Traditional Festival Stories in China

1. Lantern Festival

The Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, the first lunar month, Yuanxi Festival or Lantern Festival, falls on the 15th day of the first lunar month every year and is one of the traditional festivals in China. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar, and the ancients called "night" "night". The fifteenth day of the first month is the first full moon night in a year, so it is called "Lantern Festival".

According to the Taoist saying of "Sanyuan", the 15th day of the first month is also called "Shangyuan Festival". Since ancient times, the Lantern Festival custom has been dominated by the warm and festive custom of watching lanterns.

Second, Tomb-Sweeping Day,

The outing festival, the Qingming Festival, the March Festival and the ancestor worship festival are held at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Qingming has two connotations: nature and humanity. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival.

Tomb-Sweeping Day is an important traditional spring festival. It has been a fine tradition of the Chinese nation for thousands of years to sweep the graves and pay homage to the ancestors. It is not only conducive to promoting filial piety, awakening family memories, but also promoting the cohesion and identity of family members and even the nation.

Third, Dragon Boat Festival,

the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, is one of the four traditional festivals in China. Also known as Duanyang Festival, Chung Wu Festival, Noon Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhengyang Festival, Bathing Orchid Festival, Tianzhong Festival and so on. Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena and evolved from the dragon totem sacrifice in ancient times.

The Dragon Boat Festival has mixed many kinds of folk customs in its inheritance and development. There are many customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, and there are differences in customs content or details due to different regions. Although the customs vary from place to place, eating zongzi and picking dragon boats are common customs.

Fourth, Mid-Autumn Festival,

also known as Moon Festival, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, August Festival, Moon Chasing Festival, Moon Playing Festival, Moon Worship Festival, Daughter's Day or Reunion Festival, is a traditional cultural festival popular in many ethnic groups in China and countries with Chinese character cultural circles, which falls on August 15th of the lunar calendar; Because it is just half the value of Sanqiu, hence the name, some places set the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 16th.

Mid-Autumn Festival has had the custom of offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes, enjoying osmanthus flowers and drinking osmanthus wine since ancient times, which has been passed down to this day and lasted for a long time. The Mid-Autumn Festival is a colorful and precious cultural heritage, with the full moon as a sign of people's reunion, as the sustenance of missing their hometown and their loved ones, and hoping for a bumper harvest and happiness. Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day are also called the four traditional festivals in China.

V. The Double Ninth Festival

is the ninth day of the ninth lunar month every year, which is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation. In the Book of Changes, "nine" is designated as the yang number, and on September 9, two or nine are heavy, so it is called "Chongyang"; It is also called "double ninth" because the day and the month all meet nine. Returning to the truth in 1999, one yuan began, and the ancients thought that Chongyang in 1999 was an auspicious day.

In ancient times, there were some folk customs on the Double Ninth Festival, such as climbing high to pray for blessings, enjoying chrysanthemums in autumn, wearing dogwoods, offering sacrifices to the gods and ancestors, and drinking banquets for longevity.

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