The Spring Festival
  The Spring Festival, the most jubilant and important festival in China, is observed by the majority Han people and a number of minorities also.
  Festivities begin on the 23th of the 12th lunar month, when people sweep their houses and courtyards, decorate the walls with New Year’s picyures and the windows with paper-cuts, and prepare food. Many people hang couplet inscriptions on either side of deers. The doors are pasted with vertical scrolls of characters on red paper whose inscription seek good luck or happiness.
  Festivities reach their peak on New Year’s Eve. Households are all brightly lit, and reunited family members have a big dinner. They extend good wishes to one another to bid farewell to the outgoing year, then they stay up late or all night. In the North dumplings are traditional fare for the family-reunion dinner. On New Year’s Eve firecrackers are ubiquitous.
  On New Year’s Day, People pay calls to relatives and friends or go to temple fairs, where stalls sell jewelry, toys, and food, while performers do lion dances and walk on stilts, and flower shows are held.
  The Spring Festival lasts till the 15th of the first lunar month, or the Lantern Festival.

White Festival
White Festival is the Spring Festival of the Mongolian people, which falls on the first day of the 1st lunar month, In the old days, the Mongolian people named the Spring Festival “White Festival”. Up to now some of them name the 1st lunar month “the white month”. White is the lucky color for them, because the milk is white and it is the staple food in Inner Mongolian.

Noroz Festival
The festival is celebrated by the Kazak ethnic minority group, held in the first lunar month, as an activity of the festival, girls on horseback will chase after boys also on horseback. If a girl catches up with a boy, she whips him, while he is not allowed to fight back. If the girl is love with the boy, she will just wave her in the air.

Tibetan Lantern Festival
This is one of the traditionally important festivals for the Tibetans. It is celebrated in two places on two different days. Johkang Temple, one of the major temples in Lhasa, holds Lanrern Festival celebrations on the 15th day of the 1st month by the Tibetan Calendar, while the Gumbum monastery, the largest lamasery in Qinghai Province, observes the festival on the 15th day of the 1st lunar month. During the festival, colorful and huge yak-butter sculptures of birds, animals, flowers, plants, mountains, rivers, pavilions, towers and Buddhist legends are shown. People crowd to see these artistic creations on this day.

The Lantern Festival
The Lantern Festival is on the 15 th of the first lunar month. That night there is a full moon, and every household is decorated with colorful lanterns and prepares yuanxiao, a kind of round dumpling made of glutious rice flour with sweet or salted fillings, which is boiled or fried. When night falls, people go into the street, where exquisite lanterns of diverse designs are hung. Some are pasted with riddles for the passers-by to solve.

Munao Song and Dance Festival
  This traditional event is very popular among Jingpo ethnicliving in compact communities around the southwestern border between Burma (Mynamar) and China. The Jingpo now number over 10000. Their most charming festival will held in Luxi city, capital of the Dehong Dai-Jingpo autonomous prefecture, which boasts wonderful scenery and subtropical climate. Jingpo people hold their song and dance celebrations on the 15th and 16th of the 1th lunar month to honor Ningguanwa (an ancestor of the Jingpo) and in hope of a peaceful and prosperous new tear.

Sword-Ladder
Falling on the 8th day of the 2th lunar month, it is a traditional festival of the Lisu ethnic minority group. The most fascinating activity during the festival is to climb up 20-metre high ladder inserted with over 30 pointed swords. Performers will have to climb bare-footed in a thrilling act.

The Eighth Day of the Second Month Festival
It is a festival of the Yi minority group in the Ailao Mountain area of Yunnan Province. The most thrilling item in celebration of the festival is performed by youngsters who sway on rettam from mountain to mountain.

Reed Pipe/Flute Festival
This is a traditional festival of the Miao people in the southeastern Guizhou. It falls on the 13th to the 16th of the 2nd lunar month.

Flower Lady Day
Flower Lady Day, on February 19 of the lunar year, is the festival of the Zhuang rthnic group. Flower Lady is the godess of fertiliti and the patron saint of the children.
As soon as the Zhuang woman has a child, she begins to worship the Flower Lady to protect her child.
The day is also the festival of the women. On that day, they get together and worship the Flower Lady by killing hens. If they are satisfied to each other, they bacome sworn sisters. And the eldest sister has the right to solve the contradiction and mediate the issues.

Firecrackers Festival of the Dongs
This is a traditional festival of the Dongs. It falls on the 3rd day of the 3rd lunar mongth.

Sanyuesan Ethnic Carnival
Hainan Sanyuesan Ethnic Carnival is the traditional festival of Li and Miao ethnic groups in Hainan Province, which falls on the 3rd day of the 3rd lunar month. People named it a “Courtship Day”.
The activities include ethnic and dances (e.g. bamboo pole dance), drinking the Unity Wine, etc.

The Third-Month Songfest/The Singing Carnival
The Third-Month Songfest is one of the music-loving Zhuangs’ most important festivals. It takes place on the third day of the third month of the Chinese linar calendar. The songfest are jeld regularly at certain places, the most popular at Liuzhou, Guilin and Nanning.

Sisters Festival
Of the many festival of the Miaos, the tearly Sisters Festival is most characteristic and romantic.
The festival falls on the 15th day of the 3rd lunar month (about mid-April) and lasts for three days.

The Pure Brightness Festival
Of all the traditional Chinese festival, the Pure Brightness Festival is most poetic. Some of the activities that traditional mark the occasion are paying respects to ancestors at the family graveyard and caring for the tombs to cherish the memory of the dead, and modern Chinese still visit tombs or go to mausoleums of revolutionary martyrs on the festival. Nature walks are also still a pupolar way to celebrate the occasion. Since the “Pure Brightness” marks the beginning of new growth and sunshine.

Ox King Festival
The Ox King Festival is traditionally practised by the Zhuangs in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the Tujias in Hunan Province, and the Buyeis in Guizhou Province. It falls on the 8 th day of the 4 th lunar month. On this day the peasants don't’s drive oxen to plow in the fields, but give the fine forage grass to oxen so as pay the respect to them. So it is also called “Ox God Festival”, or “Shepherd Boy Festival”.

Third-Month Fair/Street
The Third-Month Fair, a traditional festival of the Bai ethnic group in Dali, Yunnan Province, dates back 1300 years to the Tang Dtnasty. It lasts a week, from the 15 th to the 22 nd days of the third month by the Chinese lunar calendar. During the celebration, people of various ethnic group from Yunnan and the neighbouring provinces flock to Dali City to enjoy horse-racing, archery, singing and dangcing, and bartering.

The Eighth Day of the Forth Month Festival
It is a traditional festival on the lunar calendar for the Miao ethnic minority group. On the day, Miao people will gather at a fountain in Guiyang City, capital of Guizhou Province. Songs, dances, Wushu (martial arts) competition, dragon lantern playing and other activities, are held in celebration of the festival. Some dance and play reed pipes, and acrobatics are performed.

Water-Sprinking Festival
Every April, all the Dai people in Yunnan Province sing and dance to celebrate their traditional great day-the Water-Sprinking Festival, their New Year’s Day.
The Water-Sprinkling Festival has a very interesting origin. The legend tells that once there came a monster who turned this fertile piece of land into a hellish world where the earth was dry and barren. The monster’s seven daughters, however, hated their father for his vileness and decided to release the Dai people from pain and hunger by killing him.
One day in th sixth month of the Dai calendar, they tricked the monster into drinking so much that he became drunk. In his dizziness the monster said, “I won’t be harmed, unless I am strangled by my own hair”.
When the monster fell sound sleep, the girls immediately strangled their monster father with a hair picked from his head and beheaded him. But once it touched the head of the monster rolled on and burnt fiercely eveything that lay in its path.
The girls tried to splash water on the flaming head. The fire was finally put out after seven long years. In memory of these seven courageous girls, the Dai people began to celebrate the Water-Sprinkling Festival on the New Year’s Day, which was, and is, the most jubilant month in the Year. Even today, whoever visits the place is sure to be amazed by all the celebrations which are strongly a part of the Dai culture.

The Dragon Boat Festival
The fifth day of the fifth linar month is another important folk festival-the Dragon Boat Festival . Dragon boat races held on the occasion originated as a religious practice, to offer sacrifices to the river god, but now are purely recreational. The death of Qu Yuan (340-278 B.C), a great poet of the Chu Kingdom during the Warring States Period, is also commemorated on the festival. On that day, people hold dragonboat races on the lakes and rivers, and eat zongzi (pyramid-shaped made of glutious rice.)
The Dragon boat race is a lively but also serious sport. The boats are narrow and long, and each bow is decorated with a carved dragon’s bead with fine whiskers and a pair of bright piercing eyes. The stern has a dragon’s tail. A brightly dressed man acts as coxswain. As the starts, spectators shout at the top of their voices, while a band beats gongs and drums.

Worshipping Supo(Mongolian Festival)
This is a communal offfering of sacrifices to God. During this event people usually hold such activities as wrestling, horse racing, and archery.
The date for this is the 13th day of May in the lunar calendar. On this occasion, people chiefly pray to God to give them rain in other that grass will grow and the sheep will be well-nourished and consequently the people will be wealthy.

Danu Festival
The Danu Festival, a traditional festival of the Yao people, falls on the 29th day of the 5th month by the lunar calendar.
On that day people dressed in their holiday best go to call on friends and relatives to exchange greetings with them. Many others, flock where a varied entertainment programme is to be given. Decked out with coloured bunting, the fairgrounds are alive with the fanfare of cymbals and drums and the hubbub of the crowd. Here you can see people doing “cross-singing”, dancing, playing the suona (Chinese clarinet) and performing wushu (traditional Chinese martial arts). The programme is highlighted by the Bronze Drum Dance, which is both an entertainment and a sort of competition.

Six-Month “Drying Clothes” Festival
An old legend says that on the 6th day of the 6th lunar month the dragon King came out from his underwater palace to dry his scales, which the people dried their clothes, government officials, their court garments, scholars their books, and monks their scriptures, It is said that things dried on this day can resist rot and insects.
This festival originated in the Northern Song Dynasty with a history of around 1000 years.
The Sixth-Month Festival is now observed mainly in the countryside. In South China, women like to wash their hair on that day. In some places people also bathe their pet cats and dogs. But drying things under the sun is not limited to this day. In southern Fujian and Taiwan people dry things on the Dragon Boat Festival, which falls on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month.

Hua’er Song Competiton
Hua’er Song Competition is popular in Gansu and Qinghai provinces, and Ningxia Hui Atonomous Region. Hua’er is a kind mountain songs. On June 6 of the lunar year the people of the Tu, the Hui, the Dongxiang, the Sala and the Bao'an ethnic groups will get together to hold the Hua'er Song Competition.
Here is a legend about it. It is said that long, long ago, there were 5 sisters of the Tu ethnic group. Each of them was graceful and could sing beautifully. So long as they began to sing, many youngsters came to sing with the sisters from all directions. At dawn of the 4 th day, five colourful clouds came from the east and carried the 5 sisters away. The local people said that the sisters had become the Hua'er Fairy Maidens. In their memory the people hold the Hua'er Song Competition on June 6 of each lunar year. The duration is usually 5 days.

Kuzhazha Festival
Kuzhazha means "Pray for a good havest" in Hani language. The people hold it for 3 to 5 days around June 24 after the transplanting.
During the festival, they have a swing, perform the Drum Dance and Fan Dance, play the flute and stringed instrument, and sing songs. Some youngsters take the oportunity to be in love. The villagers begin to slaughter pigs and cows., and prepare the rice wine and the glutinous rice cake.
According to the traditional custom, they enter the house with a torch and walk around in the room in the evening and burn the torch outside the room. They think that can get rid of the demons. In the afternoon of the last day, they have a dinner together.

Torch Day/Festival
This is the major festival of the Yi and Bai people who live in certain areas of Yunnan and Sichuan provinces. The festival stars on the 24 th of the sixth month by the lunar calendar and lasts for one to three days. In the evening, men and women, old and young alike, light torch and survey their farmlands, drink to their happy reunion and make merry with song and dance.

Sholdon (Tibetan Opera) Festival
This is a traditional festival of the Tibetan people. It falls on the first day of the 7th month by Tibetan calendar. Tibetan operas be shown in Lhasa. Now modern drama, ballad singing, and story telling, in addition to art and photo exhibitions and even academic meetings, add joy to this occasion. In some counties they have horse races, and lots of buying, selling and entertaining. Another activity is sunning the Buddha.

Mongolian Nadam Fair /Festival
It has long been a tradition in Inner Mongolian to have a fair called Nadam, a grand gathering for entertaining sports of the Mongolian people, which literally means recreation. It is generally held in July or August. (In the past it took place on the 15th of the fourth lunar month.)
The herdsmen take part in the Mongolian---style tournaments, such as horse race, archery, wrestling, horsemanship. Mongolian songs and dance are also performed during the fair.

Ongkor/Harvest/Fruit---Awaiting Festival
During this festival. Which falls in August every year, the Tibetans hold grand celebrations in prediction of a good harvest. At this time ethnic songs and dances and traditional Tibetan plays are performed widely and people participate in horse racing and bartering.

The Mid-Autumn Festival (Moon---Cake Festival)
The 15th day of the eighth lunar month is the Mid---Autumn Festival, since ancient Chinese legends are full of tales about ceremony to offer sacrifices to the moon was over, family members grank "reunion wine" and had an "admiration-of-the-moon dinner," then shared the offerings called moon or "family reunion" cakes, which for centuries have been a festival food loved by the Chinese people.

Harvest Festival
Harvest Festival is the most jubilant festival celebrated by Gaoshan people, which falls in early lunar August for ten days. If in a bumper year, it will last to the end of August.
During the festival some of the activities are paying respcts to ancestors and praying for the harvest in the coming tear.

Bathing Festival
This is a Tibetan festival which falls on early September. It lasts seven days.

The Duan Festival
Roughly the equivalent of the Hans' Spring Festival, the Duan Festival is the major traditional festival celebrated by the Shui people. It is observed in January according to the Shui's own lunar calendar (around September).
This festival is intended to ring out the old tear and usher in the new, to celebrate the bring-in of the harvest and to pray for good luck in the coming year.

The Double-Ninth Festival
Ancient Chinese took the cardinal number nine as a yang or positive number. The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is observed as the Double-Ninth Festival, a date on which the late-autumn sky is clear and the air crisp, an ideal time for people to make climbs to scenic areas. According to an ancient tradition, climbing high up drives away evil. On the festival, people used to put up high platforms on which they grank chrysanthemum wine or admired chrysanthemums in blossom, and many poems have been inspired by this practice. It is an occasion on which to remember beloved ones who are far away. The custom of climbing heights and admiring chrysanthemums continues to this day in many parts of China.

The Panwang Festival
On the 16th day of the 10th lunar month is the Panwang (Ancestor Pan) Festival of the Yao eyjnic group. On that day the Yao people from the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Hunan, Yunnan, Guangdong and Guizhou provinces gather together in the Guangxi's Jinxiu Yao Autonomous County to hold the Panwang dance to honor the ancestor Panwang. At the occassion singing and dancing are performed. By custom, unmarried young people take this chance to search for a spouse.

Id al-Fitr/Lesser Bairam/the Festival of Fast-breaking
Bairam is a traditional festival of the Hui people. It falls on some day in Sptember by the Hui calendar.

Corban (Animal Slaughtering) Festival
This falls on December 10 by the solar calendar (Hui). It is one of the three largest Islamic festival and also an important red-letter day for Chinese Moslems, who will go to pray at mosques on the day and every household will slaughter sheep, cattle or camel in celebration. Uygur and Kazak ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region observe the festival with songs, horse-racing, wrestling and other activities.

Tibet's New Year Festival
The Tibetan Lunar Calendar New Year is a traditional holiday for the Tibetan ethnic group. The Tibetans begin making preparations at the start of their lunar December. Families put barley seeeds in water to make seedlings, which are then placed before bronze statues of Buddha. The offering is in hopes of a harvest in the new year. It is also the time to make butter, barley flour and qingke wine from highland barley. One speciality of the Tibetan New Year is Kasai, which resembles the fried dough twists found elsewhere in China.
The day before the New Year, families do a thorough house cleaning. On New Year's even, the family assembles arround the table according to age, and everyone drinks qingke wine.
Holiday greetings abound in the morning. Everyone takes up pinches of grain between two fingers and throws it in the air as an offering to all living creatures. Then a bit of grain is put into the mouth.The last ritual involves greeting of the most respected man with the phrase "Wish you good health, everlasting happiness and many happy returns of the day."
In Lhasa and other Cities, Tibetans are usually given a seven-day holiday for the New Year. In other areas of Tibet, there are festival activities such as wrestling, tug-of-war, dancing around a bonfire, spear-throwing and arrow-shooting on horseback.