Chinese Festivals yielded 10 matches

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1. Chinese Festivals | Tomb Sweeping Day Qingming Festival is also known as Tomb Sweeping Day, Pure Brightness Festival, Clear Bright Festival, All Souls Day, Festival for Tending Graves or Grave Sweeping...
2. Chinese Festivals | Valentines Day Why carve melons? Well, it was traditionally a way to demonstrate the domestic skills of a young woman to any potential suitors! As well as melon carving, they...
3. Chinese New Year 新年快乐 Happy Chinese New Year! Take your children on a fascinating cultural experience -- celebrate Chinese New Year! Chinese New...
4. Chinese Festivals | National Day On October 1st, 1949, the Chinese Communist Party, under Chairman Mao's leadership declared victory in the war against Chiang Kai Shek's Nationalists. Mao raised...
5. Chinese Festivals | Ghost Festival Chinese Ghost Festival, or Zhong Yuan Jie, is held to placate the spirits of dead ancestors. The whole of the seventh lunar month is said to be a ghostly one,...
6. Chinese Festivals | Double 9th Festival The Double Ninth Festival falls on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, hence its name. This time is characterised by people enjoying hill climbing, wearing...
7. Chinese New Year Traditions for 2012 - The Year of the Dragon Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year is a very important time in China and for the Chinese people. So when is Chinese New Year 2012? and What is the Chinese New...
8. Chinese Festivals | Lantern Festival With all the Chinese Festivals on the yearly calendar, it's a wonder there's any work done here. Lantern Festival marks the end of New Year festivities and is...
9. Mooncakes and Dragon Boats: Traditional Chinese Festivals More than almost any other culture in the world, the Chinese have a strong convention of traditional festivals. Most of these festivals date back thousands of...
10. Spooky World Cultures The way halloween is celebrated in the US and Western Europe is fairly well known, but these are not the only way to celebrate it. Comparing and contrasting...