Chinese Festivals Essay

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The biggest and most important festival among the many Chinese traditional festivals would be the Spring Festival. It is also known as Chinese New Year in many parts of the world. It is on the first day of the first lunar month of each year and the Spring Festival is celebrated until the fifteenth day. This Chinese traditional festival is celebrated in many ways. Families decorate their houses with red paper that wish for happiness, fortune, and good health. They believe that if they do this, it will drive away bad luck and bring in good luck into their homes. Relatives come to visit and children are given red envelopes that are filled with money. The envelopes are for good luck and prosperity. The Lantern Festival is one of the major Chinese traditional festivals that culminate the two-week Spring Festival. It starts on the first night of the year that has a full moon. There is a legend that says that the Chinese people first started to light lanterns after heeding advice from the daughter of the Jade Emperor in heaven. The Jade Emperor vowed vengeance upon a town when he leaned that the town’s people had murdered his sacred bird. When the Jade Emperor’s daughter heard about this, she warned the town. She told them to light lanterns to trick the jade Emperor into thinking that the town is in flames and that his bird has already been avenged. Since then, the lighting of the lanterns has become part of the important Chinese traditional festivals of the people. On the night of the Moon festival, the moon is supposed to look very beautiful and at it’s fullest and roundest than any other day of the year. The people celebrate by eating mooncakes while gazing at the moon with friends and family. The festival is on the fifteenth of the eighth lunar month. The Moon Festival is also a romantic one. Lovers spend the night with each other eating mooncakes. The story of the

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