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  2. Thadingyut Festival - Wikipedia

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    Thadingyut festival at least lasts for three days: the day before the full moon day, the full moon day (when Buddha descends from heaven) and the day after the full moon day. Buddha's mother, Maya , died seven days after the Buddha was born and then she was reborn in the Trayastrimsa Heaven as a male deva .

  3. Tudigong - Wikipedia

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    Dabogong (大伯公 "Great Elder Lord") or Bogong (伯公 "Elder Lord"); Tua Pek Kong (Tâi-lô: Tuā-peh-kong) is used extensively as a replacement of Tudigong by the Chinese population across South East Asia, although they refer to the same deity. Sheshen (社神 "God of the Soil") or Shegong (社公 "Lord of the Soil");

  4. Tsagaan Sar - Wikipedia

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    The Mongolian Lunar New Year, commonly known as Tsagaan Sar (Mongolian: Цагаан сар ᠴᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠰᠠᠷᠠ, pronounced [t͡sʰɐˈʁaːɴ sɐr] or literally White Moon), [note 1] is the first day of the year according to the Mongolian lunisolar calendar. The festival of the Lunar New Year is celebrated by Mongolic and some Turkic ...

  5. Mid-Autumn Festival - Wikipedia

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    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]

  6. Chinese New Year - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. Pitru Paksha - Wikipedia

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    If a festival falls in the waning phase of the moon, these two traditions identify the same lunar day as falling in two different (but successive) masa. A lunar year is shorter than a solar year by about eleven days. As a result, most Hindu festivals occur on different days in successive years on the Gregorian calendar.

  8. Tết Trung Thu - Wikipedia

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    Tết Trung Thu (chữ Hán: 節中秋) is a traditional Vietnamese festival held from the night of the 14th to the end of the 15th of the 8th lunar month (Rằm tháng Tám, chữ Nôm: 𠄻躺渗). Despite its Chinese origin, the festival has recently evolved into a children's festival ( Tết Thiếu Nhi ), [ 2 ] also known as Tết Trông ...

  9. Warren Field - Wikipedia

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    Warren Field is the location of a mesolithic calendar monument built about 8,000 BCE. [1] It includes 12 pits believed to correlate with phases of the Moon and used as a lunisolar calendar. [2] It is considered to be the oldest lunisolar calendar yet found. [3] [4] [5] It is near Crathes Castle, in the Aberdeenshire region of Scotland, in the ...