Festivals
Spring Festival, Mid-Autumn, Dragon Boat — the celebrations that unite a nation
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Chinese Festivals: Traditions, Food & Celebrations
The Complete Guide to Traditions, Food, and Celebrations
Chinese New Year: The Complete Guide to Spring Festival
Red envelopes, lion dances, and family reunions — everything you need to know about the world's biggest celebration.
Chinese New Year Is Not Just a Day (It Is a Whole Season)
The Spring Festival lasts fifteen days, involves more rituals than Christmas and Thanksgiving combined, and moves more humans across the planet than any...
Dragon Boat Festival: Racing, Remembrance and Rice Dumplings
Drum beats, river races, and zongzi — the story of Qu Yuan and China's most thrilling traditional holiday.
Chinese Festivals the World Should Know About
Beyond Chinese New Year and Mid-Autumn Festival, China celebrates dozens of festivals that reveal the culture's deepest values — ancestor worship,...
Mid-Autumn Festival: Mooncakes, Legends and Lunar Beauty
The moon at its fullest, the family at its closest — China's most poetic festival explained.
Chinese Festivals: The Calendar That Runs on Stories
Every Chinese festival has a story — a dragon boat race for a drowned poet, mooncakes for a rebellion, dumplings for a doctor who saved frozen ears.
Chinese Festivals Explained: The Stories Behind the Celebrations
Dragon Boat Festival is about a poet's suicide. Mid-Autumn Festival is about a woman trapped on the moon. Qingming is about visiting the dead.
Dragon Boat Festival: Racing for Qu Yuan
Racing for Qu Yuan
Mid-Autumn Festival: Mooncakes and Moon Gazing
Mooncakes and Moon Gazing