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Green cake
Tomb-sweeping Day is on the fifth day of the fourth lunar month. People usually eat green cake on that day.
Green cake is made of glutinous rice flour mixed with juice of a kind of green wild vegetable
• Unable to regain the respect of the emperor, in his sorrow Chu Yuan threw himself into the Mi Low river. Because of their admiration for Chu Yuan, the local people living adjacent to the Mi Lo River rushed into their boats to search for him while throwing rice into the waters to appease the river dragons。Although they were unable to find Chu Yuan, their efforts are still commemorated today during the Dragon Boat Festival。
• On Lantern Festival people go outside to have a look at the lanterns and guess the riddles on the lanterns. Perhaps you call see some wonderful folk performances,Dragon Dance and Yangko. Everything is very interesting and everyone is very happy. Our life is rich and varied.
• Dragon Boat Festival, also called Double Fifth Festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth moon of the lunar calendar. It is one of the most important Chinese festivals, the other two being the Autumn Moon Festival and Chinese New Year.
Dragon boat racing is an indispensable（不可缺 少的） part of the festival, held all over the country. As the gun is fired, people will see racers in dragonshaped canoes（独木舟） pulling the oars hurriedly, accompanied by rapid drums, speeding toward their
China’s seven traditional festivals
• Spring Festival • Lantern Festival • Qing Ming • Dragon Boat Festival • Double Seventh Festival • Mid-Autumn Day • Double Ninth Festival
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• In China, the most traditional and popular Spring Festival food is dumpling, which looks like the moon with vegetables and meat mixed in it. The Chinese name of dumpling is “JIAO ZI”, ”JIAO” means ”cross”, ”ZI” is Chinese traditional time represents “24:00”, so the Chinese word “JIAO ZI” means “cross 24:00”, just the dividing point of last year and next year. So when it comes to 24:00, every family begins eating dumplings.
The Dragon Boat Festival is traditionally celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month on the lunar calendar.We eat
Zong Zi on that day.
Zong Zi is a kind of rice dumpling wrapped in reed leaves to form a pyramid
• Waking up on New Year, everybody dresses up. First they extend greetings to their parents. Then each child will get money as a New Year gift, wrapped up in red paper.
• Before the New Year comes, the people completely clean the indoors and outdoors of their homes as well as their clothes, bedclothes and all their utensils.
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Spring Festival
• The Spring Festival is the most important festival for the Chinese people and is when all family members get together, just like Christmas in the West .
Lantern Festival
• Lantern Festival is a China's traditional festival. It is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar year.
• Lantern Festival is one of the biggest holidays in China. Several days before Lantern Festival, people begin to make lanterns. Lanterns are made in the shape of different animals, vegetables, fruits and many, other things. While making lanterns people usually write riddles on lanterns. On the eve of Lantern Festival, all the lanterns are hung up.
• Spring Festival is also the happiest time for children, because they can get red envelope containing money as a gift from the elder. During the Spring Festival, any unfortunate word cannot be heard because it will make people upset and unhappy. People also make use of this holiday to visit their relatives and bring them some presents and well-wishing.
• The origin of this summer festival centers around a scholarly government official named Chu Yuan. He was a good and respected man, but because of the misdeeds of jealous rivals he eventually fell into disfavor in the emperor's court。
On Lantern Festival,lanterns and tangyuan are the most important.
Qing Ming
• Qing Ming is a time to remember the dead and the dearly departed. More important, it is a period to honour and to pay respect to one's deceased ancestors and family members. Because it reinforces the ethic of filial piety, Qing Ming is a major Chinese festival. Literally meaning "clear" (Qing) and "bright" (Ming), this Chinese festival falls in early spring, on the 106th day after the winter solstice. It is a "spring" festival, and it is an occasion for the whole family to leave the home and to sweep the graves of their forebears. Chinese being practical people this sweeping of the graves is given an extended period, that is, 10 days before and after Qing Ming day. Among some dialect groups a whole month is allocated