I. Lantern Festival
Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, small first month, Yuanxi or Lantern Festival, for the first month of the first five days of the lunar calendar every year, is one of China's traditional festivals. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, the ancients called "night" for "night", the 15th day of the first month is the first full-moon night of the year, so the 15th day of the first month is called "Lantern Festival".
According to Taoism's "Three Elements", the 15th day of the first month is also known as the "Festival of the First Element". Since ancient times, the Lantern Festival has been dominated by the festive custom of viewing lanterns.
Second, the Qingming Festival,
The Qingming Festival, the Qingqing Festival, the March Festival, the Festival of Ancestors, the festival in the middle of spring and late spring. Qingming has both natural and humanistic connotations, is both a natural festival point and a traditional festival.
The Qingming Festival is a traditional major spring festival, tomb-sweeping rituals, in memory of ancestors, is the Chinese nation's fine tradition for thousands of years, is not only conducive to promote filial piety and affection, awakening the family *** with the memory, but also to promote the cohesion of the family members and even the nation's cohesion and sense of identity.
Three, the Dragon Boat Festival,
Fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar each year, is one of the four traditional Chinese festivals. Also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Orchid Festival, Tianzhong Festival and so on. Duanwu Festival originated from the worship of heaven, evolved from the ancient times of dragon totem sacrifice.
Duanwu Festival in the development of inheritance mixed with a variety of folklore as a whole, the Dragon Boat Festival customs are many, due to different regions and there are differences in the content or details of the customs, although not all over the same way, but the food dumplings and grilled dragon boat is a common custom.
Four, the Mid-Autumn Festival,
Also known as the Moon Festival, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, August Festival, August will, chasing the moon festival, playing the moon festival, moon festival, the daughter of the festival or reunion festival, is popular in many ethnic groups in China and the Chinese character cultural circle of the countries of the traditional cultural festivals, the time in the eighth month of the fifteenth lunar month; because of the value of the three half of the Autumn Festival, so the name, and also in some places will be the Mid-Autumn Festival in the sixteenth day of the eighth month.
The Mid-Autumn Festival has been practiced since ancient times, with customs such as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, paying homage to the moon, eating mooncakes, enjoying osmanthus blossoms, and drinking osmanthus wine, which have been passed down to the present day and are still practiced today. The Mid-Autumn Festival has become a colorful and precious cultural heritage, with the fullness of the moon signifying the reunion of people, in order to express the feelings of nostalgia for the hometown and relatives, and to pray for a good harvest and happiness. Mid-Autumn Festival and Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival, Qingming Festival and known as China's four major traditional festivals.
Fifth, Chongyang Festival
For the first nine days of September on the lunar calendar every year, is a traditional festival of the Chinese people. I Ching" in the "nine" as the number of Yang, September 9, the two nine overlap, so it is called "Chung Yeung"; because the day and the month are nine, so it is also known as "Chung Kau". Nine nine to the true, the beginning of a yuan, the ancients believe that the nine suns are auspicious days.
Ancient folk in the Chongyang Festival have climbed to pray for blessings, autumn tour to enjoy chrysanthemums, wear dogwood, sacrifices to the gods and ancestors and feasts to seek longevity and other customs.
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