the remaining water leaving a hollow vessel. A windproof ice lantern is now formed. The windproof ice lantern has gain popularity that people starts to make ice lanterns to put outside their house and gave it to their children to play during some festivals. Ice lantern was the symbol of winter holiday back in the old days. Ice lanterns also symbolize the novel changes and immense advance in techniques of the Chinese craftsmanship. 2.2 Introduction of Harbin Ice lanterns were first found in
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Dashain is the greatest and propitious festival of Nepalese people. Like other cultural celebration‚ it is also based on the lunar calendar and falls in the months of September and October. Nepalese observed this festival for 10 days from the new moon day to the full moon day and it also celebrated throughout the globe. Dashain is a festival of great delight‚ enthusiasm and happiness. This festival’s value is on family gathering as well as renewal of community truss. Those people who were away from
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Community Book Festival Every day hundreds‚ if not thousands of families look forward to their local upcoming weekend activities. For some‚ it is the local fair that rolls into town with the rides for their children. Others‚ it is a walk on the water front with good food and drinks. For most‚ it is time to relax‚ have a cold drink‚ and enjoy things like Seafair in Washington State‚ or the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach for Southern California residents. Without local non-profit organizations
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Moon Festival In United States there are some holidays that are celebrated together with family‚ like Thanksgiving‚ Christmas and Independence Day. In China‚ we also have family reunion days and the Moon Festival is one of them. The Moon Festival is also known as Mid-Autumn Festival or the Zhongqiu Festival. Of course‚ this festival has equivalents in other countries‚ such as Japan‚ Malaysia‚ Singapore‚ the Philippines and South Korea. If you are not familiar with the Chinese Moon Festival then
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Winter Solstice Festival The Winter Solstice Festival is celebrated by the Chinese on 22nd December. It is a day of merry making‚ feasting and thanksgiving. It is not only a day for setting out hopes for the coming year but also for ancestor worship. In ancient times‚ it is customary for the Emperor of China to fast on the eve of the Winter Solstice to prepare for the ceremonial rituals and ancestor worship which was carried out on the Altar of Heaven in Beijing. On the day itself‚ the Emperor
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The Festival of Colours Holi is a popular‚ religious festival that is celebrated by Hindus. It is often referred to as the ‘festival of colours’ because of the famous ritual that it has bore. It originated in India and is celebrated near the end of the winter season‚ on the last day of the lunar month. This usually falls in late February‚ or early March. Holi is a celebration of various legends‚ such as the legend of Prahlad and Hiranyakshyap. It stated that there was once a demon king named
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SINULOG Festival in Cebu Cebu‚ Philippines is widely known for having distinctive commemoration that made an absolute impact to the hearts of people inside and outside the country‚ especially the Cebuano people enabling them to visit and associate with their union. Among the many celebrations done by the Cebuano’s‚ is the so called “Sinulog Festival”. It’s the feast of Cebu’s Patron Saint‚ Senior Santo Nino‚ the child image of our Lord Jesus Christ. It’s a festival encounter of millions of devotees
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I see the walls of my lovely house and I wonder whether there is any sense in cracks‚ rents‚ scratches that have changed its look through years. Dozens of nice pictures‚ photos‚ yellowed papers‚ attached to the aged wooden planks‚ so significant for my world awareness‚ so dear to my precious memory‚ – do they really have any meaning now‚ after many years from the time they actually got some particular importance? Why do they tell me so much‚ why do they rouse such a great attachment‚ such a true
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day on. A friendship like ours is hard to find‚ And sometimes it could take a lifetime to find that one true friend Who would be by your side when times get too hard to face all alone. I never would have known we could grow together so close. Most friendships can end in a turn of a knob or a tick of a clock‚ But ours has lasted throughout the hard times we have had. We fought about things that could have just passed by‚ But after the hard time we always ended up on each other’s side. Our
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Jewish festivals are the days celebrated by Jews. Some Jewish festivals happen on the same date every year‚ while others move around within a range of dates. Here we have provided the dates of the Jewish religious holidays for calendar year 2009. All Jewish holidays begin in the evening after the sunset. Judaism is believed to be one of the world’s oldest religions. Jews believe there is one God who created and rules the world. Judaism believes that people have freewill and are responsible for
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