CHINESE FESTIVALS

CHINESE NEW YEAR

• Also know as the Lunar New Year, or the Spring Festival.
• Chinese New Year is Monday, February 8 for 2016.
• There are preparation celebrations From January 31, to February 6.
• Some traditional celebrations include, New Years shopping, dinner with your family, giving/receiving red envelopes filled with money, fireworks, lanterns, and much more.
• Some of the foods eaten for Chinese New Year include: fish, dumplings, spring rolls, rice cakes, longevity noodles, and fruits.

LANTERN FESTIVAL

• The Lantern Festival is a Chinese festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunisolar year in the lunar calendar marking the last day of the lunar New Year celebration
• The festival includes children going out at night to temples and solve riddles on the lanterns.
• The most important food for the lantern festival are, glutinous rice dumplings, or sticky rice balls, which symbolize keeping a family glued together.

DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL

• It will occur on June 9, in 2016
• The celebration is about beautifully decorated and designed boats, which look like dragons,racing.
• People will eat rice dumplings and drink wine.

MID-AUTUM FESTIVAL

• In 2016, it will be celebrated on Thursday September 15.
• Chinese people will have a two day Holiday and to celebrate they might: have a reunion dinner, play with lanterns, worship the moon, and fly lanterns.
• Some popular foods eaten during the celebration include: moon cakes, pumpkin, pomelo, duck, and wine.

WINTER SOLSTICE

• The festival is usually held on the 2st ,22nd, or 23rd of December.
• The Winter Solstice is typically a time for the family to get together the making and eating of glutinous rice balls, which symbolize reunion.
• Some foods eaten for the festival include: dumplings, rice balls, and cakes.