There are approximately eight major and several minor festivals in the Chinese lunar calendar.
The major festivals are celebrated all over the world wherever there are Chinese communities.
Date:First lunar month:
Festival:New Year
Celebration of the new lunar year
Date:Fifteenth day of the first lunar month:
Festival:Lantern festival
Purpose:A festival to search for spirits seen in the moonlight
Date:Fifteenth day of the second month:
Festival:Early spirit festival
Purpose:{ropitiation of the Spirits
Date:Third day of the third month:
Festival:Grave Cleaning Festival or Ching Ming
Purpose:Cleaning ancestral grave sites; remberance of family dead.
Date:Fifteenth day of the fifth month:
Festival:Dragon Boat Festival
Commemoration of the death of the Poet Chu Yuan
Date:First to fifteenth days of the seventh month:
Festival:Hungry ghost month
Purpose:Gates of hell release the spirits of the dead
Date:Seventh day of the seventh month:
Festival:Festival of Weaver Girl and the Cowherd
Purpose:Commemoration of the yearly reunion between the Weaver Girl and the Cowherd
Date:Fifteenth day of the eigth month:
Festival:Moon Festival
Purpose:Reunion of families and loved ones
Date:Ninth day of ninth month:
Festival:Chung Yang Festival
Purpose:Flying kites
