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Spring Festival

The Spring Festival is known as the most important Festival in China. During the holiday, people go back to hometown from everywhere no matter how far the distance is. They prepare various delicious food and presents for the Spring Festival Eve. Chinese will have a happy family union in the Spring Festival Eve, they believe that’s the end day of last year and they will stay up for good luck until the first day of next year.

In China, the most traditional and popular Spring Festival food is dumpling, which looks like the moon with vegetables and meat mixed in it. The Chinese name of dumpling is “JIAO ZI”,”JIAO” means ”cross”, ”ZI” is Chinese traditional time represents “24:00”, so the Chinese word “JIAO ZI” means “cross 24:00”, just the dividing point of last year and next year. So when it comes to 24:00, every family begins eating dumplings.

1.The Lantern Festival

The Lantern Festival is January 15 on the lunar calendar. The lunar January is the first month of a year and 15th is the first day of full moon. Therefore, Lantern Festival is an important Festival right after Spring Festival.

During Lantern Festival, people go along the street to watch lanterns and children light their own small lanterns for some fun. The biggest and most beautiful lantern is the dragon lantern, which looks like a flying dragon, held by several young guys. One with a ball in hand leads the dragon to move.

Some lanterns have puzzles on them, called lantern puzzle, the one who gets the answer could receive small presents and be happy for his intelligence.

The traditional food for Lantern Festival is rice glue ball.

Rice glue ball is a flavor ball with filling in it, for example, peanut filling, sesame filling and jam filling…,the rice glue ball’s shape is just like the full moon appears in the sky. This kind of dessert is especially welcomed by children.

2.Tomb- sweeping Day

Tomb–sweep Day is an ancient festival in spring, also called Qing Ming Festival. In ancient China, the emperor worshipped heaven and earth in order to bless for harvest. People worshipped their ancestors with sacrifice and showed their missing for ancestors.

Tomb-sweeping Day, are always rainy days, just like the sky crying for dead people. A Chinese poem described as following:

Qing Ming usually comes with rainy days

Passengers on the way are full of soreness

I ask a Buffalo boy for tavern to release my sadness

He points to the village covered by apricot blossoms

This poem “The Day of Qing Ming” is written by a poet called Du Mu in Tang Dynasty. Qing Ming Festival is the day to worship his mother with family, but the writer goes alone in the rainy days as a passenger far from his hometown, he felt deeply upset and sorrowed. He has to find a tavern to have a drink, perhaps in this way he will release himself from sadness.

3.The Dragon Boat Festival