What are the biggest festivals of the year?

Our larger traditional festivals in China are: Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Xiao Nian (23rd of the lunar month) and so on. In addition, there is a national day according to the solar calendar.

The relatively large festivals that are international or newly spread from abroad are: New Year's Day, Labor Day, Mother's Day, Children's Day, etc.

I'm guessing you're referring to our traditional festivals, right?

Do you know all the festivals in China throughout the year?

Major festivals include the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Qixi Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Winter Solstice, etc. 1. Chinese New Year's Eve: the 30th day of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar.

People often stay up all night on Chinese New Year's Eve, which is called "keeping the year". On Chinese New Year's Eve, the home and outside the house must not only be cleaned, but also the door gods, Spring Festival couplets, New Year paintings, and door cages should be hung, and people will change into new clothes with festive colors and patterns.

2. Spring Festival: the first day of the first lunar month. The Spring Festival custom is generally based on eating rice cakes, dumplings, glutinous rice balls, large meatballs, whole fish, fine wine, apples, peanuts, melon seeds, candies, fragrant tea and delicacies; And accompanied by dusting, washing bedding, preparing New Year's goods, pasting Spring Festival couplets, pasting New Year's paintings (door god Zhong Kui), making dumplings and sticking paper-cutting, pasting window flowers, pasting blessing characters, lighting candles, lighting fires, setting off firecrackers, giving New Year's money, New Year's greetings, visiting relatives, giving New Year's gifts, going to the ancestral grave, visiting the flower market, making a social fire and many other activities, extremely happy with family.

3. Lantern Festival: the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. The first lunar month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called it "xiao", and the fifteenth day is the first full moon night of the year, so the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is called the Lantern Festival.

Also known as the Little New Year, Yuan Xi 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 the Lantern Festival are not the same throughout the country, among which eating the Lantern Festival, appreciating the lanterns, dragon dance, lion dance, etc. are several important folk customs of the Lantern Festival.

4. Qingming Festival: the third day of the third lunar month. The customs of the Qingming Festival are rich and interesting, in addition to paying attention to the ban on fire, sweeping the tomb, there are a series of customs and sports activities such as walking, swinging, kicking and bowing, playing polo, and planting willows.

5. Dragon Boat Festival: the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. The activities of this day have gradually evolved into eating zongzi, racing dragon boats, hanging calamus, artemisia grass, mugwort leaves, lavender atractylodes, angelica, drinking realgar wine, tying baisuozi, making fragrant slots, pasting five poisons, sticking charms, releasing yellow cigarettes, and eating twelve reds.

Festivals of the year:

The first day of the first month: the Spring Festival, known as the beginning of the year, the beginning of the year, etc.

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month: the Lantern Festival, the Day of the Lantern, the Taoist Shangyuan Festival, is the birthday of the heavenly official.

The second day of the second month of February: Spring Dragon Festival (head teeth), also known as the dragon raising its head, the green dragon festival, the birthday of Jigong Bodhisattva in Buddhism.

February 12: Flower Dynasty Festival (February 15), also known as the Flower God Festival, Hundred Flowers Birthday, Flower God Birthday (Flowering Period).

Qingming, one of the 24 solar terms, is usually within the second half of February to the first half of March.

The fifth day of the fifth month of May: Dragon Boat Festival.

The seventh day of the seventh month: Xi's Qixi Festival, July.

7. The Begging Festival.

July 15: It is the birthday of the local official, the Bon Festival of Buddhism, the Bon Festival passed down from generation to generation, commonly known as the Ghost Festival in Confucianism, and the Zhongyuan Festival in Taoism.

August 15: Mid-Autumn Festival.

The ninth day of September: Double Ninth Festival, the day of Emperor Yuan's enlightenment.

The first day of October: National Day.

October 15: Taoist Xia Yuan Festival, the birthday of the water official.

The winter solstice, also known as the southern solstice, is one of the 24 solar terms used to determine the order of the month and the leap month, and the winter solstice is the premise of the leap month in the month of November (that is, the first day of the first month of November at the earliest, and the 29th or 30th day of November at the latest). Because the solar terms and the Gregorian calendar are both solar calendar attributes, the date of the solar term Gregorian calendar is relatively fixed, and the winter solstice is often around December 22 in the Gregorian calendar (solar calendar).

The eighth day of December: Laba Festival, the enlightenment day of Shakyamuni Buddha in Buddhism.

December 23 Twenty-fourth: Stove Festival, Dust Day, Stove Day, commonly known as "Xiao Nian", also known as Xiao Nian.

The last day of December: New Year's Day, New Year's Day, New Year's Day night is called Chinese New Year's Eve, Chinese New Year's Eve, Big Festival Night, Great End, etc., folk called New Year.

Three. 10. In the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, seal the well (sacrifice the god of the well), paste the Spring Festival, welcome the god of wealth, eat the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and keep the year.