CHINESE FESTIVALS

CHINESE NEW YEAR

• The Chinese new user is the most important of the holidays for the Chinese. Since the Chinese New Year is based on a lunar calendar it isn't on the same date as ours, but happens every lunar year.
• The Chinese New Year is celebrated for 16 days. On New Years firecrackers and fireworks are set off and a big meal is eaten. The Chinese also decorate the house in the lucky color red to start the new year on the “right foot“
• The most common Chinese New Year foods include dumplings, fish, spring rolls and niangao. Other foods include, longevity noodles, good fortune fruit and tangyuan

LANTERN FESTIVAL

• Celebrated by lighting and enjoying floating, fixed, held or flying lanterns. This festival is also celebrated by lighting fireworks. Another way this is celebrated is by watching different folk dances that are going on in China.
• Celebrated on the 15th day of the first lunar month.
• The main food eaten on this Holliday is tangyuan which symbolizes reunion.

WINTER SOLSTICE

• This festival is. A time for family's to get together. Usually on the winter solstice they have a big meal with their family, and eat tangyuan. Tangyuan symbolizes reunion and is the main cause for eating it at this time.
• This is usually celebrated on December 21, 22, or the 23
• The main foods eaten around on the winter solstice are tangyuan and dumplings.

DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL

• This festival is celebrated by dragon boat racing, eating zongzi, wearing a perfume pouch, tying colorful silk threads (on your ankles wrists and around your neck) and hanging mugwort leaves and calamus on there doors to discourage disease.
• Occurs on the 5th day of the 5th month of the traditional lunar calendar.
• It is tradition for the Chinese to eat zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival. Other foods include fried cake, mianshanz and dagao.

QUINGMING FESTIVAL

• This festival is not celebrated, it is a day for the Chinese to commemorate there ancestors. They do this by tomb-sweeping there ancestors tombs. Weeding, giving the spot new soil and paying respect to the deceased family member or members.
• This falls on April 4th or 5th of the solar calendar.
• Foods that may be eaten on this day are sweet green rice, quingming cakes, and quintaun.

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