Spring Festival
This is the most important and joyous of Chinese traditional holidays, falling on the first on the first day of the Chinese lunar year.
　　In ancient China people celebrated the festival feasting and offering meat and grain, rewards for the work in the previous year, to family ancestors and spirits for their blessing. The holiday is now celebrated with such activities as putting up New Year door scrolls. Setting off firecrackers and fireworks displays, and eating glutinous- rive cakes.
　　On the festival's eve brightly lit colored lanterns are displayed throughout the country, and families get together for a sumptuous meal, called New year dinner or family-reunion dinner. The festival is a three-day national holiday.

The Moon Festival
The Moon Festival is considered the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month.
　　The ancients believed that as the moon was at its brightest and roundest on this day, it was the best day of the year to enjoy the moon's beauty.
　　The festival comes at t time when the air is cool and crisp and grain crops and fruits are ripening, so people celebrate it in happy anticipation of being richly rewarded for their work in the fields.
　　Moon cakes are eaten on the festival. The custom began over a thousand years ago in the Song Dynasty. The first recipes for making moon cakes were very simple; later more and better varieties of the cakes were developed. Today they vary from place to place all over China in taste and preparation.

The Lantern Festival
The Lantern Festival is on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
　　This festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, began more than a thousand years ago in the early Tang Dynasty. Since the Song Dynasty people have on this day eaten a special food, called floating balls, made of glutinous rice flour with various fillings and boiled in water. As Yuanxiao is still another name for this festive day, the balls have also come to be called yuan xiao.
　　Among Chinese traditional holidays the Lantern Festival is a day to have fun. During the week before lanterns are displayed in every house. These lanterns, in beautiful colors and all kinds of shapes, show off the wonderful skill of the craftsmen who make them.

The Dragon Boat Festival
The Dragon Boat Festival is on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month
　　This festival honors the memory of Qu Yuan (a. 340-278B.C.), poet and high-ranking official of the State of Chu of the Warring States Period. Frustrated in his effort to reform the ducal state politically and unable to prevent it from perishing, he drowned himself on the fifth day of the fifth month in the River Miluo when Chu was overrun by the state of Qin. In this day people eat Zongzi (glutinous rice wrapped in reeds) and hold dragon-boat races.