What festivals are there in February of the lunar calendar in 2018?

What festivals are there in February of the lunar calendar in 2018?
Winter has gone and spring has come. February in the lunar calendar has already entered spring. Flowers are blooming, birds are singing, all things are beginning to wake up, and there is a vibrant scene everywhere. Do you know what festivals there are in February of the lunar calendar in 2018? The Fortune Teller website provides you with more content related to the second month of the lunar calendar in 2018. You are welcome to learn more about it! The second day of the second month in the lunar calendar is the Dragon Head Festival, also known as the Agricultural Festival and the Green Dragon Festival. The Records of the Sui Shi of Yanjing records that "February 2 is the Zhonghe Festival in ancient times. Today, people call it the Dragon Raising its Head. On this day, people who eat cakes call them dragon scale cakes, and people who eat noodles call them dragon whisker noodles. Girls stop sewing for fear of hurting the dragon's eyes."
The Spring Equinox is the fourth day of the second lunar month of 2018 and Tuesday, March 20, 2018 in the Gregorian calendar. The Spring Equinox is the fourth solar term in the 24 solar terms. It falls on around March 20 of the Gregorian calendar each year, when the sun's ecliptic longitude is 0 degrees. During the spring equinox, there is no polar day or polar night phenomenon around the world. After the vernal equinox, polar day begins to appear near the North Pole and its range gradually expands; polar day ends and polar night begins near the South Pole and its range gradually expands.
April Fools ' Day is on February 16, 2018 in the lunar calendar, which is Sunday, April 1, 2018 in the Gregorian calendar. April Fools' Day is on April 1 in the Gregorian calendar. It is a folk festival that has become popular in the West since the 19th century and has not been recognized as a legal holiday by any country. On this day, people deceive and play tricks on each other in various ways, and often reveal the joke at the end and declare the person being tricked a "fool".
Qingming Festival is February 20, 2018 in the lunar calendar and Thursday, April 5, 2018 in the Gregorian calendar. Qingming was originally just the name of a solar term. It became a festival to commemorate ancestors and is related to the Cold Food Festival. Duke Wen of Jin designated the day after Cold Food Festival as Qingming Festival. The traditional Qingming Festival of the Chinese nation began around the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years.
International Festivals:
March 17 (the first day of the second lunar month): International Maritime Day
March 17 (the first day of the second lunar month): Chinese National Medical Day (1929)
March 18 (the second day of the second lunar month): National Science and Technology Talent Activity Day
March 21 (the fifth day of the second lunar month): World Forestry Day (World Forest Day) (1972)
March 21 (the fifth day of the second lunar month): International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (1966)
March 21 (the fifth day of the second lunar month): World Children's Song Day (1976)
March 21 (the fifth day of the second lunar month): World Sleep Day (2001)
March 22 (the sixth day of the second lunar month): World Water Day (1993)
March 23 (the seventh day of the second lunar month): World Meteorological Day (1960)
March 24 (eighth day of the second lunar month): World Tuberculosis Day (1996)
April 1 (February 16 of the lunar calendar): International April Fools' Day
April 2 (the 17th day of the second lunar month): International Children's Book Day, World Autism Awareness Day
April 7 (the 22nd day of the second lunar month): World Health Day (1950)
April 15 (February 30 of the lunar calendar): Africa Freedom Day

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