FESTIVALS IN CHINA

CHINESE NEW YEAR

• It is also known as the Spring Festival
• Celebrated in: Mainland China, Hong Kong,Macau, Taiwan, Singapore,Thailand
• Celebrated at the turn of the lunisolar Chinese calendar

LANTERN FESTIVAL

• celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunisolar year
• During the Lantern Festival, children go out at night to temples carrying paper lanterns and solve riddles on the lanterns
• is the celebration of "the declining darkness of winter" and community's ability to "move about at night with human-made light," namely, lanterns.

QINGMING FESTIVAL

• Also know as tomb-sweeping day
• on the first day of the fifth solar term of the traditional Chinese lunisolar calendar
• Cleaning and sweeping of graves, ancestor worship
• burning joss paper
• offering food to deceased

DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL

• also known as the Tuen Ng or Duanwu Festival
• a traditional and statutory holiday originating in China
• now occurs on the 5th day of the 5th month of the traditional lunar calendar

MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL

• celebrated by ethnic Chinese and Vietnamese people
• on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese Han calendar
• In the Vietnamese culture, it is considered the second-most important holiday tradition after Tết.[citation needed]