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中国节日及假期
阴历
LUNAR CALENDAR
正月初一
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春节
(1st of the first lunar
month
—
Spring Festival)
Spring
Festival,
or
Chinese
New
Year,
occurs
on
the
first
day
of
the
traditional
Chinese lunar
year (falling between the end of January and the
end of February in the
Gregorian
calendar). People return home to be with their
families. Traditions include
cleaning
the
home;
wearing
new
clothes;
presenting
gifts;
pasting
up
auspicious
couplets
(
对联
)
on
either
side
of
the
front
door;
giving
children
small
amounts
of
money
in red envelopes (
红包
); in
the North, making and eating boiled dumplings
(
饺
子
); and letting
off firecrackers and fireworks. In business, all
debts should be cleared
at New Year.
Celebrations can start late in the preceding
month, and go on till the
following
Lantern Festival. The official holiday, however,
is just three days.
正月十五
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元宵节
(15th of the first lunar
month
—
Lantern Festival)
The Lantern Festival falls on the first
full moon of the lunar year. The main activity is
watching lanterns and solving
‘
lantern
riddles
’
(
灯谜
) written on them. The
traditional
food is round glutinous
rice dumplings (
元宵
). The
Lantern Festival marks the end of
the
New Year period.
四月初八
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佛诞节
(8th of the fourth lunar month
—
Buddha
’
s
Birthday)
Buddha
’
s
Birthday
is
more
popular
in
Hong
Kong,
and
is
especially
celebrated
in
Buddhist temples.
五月初五
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端午节
(5th of the fifth
lunar month
—
Dragon Boat
Festival)
A traditional festival,
ostensibly commemorating the poet Qu Yuan (340-278
BC) of
the state of Chu. Qu Yuan wrote
what is regarded as some of the greatest poetry in
Chinese history. On hearing the news of
the defeat of Chu by Qin, he is said to have
committed
suicide
by
jumping
into
the
Miluo
River.
The
traditions
of
dragon-boat
racing and
eating glutinous rice pyramids
(
粽子
) are meant to mark Qu
Yuan
’
s death
—
since supposedly at the
time local people threw rice into the river to
divert the fish
from eating his body. <
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七月初七
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七夕节
(7th of the
seventh lunar month
—
Double
Seventh Festival)
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