Chinese Traditional Festivals

Explore Chinese traditional festivals, their customs, cultural significance, and historical origins

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Folk Festival 9th day of the 9th lunar month

Double Ninth Festival (Chongyang Festival)

The Double Ninth Festival is a traditional Chinese festival for honoring the elderly, characterized by climbing heights, wearing cornel dogwood, and drinking chrysanthemum wine.

📅 1 day 📍 Nationwide

Related Customs:

Mountain Climbing Honoring the Elderly

Traditional Festival August 15th of the lunar calendar

Zhong Qiu Jie Mid-Autumn Festival

The Mid-Autumn Festival is the second largest traditional festival after the Spring Festival, featuring moon viewing, moon cakes, and family reunions.

📅 1 day 📍 All over the country

Traditional Festival 5th day of the 5th lunar month

Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional holiday commemorating Qu Yuan, characterized by dragon boat racing and eating rice dumplings.

📅 3 days 📍 Nationwide

Folk Festival Lunar Qingming solar term

Qingming Festival

Qingming Festival is a traditional Chinese festival of worshiping ancestors and a good time for outing.

📅 1 day 📍 All over the country

Related Customs:

Tomb sweeping outing

Folk Festival The fifteenth day of the first lunar month

Yuan Xiao Jie - Lantern Festival

Lantern Festival is the first full moon night of the Lunar New Year, with lanterns, riddles and Yuanxiao as the main features.

📅 1 day 📍 All over the country

Folk Festival The first day of the first lunar month

Chunjie Spring Festival

The Spring Festival is the most important traditional festival in China, symbolizing the beginning of a new year and an important time for family reunion, saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new.

📅 7 Days 📍 All over the country