What are the traditional festivals in spring?

Traditional festivals in China include Spring Festival (the first day of the first month), Lantern Festival (the fifteenth day of the first month) and Tomb-Sweeping Day (around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar).

1, 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 blessing, eating and entertainment activities.

2. The formation of Lantern Festival custom has a long process. According to general data and folklore, the fifteenth day of the first month was paid attention to in the Western Han Dynasty. On the night of the first month, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty offered sacrifices to "Taiyi" in Ganquan Palace, which was regarded by later generations as the first sacrifice to the gods on the fifteenth day of the first month.

3. Tomb-Sweeping Day, which originated from ancestral beliefs and spring sacrifices in ancient times, has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is both a natural solar term and a traditional festival. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional major Spring Festival, which pays homage to graves and remembers ancestors.

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Reasons for the formation of traditional festivals:

According to the research results of modern anthropology and archaeology, the two most primitive beliefs of human beings are the belief in heaven and earth and the belief in ancestors. The belief in heaven and earth and ancestors originated from the worship of nature and ancestors in the early days of mankind, which led to various worship and sacrifice activities. Sacrifice is a belief activity, which stems from the belief in the harmony between heaven and earth.

Ancient festivals are folk cultures created by people based on primitive beliefs to meet the needs of life. Some festivals and customs in ancient times clearly recorded the rich and colorful social life of the ancients and accumulated profound historical and cultural connotations of China.

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