Three major traditional festivals in China
chn ji - Spring festival
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1. ti chn lin - Posting couplets on doors
The couplets designating good fortune are usually two rhyming lines that are written in beautiful calligraphy.
2. f hng bo - Giving red envelopes
3. bi nin - Paying new year call
4. w lng w sh - Lion dance & dragon dance
5. fng bin po - Fireworks & firecrackers
6. ch nin y fn - New years eve dinner
The 15th of August in the Chinese lunar calender is the Mid-autumn festival. The celebration of Mid-autumn festival began in the Tang dynasty. Mid-autumn festival was a festival to celebrate the harvest during the agriculture period, and nowadays it has become a festival for families reunion.
There is an interesting myth about Mid-autumn festival. Long long ago, there were 10 suns in the sky and the heat was killing a lot of people. There was a men who saved the people from the heat by shooting 9 suns down and leaving only one sun in the sky. This mans name was Houyi, and his wife Change.
Important mid-autumn festival celebrations
1.shng yu - Admire and worship the full moon
2. ch yu bng - Eating moon cake
3.h gu hu ji - Drinking the Osmanthus wine
4. ci dng m -Guessing lantern riddles
The 5th of May of the Chinese lunar calendar is the Dragon boat festival. You may think that its a festival for the dragon boat because of the English name, but its actually also for one of the greatest poets in Chinas history, and his name is Qyun.
It was an old tradition to hold the dragon boat race on this day to worship their ancestors in ancient China, and the leader of Chuguo in the Warring States period decided to make this day a commemoration of Quyuan after he committed suicide by drowning himself with a rock in the Miluo river.
The people were so sad for Quyuans suicide, and they made Zongzi and threw them into the river to feed the river dragon so it would not eat Quyuans body.
2. si lng zhu - dragon boat race
New festivals in China
520 - valentines day
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The 20th of May is an internet valentines day for young people. It all began with a song by a Taiwanese singer Xiaoxuan Fan, there is a line in this song 520 which means 520 is I love you because the pronunciation of 520( wu er ling) sounds like I love u(wo ai ni) in Chinese. And the 20th of May in Chinese is 5yue 20hao(the 20th day of the fifth month). Thats why people celebrate this day as valentines day.
As the name suggests, singles day is for single people to celebrate their single life. But as a matter of fact, singles day began in the universities when some single dudes joked about being single and lonely. And they chose the day 11th of November because its the 11th day of the 11th month, and there are four 1s in this day, which means being alone and single.
As more and more people joined the celebration of singles day, a lot of business man saw the opportunity to benefit from it, so they held blind dates parties and promoted their dating apps and websites. One of them was Jack Ma who decided to have a big sale on this day on Taobao and Tmall shopping website which turned this festival into a crazy E-commercial festival.
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