The Spring Festival is celebrated on the first day of the first lunar month and originated from sacrifices to gods and ancestors. It is a major holiday in China with customs like decorating homes with couplets and pictures. The Lantern Festival falls 15 days after Spring Festival and involves watching lanterns, guessing riddles, and eating rice dumplings. Other festivals described include Qingming Festival for sweeping tombs, Dragon Boat Festival with boat races, Double Seventh Festival celebrating a love story, and Mid-Autumn Festival where people admire the moon and eat mooncakes.
Every year Vietnam celebrates 2 important HOLIDAY: TET and Mooncake Festival
This presentation uncover s short history and inspiring story about Mooncakes Festival. Also the ECC English Club conducts its first Mooncake White Charity- Street giving of Mooncakes and Lantern to poor kids and beggars. Presented by Charlottec, September 2009
Mid-autumn festival in Vietnam is very near around the corner. Have you planned anything to experience one of the most wonderful festivals in Vietnam?
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The Mid-Autumn Festival occurs on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month. People celebrate by having family reunions, eating mooncakes, watching the full moon, releasing sky lanterns, and more. Common foods are mooncakes, taros, pears, and watermelons.
The Autumn Moon Festival, also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival, falls on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month in the Chinese calendar. It is a time for family reunions where family members gather to enjoy a meal of mooncakes, which symbolize family unity. Activities include eating mooncakes, lighting lanterns, and floating sky lanterns to admire the full moon and commemorate the Chinese legend of Chang'e, the moon goddess.
This document summarizes Romanian traditions and customs, dividing them into family customs, calendar-based customs, and religious customs. Family customs center around important life events like birth, marriage, and death. Calendar-based customs are associated with the seasons and holidays throughout the year. Major religious customs include Christmas, Easter, and the celebrations of various saints' days. The document provides details on the rituals, superstitions, and symbolic meanings associated with these various traditions.
Chinese Moon Festival background story and custom.
Please download to view, there are many slides with photos "fly in" to create the story.
Enjoy and happy Moon Festival!
Anton Chekhov was a Russian author known for his short stories and plays in the late 19th century. He also worked as a physician, which provided financial motivation for his writing. The document summarizes Chekhov's biography and provides analysis of his short story "The Student", focusing on how the student shares the story of Peter's betrayal of Jesus with two widows and has an emotional realization about the connection between past and present.
This document discusses various winter solstice traditions from different cultures around the world. It provides information on ancient Egyptian, Roman, Native American, Jewish, Chinese, Iranian, Buddhist, and Pagan traditions related to the winter solstice. It also shares poems and articles about the winter solstice and end of year holidays.
Every year Vietnam celebrates 2 important HOLIDAY: TET and Mooncake Festival
This presentation uncover s short history and inspiring story about Mooncakes Festival. Also the ECC English Club conducts its first Mooncake White Charity- Street giving of Mooncakes and Lantern to poor kids and beggars. Presented by Charlottec, September 2009
Mid-autumn festival in Vietnam is very near around the corner. Have you planned anything to experience one of the most wonderful festivals in Vietnam?
Contact us at https://goasiadaytrip.com for more efficient and timely support.
The Mid-Autumn Festival occurs on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month. People celebrate by having family reunions, eating mooncakes, watching the full moon, releasing sky lanterns, and more. Common foods are mooncakes, taros, pears, and watermelons.
The Autumn Moon Festival, also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival, falls on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month in the Chinese calendar. It is a time for family reunions where family members gather to enjoy a meal of mooncakes, which symbolize family unity. Activities include eating mooncakes, lighting lanterns, and floating sky lanterns to admire the full moon and commemorate the Chinese legend of Chang'e, the moon goddess.
This document summarizes Romanian traditions and customs, dividing them into family customs, calendar-based customs, and religious customs. Family customs center around important life events like birth, marriage, and death. Calendar-based customs are associated with the seasons and holidays throughout the year. Major religious customs include Christmas, Easter, and the celebrations of various saints' days. The document provides details on the rituals, superstitions, and symbolic meanings associated with these various traditions.
Chinese Moon Festival background story and custom.
Please download to view, there are many slides with photos "fly in" to create the story.
Enjoy and happy Moon Festival!
Anton Chekhov was a Russian author known for his short stories and plays in the late 19th century. He also worked as a physician, which provided financial motivation for his writing. The document summarizes Chekhov's biography and provides analysis of his short story "The Student", focusing on how the student shares the story of Peter's betrayal of Jesus with two widows and has an emotional realization about the connection between past and present.
This document discusses various winter solstice traditions from different cultures around the world. It provides information on ancient Egyptian, Roman, Native American, Jewish, Chinese, Iranian, Buddhist, and Pagan traditions related to the winter solstice. It also shares poems and articles about the winter solstice and end of year holidays.
Ancient China had four social classes - landlords, peasants, craftsmen, and merchants. Boys often went to school to learn Confucian philosophy, but education was only available to some. People worshipped ancestors and local gods. Housing for the rich included courtyards, while the poor lived in mud homes. The arts included pottery, bronze vessels, painting, and music tied to philosophy. Many festivals centered around the lunar calendar and honoring ancestors, gods, and historical figures. Science and technology included inventions like paper, the compass, gunpowder, and a hot air balloon. Daily life differed between social classes and sexes.
The Chinese celebrate Valentine's Day twice a year, including the Qi Xi Festival which falls on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. According to a Chinese fairytale, the festival commemorates the annual reunion of the cowherd Niulang and weaver maiden Zhinu. Traditionally, young women would engage in activities to demonstrate their domestic skills and plead with the weaver goddess for needleworking abilities, though modern celebrations resemble typical Western Valentine's Day festivities between couples. Tourists can witness or participate in the celebrations while staying in luxury hotels in Beijing such as the Grand Millennium Hotel.
This document provides information about the months of January through June, including their birthstones, birth flowers, holidays, and symbolic meanings associated with each month's trees and signs. For each month there are 3 sentences summarizing the key details: the birthstone and its symbolic meaning, the birth flower(s) and any symbolic meanings, and 1-2 of the month's associated trees and their symbolic meanings. The document also includes calendars showing the days of each month.
This document provides a biography of Hudson Taylor, a missionary to China in the 19th century. It summarizes that Taylor spent 51 years in missionary service in China, establishing 20 mission stations and bringing over 800 missionaries to the field. It also describes some of the hardships Taylor faced, including opposition, illness, and even an attack on his home that resulted in injuries. The document outlines Taylor's conversion experience and calling to missionary work in China as a young man, as well as the founding of the China Inland Mission to support further missionary efforts.
Traditional Chinese marriage involved pre-arranged marriages between families and emphasized the importance of marriage for families and society. Marriages were usually monogamous and romantic love was allowed. The traditional marriage process consisted of six main rituals: proposal by a matchmaker, assessing birth dates for compatibility, the groom's family presenting a bride price and gifts, arranging an auspicious wedding date, the wedding ceremony itself including exchanging vows, and wedding banquets to celebrate the marriage and bring the families together. Women traditionally did not choose their own husbands as marriages were arranged to meet family needs.
The document summarizes several important religious holidays celebrated in Lithuania. It provides details on the traditions and meanings associated with Christmas Eve (Kūčios), Christmas, Epiphany/Three Kings' Day, Candlemas, Saint Casimir's Day, and Užgavėnės (Winter Expulsion Festival). Christmas Eve and Christmas are the most important winter holidays, and involve special family meals, gift giving, and religious services throughout Christmas week.
Values & Traditions by emine, alexandru, harun, iuliaDavut Atis
This document discusses several cultural traditions in Turkey and Romania. It describes Turkish traditions such as deleting someone's name under a shoe to signify marriage, Ashura fasting, reading the Ezan to newborns, and visiting relatives before military service. Romanian traditions discussed include Easter egg painting, winter folk customs like masked dancing, wearing mărţişorul talismans in March, choosing a "baba" figure, pre-wedding ceremonies, Dragobete's day of love in February, and celebrating Sânziene with healing plants in June.
The document is a magazine from the "Looking for news!" eTwinning project featuring articles from schools in England, Poland, Romania, and Spain. It includes greetings and introductions from students and teachers, descriptions of school activities like swimming lessons and international trips, photos from various schools and events, recipes for traditional dishes from Poland, and examples of student art and crafts made for Christmas.
The document summarizes seven Valentine's Day traditions from different countries and cultures:
1) In Slovenia, February 14th is associated with the resumption of agricultural work and nature awakening from winter.
2) In Japan, women give men chocolate on February 14th depending on their relationship, with homemade "honmei-choko" reserved for romantic partners.
3) In Wales, January 25th is dedicated to Saint Dwynwen, and lovers exchange decorative wooden "lovespoons" as symbols of affection.
4) British superstitions on Valentine's Eve involved dreaming of future husbands through rituals with bay leaves and eggs.
5) In South Korea, singles gather on April
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Chuseok is the Korean Thanksgiving celebration held on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month. It is a 3-day holiday where Koreans pay respect to ancestors and enjoy traditional foods like bulgogi, chapjae, and songpyeon. People dress in hanbok, the traditional Korean clothing, and perform ancestral rituals at gravesites in the morning. The Chinese Moon Festival is similarly celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month, featuring mooncakes and family gatherings to admire the harvest moon. Legend says the festival commemorates a successful revolt aided by hidden messages in mooncakes.
Baroque opera originated in Italy in the late 16th century and soon spread throughout Europe. It combines music, drama, singing, costumes and scenery on stage. The singers perform dramatic works accompanied by an orchestra. While many Baroque operas were written, only a small percentage survive today. During this period, opera stories typically featured mythological or historical characters rather than ordinary people. George Frideric Handel was a leading Baroque opera composer along with Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Pergolesi and Hasse.
Lizan Wang visited the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto in March 2013. She enjoyed exploring the museum and learning about the different cultures represented in their statues and paintings from Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America. In January 2013, when Lizan first came to Canada, she helped her home-stay family clean heavy snow from their house. For her first spring festival in Canada without her parents, Lizan celebrated with friends by making dinner together. In February 2013, Lizan joined a trip with her college student union to go snowing in Blue Mountain, which was her first time snowing but she did not give up despite falling many times.
1) Loy Krathong is a Thai festival held annually on the full moon of the 12th lunar month where people float krathong (banana-leaf boats with candles) down rivers and canals to wash away bad luck and misfortune from the previous year.
2) The festival originated in the Sukhothai period under King Ramkhamhaeng as a way to worship Buddha's footprint and pay tribute to the water goddess.
3) Today, Loy Krathong celebrations include contests, performances, fireworks and floating krathongs while making wishes for good fortune in the coming year.
This document provides a history of Balinese dance from prehistoric times to the present. Some key points:
- Balinese dance forms developed over millennia, with influences from Austronesian migrations, Hindu-Buddhist kingdoms like Majapahit, and the Dutch colonial period.
- Gambuh, one of the oldest dance forms, originated in Majapahit royal courts in the 14th-16th centuries and was brought to Bali as Majapahit influence declined. It was adapted to Balinese culture over time.
- Traditional dances like gambuh are now typically performed at Balinese Hindu ceremonies and temples. In the 20th century, forms like jejog
The document provides information about various aspects of theater, including definitions of key terms like theater, elements of theater, purposes of theater, and personnel involved in theater like producers, directors, performers, designers, and others. It also provides brief definitions and background on dance, cinema/motion pictures. Theater is described as a place for plays to be performed and also as an art form involving actors performing for an audience. Key elements include the actor, audience, written or improvised text, costumes, scenery, lights, sound, and props. Theater can entertain, instruct, motivate and more, depending on the interaction with the audience.
The document provides an overview of Renaissance theater in Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries. It discusses the rise of theater during this period in Italy, England, Spain, and France. In Italy, commedia dell'arte emerged as a popular improvised comedy form, and the rules of neoclassical drama were developed. In England, playwrights like Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare advanced dramatic writing, performing plays in new public theaters in London. Theater flourished but was outlawed in 1642, marking the end of the English Renaissance period.
Taiko drumming has been part of Japanese culture for many centuries, originating in religious festivals and ceremonies held in temples and shrines. While taiko also saw usage in warfare, it was only in the last forty years that it emerged as a performance art itself, with groups like Ondekoza and Kodo gaining a global audience. The ōdaiko is considered the world's largest drum, with some examples over 9 feet in diameter, made from single blocks of centuries-old wood that take over a year to craft.
The document lists important dramatists of the Baroque period in Europe such as Miguel de Cervantes, William Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, Ben Jonson, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Pierre Corneille, Jean Baptiste Molière, John Dryden, Philippe Quinault, Jean-Baptiste Lully, and Jean Racine. It focused on playwrights and artists from Spain, England, and France who were influential in the development of Baroque theatre through their plays, operas, and contributions to the stage.
Medieval theatre from 400-1500 CE developed from liturgical drama performed during mass to vernacular plays performed for the public. The Church initially opposed pagan Roman play festivals but then leveraged theatre by incorporating dramatic biblical stories into mass to make it more interesting, such as the Quem Quaeritis Easter trope added in 925 CE. Vernacular plays in the local language later emerged and fell into the three categories of Miracle, Mystery, and Morality plays, which were performed on pageant wagons in the streets. The Church remained in charge of theatre and influenced its use to spread Christianity.
Kabuki is a traditional Japanese dance-drama form of theater that originated in the 17th century. It features elaborate costumes, dramatic makeup, and extravagant wigs to convey characters and their emotions to audiences. The theater relies heavily on music to set the mood and cue actors. Kabuki makeup uses specific colors and lines on the face to symbolize traits like passion and villainy. Costumes are also colorful and elaborate. Kabuki continues to influence other art forms and entertain audiences today.
Ancient China had four social classes - landlords, peasants, craftsmen, and merchants. Boys often went to school to learn Confucian philosophy, but education was only available to some. People worshipped ancestors and local gods. Housing for the rich included courtyards, while the poor lived in mud homes. The arts included pottery, bronze vessels, painting, and music tied to philosophy. Many festivals centered around the lunar calendar and honoring ancestors, gods, and historical figures. Science and technology included inventions like paper, the compass, gunpowder, and a hot air balloon. Daily life differed between social classes and sexes.
The Chinese celebrate Valentine's Day twice a year, including the Qi Xi Festival which falls on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month. According to a Chinese fairytale, the festival commemorates the annual reunion of the cowherd Niulang and weaver maiden Zhinu. Traditionally, young women would engage in activities to demonstrate their domestic skills and plead with the weaver goddess for needleworking abilities, though modern celebrations resemble typical Western Valentine's Day festivities between couples. Tourists can witness or participate in the celebrations while staying in luxury hotels in Beijing such as the Grand Millennium Hotel.
This document provides information about the months of January through June, including their birthstones, birth flowers, holidays, and symbolic meanings associated with each month's trees and signs. For each month there are 3 sentences summarizing the key details: the birthstone and its symbolic meaning, the birth flower(s) and any symbolic meanings, and 1-2 of the month's associated trees and their symbolic meanings. The document also includes calendars showing the days of each month.
This document provides a biography of Hudson Taylor, a missionary to China in the 19th century. It summarizes that Taylor spent 51 years in missionary service in China, establishing 20 mission stations and bringing over 800 missionaries to the field. It also describes some of the hardships Taylor faced, including opposition, illness, and even an attack on his home that resulted in injuries. The document outlines Taylor's conversion experience and calling to missionary work in China as a young man, as well as the founding of the China Inland Mission to support further missionary efforts.
Traditional Chinese marriage involved pre-arranged marriages between families and emphasized the importance of marriage for families and society. Marriages were usually monogamous and romantic love was allowed. The traditional marriage process consisted of six main rituals: proposal by a matchmaker, assessing birth dates for compatibility, the groom's family presenting a bride price and gifts, arranging an auspicious wedding date, the wedding ceremony itself including exchanging vows, and wedding banquets to celebrate the marriage and bring the families together. Women traditionally did not choose their own husbands as marriages were arranged to meet family needs.
The document summarizes several important religious holidays celebrated in Lithuania. It provides details on the traditions and meanings associated with Christmas Eve (Kūčios), Christmas, Epiphany/Three Kings' Day, Candlemas, Saint Casimir's Day, and Užgavėnės (Winter Expulsion Festival). Christmas Eve and Christmas are the most important winter holidays, and involve special family meals, gift giving, and religious services throughout Christmas week.
Values & Traditions by emine, alexandru, harun, iuliaDavut Atis
This document discusses several cultural traditions in Turkey and Romania. It describes Turkish traditions such as deleting someone's name under a shoe to signify marriage, Ashura fasting, reading the Ezan to newborns, and visiting relatives before military service. Romanian traditions discussed include Easter egg painting, winter folk customs like masked dancing, wearing mărţişorul talismans in March, choosing a "baba" figure, pre-wedding ceremonies, Dragobete's day of love in February, and celebrating Sânziene with healing plants in June.
The document is a magazine from the "Looking for news!" eTwinning project featuring articles from schools in England, Poland, Romania, and Spain. It includes greetings and introductions from students and teachers, descriptions of school activities like swimming lessons and international trips, photos from various schools and events, recipes for traditional dishes from Poland, and examples of student art and crafts made for Christmas.
The document summarizes seven Valentine's Day traditions from different countries and cultures:
1) In Slovenia, February 14th is associated with the resumption of agricultural work and nature awakening from winter.
2) In Japan, women give men chocolate on February 14th depending on their relationship, with homemade "honmei-choko" reserved for romantic partners.
3) In Wales, January 25th is dedicated to Saint Dwynwen, and lovers exchange decorative wooden "lovespoons" as symbols of affection.
4) British superstitions on Valentine's Eve involved dreaming of future husbands through rituals with bay leaves and eggs.
5) In South Korea, singles gather on April
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Chuseok is the Korean Thanksgiving celebration held on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month. It is a 3-day holiday where Koreans pay respect to ancestors and enjoy traditional foods like bulgogi, chapjae, and songpyeon. People dress in hanbok, the traditional Korean clothing, and perform ancestral rituals at gravesites in the morning. The Chinese Moon Festival is similarly celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month, featuring mooncakes and family gatherings to admire the harvest moon. Legend says the festival commemorates a successful revolt aided by hidden messages in mooncakes.
Baroque opera originated in Italy in the late 16th century and soon spread throughout Europe. It combines music, drama, singing, costumes and scenery on stage. The singers perform dramatic works accompanied by an orchestra. While many Baroque operas were written, only a small percentage survive today. During this period, opera stories typically featured mythological or historical characters rather than ordinary people. George Frideric Handel was a leading Baroque opera composer along with Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Pergolesi and Hasse.
Lizan Wang visited the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto in March 2013. She enjoyed exploring the museum and learning about the different cultures represented in their statues and paintings from Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America. In January 2013, when Lizan first came to Canada, she helped her home-stay family clean heavy snow from their house. For her first spring festival in Canada without her parents, Lizan celebrated with friends by making dinner together. In February 2013, Lizan joined a trip with her college student union to go snowing in Blue Mountain, which was her first time snowing but she did not give up despite falling many times.
1) Loy Krathong is a Thai festival held annually on the full moon of the 12th lunar month where people float krathong (banana-leaf boats with candles) down rivers and canals to wash away bad luck and misfortune from the previous year.
2) The festival originated in the Sukhothai period under King Ramkhamhaeng as a way to worship Buddha's footprint and pay tribute to the water goddess.
3) Today, Loy Krathong celebrations include contests, performances, fireworks and floating krathongs while making wishes for good fortune in the coming year.
This document provides a history of Balinese dance from prehistoric times to the present. Some key points:
- Balinese dance forms developed over millennia, with influences from Austronesian migrations, Hindu-Buddhist kingdoms like Majapahit, and the Dutch colonial period.
- Gambuh, one of the oldest dance forms, originated in Majapahit royal courts in the 14th-16th centuries and was brought to Bali as Majapahit influence declined. It was adapted to Balinese culture over time.
- Traditional dances like gambuh are now typically performed at Balinese Hindu ceremonies and temples. In the 20th century, forms like jejog
The document provides information about various aspects of theater, including definitions of key terms like theater, elements of theater, purposes of theater, and personnel involved in theater like producers, directors, performers, designers, and others. It also provides brief definitions and background on dance, cinema/motion pictures. Theater is described as a place for plays to be performed and also as an art form involving actors performing for an audience. Key elements include the actor, audience, written or improvised text, costumes, scenery, lights, sound, and props. Theater can entertain, instruct, motivate and more, depending on the interaction with the audience.
The document provides an overview of Renaissance theater in Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries. It discusses the rise of theater during this period in Italy, England, Spain, and France. In Italy, commedia dell'arte emerged as a popular improvised comedy form, and the rules of neoclassical drama were developed. In England, playwrights like Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare advanced dramatic writing, performing plays in new public theaters in London. Theater flourished but was outlawed in 1642, marking the end of the English Renaissance period.
Taiko drumming has been part of Japanese culture for many centuries, originating in religious festivals and ceremonies held in temples and shrines. While taiko also saw usage in warfare, it was only in the last forty years that it emerged as a performance art itself, with groups like Ondekoza and Kodo gaining a global audience. The ōdaiko is considered the world's largest drum, with some examples over 9 feet in diameter, made from single blocks of centuries-old wood that take over a year to craft.
The document lists important dramatists of the Baroque period in Europe such as Miguel de Cervantes, William Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, Ben Jonson, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Pierre Corneille, Jean Baptiste Molière, John Dryden, Philippe Quinault, Jean-Baptiste Lully, and Jean Racine. It focused on playwrights and artists from Spain, England, and France who were influential in the development of Baroque theatre through their plays, operas, and contributions to the stage.
Medieval theatre from 400-1500 CE developed from liturgical drama performed during mass to vernacular plays performed for the public. The Church initially opposed pagan Roman play festivals but then leveraged theatre by incorporating dramatic biblical stories into mass to make it more interesting, such as the Quem Quaeritis Easter trope added in 925 CE. Vernacular plays in the local language later emerged and fell into the three categories of Miracle, Mystery, and Morality plays, which were performed on pageant wagons in the streets. The Church remained in charge of theatre and influenced its use to spread Christianity.
Kabuki is a traditional Japanese dance-drama form of theater that originated in the 17th century. It features elaborate costumes, dramatic makeup, and extravagant wigs to convey characters and their emotions to audiences. The theater relies heavily on music to set the mood and cue actors. Kabuki makeup uses specific colors and lines on the face to symbolize traits like passion and villainy. Costumes are also colorful and elaborate. Kabuki continues to influence other art forms and entertain audiences today.
The very super of Thai festivals from 4 different parts of Thailand. Let's take a look if you are interested in the very amazing of Thai culture which presents through the festivals.
Balinese dance is an ancient tradition that is part of religious and artistic expression in Bali, Indonesia. In Balinese Hinduism, dance is seen as accompanying the perpetual dissolving and reforming of the world. There are various categories of Balinese dance including epic performances retelling stories from the Mahabharata and Ramayana as well as ceremonial dances featuring battles between good and evil characters. Some prominent dance forms include Barong, Legong known for intricate finger movements and footwork, and Kecak featuring formations of men singing and chanting. Balinese dancers begin training from a young age, learning movements that coordinate with Gamelan musical ensembles. Hand and body positions reflect layers of percussion in the music.
Kto12 4th arts nang shadow puppets of thailandMagie Mendoza
Shadow puppets called Nang are a traditional form of entertainment in southern Thailand, performed with intricately cut leather puppets manipulated on rods. Performances draw from religious and epic stories and current events, conveying Thai values through allegories. Skilled puppeteers narrate using different voices while hiding behind the screen, entertaining audiences from dusk to dawn with rhythmic storytelling.
This is actually our mapeh presentation. We're already done discussing it in our class, so I decided to share this powerpoint to be a little help to those who need it.
The Lantern Festival is a traditional Chinese celebration marking the end of the Lunar New Year celebrations. People watch lion and dragon dances, play games, eat yuanxiao dumplings, set off fireworks, and spend time with family. According to legends, the festival originated as a way to worship gods and ask for good weather, fortune, and health.
Kabuki of Japan by Group One VIII - Acapulco (1)Rizalian
Kabuki is a traditional Japanese form of theater known for stylized drama performed by male actors. Key features include the hanamichi stage walkway, revolving stages, trapdoors, and stylized makeup. Plays fall into categories like historical jidaimono, domestic sewamono, or dance pieces. Elements include dramatic poses called mie and distinctive actor categories like aragoto male roles. Costumes, props, and elaborate quick changes are also important artistic elements of Kabuki theater.
An introduction to Philippine Festival Dances (Religious and Secular Festival...Jewel Jem
An introduction to Philippine Festival Dances, meaning, nature and background
Why Filipinos Dance Festival Dances and what benefits do we get from doing it?
Contains some Festival names, Origin places, religious Figures and/or industry and Month Celebrated
Some Famous Religious Festivals
> Sinulog Festival
> Dinagyang Festival
> Ati-Atihan Festival
Some Secular Festivals
> Bangus Festival
> Panagbenga Festival
> Binatbatan Destival
The document discusses the Rococo art style that flourished in France and Germany in the early 18th century. Rococo art focused on depicting the carefree lifestyle of the aristocracy rather than grand historical themes. It was characterized by free flowing movement, delicate colors, and playful use of line. Jean-Antoine Watteau and Jean Honoré Fragonard were two prominent Rococo artists known for their paintings of fêtes galantes and romantic scenes.
The Spring Festival is an important Chinese holiday that originated in the Shang Dynasty and falls on the first day of the first lunar month. Traditions include cleaning homes, decorating with couplets and pictures, hanging lanterns, and spending time with family over the first three days. The Lantern Festival falls 15 days later and involves watching lanterns, guessing riddles, and eating rice dumplings. Other festivals described include Qingming (sweeping tombs), Dragon Boat Racing, the Double Seventh Festival celebrating the Cowherd and Weaver Maid star-crossed lovers, and the Mid-Autumn Festival involving the story of Hou Yi.
Origin and customs of mid autumn festivalVanisa Li
The Mid Autumn Festival is a traditional Chinese festival and a day for family reunion. On this day, everyone will eat moon cakes, which means reunion.I hope you can also enjoy your day with your family.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is a Chinese harvest festival celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month. It is a time to give thanks for a successful harvest and enjoy the moon, which appears brighter and larger than any other time of year. People gather outdoors with family and friends to eat mooncakes and watch the moon, symbolizing family harmony. Various legends are associated with the moon festival in Chinese culture.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is a Chinese lunar holiday celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month. It commemorates the legend of Chang'e, who drank an immortality elixir and floated to the moon. Families gather and gaze at the moon while eating mooncakes and drinking tea. Lanterns are also lit and carried at night in celebration.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is a Chinese harvest festival celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar. It is a time for family reunions and enjoying the full moon, which symbolizes abundance. According to legend, the moon is the home of the goddess Chang'er, who drank an elixir of immortality and floated up into the moon. Mooncakes are traditionally eaten during this festival.
This document provides an overview of festivals and cuisines in Ghana and China. It describes several national day celebrations and festivals in each country, including their origins and traditions. For Ghana, festivals discussed include Bakatue, Akwasidae, Homowo and Kundum. For China, festivals mentioned are Dragon Boat, Mid-Autumn Mooncake, Lantern and Qingming festivals. The document also gives brief introductions to sample cuisines from each country but does not provide details.
Chinese traditional festivals and western holidaysJimmy0436
The document compares and contrasts several Chinese traditional festivals and Western holidays. It discusses the origins and customs of the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Qi Xi Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Tomb-sweeping Festival, as well as Western holidays like Christmas, Valentine's Day, Halloween, and Thanksgiving Day. It provides details on the history, traditions, food, and symbols associated with each festival or holiday.
The egg is a ubiquitous symbol of spring festivals like Ostara due to its representation of the cycle of life, death and rebirth. For ancient peoples, eggs were only available fresh for half the year when hens were stimulated by the lengthening daylight of spring to lay. Though the scientific reason was unknown, hens reliably began laying with the spring equinox and stopped at the autumn equinox. As the world bloomed anew each Ostara, fresh eggs naturally symbolized new life. Traditions of decorating or dyeing eggs in celebrations of life transitions continue in some cultures today.
The Mid-Autumn Festival is a Chinese harvest festival celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month. According to legend, Chang'e flew to the moon after stealing an immortality elixir from her husband. Families celebrate by gathering together, eating mooncakes, and telling the story of Chang'e living on the moon. Mooncakes are round pastries that sometimes contain an egg yolk in the center to resemble the round, bright moon.
Taiwan’s Festivals & Cultural Performances pptFoung Huat
Taiwan has 7 major annual festivals: Chinese New Year, Lantern Festival, Tomb Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Ghost Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and Double Ninth Day. These festivals incorporate traditions from Chinese ancestor worship and folklore as well as Taiwanese aboriginal culture. Cultural performances are an important part of Taiwanese identity and blend influences from China, Japan, the West, and Taiwan's indigenous peoples.
The document provides instructions for a group of students to revise an outline for an essay on the Mid-Autumn Festival and then write a 500-word essay based on the revised outline. It then provides background information on the history and traditions of the Mid-Autumn Festival in China, including how families would gather on the 15th day of the 8th month, eat mooncakes, light lanterns, and appreciate the full moon, tracing the festival's origins back over 2000 years.
This document provides information on traditional Taiwanese foods associated with major holidays throughout the lunar calendar year. Some key holidays and foods mentioned include:
- Chinese New Year/Spring Festival: New Year cake called nian gao made from sticky rice that symbolizes a higher new year.
- Lantern Festival: Yuanxiao, a sweet sticky rice ball symbolizing family unity.
- Dragon Boat Festival: Zongzi, sticky rice stuffed in bamboo leaves and steamed to commemorate a drowned poet.
- Moon Festival: Moon cakes, round or rectangular pastries filled with lotus seed paste eaten to see the moon goddess.
- New Year's Eve: Dumplings called jiaoz
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3. Spring FestivalSpring Festival
The Spring Festival falls on the 1st day of the 1st lunar month, often one
month later than the Gregorian calendar. It originated in the Shang
Dynasty (c. 1600 BC-c. 1100 BC) from the people's sacrifice to gods and
ancestors at the end of an old year and the beginning of a new one.
Strictly speaking, the Spring Festival starts every year in the early days of
the 12th lunar month and will last till the mid 1st lunar month of the next
year. Of them, the most important days are Spring Festival Eve and the
first three days. The Chinese government now stipulates people have
seven days off for the Chinese Lunar New Year.
Many customs accompany the Spring Festival. Some are still followed
today, but others have weakened.
4. Spring FestivalSpring Festival
Before the New Year comes, the people completely clean the
indoors and outdoors of their homes as well as their clothes,
bedclothes and all their utensils.
Then people begin decorating their clean rooms featuring an
atmosphere of rejoicing and festivity. All the door panels will
be pasted with Spring Festival couplets, highlighting Chinese
calligraphy with black characters on red paper. The content
varies from house owners' wishes for a bright future to good
luck for the New Year. Also, pictures of the god of doors and
wealth will be posted on front doors to ward off evil spirits
and welcome peace and abundance.
5. The Chinese character "fu" (meaning blessing or
happiness) is a must. The character put on paper can
be pasted normally or upside down, for in Chinese
the "reversed fu" is homophonic with "fu comes",
both being pronounced as "fudaole." What's more,
two big red lanterns can be raised on both sides of
the front door. Red paper-cuttings can be seen on
window glass and brightly colored New Year
paintings with auspicious meanings may be put on
the wall.
6. Lantern FestivalLantern Festival
The Lantern Festival falls on the 15th day of the 1st lunar month, usually
in February or March in the Gregorian calendar. As early as the Western
Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 25), it had become a festival with great
significance.
This day's important activity is watching lanterns. Throughout the Han
Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220), Buddhism flourished in China. One emperor
heard that Buddhist monks would watch sarira, or remains from the
cremation of Buddha's body, and light lanterns to worship Buddha on the
15th day of the 1st lunar month, so he ordered to light lanterns in the
imperial palace and temples to show respect to Buddha on this day. Later,
the Buddhist rite developed into a grand festival among common people
and its influence expanded from the Central Plains to the whole of China.
7. Lantern FestivalLantern Festival
Guessing lantern riddles"is an essential part of the
Festival. Lantern owners write riddles on a piece of
paper and post them on the lanterns. If visitors have
solutions to the riddles, they can pull the paper out
and go to the lantern owners to check their answer. If
they are right, they will get a little gift. The activity
emerged during people's enjoyment of lanterns in the
Song Dynasty (960-1279). As riddle guessing is
interesting and full of wisdom, it has become popular
among all social strata.
8. People will eat yuanxiao, or rice
dumplings, on this day, so it is also
called the "Yuanxiao
Festival."Yuanxiao also has another
name, tangyuan. It is small dumpling
balls made of glutinous rice flour
with rose petals, sesame, bean paste,
jujube paste, walnut meat, dried
fruit, sugar and edible oil as filling.
Tangyuan can be boiled, fried or
steamed. It tastes sweet and
delicious. What's more, tangyuan in
Chinese has a similar pronunciation
with "tuanyuan”, meaning reunion.
So people eat them to denote union,
harmony and happiness for the
family.
9. Qingming FestivalQingming Festival
The Qingming (Pure Brightness)
Festival is one of the 24 seasonal
division points in China, falling
on April 4-6 each year. After the
festival, the temperature will rise
up and rainfall increases. It is the
high time for spring plowing and
sowing. But the Qingming
Festival is not only a seasonal
point to guide farm work, it is
more a festival of
commemoration.
The Qingming Festival sees a
combination of sadness and
happiness.
10. The Hanshi (Cold Food) Festival was usually one day before
the Qingming Festival. As our ancestors often extended the
day to the Qingming, they were later combined.
On each Qingming Festival, all cemeteries are crowded with
people who came to sweep tombs and offer sacrifices. Traffic
on the way to the cemeteries becomes extremely jammed. The
customs have been greatly simplified today. After slightly
sweeping the tombs, people offer food, flowers and favorites
of the dead, then burn incense and paper money and bow
before the memorial tablet.
11. Dragon Boat FestivalDragon Boat Festival The Dragon Boat Festival, the 5th day of the 5th lunar
month, has had a history of more than 2,000 years. It is
usually in June in the Gregorian calendar.
Dragon boat racing is an indispensable part of the festival,
held all over the country. As the gun is fired, people will
see racers in dragon-shaped canoes pulling the oars
harmoniously and hurriedly, accompanied by rapid drums,
speeding toward their destination. Folk tales say the game
originates from the activities of seeking Qu Yuan's body,
but experts, after painstaking and meticulous research,
conclude that dragon boat racing is a semi-religious, semi-
entertaining program from the Warring States Period (475-
221 BC). In the following thousands of years, the game
spread to Japan, Vietnam and Britain as well as China's
Taiwan and Hong Kong. Now dragon boat racing has
developed into an aquatic sports item which features both
Chinese tradition and modern sporting spirit. In 1980, it
was listed into the state sports competition programs and
has since been held every year. The award is called "Qu
Yuan Cup."
12. Double Seventh FestivalDouble Seventh Festival The Double Seventh Festival, on the 7th day of the 7th lunar
month, is a traditional festival full of romance. It often goes
into August in the Gregorian calendar.
This festival is in mid-summer when the weather is warm and
the grass and trees reveal their luxurious greens. At night
when the sky is dotted with stars, and people can see the
Milky Way spanning from the north to the south. On each
bank of it is a bright star, which see each other from afar. They
are the Cowherd and Weaver Maid, and about them there is a
beautiful love story passed down from generation to
generation.
13. Long, long ago, there was an honest and kind-hearted fellow named Niu
Lang (Cowhand). His parents died when he was a child. Later he was
driven out of his home by his sister-in-law. So he lived by himself herding
cattle and farming. One day, a fairy from heaven Zhi Nu (Weaver Maid)
fell in love with him and came down secretly to earth and married him. The
cowhand farmed in the field and the Weaver Maid wove at home. They
lived a happy life and gave birth to a boy and a girl. Unfortunately, the
God of Heaven soon found out the fact and ordered the Queen Mother of
the Western Heavens to bring the Weaver Maid back.
With the help of celestial cattle, the Cowhand flew to heaven with his son
and daughter. At the time when he was about to catch up with his wife, the
Queen Mother took off one of her gold hairpins and made a stroke. One
billowy river appeared in front of the Cowhand. The Cowhand and Weaver
Maid were separated on the two banks forever and could only feel their
tears. Their loyalty to love touched magpies, so tens of thousands of
magpies came to build a bridge for the Cowhand and Weaver Maid to meet
each other. The Queen Mother was eventually moved and allowed them to
meet each year on the 7th of the 7th lunar month. Hence their meeting date
has been called "Qi Xi" (Double Seventh).
14. Mid-Autumn FestivalMid-Autumn Festival
The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month,
usually in October in Gregorian calendar.
Folklore about the origin of the festival go like this: In remote antiquity,
there were ten suns rising in the sky, which scorched all crops and drove
people into dire poverty. A hero named Hou Yi was much worried about
this, he ascended to the top of the Kunlun Mountain and, directing his
superhuman strength to full extent, drew his extraordinary bow and shot
down the nine superfluous suns one after another. He also ordered the last
sun to rise and set according to time. For this reason, he was respected and
loved by the people and lots of people of ideals and integrity came to him
to learn martial arts from him. A person named Peng Meng lurked in
them.
15. Hou Yi had a beautiful and kindhearted wife named Chang E. One day on
his way to the Kunlun Mountain to call on friends, he ran upon the
Empress of Heaven Wangmu who was passing by. Empress Wangmu
presented to him a parcel of elixir, by taking which, it was said, one would
ascend immediately to heaven and become a celestial being. Hou Yi,
however, hated to part with his wife. So he gave the elixir to Chang E to
treasure for the time being. Chang E hid the parcel in a treasure box at her
dressing table when, unexpectedly, it was seen by Peng Meng.
One day when Hou Yi led his disciples to go hunting, Peng Meng, sword
in hand, rushed into the inner chamber and forced Chang E to hand over
the elixir. Aware that she was unable to defeat Peng Meng, Chang E made
a prompt decision at that critical moment. She turned round to open her
treasure box, took up the elixir and swallowed it in one gulp. As soon as
she swallowed the elixir her body floated off the ground, dashed out of the
window and flew towards heaven. Peng Meng escaped.
16. When Hou Yi returned home at dark, he knew from the maidservants what had
happened. Overcome with grief, Hou Yi looked up into the night sky and called out
the name of his beloved wife when, to his surprise, he found that the moon was
especially clear and bight and on it there was a swaying shadow that was exactly
like his wife. He tried his best to chase after the moon. But as he ran, the moon
retreated; as he withdrew, the moon came back. He could not get to the moon at all.
Thinking of his wife day and night, Hou Yi then had an incense table arranged in
the back garden that Chang E loved. Putting on the table sweetmeats and fresh
fruits Chang E enjoyed most, Hou Yi held at a distance a memorial ceremony for
Chang E who was sentimentally attached to him in the palace of the moon.
When people heard of the story that Chang E had turned into a celestial being, they
arranged the incense table in the moonlight one after another and prayed
kindhearted Chang E for good fortune and peace. From then on the custom of
worshiping the moon spread among the people.
People in different places follow various customs, but all show their love and
longing for a better life. Today people will enjoy the full moon and eat moon cakes
on that day.
17. Double Ninth FestivalDouble Ninth Festival
The 9th day of the 9th lunar month is the traditional Chongyang Festival, or Double Ninth Festival. It
usually falls in October in the Gregorian calendar. In an ancient and mysterious book Yi Jing, or The Book
of Changes, number "6" was thought to be of Yin character, meaning feminine or negative, while number
"9" was thought to be Yang, meaning masculine or positive. So the number nine in both month and day
create the Double Ninth Festival, or Chongyang Festival. Chong in Chinese means "double." Also, as
double ninth was pronounced the same as the word to signify "forever", both are "Jiu Jiu," the Chinese
ancestors considered it an auspicious day worth celebration. That's why ancient Chinese began to
celebrate this festival long time ago.
The custom of ascending a height to avoid epidemics was passed down from long time ago. Therefore, the
Double Ninth Festival is also called "Height Ascending Festival". The height people will reach is usually
a mountain or a tower. Ancient literary figures have left many poems depicting the activity. Even today,
people still swarm to famous or little known mountains on this day
In 1989, the Chinese government decided the Double Ninth Festival as Seniors' Day. Since then, all
government units, organizations and streets communities will organize an autumn trip each year for those
who have retired from their posts. At the waterside or on the mountains, the seniors will find themselves
merged into nature. Younger generations will bring elder ones to suburban areas or send gifts to them on
this day.
18. Winter Solstice FestivalWinter Solstice Festival
As early as 2,500 years ago, about the Spring and Autumn Period
(770-476 BC), China had determined the point of Winter Solstice by
observing movements of the sun with a sundial. It is the earliest of
the 24 seasonal division points. The time will be each December 22
or 23 according to the Gregorian calendar.
The Northern hemisphere on this day experiences the shortest
daytime and longest nighttime. After the Winter Solstice, days will
become longer and longer. As ancient Chinese thought, the yang, or
muscular, positive things will become stronger and stronger after
this day, so it should be celebrated.
19. In some parts of Northern China, people eat dumpling soup on this day;
while residents of some other places eat dumplings, saying doing so will
keep them from frost in the upcoming winter. But in parts of South China,
the whole family will get together to have a meal made of red-bean and
glutinous rice to drive away ghosts and other evil things. In other places,
people also eat tangyuan, a kind of stuffed small dumpling ball made of
glutinous rice flour. The Winter Solstice rice dumplings could be used as
sacrifices to ancestors, or gifts for friends and relatives. The Taiwan
people even keep the custom of offering nine-layer cakes to their
ancestors. They make cakes in the shape of chicken, duck, tortoise, pig,
cow or sheep with glutinous rice flour and steam them on different layers
of a pot. These animals all signify auspiciousness in Chinese tradition.
People of the same surname or family clan gather at their ancestral
temples to worship their ancestors in age order. After the sacrificial
ceremony, there is always a grand banquet.