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The traditional Chinese holidays are an essential part of harvests or prayer offerings. The most important Chinese holiday is the Chinese New Year (Spring Festival), which is also celebrated in overseas ethnic Chinese communities (for example in Malaysia, Thailand, or the USA).
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The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most important holidays in Chinese culture; its popularity is on par with that of Chinese New Year. The history of the festival dates back over 3,000 years. [3] [4] Similar festivals are celebrated by other cultures in East and Southeast Asia.
In Chinese, the festival is commonly known as the "Spring Festival" (traditional Chinese: 春節; simplified Chinese: 春节; pinyin: Chūnjié), [16] as the spring season in the lunisolar calendar traditionally starts with lichun, the first of the twenty-four solar terms which the festival celebrates around the time of the Chinese New Year. [17]
The Chinese New Year (known as the Spring Festival/春節 in China) is on the first day of the first month and was traditionally called the Yuan Dan (元旦) or Zheng Ri (正日). In Vietnam it is known as Tết Nguyên Đán (節元旦). Traditionally it was the most important holiday of the year.
Food and drink festivals in China (3 C, 3 P) M. Music festivals in China (6 C, 12 P) P. Parades in China (2 C, 3 P) T. Theatre festivals in China (1 P)
The nonprofit Phoenix Chinese Week’s Chinese New Year festival, which took place annually between 1991 and 2020, is back this year at a larger venue: Steele Indian School Park. For two days the ...
Chinese Football Association Footballer of the Year: 1994 Chinese New Year: January or February Country-wide Double Ninth Festival: October Country-wide Duanwu Festival: June Country-wide Also known as Dragon Boat Festival Hong Kong International Jewellery Show: Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre: Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival ...