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2nd. February 24, 2020. Zhonghe Festival (Blue Dragon Festival) • 中和節 / 中和节. • 青龍節 / 青龙节. Eat Chinese pancakes (Chun bing, 春餅) and noodles, clean the house. Also known as Dragon Raising its Head This is Earth God's Birthday in Taiwan. 3 (三月) 3rd.
The Mid-Autumn Festival (for other names, see § Etymology) is a harvest festival celebrated in Chinese culture. It is held on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar with a full moon at night, corresponding to mid-September to early October of the Gregorian calendar. [1] On this day, the Chinese believe that the moon is ...
3 days (Chinese New Year's Eve, 1st and 2nd days of 1st Lunisolar month) Spring Festival [a] (aka Chinese New Year) 春节. Chūnjié. Usually occurs in late January or early February. The most important holiday, celebrating the start of a new year. 5 April (4 or 6 April in some years)
The Qingming festival holiday has significance in the Chinese tea culture since this specific day divides the fresh green teas by their picking dates. Green teas made from leaves picked before this date are given the prestigious 'pre-Qingming tea' (明 前 茶) designation which commands a much higher price tag.
The Dragon Boat Festival (traditional Chinese: 端午節; simplified Chinese: 端午节; pinyin: Duānwǔ jié) is a traditional Chinese holiday that occurs on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar, which corresponds to late May or early June in the Gregorian calendar. The holiday commemorates Qu Yuan who was the beloved ...
Chinese New Year is observed as a public holiday in some countries and territories where there is a sizeable Chinese population. Since Chinese New Year falls on different days of the week each year, some of these governments opt to shift working days in order to accommodate a longer public holiday.
Northeast China (Chinese: 东北; pinyin: Dōngběi) is a region of the People's Republic of China. It consists of three provinces, namely Liaoning , Jilin , and Heilongjiang . The heartland of the region is the Northeast China Plain , the largest plain in China, with an area of over 350,000 km 2 (140,000 sq mi).
Cold Food Festival. The Cold Food or Hanshi Festival (寒食节) is a traditional Chinese holiday which developed from the local commemoration of the death of the Jin nobleman Jie Zitui in the 7th century BC under the Zhou dynasty, into an occasion across East Asia for the commemoration and veneration of ancestors by the 7th-century Tang ...