading and begging, worshipping the seven sisters; The customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival include eating moon cakes and admiring the moon; Chung Yeung Festival custom ascending, dogwood; The custom of the winter solstice festival is to eat dumplings and drink mutton soup.

1. Spring Festival. The Spring Festival has a long history, commonly known as the New Year, New Year, New Year's Day, etc., people often say that but the New Year, the New Year is this day. Now the Spring Festival time is the first day of the first month of the narrow lunar calendar, the first day of the first month of the broad lunar calendar to the fifteenth day of the first month, during the Spring Festival, all parts of the country have held various activities to celebrate the New Year, with strong regional characteristics.

2. Lantern Festival.

The Lantern Festival, also known as the Lantern Festival, the Little New Year, the Shangyuan Festival, etc., is the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year. The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the first full moon night of the year, so people call the fifteenth day of the first lunar month the "Lantern Festival".

3. Qingming Festival.

Qingming Festival is also known as the Qingqing Festival, the ancestor worship festival, etc., the festival period is at the turn of mid-spring and late spring, it is the traditional major spring festival in our country, its custom is to sweep the tomb and worship, remember the ancestors, is the fine tradition of the Chinese nation for thousands of years. In addition, the Qingming Festival is held around April 5 in the Gregorian calendar.

4. Dragon Boat Festival.

Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Chongwu Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, etc., was the noon day of the month of the Ganzhi calendar before the Han Dynasty, and evolved into the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar after the Han Dynasty. The Dragon Boat Festival has a variety of festival activities, and the Spring Festival, its customs contain the cultural connotation of praying for blessings and eliminating disasters, and entrust people with a kind of good wishes to welcome auspiciousness and ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters.

5. Qixi Festival.

The Qixi Festival is also known as the Qihu Chaijie Festival, the Qiqiao Festival, etc., and the time is the seventh day of the seventh lunar month every year. The Qixi Festival is derived from the worship of the stars, which is the birthday of the Seven Sisters in the traditional sense, and is named "Qixi Festival" because the worship of the "Seven Sisters" is held on the seventh night of July.

6. Mid-Autumn Festival.

The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Moon Worship Festival, the Reunion Festival, etc., is held on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar. Since ancient times, the Mid-Autumn Festival has folk customs such as worshipping the moon, admiring the moon, eating moon cakes, playing with lanterns, appreciating osmanthus flowers, and drinking osmanthus wine.

7. Chung Yeung Festival.

Chung Yeung Festival is the ninth day of the ninth lunar month every year, which is a traditional folk festival. In ancient times, people had the customs of climbing high to pray for blessings, enjoying chrysanthemums in autumn, wearing dogwoods, worshipping gods and ancestors, and drinking feasts for longevity during the Double Ninth Festival. Inherited so far, it has added connotations such as respect for the elderly, and enjoyed a banquet on the day of Chongyang to be grateful and respect for the elderly.

8. Winter Solstice Festival.

The winter solstice is not only an important solar term among the 24 solar terms, but also a traditional ancestral festival of the people, which is around December 22; In the southern region, there is the custom of worshipping ancestors and feasting on the winter solstice; In the northern region, there is a custom of eating dumplings on the winter solstice every year.

There are many colorful folk festivals in China, each with its own unique way of celebration and cultural connotation. Here are some of the Chinese folk festivals:

1.Chinese New Year: The Spring Festival is the most important traditional festival in China and is usually celebrated on the first day of the first lunar month. It is a time for family reunions, family and friends, and people will carry out various celebrations such as firecrackers, dragon and lion dances, Chinese New Year couplets, dumplings making, etc.

2.Lantern Festival: The Lantern Festival is the 15th day after the Spring Festival and is one of the most romantic festivals in traditional China. On this day, people enjoy lanterns, guess lantern riddles, eat lantern festivals, etc., and the most famous activity is to put sky lanterns at night.

3.Dragon Boat Festival: The Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month and one of the important traditional festivals in China. On this day, people will race dragon boats, eat zongzi, hang wormwood, etc., to commemorate the ancient patriotic poet Qu Yuan.

4.Mid-Autumn Festival: The Mid-Autumn Festival is the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the Divine Chain lunar calendar, which is a traditional Chinese reunion festival. People will admire the moon, eat moon cakes, enjoy osmanthus flowers, etc., and it is also a way to express their thoughts and blessings.

5.Qingming Festival: Qingming Festival is the fourth or fifth day of the fourth lunar month and is a traditional Chinese ancestor worship festival. People will sweep tombs, pay homage to ancestors, go out, etc., and it is also a time to remember their deceased relatives.

6.Duanyang Festival: Duanyang Festival is the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, and it is also one of the important traditional festivals in China. People will race dragon boats, eat zongzi, hang wormwood, etc., to commemorate the ancient patriotic poet Qu Yuan.

In addition to the above-mentioned festivals, there are many other folk festivals in China, such as the Double Ninth Festival, Laba Festival, Qixi Festival, etc. Each festival has its own unique celebration method and cultural connotation, these festivals not only reflect the traditional culture of the Chinese people, but also the chain cherry blossom moment for people to reunite with each other and inherit culture.

1. Chinese traditional festivals are an important part of the long history and culture of the Chinese nation, with diverse forms and rich contents. The formation of traditional festivals is a process of long-term accumulation and condensation of the history and culture of a nation or country. The ancient traditional festivals of the Chinese nation cover the humanistic and natural cultural contents such as primitive beliefs, sacrificial culture, astronomical calendars, and easy to rational mathematics, and contain profound and rich cultural connotations.

The traditional Chinese festivals developed from the ancient ancestors not only clearly record the rich and colorful cultural content of the life of the ancestors of the Chinese nation, but also accumulate broad and profound historical and cultural connotations.

2. The traditional festivals in China mainly include the Spring Festival (the first day of the first lunar month), the Lantern Festival (the fifteenth day of the first lunar month), the Dragon Raising the Head (the second day of the second lunar month), the Sheri Festival (the second day of the second lunar month), the Qingming Festival (around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar), the Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar), the Qixi Festival (the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar), the Zhongyuan Festival (the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar), the Mid-Autumn Festival (the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar), the Chongyang Festival (the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar), the Xia Yuan Festival (the fifteenth day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar), the Winter Solstice Festival (December 21 and 23 of the Gregorian calendar), Chinese New Year's Eve (the last day of the year), etc.

3. In addition, among the 24 solar terms, there are also some natural solar terms and traditional festivals, such as: Qingming, Winter Solstice, etc., these festivals have both natural and humanistic internal reform and lack of closure, they are not only natural solar terms, but also traditional festivals.