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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Unusual festivals in Spain La Tomatina La Tomatina is a food fight festival held on the last Wednesday of August each year in the town of Bunol near Valencia in Spain. Thousands of people make their way from all corners of the world to fight in this ’World’s Biggest Food Fight’ where more than one hundred metric tons of over-ripe tomatoes are thrown in the streets. The week-long festival features music‚ parades‚ dancing‚ and fireworks. On the night before the tomato fight‚ participants of the
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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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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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The Greatest Festivals In Islam In Islam‚ celebration is a form of thanking Allah‚ the One True God. Celebration‚ in Islam‚ is merry-making‚ going out to parties‚ visiting and meeting friends and relatives and having clean fun‚ and also a form of physical and spiritual purification. Islamic celebrations include taking a bath‚ putting on clean or new clothes‚ wearing perfume and going to the mosque or a place of congregation for Salat‚ a form of prescribed prayers. The dates and days of celebration
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Festivals as a source of life The importance of festivals in India‚ a festival is a celebration of life. Festivals for the general public to bring peace and happiness.They break the monotony of life. Indian festivals are numerous.The three types of national‚ religious and seasonal are one. Write the first festival. Ie national festivals are celebrated with great patriotic festivals favour.These Republic Day‚ Independence Day‚ Gandhi‚ etc. are included Jayanit. The second type of festivals festival
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Western Festival in China Yurong | | | Since China’s opening up to the world in the late 1970s‚ western cultures flooded into China. Some foreign festivals were also imported to China‚ and became rapidly very popular. At the same time‚ some traditional Chinese festivals such
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Hari Raya Festival Hari Raya Puasa will be celebrated by the muslims after one month of fasting. Me and family as a muslims‚ Hari Raya Puasa is a special fasting on the month from foods and drinks from Subuh until Maghrib . This festival will be celebrate for month either. In Malaysia‚ we can see the muslims early prepared for the becoming special day. They decorate their house‚ buying new clothes and making many types of food and cookies for the special day. The night before
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Music festival is periodically recurrent‚ social occasion in which‚ through a multiplicity of forms and a series of coordinated events‚ people participate directly or indirectly and to various degrees‚ all members of a whole community‚ united by ethnic‚ linguistic‚ religious‚ historical bonds‚ and sharing a worldview. There are some recurring characteristics of festivals : festivals are bound to a specific location and limited timespan‚ are organized with a specific goal in mind‚ and are offering
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The two main characters in Shakespeare’s play‚ Macbeth‚ are Macbeth himself and his wife Lady Macbeth. Their marriage seems to be mainly one of convenience for Lady Macbeth‚ but for Macbeth it is clearly more than that. He loves his wife‚ and she takes advantage of that for her own gain. She is continuously making him feel guilty‚ for being weak‚ and for not being able to give her a child‚ as is suggested by her words‚ "I have given suck and know how tender ’tis to love the babe that milks me". She
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