Traveling during local holidays is a unique opportunity to discover the country's culture and traditions from the inside. The most famous national holiday is Chinese New Year symbolizing the coming of spring. In late January - early February, the country plunges into a festive atmosphere: everywhere there are active preparations, brightly decorated buildings and dwellings, New Year's sales. Many state institutions do not work on these days. The main Chinese tradition for this day is gathering at a big table as a family, cooking traditional and sweet rice dumplings. On the New Year's morning, it is customary to present children red envelopes with money inside.
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The main festival of the end of winter is the Dragon Festival, which is celebrated between April 20 and 25. Every year, the city of Weifang hosts the International Kite Festival, the opening of which is impressive in its scale. It attracts many participants from China and tourists from all over the world. The event opens with a procession with a huge figure of a dragon at the head, followed by actors, dancers, and circus artists. The program includes Chinese kite championships, workshops, performances of artists, trade fairs. Fireworks symbolize the end of the fun.
In early March, the province of Shawan in Guangzhou hosts the eponymous festival. Be sure to go out into the street, join the atmosphere of general fun timed to the arrival of spring, see performances of street artists, taste traditional Cantonese dishes. In January, tourists are given the opportunity to see the combination of ancient and modern cultures of China at the Guangzhou Temple Fair. It's worthwhile to watch Chinese martial art shows, the ancient "Chaoshan Yingge" dance, whose history has about 3 thousand years, "lion" and "dragon" dances, as well as try national sweets. At night, hundreds of thousands of paper lanterns are launched into the sky. Copyright www.orangesmile.com
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"Duan Wu" better known as the Dragon Boat Festival is held annually on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. The history of this event began more than one millennium ago. According to legend, during the Warring States period in 248 BC, the poet Qu Yuan was exiled from the city, and when the troops of the Qin Empire conquered the Kingdom of Chu, he threw himself into the river. Since then, people arrange dragon boat races on Chinese rivers, symbolically trying to find the poet's body. It is an official day off throughout the country.
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Tourists wishing to get into a fairy-tale world and take some impressive pictures should visit Changchun Ice and Snow Festival. It is held from November to February. The exposition changes several times because ice sculptures are short-lived. Here you can see replicas of world-famous architectural masterpieces, fairy-tale castles, figures of popular characters. The National Day of the People's Republic of China is an important holiday for the country when all Chinese citizens are eager to visit the capital's main square. All cities are festively decorated, state symbols can be seen at every step, and people have a whole week off.
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Yuanxiaojie is a lantern festival, which is traditionally celebrated right after Chinese New Year. There are many legends revealing the history of the tradition of lighting paper lamps. One of them relies on the fact that ancient monks meditated on the Buddha's relics on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. It is known that it has been celebrated since 104 BC. Symbols of the holiday are a tiger, a narcissus, and a dragon. On the streets, there are burning dragons processions, dances, and colorful performances.
Traveling during local holidays is a unique opportunity to discover the country's culture and traditions from the inside. The most famous national holiday is Chinese New Year symbolizing the coming of spring. In late January - early February, the country plunges into a festive atmosphere: everywhere there are active preparations, brightly decorated buildings and dwellings, New Year's sales. Many state institutions do not work on these days. The main Chinese tradition for this day is gathering at a big table as a family, cooking traditional and sweet rice dumplings. On the New Year's morning, it is customary to present children red envelopes with money inside.
Tourists wishing to get into a fairy-tale world and take some impressive pictures should visit Changchun Ice and Snow Festival. It is held from November to February. The exposition changes several times because ice sculptures are short-lived. Here you can see replicas of world-famous architectural masterpieces, fairy-tale castles, figures of popular characters. The National Day of the People's Republic of China is an important holiday for the country when all Chinese citizens are eager to visit the capital's main square. All cities are festively decorated, state symbols can be seen at every step, and people have a whole week off.
