基本介绍
　　中国的传统节日形式多样，内容丰富，是我们中华民族悠久的历史文化的一个组成部分。
　　节日的起源和发展是一个逐渐形成，潜移默化地完善，慢慢渗入到社会生活的过程。它和社会的发展一样，是人类社会发展到一定阶段的产物，我国古代的这些节日，大多和天文、历法、数学，以及后来划分出的节气有关，这从文献上至少可以追溯到《夏小正》、《尚书》，到战国时期，一年中划分的二十四个节气，已基本齐备，后来的传统节日，全都和这些节气密切相关。
　　节气为节日的产生提供了前题条件，大部分节日在先秦时期，就已初露端倪， 但是其中风俗内容的丰富与流行，还需要有一个漫长的发展过程。最早的风俗活动是和原始崇拜、迷信禁忌有关；神话传奇故事为节日平添了几分浪漫色彩；还有宗教对节日的冲击与影响；一些历史人物被赋予永恒的纪念渗入节日，所有这些，都融合凝聚节日的内容里，使中国的节日有了深沉的历史感。
　　到汉代，我国主要的传统节日都已经定型，人们常说这些节日起源于汉代，汉代是中国统一后第一个大发展时期，政治经济稳定，科学文化有了很大发展，这对节日的最后形成提供了良好的社会条件。
　　节日发展到唐代，已经从原始祭拜、禁忌神秘的气氛中解放出来，转为娱乐礼仪型，成为真正的佳节良辰。从此，节日变得欢快喜庆，丰富多采，许多体育、享乐的活动内容出现，并很快成为一种时尚流行开来，这些风俗一直延续发展，经久不衰。
　　值得一提的是，在漫长的历史长河中，历代的文人雅士、诗人墨客，为一个个节日谱写了许多千古名篇，这些诗文脍炙人口，被广为传颂，使我国的传统节日渗透出深厚的文化底蕴，精彩浪漫，大俗中透着大雅，雅俗共赏。
　　中国的节日有很强的内聚力和广泛的包容性，一到过节，举国同庆，这与我们民族源远流长的悠久历史一脉相承，是一份宝贵的精神文化遗产。
　　传统节日的形成过程，是一个民族或国家的历史文化长期积淀凝聚的过程，下面列举的这些节日，无一不是从远古发展过来的，从这些流传至今的节日风俗里，还可以清晰地看到古代人民社会生活的精彩画面。

关于中国传统节日的介绍
Basic introduction
Chinese traditional festivals in various forms, rich in content, are our long history of the Chinese nation as an integral part of culture.
Holiday of the origin and development is a gradual formation, exerts a subtle sound, and slowly infiltrated into the process of social life. It and social development, as are the development of human society to a certain stage of 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 on this from the literature can be traced back to "Summer is small" , "Book of History" to the Warring States period, the year the division of 24 solar terms, has been basically in place, then the traditional holiday, all closely related to these Terms.
Terms for the selection of holiday, subject to the conditions provided, the majority of holiday at the pre-Qin period, had been the horizon, but one of the custom content-rich and popular, but also has required a long process of development. Activity are the earliest and original customs of worship, superstition, taboo-related; myth legend to add a few holiday romantic; have on the religious holiday of the impact and effects; some historical figures have been given the timeless holiday Memory infiltration, all of which are integration of the content of cohesion holiday, the holiday so that the Chinese have a deep sense of history.
To the Han Dynasty, China's major traditional festivals have been stereotyped, it is often said these holiday originated in the Han Dynasty, the Han are China's reunification after the first major period of development, political and economic stability, science and culture has developed greatly, and this holiday The final form provides a good social conditions.
Holiday developed to the Tang Dynasty, from the original worship, taboos mysterious atmosphere of liberation, to entertainment etiquette type, become really good time of the festive season. Since then, the holiday has become a lively celebration, colorful, many sports, pleasure-seeking activities of the contents of the scene and quickly became a popular fashion, these customs has continued the development of enduring.
It is worth mentioning that, in the long course of history, the ancient literati, poets of letters for a holiday to write a lot of famous through the ages, the poetry of well-known and was widely famous, so that our country's traditional holiday of deep infiltration culture, wonderful romance, big vulgar shows 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 our nation's long history of same, is a valuable spiritual heritage.
The formation of traditional festivals, are a nation or country's history and culture of long-term accumulation of condensation process, the following list of those festivals, all are coming from the ancient development, so far from these popular holiday custom, but also can clearly see the the people of ancient social life and wonderful pictures.

中西方节日差异
Will Christmas Replace the Spring Festival
Christmas arouses increasing attention year by year in China. Christmas cards become popular with students. People hold Christmas parties and exchange Christmas girts. A lot or TV and radio programs about Christmas are on. Meanwhile the Spring Festival is less appealing to youngsters. Thus some people wonder whether Christmas will replace the Spring Festival.
This worry is fairly unnecessaryg Why Ⅱ One reason lies that Christmas only affects Christians, college students and joint-venture (workers. Another reason is that Christmas is mostly celebrated in cities. Few people in countryside show extreme interest in this exotic festival. By contrast, the Spring Festival is the most influential traditional festival in every family.
I think, it is natural that with increasing exchanges with the West, a lot of Western holidays have been gradually introduced into China. For us Chinese we should never neglect or even discard our own traditional festivals. For centuries Chinese have observed this traditional holiday to welcome the beginning of a new year. And we will treasure the Spring Festival forever.