Holidays and festivals of China

Holidays of the Solar Calendar

On March 8. Day of the hard-working Woman. The women enjoy of free noon.

On May 1. May Day. The people enjoy of a week of holidays.

On October 1. National holiday. The people enjoy of a week of holidays.

Holidays of the Lunar Calendar

On lunar January 1. Chinese New year or spring Holiday. The most important holiday for the Chinese and a good number of national minorities.

On lunar January 1. White festival of the Mongols. It is the new year between the Mongols. January is a white month, color of the milk, principal food for them.

The first month. Festival Noroz de los Kazakos of Xinjiang. It is a holiday in which the girls chase the boys on horseback, if they catch them they give them lashes without they c answer

On lunar January 7. New year of Pumi de Ninglang. They celebrate the rite of step of the 13-year-old young people.

On lunar January 15. The Holiday of the Lanterns is celebrated in the whole China. Lanterns are hung on the houses and streets.

On lunar January 15. Festival Munao de los Jingpo of Luxi (Dehong). There are festivals of singings and dances in honor of Ningguanwa, one of his mythical ancestors. The most important holiday of the Jingpo.

On lunar January 25. Holiday of the Wedding of the Rat. Not to bother to the rat in so special date, with the hope that the rats bother them either. In other parts they call him the day of the Rat, and do ceremonies to banish them, or in other places, the impotent people before his power, simply they beg them that they leave meal to them.

On lunar February 8. Holiday of the Swings bring in the Yi of the Mountains Ailiao. The young people moves to and fro in ratan swings between two mountains.

On lunar February 8. The holiday of the stairs of swords of the Lisu. It is a traditional holiday of the Lisu where there takes place the climb of posts of approximately 20 meters high, which steps are 30 swords.

On lunar February 8. Holiday of the Children shepherds of Moso de Yongning. The parents give money to the children who buy meat, vegetables and tidbits and rise to the mount to cook it. They spend the holiday in the mountain, up to the evening.

On lunar February 9. Meeting in Honor del Cerdo de los Naxi of Lijiang. In the temple Dongshan the surroundings people meet, and they ask the god of the pigs to protect his animals. All garments, of gala, singing, take his typical meals, etc.

On lunar February 13. Festival of Pips and Flutes of the Miao of the Southeast of Guizhou. Musical festival that lasts 3 days.

On lunar lunar February 16. Meeting of dances of the Bulang. For two days the people come to the temples with role umbrella, drums touch, it is danced. The activities are centred about the temple.

On lunar February 19. Meetings of Guanyín de los Yi of Weishan. Religious ceremonies from the dawn in the Guanyin temple in Weishan.

On lunar February 19. Holiday of the Lady of the Flowers between the Zhuang. The Lady of the Flowers is the goddess of the fertility and boss of children and women. The women adore him and him hens sacrifice, they combine between them.

On lunar February 20. Holiday of the Pure Clarity of the Pumi. Ceremonias under a willow (that removes the demons) in honor of the ancestors, offering wine, meat and other things.

On the lunar third of March. Holiday of Three of Three between Bai de Dali. Holiday topcoat of the songs. Very important for being the first occasion of the year in which the young people is. It lasts one week. It is the biggest holiday Bai, with a tradition of 1.300 years. Careers horses, contests of arcade, singing and dance.

On lunar April 5. Holiday of the Pure Clarity in the whole China. Holiday of the deceased, ancestors' graves are visited.

On lunar April 8. Birthday of the ox between the Tujia, Buyi and Zhuang. This day they wash to the oxen, which they rest of working.

On lunar April 8. Holiday of Eight of Four between Miao de Guizhou. The people of several villages meet. In festive ambience there are singings, dances, wushu, lanterns dragon, stunt, etc.

On lunar May 4. Holiday of the Happiness of the House of the Achang. He commemorates the hero who shot to the suns and gave the life to the people. Since earlier there were ten suns, and a hero shot 9 of 10 suns.

On lunar May 5. Festival of the Ships Dragon between the Han and the Miao. He commemorates the suicide of the poet Qu Yuan, who protests for the decline of his kingdom.

On lunar May 29. Festival Danu of Yao of Guangxi. The big holiday is Yao, they meet in the prairie his best clothes, to the sound of drums and cymbals, sing, dance, practise wushu, and his famous dance of the drum of bronze.

On lunar June 24. Holiday of the Torches of the Yi and other peoples. It is the Biggest holiday of the Yi. There are tens different myths on his origin.

On lunar June 24. Festival Kuzhazha de los Hani. It lasts from 3 until 5 days. There is dance of the Drum and of Fan, flutes, singings. With a torch they frighten the demons of the interior of the house.

On lunar June 25. Holiday of the Mother Earth between the Achang. In honor of Zhepana and Zhemima, creative and civilizing heroes.

On lunar August 15. Day of the tiger between the Gelao.

On lunar August 15. Festival of the Half Autumn in the whole China. Heredity of ancestral holidays of harvest.

On lunar September 1. Meetings in the street of the Achang. It is his most important holiday. For 10 days eaten in the street and dances in the night.

On lunar September 1. Holiday of the Master of the ground between Yi de Longjie (Weishan). For 30 days gifts are done to the Master of the ground in the villages

On lunar September 9. Holiday of the Ancestors of Yi de Kongshan. In the forest of the ancestors of every village, in honor to a couple that it causes to them, surviving only ones of a battle

On lunar September 9. In the whole China the Holiday of the Double is Nine. To avoid the bad luck, wine is drunk.

On lunar September 15. Festival of Lusheng de los Miao of Baibao. Hundreds of persons in the mount touch and dance to the sound of the lusheng, there are careers horses, you fight roosters. In other areas it is done in other dates.

On lunar October 11. Holiday of the King of the Oxen between Bai de Xishan. Gifts are realized to the oxen and especially to the king of the oxen.

On lunar October 11. Holiday of the Prince of the Grains of Bai de Xianshan. With gifts to the Prince of the Grains, who protects the Harvests of pests and calamities

On lunar October 16. Festival of Panwang of Yao. Yao of all parts meets, sings and dances in honor of ancestor, king Pan.

On lunar November 19. New year of Dong of Rongjiang. The most important holiday for them: bulls, it operates, singings, lusheng.

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