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Cheung Chau Bun Festival. 包山節/長洲太平清醮. 5 (五月) 5th. June 25, 2020. Duanwu Festival (Dragon Boat Festival) 端午節 / 端午节. Dragon boat race, eat sticky rice wrapped in lotus leaves Zongzi (粽子). This festival commemorates the ancient poet Qu Yuan; drink yellow rice wine, related to the White Snake Lady legend.
The festival was long marked as a cultural festival in China and is a public holiday in China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. The People's Republic of China's government established in 1949 did not initially recognize the Dragon Boat Festival as a public holiday but reintroduced it in 2008 alongside two other festivals in a bid to boost ...
It is not difficult to find Chinese poems which describe this happy scene. [18] In the Song dynasty, the festival was celebrated for five days [12] and the activities began to spread to many of the big cities in China. Today, the displaying of lanterns is still a major event on the fifteenth day of the first lunisolar month throughout China.
Lychee and Dog Meat Festival. Miao Flower Mountain Festival. Mid-Autumn Festival. Monkey King Festival. Nadun. Nian Li. Nine Emperor Gods Festival. Qingdao International Beer Festival. Qingming Festival.
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 CMG New Year's Gala, formerly known as The CCTV New Year's Gala, also known as the Spring Festival Gala, and commonly abbreviated in Chinese as Chunwan (literally "Spring evening"), is a Chinese New Year special produced by China Media Group (CMG). It is broadcast annually on the eve of Chinese New Year on its flagship CCTV-1 and ...
Cheung Chau Bun Festival or Cheung Chau Da Jiu Festival is a traditional Chinese festival on the island of Cheung Chau in Hong Kong. Held annually, and with therefore the most public exposure, it is by far the most famous of such Da Jiu festivals, with Jiu (醮) being a Taoist sacrificial ceremony. Such events are held by mostly rural ...
The Weifang International Kite Festival (Chinese: 潍坊国际风筝节; traditional Chinese: 濰坊國際風箏節; pinyin;Wéifāng Guójì Fēngzhēng Jié) is an annual kite -flying festival held from April 20 to 25 in Weifang, China. Weifang, Shandong, China is known as the kite capital of the world as people consider Weifang to be the ...