Chinese Custumes

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Qiqiao Festival / Double Seventh Festival

hockeykul Jan 31, 2017 2 min read

   Qiqiao Festival (Chinese:乞巧节), or Double Seventh Festival (Chinese:七夕节), is known as Chinese Valentine’s Day nowadays, which is a most romantic festival in China particularly popular among young girls. Qiqiao Festival is related to a beautiful love story between Niulang…

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Dragon Boat Festival

hockeykul Jan 31, 2017 2 min read

   Apart from racing dragon boat and eating Zongzi, other customs also popular among people during Dragon Boat Festival, like hanging calamus and Folium Artemisiae argyi on doors, smoking herb…

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Qingming festival / Tomb Sweeping Day

hockeykul Jan 31, 2017 2 min read

   Qingming is a festival as well as one of the Chinese 24 solar terms (Chinese:二十四节气), which objectively mirror the alteration of air temperatures, rainfall and biotemperature, and farmers arrange…

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Winter Solstice Festival

hockeykul Jan 31, 2017 4 min read

   The night on this day is the longest during a year, so “Winter Solstice rice ball” are made at this night. Children are happy on this day and usually…

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Laba Rice Porridge Festival

hockeykul Jan 31, 2017 2 min read

   Another custom is to prepare Laba vinegar for Jiaozi on the New Year Eve. People will skin garlic and put them in the vinegar. It will have a distinctive…