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The country, covered with cherry tree flowers, looks as though it is covered with pink snow.
Mohandas Gandhi Day
August 12
To honor Gandhi, the leader who helped gain India’s independence from Britain
Japan’s Cherry Blossom Festival
From March 15 to April 15
Mexico people eat food in the shape of skulls and cakes with‘bones’on them.Offer food, flowers, and gifts to the dead.
ColumbusDay
October12th
Be in memory of the arrival of Columbus in the new world
Easter（复活节）
ApriΒιβλιοθήκη Baidu 5th, 2015
Eastereggs and rabbits
Celebrate the return of Jesus from the dead and the coming of spring and new life
Japanese Obon
the 15thday of the 7thlunar month
Clean graves and light incense in memory of ancestors.Light lamps and play music to lead the ancestors back to earth
The day of the Dead(Mexico)
From October 31 to November 2nd
Festivalsoutside China
Date
Celebrate
Mother’s Day
The secondSunday of May
Send flowers to mother.
Father’s Day
The thirdSunday of June
Show love to father
Christmas Day
Have a feast including turkeys
Decorate churches and town halls with flowers and fruit
April Fool’s Day
April 1st
Play tricks on each other
Celebrate the humor
Halloween
Oct.31
Believe the return of the sprits of dead people.
Children’s festival
Dress up and go to neighbors’homes to ask for sweets, if they do not give any sweets, the children might play a trick on them
December 25th
Celebrate the birth of Jesus and the new year.
DecorateChristmas tree
Believe Christmas father
Thanksgiving Day
The 4thThursday of November
Celebrate the harvest (food is gathered for the winter and the agricultural work is over)
Mohandas Gandhi Day
August 12
To honor Gandhi, the leader who helped gain India’s independence from Britain
Japan’s Cherry Blossom Festival
From March 15 to April 15
Mexico people eat food in the shape of skulls and cakes with‘bones’on them.Offer food, flowers, and gifts to the dead.
ColumbusDay
October12th
Be in memory of the arrival of Columbus in the new world
Easter（复活节）
ApriΒιβλιοθήκη Baidu 5th, 2015
Eastereggs and rabbits
Celebrate the return of Jesus from the dead and the coming of spring and new life
Japanese Obon
the 15thday of the 7thlunar month
Clean graves and light incense in memory of ancestors.Light lamps and play music to lead the ancestors back to earth
The day of the Dead(Mexico)
From October 31 to November 2nd
Festivalsoutside China
Date
Celebrate
Mother’s Day
The secondSunday of May
Send flowers to mother.
Father’s Day
The thirdSunday of June
Show love to father
Christmas Day
Have a feast including turkeys
Decorate churches and town halls with flowers and fruit
April Fool’s Day
April 1st
Play tricks on each other
Celebrate the humor
Halloween
Oct.31
Believe the return of the sprits of dead people.
Children’s festival
Dress up and go to neighbors’homes to ask for sweets, if they do not give any sweets, the children might play a trick on them
December 25th
Celebrate the birth of Jesus and the new year.
DecorateChristmas tree
Believe Christmas father
Thanksgiving Day
The 4thThursday of November
Celebrate the harvest (food is gathered for the winter and the agricultural work is over)