On the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar，the moon is round and the Chinese people mark...
Chinese Festivals
It is a tradition to eat zongzi，pyramid-shaped dumplings made of sticky ricewrapped in bamboo or reed leaves，with different fillings added...
A Brief Introduction of the Dragon Boat Festival Chinese festivals are usually associated with special foods as well as fun...
According to the legend，during the Spring and Autumn Period，a person named Jie Zhitui followed his master Chong'er，the prince of Jin，and...
Natural Change after Qingming A society of natural farming economy employed slash-and-burn cultivation，burning mountains and destroying forest.Spring was a time...
Qingming（Pure Brightness）is a traditional festival highlighted by worship at ancestral graves.Usually it falls between April 4-6.The festival marks the fifth...
Round sweet dumplings traditionally are eaten for happiness on the Lantern Festival.Today these dumplings also are a popular dessert in...
The Lantern Festival occurs on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month according to the old Chinese calendar，when a...
Early on the first morning of the Spring Festival，families set out to pay a lunar New Year visit to each...
Spring Festival，the traditional Chinese New Year's Day，is China's most important national holiday.The date of the new year is still determined...
The ninth day of the ninth lunar month is the Double Ninth Festival. It occurs in the middle of autumn...
Every year on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month is held the Mid-Autumn Festival. According to the ancient...
The Dragon Boat Festival or Duanwu Festival commemorates Qu Yuan，a patriotic poet from the State of Chu during the Warring...
The Fifteenth day of the first lunar month is an important traditional festival in China.Members of a family get together...
During the Spring Festival，each household pastes a big or small Chinese character“fu” on its entrance door or on walls inside...
Setting off firecrackers is a practice handed down from the remote past.It is related with burning bamboo stems.Bamboo stems have...
Since ancient times，Chinese people have adopted over a hundred kinds of calendars.The most widely observed are the yang li and...
Laba Rice Porridge Festival falls on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month.People willhave Laba Rice Porridge on this...
The Elder's Day is the Double-Ninth Festival,the 9th day of 9th lunar month.Chinese callthis festival Chung-Yang Jie.The Elder's Day was...
The Mid-Autumn Festival,also known as the Moon Festival or Zhongqiu Festival ,is a popular harvest festival celebrated by Chinese andVietnamese people,dating...