Basic introduction
Chinese traditional festivals in various forms, rich in content, are ourlong history of the Chinese nation as an integral part of culture.
Holiday of the origin and development is a gradual formation, exerts asubtle sound, and slowly infiltrated into the process of social life. It andsocial development, as are the development of human society to a certain stageof the product of our country these ancient holiday, most of them and astronomy,calendar, mathematics, and later carved out of the weather-related, at least onthis from the literature can be traced back to "Summer is small" , "Book ofHistory" to the Warring States period, the year the division of 24 solar terms,has been basically in place, then the traditional holiday, all closely relatedto these Terms.
Terms for the selection of holiday, subject to the conditions provided, themajority of holiday at the pre-Qin period, had been the horizon, but one of thecustom content-rich and popular, but also has required a long process ofdevelopment. Activity are the earliest and original customs of worship,superstition, taboo-related; myth legend to add a few holiday romantic; have onthe religious holiday of the impact and effects; some historical figures havebeen given the timeless holiday Memory infiltration, all of which areintegration of the content of cohesion holiday, the holiday so that the Chinesehave a deep sense of history.
To the Han Dynasty, China's major traditional festivals have beenstereotyped, it is often said these holiday originated in the Han Dynasty, theHan are China's reunification after the first major period of development,political and economic stability, science and culture has developed greatly, andthis holiday The final form provides a good social conditions.
Holiday developed to the Tang Dynasty, from the original worship, taboosmysterious atmosphere of liberation, to entertainment etiquette type, becomereally good time of the festive season. Since then, the holiday has become alively celebration, colorful, many sports, pleasure-seeking activities of thecontents of the scene and quickly became a popular fashion, these customs hascontinued the development of enduring.
It is worth mentioning that, in the long course of history, the ancientliterati, poets of letters for a holiday to write a lot of famous through theages, the poetry of well-known and was widely famous, so that our country'straditional holiday of deep infiltration culture, wonderful romance, big vulgarshows of Taiga, tastes.
Chinese holiday there is a strong cohesion and a wide range of inclusive,one to the holidays, of national jubilation, which is a long history of ournation's long history of same, is a valuable spiritual heritage.
The formation of traditional festivals, are a nation or country's historyand culture of long-term accumulation of condensation process, the followinglist of those festivals, all are coming from the ancient development, so farfrom these popular holiday custom, but also can clearly see the the people ofancient social life and wonderful pictures.