Chinese Festivals and Celebration

Characterized by assorted styles and subjects, traditional Chinese celebrations are an imperative part of
the country's history and culture, both old and present day. Numerous of the traditions associated with
the traditional festivals have joins with devout dedications, superstitions and myths. The shape which
most of the celebrations take nowadays was set up around the time of the Han Dynasty (206BC - 220)
and for many years, different prominent writers have composed endless perfect works of art depicting
the celebrations and are still presented routinely nowadays.

1. Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year, moreover known as Spring Celebration or Lunar Modern Year, is the grandest
festival in China, with a 7-day long occasion. As the foremost colorful yearly occasion, the
conventional CNY celebration keeps going longer, up to two weeks, and the climax arrives
around the Lunar Unused Year's Eve. China amid this period is ruled by iconic red lights,
uproarious firecrackers, enormous feasts and parades, giving red envelopes and other gifts and
the festival even triggers overflowing celebrations over the globe.

DYK? Chinese New Year celebrations were born out of fear and myth. Legend talked of the wild
beast Nian (the word for “year”) that showed up at the end of each year, assaulting and
murdering villagers. Uproarious noises and shinning lights were utilized to alarm the monster
absent, and the Chinese New Year celebrations were born.

Trivia: Everybody gets one year older. It is like a national birthday and it doesn’t matter when
you were born.

2. Lantern Festival
Falling on the 15th day of the first lunar month, Lantern Festival is the primary critical feast after
Chinese New Year, so called since the most critical activity during the night of the occasion.
Watching different brilliant Chinese lights. And since each family eats Yuanxiao (a rice ball
stuffed with different fillings) on that day, it is called Yuan Xiao Celebration. For its wealthy and
colorful activities, it is respected as the foremost recreational among all the Chinese
celebrations and a day for appreciating the shinning full moon, and family reunion.

DYK? During the Han Dynasty, Buddhism prospered in China. In order to popularize Buddhism,
one of the emperors gave an order to light lanterns within the imperial residence to adore and
show respect for Buddha on the 15th day of the primary lunar month.

Trivia: Red lantern symbolizes hope and good luck.

3. Dragon Boat Festival
Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is on 5th day of the 5th lunar month. Dragon Boat Festival, also
called Duanwu Festival, is one of the four grandest traditional festivals in China. The Dragon
Boat Festival is a celebration where numerous eat rice dumplings (zongzi), drink realgar wine
(xionghuangjiu), and race dragon water crafts. Other exercises incorporate hanging symbols of
Zhong Kui (a mythic gatekeeper figure), hanging mugwort and calamus, taking long strolls,
composing spells and wearing perfumed pharmaceutical bags.

DYK? The celebration commemorates the life and death of the popular Chinese scholar Qu Yuan,
who was a faithful minister of the Ruler of Chu within the third century BCE. A lot of people
believe that the Dragon Boat Festival started in ancient China based on the suicide of the poet
and statesman of the Chu kingdom, Qu Yuan in 278 BCE.

Trivia: All of these exercises and games such as making an egg stand at twelve were respected
by the ancients as a viable way of avoiding malady, fiendish, whereas promoting great health
and well-being.

4. Qingming Festival
Qingming Celebration could be a time of numerous diverse exercises, among which the main
ones are tomb clearing, taking a spring trip, and flying kites. Some other lost traditions like
wearing willow branches on the head and riding on swings have included boundless bliss in past
days. It may be a combination of pity and bliss. It is additionally known as Pure Brightness
Festival or Tomb-sweeping Day, which falls on either April 4th or 5th of the Gregorian calendar.
Temperatures start to rise and precipitation increases, demonstrating that it is the significant
time for plowing and sowing within the spring. The celebration subsequently features a near
relationship with farming. Be that as it may, it isn't as it were a regular image, it is additionally a
day of paying regard to the dead, a spring trip, and other activities.

DYK? The Qingming Celebration begun within the Zhou Dynasty and incorporates a history of
over 2,500 years. It started from the excessive and conspicuously costly ceremonies that
numerous ancient emperors and well-off authorities held in honor of their ancestors. They
advertised penances to their precursors and implored them to bless the nation with success,
peace, and great harvests.

Trivia: In some cases called Tomb Clearing Day or the Pure Brightness Celebration (pure
brightness is the English interpretation of Qingming), it's an yearly occasion to keep in mind and
honor ancestors and celebrate the warming climate.