Chinese Festivals

 💗Chinese New Year

Celebrated on the first day if the Chinese Lunar calendar, usually in the late January and early February.

The most important and widely celebrated festival in china, making the start of the lunar new year.

Family reunion and feasts, featuring dishes like dumping, fish, and rice cakes .Chinese new year is most important holidays in china culture. It is also a tradition for every family to throughly clean their house. popular themes among these paper cuts and couplets include good fortune or happiness , wealth, and longevity.

Red decorations and lanterns symbolizing good luck and warding off evil sprits. Giving red envelops filled with money to children and unmarried adults. Dragon and lion dances, fireworks, and temple fairs.

💗Lantern Festival

The 15th day of the First lunar month, making end of Chinese New year Celebration. Celebrates the first full moon of the lunar year and promotes unity and peace .

Lightning and releasing lanterns into the sky or floating them on water. Solving riddles  written on lanterns.  Eating Tangyuan (rice balls) symbolizing family unity and completeness.

💗Qingming Festival

A day of honor and remember ancestors by visiting and cleaning their graves.

This Festival In April 4th or 5th . Tomb Sweeping and offering food, tea, wine, and joss paper (symbolic money) to ancestors . Spring outing and kite flying. Planting trees and enjoying the outdoors.

💗Dragon Boat Festival

The 5th day of the 5th lunar month, usually in June. commemorates the death of the poet Qu Yuan , who drowned himself in protest against corruption. Dragon boat races symbolizing the attempt to rescue Qu Yuan. Eating Zongzi (sticky rice dumpling wrapped in bamboo leaves). Hanging Mug wort and calamus to ward off evil sprits. Wearing colorful silk threats for good luck.

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