The Confucius Institute at Abomey-Calavi University in Benin has celebrated the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional Chinese festival that falls on June 9 this year. On the occasion, four mixed teams of the Confucius Institute ...
Tags: Dragon Boat Festival, chopsticks
Editor's Note: The Dragon Boat Festival falls on every May 5 of the Chinese lunar calendar. The festival, bearing the 2000-plus years'Chinese culture and undergoing the ablution of the long history, is still shining for its rich ...
Tags: Dragon Boat, Dragon Boat Festival
The Mid-Autumn Festival ( zhōng qiū jié) is one of the two most important holidays in the Chinese calendar, the other being the Chinese Spring Festival (The Chinese New Year). This is because both of these festivals ...
Tags: Chinese tradition, traditional activity, Chinese culture
The Qingming Festival Pure Brightness Festival or Clear Bright Festival, Ancestors Day or Tomb Sweeping Day is a traditional Chinese festival on the 104th day after the winter solstice, usually occurring around April 5 of the Gregorian ...
Traditional festivals are important events in the life of every Chinese, beginning right from childhood. Festivals such as the Chinese New Year, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the Winter Solstice are more or less ...
Tags: values, customs, traditions
Spring The first month of the Chinese calendar is called "yuan" month and in ancient times people called night "xiao". The fifteenth day is the first night to see a full moon, therefore the day is called Yuan Xiao Festival (Lantern ...
Tags: Focus Vision, China Culture, eat
The Maonan people are brave, enterprising, and have no fear of hardships. They send their children to school no matter how hard their life is, so they can have higher education and there are a large number of intellectuals among them. ...
Tags: Maonan people, three treasures, tradition
In the Chinese lunar calendar, the Spring Festival falls on January 26th, 2009 this year. From this day on, the Yi-Chou Year begins, and it is also called the Year of Ox. The previous year is the Year of Rat, to which people have a ...
Tags: lunar calendar, Year of Ox, tradition
Festival falls on every month in Taiyuan region in ancient times. However, Spring Festival is the most solemn and jollified festival with the most intense flavors. After "sacrificing to the Kitchen God", every family would be busy making ...
Tags: Festival falls, sacrificing to the Kitchen God, tradition
Lanterns (deng in Chinese) are a special handicraft of Chinese tradition. Fancy lanterns are widely used as decorations in the country during festivals and holidays, on weddings and other celebrations. On the whole, they consist ...
Tags: lanterns, handicraft, Chinese tradition
As a festival of the Miao minority,the Dragon-boat Festival is celebrated in the form of dragon-boat racing in the fifth lunar month every year.Similar to the Han people's custom of dragon-boat racing during the Dragon Boat Festival,it ...
Tags: Dragon-boat Festival, Man's Day, dragon-boat racing, folk customs
The Saga Dawa festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the 4th Tibetan month and is one of the most important religious festivals celebrated in Tibet. This auspicious day coincides with three important events in Buddha's life namely his ...
Tags: Chinese tradition, traditional activity, Chinese culture
Laba Rice Porridge Festival falls on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month. People will have Laba Rice Porridge on this day. Having Laba Rice Porridge has a history of over one thousand years in China. This tradition originated from ...
Tags: Chinese tradition, Chinese culture, cultural activity, Chinese customs