There are a variety of activities in celebration of the Double Ninth Festival: climbing, wearing cornel (山茱萸) leaves, appreciating chrysanthemums (菊花), drinking chrysanthemum wine (雄黄酒) and eating Chongyang cakes.
Autumn is the
When people climbed they wore cornel because they believed that cornel could keep away evils. Cornel is an ever green shrub (灌木)
Known as the Zhongqiu Jie (the Mid-Autumn Festival) in China, the Chinese Moon Festival dates back to over 3,000 years. As with all practices so old, a lot of legends
One story suggests that the moon goddess
Another Chinese Moon Festival legend states that paper messages inside of mooncakes were used as a way
It was said that the Emperor of Heaven had seven daughters, among whom the
Zhinü got married to him
Since then, the Double Seventh Festival,
The Qingming was the most important festival of the year
Of all the ancient
The Song
The Lantern Festival falls on the 15th day of the st lunar month, usually in February or early March in the solar calendar.
In the daytime of the festival,
Some aspects of the festival are fading nowadays,
The most difficult thing about celebrating the Spring Festival in
In the countryside, it is completely opposite. Two years ago, a friend, Robin
The Chinese New Year was a family event for me as a child. When I was little, there were no street performances and there were
Shops would close for business for at least two days; streets were deserted.As the
My mother would kill a few chickens two days before the New Year and I was her able