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What festivals have a long history and culture?
The traditional festivals in China are diverse in form and rich in content, and they are an integral part of the long history and culture of the Chinese nation.

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There are nearly 50 traditional festivals in Han nationality. The following are 15 major festivals: Spring Festival, Shangyuan Festival (Lantern Festival), Flower Festival (Flower God Festival), Shangsi Festival (Daughter's Day), Cold Food Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Qixi Festival, Zhongyuan Festival (Ghost Festival), Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Winter solstice Festival, Laba Festival, Kitchen God Festival (off-year). Every place also has local and ethnic characteristics.

the Spring Festival; Chinese New Year

Since the first year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the date of the annual festival has been fixed and has continued to this day. New Year's Day was called "New Year's Day" in ancient times. After the Revolution of 1911, 19 1 1 adopted the Gregorian calendar to calculate the year, so it was called "New Year's Day" on the Gregorian calendar 1 and "Spring Festival" on the first day of the first lunar month.

the Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, Xiaoyuanyuan Festival, Yuanxi Festival or Lantern Festival, is the first important festival after the Spring Festival. The first month is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called the night "night", so the fifteenth day of the first full moon in a year was called the Lantern Festival.

Traditional customs include going out to enjoy the moon, lighting lanterns and setting off flames, liking solve riddles on the lanterns, eating Yuanxiao and pulling rabbit lanterns. In addition, in many places, traditional folk performances, such as playing dragon lanterns, playing lions, walking on stilts, boating, yangko dancing and playing Taiping drums, have all joined the Lantern Festival.

Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival in China, which falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. Also known as Dragon Boat Festival, Duanyang Festival, Noon Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Five-Day Festival, Ai Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival, Noon Festival and Summer Festival.

Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, August Festival, Moon Chasing Festival, Moon Appreciating Festival, Daughter's Day or Reunion Festival, is a popular traditional cultural festival in many ethnic groups and countries in the Chinese character cultural circle in China, and falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month. Because its value is only half that of Sanqiu, it is named, and some places set the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 16.

Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day are also called the four traditional festivals in China.