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Today’s festivals have a wide
The
Festivals are an important part of society. They
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What Sociology Can Teach UsAbout Thanksgiving
Sociologists (社会学家) believe that the celebrations practiced within any given culture serve to restate that culture’s most important values and beliefs. This theory dates back to founding sociologist Émile Durkheim and has been proved true by
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In most households across the U. S. women and girls do the work of preparing, serving, and cleaning up after the Thanksgiving meal.
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The Origin of Trick-or-treat
On October 31, hordes of children armed with Jack-o’-lantern-shaped buckets and pillow cases will take to the streets in search of sugar. Trick-or-treating for candy is equivalent to Halloween, but the tradition had to go through a centuries-long
Historians agree that a Celtic autumn festival called Samhain (萨温节) was the origin of modern Halloween. Samhain was a time to celebrate the last harvest of the year and the approach of the winter season. It was also a festival for
Instead of leaving them outside for
It wasn’t until the 1950s that trick-or-treat gained popularity in the US. Following the Great Depression and World War II, the suburbs were booming, and people were looking for
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The National Cherry Blossom Festival (樱花节) held in Washington D.C. is creating an online experience for people to enjoy while practicing social distance. People can have
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Mooncake Bakers Break the Mold This Year
Mooncakes, the seasonal treat
Longtime mooncake makers and newcomers are coming up
Many mooncake advertisements that started to appear in August in supermarkets, convenience stores and online social media have highlighted new flavours, special ingredients, and exquisite packaging.
Traditional fillings such as lotus seed paste with egg yolk for popular Cantonese-style mooncakes and other common fillings
This year, Xinya Cantonese Restaurant, which is popular in Shanghai for its seasonal pastries, is promoting mooncakes with mustard tuna fish floss filling and green Sichuan pepper basa fish paste.
Plant-based meat substitutes,
Pagoda, a retail fruit chain with 4,000 outlets in China, has also joined the race with its first mooncake products featuring healthy
Taste Back, a snack food startup in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, has been promoting a large mooncake inspired
Designs are another major field of competition as mooncakes are traditionally
Haagen—Dazs, which entered the market with its ice—cream mooncake 22 years ago, worked with the Spanish museum Casa Batllo to use modernist designs from mosaics by architect Antoni Gaudi on the boxes for its mooncake sets.
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More than 50 young girls clad in hanfu, or
At the
Females in ancient China officially became adult at 15. And a big ceremony was held to mark this “passage to
Li Ji, or Book of Rites, a collection of texts describing the social norms, administration, and ceremonial rites of the Zhou Dynasty, said the ceremonies