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Beginning of Spring |
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1st/1st mo. |
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Rain Water |
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| Holidays and Observances: |
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| 1: Preliminary Eve (23rd of the 12th lunar month). According
to legend, the kitchen god delivers reports on families to the Jade
Emperor of Heaven. To induce the kitchen god to speak favorably, people
traditionally offer sacrifices of candy or sweet, sticky cake to him. |
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| 8: Lunar New Year's Eve, the last day of each
lunar year. Includes such traditional activities as pasting New Year's
couplets on doorframes and New Year's pictures on doors or walls,
offering sacrifices to ancestors, having a family reunion dinner,
staying up to see the old year out and usher in the new, and giving
children gifts of money. |
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| 9: Spring Festival (Chinese New Year's Day), 1st
of the first lunar month, three days off. |
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| 23: Lantern Festival, 15th of the 1st lunar month,
marking the end of the Chinese New Year celebrations with a display
of colorful lanterns and eating of yuanxiao, glutinous rice dumplings. |
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| Dancing Festival, the largest sacrificial ceremony
observed by the Jingpo ethnic group of Yunnan Province. For four or
five days following the 15th day of the 1st lunar month, people wear
festive clothing and dance to the accompaniment of drums and gongs,
firing guns in celebration. |
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