假日 by Dubem Okafor https://padlet.com/dubem_okafor/ew5d0xnclrr7 中国的假日 en-us 2018-05-31 16:21:24 UTC 2018-09-26 17:02:54 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Ornamenttree.png 春假 dubem_okafor https://padlet.com/dubem_okafor/ew5d0xnclrr7/wish/264833878 春假是一月一号。
Chinese New Year, usually known as the Spring Festival in modern China, is an important Chinese festival celebrated at the turn of the Lunar Chinese calendar.

According to tales and legends, the beginning of the Chinese New Year started with a mythical beast called the Nian 年 (The mandarin word for year). Nian 年 would eat villagers, especially children. One year an old man appeared before the villagers went into hiding and said that he's going to stay the night, and decided to get revenge on the Nian 年. All the villagers thought he was insane. The old man put red papers up and firecrackers. The day after, the villagers came back to their town to see that nothing was destroyed

When the New Year is about to come, the people of China would wear red clothes, hang red lanterns, and red spring scrolls on windows and doors. 
just like the villagers did]]> 2018-05-31 16:32:08 UTC https://padlet.com/dubem_okafor/ew5d0xnclrr7/wish/264833878 七夕 dubem_okafor https://padlet.com/dubem_okafor/ew5d0xnclrr7/wish/264835914 七夕是七月七号。
The Qixi Festival ( 七夕节), also known as the Qiqiao Festival is a Chinese festival that celebrates the annual meeting of the cowherd and weaver girl in Chinese mythology.

The general tale is about a love story between Zhinü and Niulang Their love was not allowed, thus they were banished to opposite sides of the Silver River. Once a year, on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month, a flock of magpies would form a bridge to reunite the lovers for one day.

Girls worship the celestial beings during rituals. They go to the local temples to pray to Zhinü for wisdom. Paper items are usually burned as offerings.

]]> 2018-05-31 16:40:10 UTC https://padlet.com/dubem_okafor/ew5d0xnclrr7/wish/264835914 元宵节 dubem_okafor https://padlet.com/dubem_okafor/ew5d0xnclrr7/wish/264839954 元宵节是一月十五号
 Spring Lantern Festival is a Chinese festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunisolar Chinese calendar. Usually falling in February or early March on the Gregorian calendar, it marks the final day of the traditional Chinese New Yearcelebrations.

Matchmakers try to pair couples. The brightest lanterns represent good luck and hope. As time has passed, the festival no longer has such implications in most of Mainland China, but it is still commercialized as the Chinese equivalent of Valentine's Day]]> 2018-05-31 16:55:18 UTC https://padlet.com/dubem_okafor/ew5d0xnclrr7/wish/264839954 中秋节 dubem_okafor https://padlet.com/dubem_okafor/ew5d0xnclrr7/wish/264841981 The Mid-Autumn Festival is a harvest festival celebrated, notably by ethnic Chinese and Vietnamese peoples.The festival is held on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar with full moon at night。

In the ancient past, there was a hero named Hou Yi who was excellent at archery. His wife was Chang'e. One year, the ten suns rose in the sky together, causing great disaster to people. Yi shot down nine of the suns and left only one to provide light. An immortal admired Yi and sent him the elixir of immortality. Yi did not want to leave Chang'e and be immortal without her, so he let Chang'e keep the elixir. But Peng Meng, one of his apprentices, knew this secret. So, on the fifteenth of August in the lunar calendar, when Yi went hunting, Peng Meng broke into Yi's house and forced Chang'e to give the elixir to him. Chang'e refused to do so. Instead, she swallowed it and flew into the sky.

 Mooncakes, which are traditionally eaten during this festival have also appeared in western countries as an exotic sweet.


]]> 2018-05-31 17:03:27 UTC https://padlet.com/dubem_okafor/ew5d0xnclrr7/wish/264841981 忠孝節 dubem_okafor https://padlet.com/dubem_okafor/ew5d0xnclrr7/wish/265672416 The festival now occurs on the 5th day of the 5th month of the traditional Chinese calendar.
The story best known in modern China holds that the festival commemorates the death of the poet and minister Qu Yuan (c. 340–278 BC) of the ancient state of Chu during the Warring States period of the Zhou Dynasty.[10] A cadet member of the Chu royal house, Qu served in high offices. However, when the king decided to ally with the increasingly powerful state of Qin, Qu was banished for opposing the alliance and even accused of treason.[10]During his exile, Qu Yuan wrote a great deal of poetry. Twenty-eight years later, Qin captured Ying, the Chu capital. In despair, Qu Yuan committed suicide by drowning himself in the Miluo River.


It is said that the local people, who admired him, raced out in their boats to save him, or at least retrieve his body. This is said to have been the origin of dragon boat races. When his body could not be found, they dropped balls of sticky rice into the river so that the fish would eat them instead of Qu Yuan's body. 

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