SOURCE · DESIGN WORKFLOW
Traditional Chinese Festivals
Five source-aware festival guides connecting calendar rules, living practices, museum objects, traditional colors, and modern design workflows.
01 · CHRONOLOGY
Five festivals, read through color
Browse the 2026 sequence or filter by season. Every record separates sourced cultural context from modern editorial color decisions.
Spring Festival
Spring Festival
Spring Festival centres on the first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar, while its preparations and celebrations extend across a longer new-year period. Family reunion, renewal, greetings, ancestor …
2026 · February 17, 2026 ↗
Qingming Festival
Qingming Festival
Qingming is both an astronomically defined solar term and a festival carrying practices of remembrance, tomb sweeping and spring outings. Unlike festivals fixed to a lunar month and day, its exact annual instan…
2026 · April 5, 2026 ↗
Dragon Boat Festival
Dragon Boat Festival
Dragon Boat Festival falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar and is a layered early-summer festival. Dragon-boat racing, zongzi, aromatic plants, sachets and multicoloured cords vary b…
2026 · June 19, 2026 ↗
Mid-Autumn Festival
Mid-Autumn Festival
Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the Chinese calendar and gathers layered practices around the moon, harvest, reunion and memories of home. Moon viewing, family gatherings, …
2026 · September 25, 2026 ↗
Double Ninth Festival
Double Ninth Festival
Double Ninth Festival falls on the ninth day of the ninth month of the Chinese calendar. Practices can include climbing and autumn viewing, cornel sachets, chrysanthemums, chrysanthemum wine and local ancestor …
2026 · October 18, 2026 ↗
How to read the evidence
02 · EVIDENCE NOTEDates, practices, objects, and motifs retain their institutional sources.
Museum images identify object pages, accessions, and reuse status.
HEX palettes are modern design interpretations—not official historical standards.