(Per year is the first solar term "spring", people often called "playing the spring." Why do you call it? There is a custom in our history, the beginning of spring every year on this day, people wear festive clothing, carrying one end of the paper paste large cattle, took to the streets singing and dancing after the procession, carried on the papered cattle county government's courtroom, the magistrate himself Zhibian hit three times, meaning: born in spring, and quickly cultivated a result, people The beginning of spring is called "playing the spring.")
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New Year's Day
January ("New Year's" first man from Southern Liang 萧子云 "referral Ya" poem: "Four Air New Year's Day, the beginning of the current Longevity" element is the beginning, the first meaning; Dan is knowing the word, above the "day", said Sun. , following "a" represents the horizon the sun rising from the horizon, symbolizing the beginning of the day. New Year's Day, the first day of the year. Gregorian calendar on January 1, is the world recognized New Year's Day. China's ancient New Year's Day, the date is not consistent. If the Xia Dynasty is the first day; Shang Dynasty started in December; Zhou started in November, and so on. September 27, 1949, the Chinese People's Political Association, the first plenary session by using the "Christian era law" will Gregorian calendar on January 1 as New Year's Day. )
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Lantern festival
Lunar New Year (Also known as "Spring Festival", namely the 15th lunar month. Was of an important traditional festival in the ancient books, this day is called "Spring", the night called "Dollar Night", "Lantern Festival" or "Lantern." Lantern of the name has been in use ever since. due Lantern Zhang lights, watching lights customs, folk and practice known as "Festival of Lights." in addition to eating Lantern, stilts, riddles and other customs. ancient Chinese calendar and phase are closely related, 15th of each month, people ushered in the first month of the year is full of night, the day rightly be regarded as auspicious as early as the Han Dynasty, the fifteenth day has been used as sacrificial Heaven, pray for a blessed day later fifteenth ancients called "Lantern", July 15 called "Ghost", October 15 called "roadway." no later than early in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, ternary is ceremony to be held the day of ternary, the Lantern most attention. Later, Ghost, roadway celebration gradually abolished, and the Lantern enduring.)
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Wish Day
February 5 (Also known as Wish Day Festival desire.) Originated in the early 21st century, and various other traditional festivals, are the product of a new era of rapid development of the formation. Desire for the annual festival on February 5 solar calendar, the day will have a lot of young people to write their wishes on paper and hang on the tree, hanging the higher, the more likely it is to achieve the desire
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Women's Day
March 8 At the beginning of 1922 to commemorate the thirty-eight. Chinese women's first mass memorial thirty-eight activities are held in Guangzhou in 1924. December 1949, the provisions of the Central People's Government Administration Council each year as Women's Day on March 8. From the United Nations began celebrating International Women's Year in 1975, International Women's Day, confirmed ordinary women's equal participation in society to fight tradition. In 1977 the General Assembly adopted a resolution inviting each country according to its own history and national traditions and customs, one day of the year _select_ed for the United Nations Women's Rights and World Peace Day. For the United Nations, International Women's Day as March 8.
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植树节
Chinese Arbor Day is scheduled for March 12. In February 1979, the fifth session of the sixth meeting of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress decided that the annual March 12 as the Chinese Arbor Day. In December 1981, the Fifth National People's Congress of the Fourth Session adopted a resolution on the nationwide voluntary tree-planting campaign, the following year, the State Council promulgated the specific measures for implementation of the nationwide voluntary tree-planting campaign. Arbor Day around all over the country should focus on afforestation activities.
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Cold Food
The day before the festival (Old customs in a festival, the day before the festival [say two days before Qingming] Spring and Autumn when the child has been banished from years of Jinguo Gong Chong returning throne [ie Gong], raised him with the death of his courtiers, except leakage out referral push. referral push so reclusive mother carrying Mianshan [today Jiexiu County, southeast]. Gong To add raised him after that, look to Mianshan, find him and tried to force him to burn the mountain out, but no referral push stick, the result both mother and son were burned to death. Gong So every year on this day to stop people prescribed fire cooking, expressed condolences to Hanshi Later they formed this day in Cold Food Cold Food, grave customs .)
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清明节
(Ching Ming Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, the most important festival of sacrifice, is the day of worship and grave grave grave commonly known as an activity of the worship of the dead. Han and some ethnic minorities mostly in the Ching Ming Festival under the old customs, grave, people have to carry food and wine fruit, paper money and other items to the cemetery to offer food in the family tomb, then paper money incineration grave training on new soil, the verdant branches off a few of them _insert_ed in the grave, and then kowtow salute worship, and finally eat the food and wine home. Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu's poem "Qingming": "Tomb Sweeping Festival rain have, pedestrians Deep Sorrow. restaurant where I ask? cowboy Yao Zhi Heng Fa Chuen." wrote Qingming the special atmosphere of the festival.
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May Day
May 1 After the founding of New China, the Central People's Government Administration Council in December 1949 to May 1 Labor Day statutory, Day national holiday. Every year on this day, celebrating the country, people put on festive costumes, happily gathered in parks, theaters, squares, or participate in various sports and entertainment activities to celebrate the rally, and in recognition of outstanding contributions to the workers.
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Dragon boat festival
Fifth lunar month (First lunar May 25 as "Dragon Boat Festival". "Dragon" whose real name is "end five", meaning the end is the beginning. "Five" and "afternoon" mutually homophonic and GM. Was of an ancient festival. Earliest ancient China patriotic poet Qu Yuan was exiled after calumny, Chu witnessed growing political corruption, and may not achieve their political ideals, unable to save the country from peril, so since the vote Miluo River to martyred. Thereafter, in order not to make people eat their fish body, with glutinous rice and flour have molded into various shapes pancake into the river, which would later become the Dragon Boat Festival to eat dumplings, fried cake source of this custom has spread abroad.)
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Children's Day
June People given each year on June 1 International Children's Day. December 23, 1949 the provisions of the Central People's Government Administration Council, "61" International Children's Day for the Chinese Children's Festival, and announced the abolition of April 4 as Children's Kuomintang government regulations implemented since 1931. China's first Children's Day is a twenty-one year (1932) of 4 April. In twenty years (1931), "Shanghai China Salesian Society" initiated proposals for the Government provides for an annual April 4 as Children's Day. Subsequently, the Ministry of Education has developed a way to commemorate Children's Day, and in the following year's April 4th implemented.
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Founding date of the Communist Party of China
July
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Chinese People's Anti-Japanese War anniversary
July 7
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七夕情人节
"Tanabata" (the night of July 7th lunar folklore in China the Cowherd and this night in the Milky Way Magpie Bridge meet, after the women in this night the Qi Qiao customs needle to the Vega so-called Qi Qiao, in the moonlight against the Vega with colored thread needle through seven different sizes of the eye of a needle, even if it is "clever". Nongyan on July seventh Clear shining, grinding sickle cut rice is ready for harvesting rice grinding sickle .)
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Respect for the Aged Day
Lunar July 13
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Chinese Army Day
August
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Mid-autumn festival
Lunar August 15 (Lunar August 15, the day just fall in the middle, so called "Autumn." In the evening, the full moon cinnamon, old customs that people see it as a symbol of reunion, to prepare a variety of fruits and cooked food, is the full moon festival. Mid-Autumn Festival to eat moon cake also, according to legend, the Yuan Dynasty, the majority of the people to overthrow the tyrannical rule of the Yuan Dynasty, the riots date written on slips of paper, on the moon cake stuffing yard to pass each other secrets , called on everyone in the August 15 uprising. finally broke on this day a national scale peasant uprising overthrew the Yuan Dynasty ruled downright decadent. Thereafter, Mid-Autumn Festival to eat moon cake custom of the more widely spread.)
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Chung Yeung Festival
Ninth lunar month (Lunar September ninth. Ancient China to nine as the sun, September 9 is 阴月阳 day, hence the name "Double Ninth Festival." Ru'nan shadow Legend Huan Han people, the long room to hear the charges, he said, in September 29 Ru'nan there will be great tribulation, quickly called on behalf of the family sewing small, built dogwood, tied arms, boarded the mountain, drink chrysanthemum wine, in order to evacuate. Huan Jing family hiking day, go home at night, and sure enough at home chickens, dogs, sheep all die. Since then, folk have done in the Chung Yeung Festival Cornel generations, drink chrysanthemum wine, held in the temple, climbing and other customs. due to "high" and "cake" sound the same, so there eating Double Ninth Festival "Double Ninth cake" customs of the Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei, the "September 9 Brothers in Shandong," a poem:. "alone in a foreign land as a stranger, every festival pro Afar brothers climb the mountain, wear cornel less. one man. "recorded at the time of customs. As the poem sincere feelings, since popular.)
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Teacher's Day
September 10
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National Day
October (October 1, 1949, is the anniversary of founding of New China. Should be noted here that, in many people's minds, held hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians to participate in the People's Tiananmen Square in Beijing in October 1949 l Day Republic of the founding ceremony. Actually, this impression in people's minds is not accurate, because the ceremony held October 1, 1949 in Tiananmen Square is Central People's Government established the festival, rather than the founding ceremony. Indeed, China People's Republic of "founding", that the establishment of the People's Republic, as early as the year before October 1 has announced a week ago. was not called "founding ceremony," but called the "founding ceremony." Time is September 21, 1949 On this day, his opening remarks preparatory Chinese People's Political Director Mao caused the first session of the CPPCC's already declared the birth of New China.)
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Winter Solstice
Lunar November 22 (In ancient China attaches great importance to the winter solstice, winter solstice is treated as a big festival, had "as big as the winter solstice in" argument, but also to celebrate the winter solstice customs "Han", said:. "Yang from the winter solstice, the king Road length, so HE "People think: after the winter solstice, the day long every day, yang pick is the beginning of a cycle of solar terms, is a lucky day, you should celebrate". "recorded there," Jin Shu Wei, Jin and the winter solstice Bailiao who praised by all nations and Asia in Zhengdan ...... its instrument. "explained the importance of the winter solstice in ancient days. Now, in some places as a winter solstice festival Hai Ba came. There are sheep in northern winter solstice, eating dumplings, wonton eating customs, on this day the southern winter solstice eat rice dumpling and long faces habits. In each region there is the winter solstice day heaven worship practices. )
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Laba
Eighth day of the twelfth lunar month (December worship ancient "gods" called December, so called the twelfth lunar month. Eighth day of the twelfth lunar day, the old customs drink porridge. Legend Sakyamuni Buddha attained on this day, so whenever this monastery Buddha porridge one day after a popular folk bent along, until today.)
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除夕
New Year's Eve of the Lunar New Year in December
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春节
(Lunar-year-old first, commonly known as "bumper year" the origins of the Chinese New Year, there are about four thousand years of history in our country, it is our most lively folk, a traditional festival of the most solemn ancient New Year the Lunar solar terms in twenty-four of the "spring" season, Northern and Southern before the Spring Festival change in the year end of the year, and refers to throughout the spring, when the spring update Vientiane, people put it as a new year start to the early years of the Republic after the Revolution, changed after Lunar Gregorian calendar [Gregorian], they put first month must for Chinese New Year until September 27, 1949, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), was officially the first day of the first lunar month of the New Year as the "Spring Festival", and thus there are still many people called the Spring Festival Chinese New Year.)
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Traditional holiday table
Section 11, the summer solstice 14, July 15 Ghost Festival, also known as Halloween, Obon. Festival event added: June 13 (May Chuqi) Fuxi's Birthday: May 13 (the birthday of the legendary Dragon) Shennong Festival: April 26 Yellow Emperor's Birthday: two days of February Zhuge Liang's Birthday: July 23 Yue Fei's birthday: February 15 I's birthday: February 15 Sakyamuni Buddha's Birthday: April eighth day Qu Yuan's birthday: first month twenty-one. Sixth Patriarch's birthday: day of the second month Appendix 1: Twelfth lunar month 23 / twenty-four Jizao The twelfth lunar month 27 / twenty-eight bath The twelfth lunar month 29 small New Year's Eve The first month two days of the festival of the God of Wealth Flood the temple burned goalkeeper paper / millet birthday / year toward Commonly known as breaking five folk one can break many taboos before breaking five over this day in the first month First month of the seventh day man-days / pancakes / to eat the Qibao soup known as "man wins Festival", people celebrate the festival, "Population Day", "people on the 7th Also known as the "Festival Star Valley day / Shunxing day of the stars of the lower bound of the eighth day the first month, then the star" The first month of the tenth birthday "stone, stone fixed ten fixed" mice married woman "Six months Festival June 15, June 14, June 6, June 25, also the first day of the month June of that! Guanyin Festival: February 19, June 19, September 19, November 19, Guanyin Bodhisattva belief has been beyond the scope of Buddhism, he is a kind of culture, a desire! The annual Lunar 23 March Mazu's Birthday! On the first day of the seventh month, commonly known as open interest-door Fill positions Festival: Han Chinese traditional folk ritual festival, the first lunar month on the 25th. Also known as Tim positions Festival, the day positions Festival is the festival of the sacrifice positions God.
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Chinese traditional festival in bilingual
中国传统节日中英对照
1.new year's day New Year's Day (January 1) 2.spring festival; chinese new year's day Spring Festival (Lunar New Year January 1) 3.lantern festival Lantern Festival (Lunar New Year, January 15) 4.international working women's day International Women's Day (March 8) 5.arbor day Arbor Day (March 12) 6.postal day postal Day (March 20) 7.world meteorology day World Meteorological Day (March 23) 8.ching ming festival; tomb-sweeping festival Ching Ming Festival (April 5) 9.international labour day International Labor Day (May 1) 10.chinese youth day Youth Day (May 4) 11.nurses' festival Nurses Day (May 12) 12.dragon boat festival Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth lunar month) 13.international children's day International Children's Day (June 1 May) 14.the party's brithday Chinese Communist Party Establishment Day (July 1) 15.the army's day Army Day (August 1) 16.mid-autumn (moon) festival Mid-Autumn Festival (Lunar August 15) 17.teacher 's day Teacher's Day (September 10) 18.double-ninth day the Chung Yeung Festival (9th lunar month) 19.national day National Day (October 1) 20.new year's eve New Year's Eve (Lunar Dec. 30) Bilingual Chinese common traditional activities New Year celebrate the spring festival Couplets spring festival couplets Paper-cut paper-cuts New Year pictures new year paintings Buy stocking do shopping for the spring festival; do spring festival shopping Toast propose a toast Lantern lantern Fireworks fireworks Firecrackers firecrackers (people scare off evil spirits and ghosts with the loud pop.) Red envelope red packets The (cash wrapped up in red paper, symbolize fortune and wealth in the coming year.) Lion lion dance (the lion is believed to be able to dispel evil and bring good luck.) Dragon and dragon dance (to expect good weather and good harvests) Opera traditional opera Vaudeville variety show Riddles riddles written on lanterns Lantern Festival exhibit of lanterns Celebrating New Year's Eve staying-up New Year's pay new year's call; give new year's greetings; pay new year's visit Taboo taboo Go unlucky to get rid of the ill-fortune Ancestors were offer sacrifices to one's ancestors New Year's money gift money; on Air + Hotel - given to children as a lunar new year gift culture note; in the old days, new year's money was given in the form of one hundred copper coins strung together on a red string and symbolized the hope that one would live to be a hundred years old. today, money is placed inside red envelopes in denominations considered auspicious and given to represent luck and wealth In the old bid farewell to the old year Sweep the room spring cleaning; general house-cleaning Rice cake nian-gao; rise cake; new year cake Reunion dinner family reunion dinner Dinner the dinner on new year's eve Dumplings jiao-zi/dumpling; chinese meat ravioli Dumplings rice dumpling
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Chinese New Year
Lunar New Year's Day (Lunar-year-old first, commonly known as "bumper year" the origins of the Chinese New Year, there are about four thousand years of history in our country, it is our most lively folk, a traditional festival of the most solemn ancient New Year the Lunar solar terms in twenty-four of the "spring" season, Northern and Southern before the Spring Festival change in the year end of the year, and refers to throughout the spring, when the spring update Vientiane, people put it as a new year start to the early years of the Republic after the Revolution, changed after Lunar Gregorian calendar [Gregorian], they put first month must for Chinese New Year until September 27, 1949, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), was officially the first day of the first lunar month of the New Year as the "Spring Festival", and thus there are still many people called the Spring Festival Chinese New Year.) Year: (People for the New Year as the "New Year", the original meaning of the "year" is fundamentally different today said, in a very ancient time, one of the most ferocious beast called "years it grew than a camel up and running faster than the wind, the roar rang up than mine it out to see people eat people see animals hurt livestock, people's lives and safety are a serious threat to the gods in order to punish "years" it lock into the mountains, only allowed out of the mountains once a year and people found in the long-term practice, "years" fear "- fear of red color, fear of noise, fear of fire. Thus, the year of the twelfth lunar month 30 Nights everyone paste red paper at the door and keep pounding on drums, _set_ off firecrackers, the night room light a candle through the night. "Year of the night to a look, and everyone lights brightly lit; one, always put the guns, scared that it does not dare village during the day it also sneak down to see or household door red, over and over smacking scared it alarmed, turn around and run back since then, "year" has dared to come back, it is said starve to death in the deep forests. Later, people only then anti-"year", "flooding years, become steady, the New Year." year "no, but New Year's custom is still maintained red couplets brilliant lights, crisp firecrackers, loud gongs and drums, year after year.) Spring Festival is the most important festival of the Han, Manchu, Mongolian, Yao, Zhuang, white mountains, Hezhen, Hani, Daur, Dong, Li dozen ethnic minorities also had the customs of the Chinese New Year, just the holidays in the form of more ethnic characteristics, more Yun Endless. [Evolution] The concept of the Spring Festival and New Year, the first meaning from agriculture, ancient people called the growth cycle of the Valley "year", "Wen said. Wo Ministry: "years, Valley cooked too: the lunar calendar in the Xia and Shang era, the cycle of the moon for the month, the year is divided into twelve months, a month to not see the moon day of new moon the first nine days of the first month neutrons known as the beginning of the year, the beginning of the year, 2004, the name of the year from the Zhou Dynasty, was officially fixed to the Western Han Dynasty, continues today, but the first day of the first lunar month, said the ancient "New Year's Day", the Nanjing interim government until the after modern Chinese Revolution of 1911, in order to comply with the farming season and for statistical, provisions for civil use lunar calendar, government agencies, factories, mines, schools and organizations in the implementation of the Gregorian calendar and January 1 in the Gregorian calendar. the first month, the first day of the Lunar New Year known as Spring Festival. [New Year's Day and Spring Festival] September 27, 1949, the founding of New China, through the the Gregorian era of the common use of the world in the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), on the Gregorian calendar January 1 as New Year's Day, commonly known as the Gregorian calendar years; Lunar The first day of the first lunar month, usually around the beginning of spring, and thus the Lunar first month must "Spring Festival", commonly known as a lunar year. Spring Festival is the traditional sense, until the fifteenth day of the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the December festival or the twelfth lunar month 23 Jizao, which culminated on New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month. In this tradition during the holiday season of the Spring Festival, China's Han majority of minorities have to be held in a variety of celebrations, most of these activities in order to worship deities and ancestral shrine, blow away the cobwebs, Ying Hei good fortune, as the main hope of the harvest. Activities in the form of colorful, with strong ethnic characteristics. Spring Festival, the legendary one: boil years Shou Sui ∧
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Ching Ming Festival
Lunar March eighth day (twenty-four solar terms Lunar "Qingming" That day, the Gregorian calendar around April 5) Ching Ming Festival is a traditional festival in China, is the most important festival of worship, a day of ancestor worship and the graves. The grave commonly known Shangfen, an activity and sacrifice to the deceased. Han and some ethnic minorities are mostly in the Ching Ming Festival. In accordance with the customs of the old, grave, people want to bring food and wine fruit, paper money and other items to the cemetery, will offer food in the family tomb, the sadness of incineration graves training on new soil verdant new branch of the fold a few of them _insert_ed in the grave , and bow to worship, and finally eat the food and wine home. Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu's poem "Qingming": "Tomb Sweeping Festival rain have, pedestrians Deep Sorrow by asking restaurants where? Yao Zhi Heng Fa Chuen shepherd." Wrote the special atmosphere of the Ching Ming Festival. Ching Ming Festival, also known as hikers section, according to the Gregorian calendar, it is in between annual April 4 to 6, what beautiful spring vegetation Tulv season, it is also people outing [Ancient called outing] good time, so the ancients Qingming outing, and to carry out a series of sports activities custom. ) In the Warring States Period, Jin Guogong sub Chonger exile do not have enough to eat, the followers Jie cut the thigh meat to Chonger to eat. On However Chonger when Jinguo Guo Jun, was left out of the referral. The his mother mountains referral portable seclusion. Chonger about the incident, know against my referral, they hope referral downhill. But referral reluctant downhill. Chonger So ordered For in order to compel him to _set_ fire to the mountain, down the mountain. Unexpectedly referral would rather be burned to death with his mother in the mountains and do not want to come out. Referral after death, Chonger the remorse less than that, and even if this day as the Cold Food Festival.
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端午节
Dragon Boat Festival every side rain maniac, The Village Boy still significant and old clothes;
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Festival for the Elderly
Each to the Double Ninth Festival, people will think of Wang Wei wrote "Alone in a foreign land as a stranger, every festival pro. Afar brothers climb at the wear cornel but one person." This poem. Since ancient times, the Chung Yeung Festival is people respecting and caring for old, missing parents, the desire for reunion. History of lunar July 13 to show respect for the elderly say, but modified 1989.
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Hungry Ghost Festival
Fifteenth day Han said the Lantern Festival is the Lantern Festival, has existed since ancient times; October 15th The Han said Xiayuan section, and is food Cold Food, Ji Nianxian people. Lunar calendar July 15 is the Hungry Ghost Festival, the Lantern Festival on the 15th of the first month and Xiayuan Festival October 15 is the same as the age-old traditional festival. Hungry Ghost Festival is a Taoist festival. Taoism believes, "Three" is a "three official nickname. Lantern Festival, also known as the "Lantern-day official festival, the Great's Birthday Lantern blessed day official Ziwei; Ghost Festival, also known as the" Ghost the local officials Festival ", is the Ghost forgiveness of sins local officials Qingxudong Great's birthday; The Lower Proterozoic Festival, also known as "Xiayuan Shuiguan Festival, the next member of the solution Eritrea Shuiguan hole Yin Dadi's birthday. Taoism "too on official Sutra says:" day official blessing, the local officials forgiveness, Shuiguan solution Eritrea "," all sentient heaven, earth, water officials unifying. Hungry Ghost Festival, Taoist temples, such as Yasukado Huoshenmiao West will be outside the White Cloud Temple to pray for good weather, peace and prosperity "as usual, held" pray for good fortune dojo. Buddhists on this day to be held in the grand Bon also called Bon vegetarian, Bon for. Bon Tang Dynasty already prevalent late Qing period, Beijing has more than eight hundred forty temples conditional Guangji, Fayuan Nianhua Temple, Guanghua Temple, Jiaxing Temple, long Tsubaki Temple and so hold different size the bon and Ghost law will. Since the birth of the republic, the Beihai Park, Forbidden City Concert Hall, etc. over the years at this time has a "memorial Memorial Puja. Fan (Lama), Road (priests), Zen (monk) three through, for a land, sea and air military Memorial tablets of memorial service.
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中秋节
The Ming Dynasty personnel with Sunrise, suddenly Mengyao Taike.
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Chung Yeung Festival
Ninth lunar month September 9th lunar calendar, the traditional Double Ninth Festival. Double Ninth Festival, also known as "Festival Double Nine" "old section" because the ancient "Book of Changes" in the "six" as the negative ones, the "nine" as positive numbers, September 9, sun and moon and the sun, twenty-nine relative weight, and therefore called the Double Ninth Festival, also called Chongjiu ancients considered a lucky day to celebrate, and start over from the very early this holiday season. Romantic and colorful activities to celebrate the Double Ninth Festival, generally include sightseeing trips, climb mountains, ornamental chrysanthemum, Biancha dogwood, eating Double Ninth cake, drink chrysanthemum wine and other activities. 99 Chongyang, because the "long" is a homonym, nine in numbers is the largest number, have a long longevity meaning, besides the golden season of autumn is also the year of harvest, the Double Ninth Festival, meaningful, people have always had a special section feelings, there are a lot of poetry He Chongyang, chant poetry chrysanthemum masterpiece. Legend has it that people Hwan Han Ru'nan shadow, long room charges and said to him, September 9 Ru'nan will have a major disaster, quickly called the family sewing pouch, built dogwood, tied arms, boarded the mountain, drink chrysanthemum wine , in order to evacuate. Huan Jing family hiking day, go home at night, it really chicken at home, dogs, sheep all die. Since then, the folk have done in the Chung Yeung Festival Cornel bags, drink chrysanthemum wine, held in the temple, climbing and other customs. Due to "high" and "cake" sound the same, so there eating Double Ninth Festival "Double Ninth cake" practices. Tang Dynasty poet Wang Wei had "September 9 Brothers in Shandong," a poem:. ". Alone in a foreign land as a stranger, every festival pro Afar brothers climb the mountain, wear cornel but one person," recorded at the time of customs. As the poem sincere feelings, since popular.
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Chinese traditional festivals bilingual
1 Spring Festival (Lunar New Year on January 1) Spring Festival; Chinese New Year's Day 2 Lantern Festival (Lunar New Year on January 15) Lantern Festival 3 Qingming Festival (April 5) Tomb-Sweeping Day 4 Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth lunar month) Dragon Boat Festival 5 Mid-Autumn Festival (Lunar August 15) Mid-Autumn (Moon) Festival 6 Double Ninth Festival (Lunar September 9) Double-ninth Day 7 .. New Year's Eve (December 30th Lunar) New Year's Eve
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Chinese bilingual common traditional activities
New Year celebrate the spring festival Couplets spring festival couplets Paper-cut paper-cuts New Year new year paintings Buy stocking do shopping for the spring festival; do spring festival shopping Propose a toast to toast Lantern lantern Fireworks fireworks Firecrackers firecrackers (people scare off evil spirits and ghosts with the loud pop.) Red red packets (cash wrapped up in red paper, symbolize fortune and wealth in the coming year.) Lion lion dance (the lion is believed to be able to dispel evil and bring good luck.) Dragon and dragon dance (to expect good weather and good harvests) Opera traditional opera Vaudeville variety show Riddles riddles written on lanterns Lantern exhibit of lanterns Stay up staying-up New Year pay new year's call; give new year's greetings; pay new year's visit Taboo taboo Unlucky to get rid of the ill-fortune Worship cases offer sacrifices to one's ancestors New Year's gift money; money given to children as a lunar new year gift culture note; in the old days, new year's money was given in the form of one hundred copper coins strung together on a red string and symbolized the hope that one would live to be a hundred years old. today, money is placed inside red envelopes in denominations considered auspicious and given to represent luck and wealth The old year bid farewell to the old year Sweep the room spring cleaning; general house-cleaning Rice cake nian-gao; rise cake; new year cake Reunion dinner family reunion dinner Dinner the dinner on new year's eve Dumplings jiao-zi/dumpling; chinese meat ravioli Rice dumpling dumplings
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附：中国元旦花絮
First renamed the "New Year Festival Lunar calendar, the government is still in accordance with the thousands of years the farming seasons, in the beginning of spring winter fallow period before and after the" Spring Festival "holiday
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