Spring Festival The first day of the first month by the Chinese Lunar Calendar is Spring Festival‚ also known as Chinese New Year; it is the most important traditional holiday in China. Spring Festival dates back to four thousand years ago‚ originated in the Shang Dynasty. The year of 2011 was the Year of the Rabbit; due to my parents went to Bengal for missionary work‚ my uncle who lives in the countryside invited me to his house for Spring Festival this year. I didn’t like the idea at first because
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Spring festival In China‚ New Year’s Day is a solemn occasion. Every family performs religious rites at the family altar. In order to rejoice at the New Year‚ people wished others a happy new year and blessed heartily. Some stick calligraphies full of joy on doors‚ most of them were antithetical couplet‚ phrase‚ individual character‚ such as: blessing‚ longevity‚ luckiness‚ propitious New Year and so on. Whereas‚ some people pasted paper-cuts for window decorations to do away with the old
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When I was younger‚ I asked to my grandma that why people eat rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival. She told me about Chinese traditional food and its beginning in our five thousands years old Chinese culture. My grandma said that our ancestors created lots of festivals such as The Spring Festival‚ The Lantern Festival‚ The Dragon Boat Festival‚ Moon Festival. The Dragon Boat Festival was created to commemorate the poet ’quyuan’ who jumped into the ’Han river’ and committed suicide when
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Spring Festival and Lantern Festival By Yolanda The Spring Festival‚ also known as the lunar new year‚ which falls in late January or early February. It is said that the Spring Festival evolved from an activity known as the “Winter Sacrifice”. And the word “Nian”‚ which in modern Chinese solely means year‚ was originally the name of a monster beast that started to prey on people the night before the beginning of a New Year. So people hang“good luck”wishes on red paper on the door and wall‚ use fireworks
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Unforgettable Spring Festival The Spring Festival‚ which is commonly known in the west as Chinese New Year‚ is the most important festival for the Chinese people and the moment that all family members get together just like Christmas. People who live or work away from home will go home before the Spring Festival. Therefore‚ it is the busiest time for the transportation systems. Spring festival is my favorite festival because all my family members can get together and that family plays an important
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Great China A Comparative Study of the CCTV Spring Festival Galas‚ 1984-86 and 2004-06 Xiaoyan Xu Thesis submitted to the faculty of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts In Political Science Dr. Timothy W. Luke‚ Chair Dr. Scott G. Nelson Dr. Yannis Stivachtis June 7‚ 2007 Blacksburg‚ VA Keywords: China‚ TV‚ CCTV‚ Spring Festival‚ ideology‚ nationalism‚ media‚ symbolic politics
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Compare and contrast essay I will compare the history of “A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley” that is a play with the film “From Scrooge”. They are the same history develop in a different way because they roll in entertainment the world are different. I like a lot plays but also the movies. Let´s checks its comparison. Characters in the history are completely the same ones. Neither another character neither a missing character. In the play‚ characters are like more expressive and sarcastic‚ like
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Compare and Contrast: Christmas and Thanksgiving Holidays are always celebrated no matter religion‚ beliefs‚ or culture. Some are recognized more than others but none two are as highly recognized like the cherished Christmas and Thanksgiving holidays. The pair may seem vastly different‚ as they are two completely separate occasions‚ but in actuality they do share very similar attributes. Many of the similarities and differences are about to be explained‚ so here goes. Christmas like
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General information: Chinese New Year is also known as the Lunar New Year or the Spring Festival. Lunar because it s based on a lunisolar calendar (moon phase and solar year) and spring because it s the beginning of Spring. You celebrate the first day of the chinese calendar‚ but basically it s a long chinese holiday starting from the first day until the Lantern Festival on the last day. It is the time to honor deities and ancestors. New year´s days are celebrated as a family affair and a time
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The Spring Festival is a traditional festival for all Chinese people; since 1983‚ Chinese families have sat down to wrap dumplings and watch CCTV’s New Year’s Gala on television on Chinese New Year’s Eve. It’s a Chinese New Year’s Eve tradition that nearly every family in China participates in to ring in the New Year. It brings so much happiness to Chinese all around the world in the past twenty years. WHEN: For every year since then at the turn of the Lunar New Year‚ the program begins at 8:00PM
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