Valentine's Day -Joyce

Valentine's Day is Valentine's day or St. Valentine's day, which is February 14th of each year, is one of the western traditional festivals. This is a holiday for love, romance, flowers, chocolates, cards, and a gift for each day to express love or friendship. Valentine's dinner date usually represents the key to the development of the relationship. Has become the United States and other countries in Europe and the United States, the festival, other countries have begun to pop.

Rose
In the custom of Valentine's day, flowers and chocolates are essential to celebrate. This is the most classic gift for men to give women the most classic, show the specificity, emotion and vitality. Rose represents love is well known, but different colors, a number of roses also have a good sense of meaning.
Colorful rose
Colorful rose
In Greek mythology, the goddess of beauty is the embodiment of the rose. In the world. Rose is a common language used to express love. Rose is rich in color, different colors have different meanings.
Different quantities
There is a spiritual flower flower, the number of different means are not the same:
Rose on behalf of the 0 - to love you more!
1 Rose representatives - only in my heart you YOU ONLY!
2 rose representatives - the only one in the world!
3 rose representatives - I love you LOVE YOU I!
4 roses -- will never change until death!
5 rose representatives - heartfelt appreciation!
6 roses -- love each other mutual understanding!
7 rose representatives - I secretly love you!
8 rose representatives - thank you for your concern and support and encouragement!
9 roses represent - for a long time.

The love that the paper does, it will be eternal.
Hand written love letters, like a ring to witness the marriage, love can not be without it. Today, people have been accustomed to using mobile phone text messages, e-mail QQ, video and other ways to express love of each other, the era of writing love letters seems to have gone away. However, can not be lost, that is hidden in between the lines, love is the exchange solemn vows and pledges, people are always in the pursuit of pure love.

Sydney Film Festival － Nikki

Sydney Film Festival － Nikki
Sydney Film Festival is one of the world's longest-running film festivals, and is a major event on the New South Wales cultural calendar. The 12-day Festival screens feature films, documentaries, short films retrospectives, films for families and animations from around the world in venues across the city including the State Theatre.

The flagship program of Sydney Film Festival is the Official Competition, which was established in 2008 and celebrates 'courageous, audacious and cutting-edge' cinema. The Sydney Film Prize and $60,000 cash is awarded by a jury of five Australian and international filmmakers and industry professionals to the winner among the 12 titles selected for the Official Competition. The Official Competition is endorsed by Federation Internationale des Associations de Producteurs de Films.


Sydney Film Festival encourages and supports excellence in Australian filmmaking via the Documentary Australia Foundation Award for Best Australian Documentary and the long-running Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films. Other awards given to films screening at the Festival are the Event Cinemas Australian Short Screenplay Award and the SFF's people's choice, the Foxtel Movies Audience Awards.
Everyone’s favourite Meriton Festival Village is back this summer, the ultimate oasis of musical and theatrical delights, along with plenty of delicious eats, all in the heart of the city at Hyde Park. It’s the perfect place to kick back in the afternoons or kick on into the warm summer nights.

A great selection of food and beverages are available from 12pm. Licensed bars open from 4pm.Meriton Festival Village, The Famous Spiegeltent and Magic Mirrors Spiegeltent are wheelchair accessible. Priority entry for people with access needs.

Dragon boat festival------Edison

Dragon Boat Festival, the fifth lunar month every year, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, afternoon Day Festival, May Day, Dragon Boat Festival, the Bath Festival and so on. Is popular in China and Asian countries - Chinese traditional culture festivals,
Dragon Boat Festival originated in China, initially for prevention of illnesses and festivals, before the land of Wu and Yue in the Spring and Autumn have custom fifth lunar month Dragon Boat Race to be held in the form of tribal totem worship; due poet Qu Yuan Miluo River bouldering since his death, has become Chinese traditional festival to commemorate Qu Yuan; in some areas there are commemorative Wu, Cao'e other statements.
The Dragon Boat Festival has always been there eating dumplings, drinking realgar long endless. Influenced by Chinese culture - Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festival country and overseas Chinese around the world.

Dragon Boat Festival, according to the name of the statistics is called up more than twenty, if the Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, the festival weighing five heavy afternoon festival, when five flood, festival days, Summer Festival, May Day, chang Festival, Pu Festival, dragon Boat Festival, the bath Festival, Qu Yuan day, afternoon day Festival, Doll Festival, to wax festival, the poet Festival, Long Day, afternoon day, the Lantern Festival, five eggs festival and so on.

Dragon Boat Festival, the Chinese people two thousand years of traditions and customs, as a vast, many nationalities, with many tales, so not only produced many distinct section name, and the country also has different customs. The main contents are: daughter back to her parents, clocks Kui like, welcome ghost ship, hiding afternoon, post lunch and leaf symbol, hanging calamus, wormwood, travel sickness, Sachet, prepare sweet wine offerings, dragon boat racing, contest, hitting , swing, to the children painted realgar, drinking realgar wine, iris wine, eat top five cakes, salted egg, dumplings and seasonal fresh fruit, etc.

First appeared when the Dragon Boat Festival food, should be the Western Han Dynasty, "Fierce soup." "Historical Records", "Takatake of the century" note cited as Chun said: "the Chinese make ita send owl, May 5 for the owl soup to give Baiguan evil birds, so eat.". Because the owl is not easy to capture about, so the custom of eating soup owl did not last down. File is the protagonist of the Dragon Boat Festival - dumplings, had already appeared in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Has to go to the Jin Dynasty, the Dragon Boat Festival dumplings became festive food. "Endemic in mind":. "May 5, and with the summer solstice, ...... first day of this second section, on mushroom leaf wrapped sticky rice, mixed with millet, sun concentrated lye to cook it so familiar," while there is another one kind of food the Dragon Boat Festival, known as the "turtle" is only short-lived in the Jin Dynasty, then disappeared. Only the "endemic in mind" called "angle millet 'dumplings, as will be attached to the legend of Qu Yuan, thousands of years, the Dragon Boat Festival has become the most popular food.

special food of halloween (shirley xu)

special food of halloween
Halloween there are a few things to eat are essential : pumpkin pie , apple , candy , some places will prepare the finest beef and mutton .
sugar

"Do not give candy to make trouble ," the most classic Halloween candy is orange , brown and black packaging , modeling with ghosts majority, however , this tradition true colors and candy does not matter.


Pumpkin pie is winter in the southern United States have been the most common food , in occasion Halloween is just more of it . In addition to pumpkin pie , pumpkin seeds is a common snack festival .
apple

November 1 except Halloween , or an important ancient Roman festival called Mona section . Bo Mona is the " fruit of the gods" , in charge of all the fruit of life and death, harvest and crop failure . After the Roman occupation of Celtic , but also the Mona Day and New Year together, forming a Halloween custom of eating apples .

Mid-Autumn Festival--Edison

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as May evening, autumn Festival, the Mid-autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, August meeting, Chasing the Moon Festival, Wan Yue Festival, worship festival, Doll Festival or Mid-Autumn Festival, is popular in many Chinese nation and Chinese cultural circle countries of traditional culture festival, when Lunar Calendar; because coincided Sanqiu of half, hence the name, but some places will be set at the August 16 Mid-Autumn Festival. [1-2]
Mid-Autumn Festival began in the Tang Dynasty, popular in the Song Dynasty to the Ming and Qing dynasties, it has become one of China's major festivals and New Year par. Influenced by Chinese culture, but also Mid East and some Southeast Asian countries, especially the local overseas Chinese traditional festivals. Since 2008, Mid-Autumn Festival is listed as national holidays. May 20, 2006, the State Council included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage.
Mid-Autumn Festival month there since ancient times, moon, worship, eat moon cake and enjoy the sweet-scented osmanthus, osmanthus drink wine, and other practices, has spread and unremitting. Mid-May to the round of Mega Man reunion for sustenance miss home, miss the pro-touched, praying for a good harvest, happiness, becomes rich, precious cultural heritage

According to the Chinese calendar, the middle of the eighth lunar month in the fall, for the first month of autumn, called "the autumn", and on August 15 and in "the autumn" among the so called "Moonlight."
Mid-Autumn Festival has many nicknames: Because festival August 15, so called "Mid-Autumn Festival", "August half"; because Mid-Autumn Festival are the main activities around the "month" carried out, it is also commonly known as the "Moon Festival "" Moon evening "; Mid-Autumn Festival moon successfully, symbolizes reunion, which is also called" reunion. "
In the Tang Dynasty, Mid-Autumn Festival is also known as the "correct month."
Records on the "Reunion" was first seen in the Ming Dynasty. "West Lake Chi Yu," said: "August fifteen that the Mid-Autumn Festival, moon cake popular with both hands, take the meaning of reunion." "Teikyo features a little," also said: "The festival in August fifteen months, the cake will round melon will divide wrong tooth, such as lotus petals carved ...... its a married woman to Ning, was the day her husband will return, said the reunion. section also. "

Hungry Ghost Festival-Pano（xin zheng）

Hungry Ghost Festival-Pano（xin zheng）

Hungry Ghost Festival, commonly known as Halloween, segaki, July and a half, Buddhism called Obon. And New Year's Eve, the Ching Ming Festival, Chung Yeung three big traditional Chinese ancestor worship festival, also popular in Asian countries - Chinese traditional culture festival. Hungry Ghost Festival have put lanterns, burning paper ingots customs.

Han said the fifteenth day of the first lunar month Lantern Festival, is to celebrate the Lantern Festival, as old; July 15, said Han Hungry Ghost Festival, worship their ancestors; October 15, said the Han roadway section, is eating cold food, Ji Nianxian people. Hungry Ghost Festival in lunar July 15, some areas in July 14.

Hungry Ghost Festival was originally Xiaoqiu, there are a number of crops mature, civil routinely to Sizu, and other offerings with new rice supply, to report Qiucheng ancestor. So every Ghost Festival, every family ancestor worship, worship salute when such instrument. July 15 Shangfen grave, worship their ancestors. Overseas Chinese Ching Ming, Ghost, winter solstice and the four sections of the pocket will send batches of silver, otherwise it will be considered disrespectful to fathers, elders lack of filial piety, his wife irresponsible people under the rod and spoil the like.

Legend of the Hungry Ghost Festival day netherworld will release all the ghosts, people generally to worship ghost activities. Where a new funeral of people, for example, to the new grave, and usually in the local festival ghosts have become one of China's largest folk festival ritual. 

Custom holiday of helloween

Custom holiday of helloween
Halloween , the children will put the pumpkins , wearing a variety of outlandish costumes , go door to door to ask for candy , kept saying : "trick or treat" ( meaning : " to not give , do not give . Trick or Treat " ) if you refuse to give candy , then the children will be very angry , with a variety of methods to punish you , for example : the rubbish in the process of your house , etc. to punish you until you are willing to give them candy until. while dressed as elves Traditionally people would then go door to door pleading food . Their belief is that elves worship and to give food to please them, otherwise these elves will make fun of them , such as : chimney blockage, lost sheep ﹑ been throwing yellow tips white and so on. Another way to fool or scare away the evil spirits , is dressed like them , so that the evil spirits they believe it will not hurt them.



Halloween is derived from the ancient Celtic (Celtic) New Year festival , also worship the spirits at this moment in avoiding interference of evil spirits , but also to food worship ancestral spirits and good spirit to pray for peace through the winter . That night the child will wear costume , put on a mask , door to door to collect candy.

(Winter Solstice)--Pano(xin zheng)

(Winter Solstice)--Pano(xin zheng)

(Winter Solstice), is an important Chinese Lunar Feasts [1], is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation, the winter solstice, commonly known as "Winter Festival", "long to the festival," "Asian-year-old" and so on. Early in Spring and Autumn Period two thousand five hundred years ago, China has been observing the sun with Tugui, measured out the winter solstice, which is the twenty-four solar terms in the first worked out of a time in the calendar year to 23 December 21 between days.

Winter solstice day, direct sunlight reaches the ground position of the southernmost tip of the year, almost direct Tropic of Capricorn (latitude 23 ° 26 '). This day was the sun in the northern hemisphere at least, 50% less than in the southern hemisphere. The shortest day in the northern hemisphere, and the more north shorter daylight. As China's southernmost - James Shoal (latitude 2 ° 33 ') that day day up to 11 hours, 59 minutes, Haikou City, about 10 hours 55 minutes, 10 hours and 12 minutes, Hangzhou, Beijing about 9 hours and 20 minutes, and is known as "China's northernmost" Mohe County, Heilongjiang Province (latitude 52 ° 58 ') is also just seven hours 34 minutes. After the winter solstice, winter night sky astrology completely replaced, but starting today "into nine." At a time when the southern hemisphere summer heat value. [1]

More common is the winter solstice in the northern Chinese have the custom of eating dumplings. As the saying goes: "the winter solstice to eat dumplings." The South is eating rice balls, of course, there are exceptions, such as in Tengzhou in Shandong, Dongping, Wenshang, Qufu, Zoucheng, accustomed to the winter solstice is called winter frost, popular 过数 drink mutton nine day soup customs, meaning get rid of cold meaning. Sisu different country, but the most common eating dumplings.

Helloween---shirley xu

Halloween English is All Saints Day, also known as " All Saints Day " , one of the Catholic Church and the Orthodox festival , is a traditional festival in Western countries. Chinese areas often mistakenly called the Halloween Halloween . "Hallow" comes from the Middle English halwen, and holy etymology is very close , in some areas of Scotland and Canada , Halloween is still called "All Hallow Mas". That day , a ceremony to be held Mass (Mass) is celebrated on the day of all saints (Hallow). Now the community for commercial interests or for other purposes , in the October 31 night full of ghosts and goblins organizing various activities , a complete departure from the sacred meaning of Halloween .


Helloween---shirley xu

Halloween activities turned out to be very simple , but most were in the church . But in the whole of Europe , people regarded enjoy Halloween regarded slapstick , ghost story and a good opportunity to scare each other . So people no longer put the festival to praise the fall , but it turned into fantasy , witches and ghosts festival.

Pumpkins from the ancient Irish . Legend of a man named JACK , is a drunkard and a prankster . In Halloween day , he will be the devil spider trapped in a tree, he allowed the devil down until the Devil promised to never let him live in hell . JACK 's death, because he does not believe in God, he can not go to heaven , and the devil would not let him into hell , in order to assist in the plot to find a path back to earth , the devil gave him a piece of burning charcoal , JACK on this burning charcoal inside his red radish carved into a lantern , which is the first " JACK lantern " help plot to find his path back to Ireland , but he never found it , and he never took the lantern wandering the earth.

In the old Irish legend , this is the root of small candles in a hollowed-out turnip stood , called "JACK LANTERNS", and ancient lamps radish evolved into today , it is the pumpkin to do a Jack-O-Lantern . It is said that the Irish people to the United States soon after the discovery and carving pumpkins , whether from sources who are better Biluo Bo , then became a Halloween pumpkin darling

Because it is Halloween , so " rectification of names " for the million " ghost " section , unlike real Wan " holy " section . Strongly recommends that , after the Lord had to say Halloween limb of Hallow , because it is celebrating the death , and the glory of the devil , the evil spirits of the day , God's children can not use the " Saint " to God 's word to call it . Because not only steal the glory of God , but also confused people , including many uninformed Christians

He Double Ninth Festival—Pano (xin zheng)

He Double Ninth Festival—Pano (xin zheng)
He Double Ninth Festival) lunar September 9th, as the traditional chongyang Festival, also known as "advocates". Because of the "six" as in "I ching" Yin, "nine" as Yang number, September 9th, the moon and sun and Yang, October, so called chongyang, also known as the ninth. The double ninth festival has been formed, as early as the warring states period to the tang dynasty, chongyang was formally as a folk festival, since today who lived in ages past. Tread chongyang, also known as "autumn" and "go on spring outing" March 3rd is family room pour out, chongyang day all family members must climb "disaster", dogwood, chrysanthemum appreciation. Since the wei and jin dynasty chongyang increasingly rich atmosphere for all previous dynasties scholars intone the most one of a few traditional festivals.

重阳节

The double ninth festival, and weighing nine section, bask in the autumn festival, tread "autumn", the han nationality traditional festival. Celebrate the double ninth festival will typically include a touring in the autumn, climbing overlook times, ornamental chrysanthemum, dogwood, eat double ninth gao (or cake), drink chrysanthemum wine and other activities. At the beginning of every year lunar calendar in September 9, and the New Year's eve, the qingming festival, hungry ghost festival three four ancestor worship together the Chinese traditional festival. The double ninth festival, has been formed, as early as the warring states period to the tang dynasty was formally as a folk festival, since today who lived in ages past. Chongyang and "go on spring outing" early March 3rd is family room pour out, chongyang day all family members must climb "disaster".

Christmas.Joyce

Christmas is also called Christmas, western traditional festivals, in the year December 25th. Mass is a kind of church service. Christmas is a religious festival, because regard it as to celebrate the birth of Jesus, named "christmas".

Santa Claus
At the time of the fourth century, Nicholas was born in Asia Minor, big city, wealthy families, parents are very enthusiastic Catholics, unfortunately, his parents died young. Nicholas later became a priest, and was raised as a bishop. Among his life has done a lot of charity work, he most likes to secretly help the poor, Santa Claus is in his later alias, the name is from he secretly sent money to help the story of three girls. 
After the death of Nicholas sainthood, wearing a red, white beard wearing a red hat. Every year he drove the deer to pull the sled from the north, from the chimney into the house, and put the Christmas presents in the stockings hanging on the children's bedside or stove.

Send a Christmas card, in addition to the celebration of the Christmas celebration, is to relatives and friends blessing, in order to miss the table. Especially for the lonely in the friends and relatives, but also the kind of care and comfort.

Christmas tree

With lights and ornaments to fir usually decorated evergreen tree, as part of the celebration of christmas.

Good Food Month -- Nikki

Good Food Month is the largest food festival, it is also one of the popular festival in Australia, it is presented by Citi invites food lovers in all capitals to celebrate Australia’s extraordinary culinary scene throughout October every year.
Good Food Month has been running in Australia for 15 years and is a much loved part of the foodie calendar. All the chefs, restaurateurs and provides throughout every state pull out all the stops to showcase the state’s gourmet offerings. The month is jam-packed with one-off dinners, fabulous breakfast, lunch and dessert deals, pop-up events, glamorous parties, workshops, master classes, food talks and night markets.

Keep an eye out for events with international chefs who have flown in especially for the festival. One of the world’s most well-known artisan bakers, food writers and authors Dan Lepard will be coming to town, along with Lucky Peach Editor-in-Chief, Chris Ying and ramen master Ivan Orkin.It’s not just about eating though; there are plenty of events that will make you stop and think; from sustainable dinners to food films, art and photography. Good Food Month offers the opportunity to discover new favorite places to eat and get together with friends and family to celebrate the food culture.
 All restaurants who are interested in participating in The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Month presented by Citi for 2016 can advise their expression of interest by CLICKING HERE. Please note the program for 2016 is under review and all applications are subject to Fairfax approval. We encourage you to get creative and start thinking of some fantastic event ideas for 2016. 

Chinese New year--Edison

Chinese Lunar New Year of Rosh Hashanah is called the Spring Festival. It is the Chinese people's most ceremonious traditional festival, but also a symbol of unity, prosperity, new hope for the future sustenance of the festival. According to records, the Chinese people for the New Year more than 4,000 years of history. The origin of the Chinese New Year has a lot to say.
Related origins of ancient Chinese New Year's date is not consistent: with Xia Meng of January is the first month, Shang with the twelfth lunar month (December) for the first month. After Qin Shi Huang in October for the first month, the early Han Dynasty followed the Qin calendar. 104 BC (yuan closed six years), by Sima Qian, who proposed that the Han Dynasty ordered the rescheduled calendar. Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year

104 BC, astronomers falling Hong, Deng equal people developed a "calendar was in the beginning", the original beginning of the year to October was the first month to the beginning of the year to Meng, later on this basis gradually improve as we use today lunar calendar (lunar), falling Wing also known as "Spring Festival for the elderly." Since then China has been in use the lunar calendar (lunar calendar, also known as lunar) calendar, until the Qing Dynasty, up to 2080. Chinese New Year in different times have different names. Qin time called the "previous day", "Mongol", "reform years", "offer years" and so on; to the Han Dynasty, and called for the "three dynasties", "year-old Dan," "Zhengdan", "positive day" ; at Weijin called "meta-chen", "Mongol", "head of state", "Year of North Korea" and so on; to the Tang Yuan, Ming, then known as the "New Year", "dollars", "Year of Japan", "new positive "" NZ "and so on; while the Qing Dynasty, has been called the" New Year's Day "or" Mongol. "
Modern folk accustomed to the Spring Festival is also called the Spring Festival. In fact, the origin of and the Spring Festival is very different.
Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year


Then the "Year" is exactly how to come? There are two main folk saying: one says that in ancient times, there is something called "Year" ferocious monster, every twelfth lunar month thirty, they flee the village house to house, feeding human flesh and injure the creatures. There is a twelfth lunar month thirty at night, "year" to a village boy in the game coincides with two cattle whip. "Years" when suddenly the air pops the whip sound sounded scared Wangfengertao. It went to another village, and beheld the head-piece red dress basking in a door, which I do not know what that is, scared and quickly turn around to escape. Later, he came to a village, toward a house where people look, I saw inside the brightly lit, stabbed it dizziness, had no choice but to turn tail slip. It thus Mozhun "year" have fear response, fear of red, sensitive to light weaknesses, I know many resist its methods, such as firecrackers, then gradually evolved into today's New Year customs.
Another argument is that China's ancient books of the word "year" word put radical 115 to show weather and abundant harvests. Due to a cooked cereal grain is generally one year. The "year" will be extended to the age of the name of.

Food of festival
Spring Festival to eat rice cakes, "meaning take years to win, the membership to pray years Nim." Meaning good luck mid-high. Types of cakes are: Northern white cake Tuo, yellow rice cakes; Jiangnan have Shuimo cakes; glutinous Baba southwest; Taiwan red turtle cake Ming and Qing, the cake has become a year-round supply of snacks available in the market. and there are other flavors of the north and south. Northern cakes steamed, fried two kinds, in addition to the South cakes steamed, fried, there are pieces fry, soup cook all phenomena.

Northern New Year's tradition to eat dumplings, but the custom of eating dumplings is not the same all over, some local New Year's Eve to eat dumplings, dumplings started in some places, some northern mountainous areas also started to eat dumplings every morning, the fifth day customs. Dumplings is a unique way to express the desire of people to pray for Kyrgyzstan on the occasion of New Year. According to China's law in mind when ancient, 23:00 the next day 1:00 to midnight. "Jiaozi" that intersect in the New Year with the old time. Dumplings means more years to pay child, the New Year eating dumplings is considered good luck. Also dumplings shaped like a gold ingot, dumplings wrapped fortune means, eat dumplings symbolize life prosperity.

Spring rolls, also called Chunbing, the beginning of spring to eat Chunbing is an ancient Chinese custom. Jin Dynasty has "five taro dish" or "spring plate", is fajitas with vegetables in a pan of the same set. Tang and Song Dynasties beginning of spring eat Chunbing burgeoning wind, and the emperor's Grace Elegance Baiguan, when the spring plate is extremely particular about: "Cuilv their names, Rooster Yuyan, do very sophisticated, each plate straight Wan money." Chunbing development today, anywhere shape varies, due to the consumption of time and do not. There are poker, there are steaming; or as big as a fan, or as small as Eredivisie

Spring Festival--Edison

The traditional name for the New Year Spring Festival, bumper, new years, but verbally, also known as degree years, celebrate New Year, the Chinese New Year. Spring has specifically refers to the ancient solar terms in the beginning of spring, it is also seen as the beginning of the year, and later changed to the first lunar month of the new year began. Usually at least until the fifteenth day (Lantern Festival) before the end of Chinese New Year, Spring Festival, commonly known as "New Year", is the most ceremonious traditional festival of the Chinese nation. Since the beginning of the Han Dynasty in the beginning year, in summer and year (lunar calendar) the first day the first "(ie" year "), the New Year's date thus fixed, continues to this day. New Year ancient name." After New Year's Day of 1911 "began to use the Gregorian calendar (Gregorian calendar) count years, then known as the Gregorian calendar on January 1, "New Year's Day," said the first lunar month as "Spring Festival."
During the Spring Festival, China's Han ethnic minorities and many have held various activities to celebrate. These activities are designed for worship deities and ancestral shrine, blow away the cobwebs, Fu Ying Hei then pray for a good harvest as the main content. Colorful activities with strong ethnic characteristics.

                                                                                                              

Festivals, also known as "traditional festival." Their long history, spread wide, with great popularity, mass, and even universal characteristics.
New Year is the day blow away the cobwebs. Although set in the New Year lunar calendar, but New Year's activities but does not end with the first day that day. From the small New Year from 12th month, 23 (or 24), people began to "busy Years": sweep houses, shampoo bath, appliances and so on New Year preparation. All of these activities, there is a common theme, namely "New Year." People with a grand ceremony and warm, welcoming the New Year, welcome spring.
I wish the New Year Festival also pray day. The ancients called a cooked millet as a "year", the grain harvest for the "great years." Western Zhou Dynasty, had emerged to celebrate the annual harvest activities. Later, one of the main contents in heaven pray became vulgar. And, as Vesta, goalkeeper, Wealth, like God, God and other well Zhulu gods during the New Year, are prepared to enjoy human incense. It rewards people take care of the gods past, and pray that the new year to get more bliss. New Year or family reunion, London pro Sizu day. New Year's Eve, the whole family gathered, something to eat, "reunion dinner", elders give children distribute "lucky money", a group of people sit "stay up." Yuan days upon delivery in time, loud firecrackers Qi, the old year, New Year's events amounted to a climax. Various incense Sincerely, King of heaven and earth, offering fathers, followed by New Year to elders, relatives and friends with the family and then exchanged congratulations. Yuan in the future, start visiting friends and relatives, to send each other gifts, to celebrate the New Year. New Year is the public entertainment carnival festival. Mongol later, a variety of colorful entertainment rushed to carry out: a lion, dragon dance, dancing, walking on stilts, juggling various drama, etc., to add a strong New Year festive atmosphere. At this time, when "beginning of spring" before and after the Spring Festival gala to be held in the ancient ritual, cattle whip spring, pray for good weather, good harvest. Various fire agency activities to the fifteenth day, again form a climax.

 

                                                                                            

Therefore, it sets pray, celebrate, entertainment New Year festival has become the most solemn festival of the Chinese nation. But today, in addition to other activities than ever Sishen worship is fading, the main New Year's customs, are perfectly able to inherit and development.

  

the New Year--Shirley xu

The new year always brings good wishes to the people. In addition to the old and welcome the day, people all around the world for its ingenious, unique way to greet the arrival of the New Year.


UK: the day before New Year's Day, every household must do wine bottle, cupboard meat. Britons think that if there is no remaining wine and meat, the coming year will be poverty. In addition, the UK is also popular New Year "playing well water," the customs, the first people to fetch water for that first kick artificial happiness of the people, calling water is water auspicious. Englishman in New Year's Eve night, often bring out the cake and wine to visit, they do not knock on the door, he went straight into someone's house. According to British custom, after thousands of New Year's Eve night, the first foot forward toward the house who herald the new year luck. If the first guest was a dark-haired man, or a happy, happy and wealthy man, the owner will be lucky good luck throughout the year. If the first guest is a light yellow-haired woman, or a sad, poor, unfortunate people, the owner will be in the new year was bad luck, will encounter difficulties and disasters. New Year's Eve came to visit friends and relatives who did not talk before, to go to fiddle with a fireplace fire, blessing the owner, "open the door down." In some parts of central England, go out New Year's morning, whether familiar or unfamiliar, will send each other coins, they believe doing so, not only the other side there is wealth a year, but also to bring their own luck.


India: India's New Year's Day was called "crying New Year's Day", "fasting New Year." Their New Year's Day, people who are not allowed to get angry, but not allowed to temper. In some places, not only to celebrate the New Year, but with hold tears. They believe that the New Year beginning, years Perishable - life is short, with a cry to express their exclamation. People in some areas places fasting day and night to greet the new year, from the early morning until midnight New Year's Day.

Mongolia: the arrival of the new year, Mongolia elderly will look like dressed as a shepherd, wearing a plush leather jacket, wearing a fur hat, holding a whip, he kept the whip in the air pits crackle, to show evil blessing.

Brazil: Brazilians in New Year's day, holding torches, rushed mountaineering. People are scrambling to find that golden birch fruit symbol of happiness. Only danger people can find this rare fruit. They call it "find blessing." Rural Brazil has a unique customs - is pulling each ear, when people meet in the New Year, we must mutually hard grabbed each other's ears, good wishes.

Pakistan: In the New Year's Day, all of them holding a Pink Pakistani people ran out, met with relatives and friends, has ever new joy, then another will Pink painted on the forehead, to celebrate New Year's good luck.

Lantern Festival - Pano(xin zheng)

Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese festival-Pano

The Lantern Festival The Lantern Festival

As early as the qin dynasty had more than 2000 years ago. According to the data and folk legend, the fifteenth day of the already taken seriously in the western han dynasty, emperor sheen on the first night in oasis temple sacrifices "is a" activities, (too a: master of all the gods of the universe), be remembered as the fifteenth day of the sacrifice to the gods. 

Yuanxiao, meaning "the Lantern Festival evening", because of the fifteenth day of the first "the Lantern Festival" main activity is in the evening to eat dumplings and enjoy the festival name later evolved into "Lantern Festival". Yuanxiao nights, streets decorated, people watching lanterns, guess riddles, eating lantern, will continue starting the New Year's eve celebrations to another climax, become a custom of generation down. Yuanxiao festival at an early age forming process, the fifteenth day, only in the first month and a half or full moon, sui said yuan after evening or Lantern Festival. Early stage has been influenced by Taoism, also called has, tang was accidentally called yuanxiao. But since the song dynasty is also called light evening. In the qing dynasty, is called the Lantern Festival. Abroad, yuanxiao also with The The Lantern Festival and The unknown. 

Mid-Autumn Festival -- Nikki

Mid-autumn Festival is a popular and important lunar harvest festival celebrated by Chinese people.

The festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar. There are some traditions in this holiday. For example, people would have a big dinner with there families. After dinner, they often enjoy the full moon, which is round and bright. The other tradition of mid-autumn festival is eating moon cake. Moon cake is the essential of that day, which means reunion.

Every year lunar calendar in August 15 is Mid-autumn Festival, at this time the people always eat the moon cake, to enjoy looking at the moon, the family member reunite, because that day moon is roundest.

There are also many wonderful stories about mid-autumn festival. For instance, do you often watch the moon in the evening? What does it look like?

According to Chinese old myth, it looks like a beautiful goddess under a big tree in the moon. She was Chang e, the wife of Hou Yi. Hou Yi was a hero who saved people through shooting the extra eight Suns by arrows. Hence, the emperor in the sky rewarded him a magic medicine. If one took the medicine, he would fly up into the sky and turn into a fairy. But one day, one of Hou Yi's students suddenly shot him by an arrow. Then, he robbed into Hou Yi's home and wanted to grab the medicine. Urgently, Chang e had to take it. Later, she became the goddess of moon and lived in the moon palace.

That is the myth of Chang e represents that Mid-autumn Festival.