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• CIIC:Today's featured article/January 12, 2010
  ...inese people during festivals, most especially the [[Spring Festival]], or Chinese New Year. ('''[[Temple fair|More ...]]''')
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• Temple fair
  ...inese people during festivals, most especially the [[Spring Festival]], or Chinese New Year. ...nt activities, and a traditional cultural event that features all kinds of Chinese folk art. So far, there have been more than 10 major temple fairs held each
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• New Year pictures
  ...o the excitement of the holiday season. New Year pictures are an ancient [[Chinese]] folk art, reflecting the customs and beliefs of the common people and sym ...festival]][[category:traditional Chinese festivals]][[category:traditional festivals]]
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• Traditional Chinese Medicine Museum
  ...cine Museum''' （中医药博物馆） affiliated to [[Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine]]. [[File:Traditional Chinese Medicine Museum.jpg|thumb|300px|Traditional Chinese Medicine Museum]]
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• Red envelope
  ...as '''hongbao''' ('''红包''') in Chinese, is a gift given to kids during the Chinese New Year with [[Yasuiqian]] (压岁钱) in it. Giving ''Hongbao'' during the [[Spring festival|Chinese New Year]] is a tradition. A red packet is simply a red envelope with gift
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• Red Packets
  ...r gift which is usually put in a red envelope or paper bag (''hongbao'' in Chinese). Giving ''Hongbao'' during the [[Spring festival|Chinese New Year]] is a tradition. A red packet is simply a red envelope with gift
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• Yasuiqian
  ...ft which is usually put in a red envelope or paper bag (''[[hongbao]]'' in Chinese). Giving ''Hongbao'' during the [[Spring festival|Chinese New Year]] is a tradition. A red packet is simply a red envelope with gift
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• Ya Sui Qian
  [[File:hongbao.jpg|thumb|250px|right|''Hongbao'', a Chinese New Year gift to kids.]] ...r gift which is usually put in a red envelope or paper bag (''hongbao'' in Chinese).
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• Hongbao
  '''Hongbao''' ('''red envelope''') is a gift given to kids during the Chinese New Year with [[Yasuiqian]] in it. Giving ''Hongbao'' during the [[Spring festival|Chinese New Year]] is a tradition. A red packet is simply a red envelope with gift
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• Spring couplets
  ...lings of life's renewal and the return of spring. On the [[Spring festival|Chinese New Year]], families in China decorate their front doors with poetic couple ...the drawings of blessing since the Chinese for "inverted" is a homonym in Chinese for "arrive," thus signifying that spring, wealth, or blessing has arrived.
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• Chinese New Year Holiday
  ...ralding the beginning of spring, thus it is known as Spring Festival. This traditional festival is also a festival of reunion; no matter how far away people are f === '''''Related festivals''''' ===
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• Moon cake gambling
  ...Mid-Autumn Festival period in Xiamen. It has added more excitement to this traditional festival. [[Category:Traditional Chinese festivals]][[Category:Chinese culture]]
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• Double Seventh Festival
  ...humb|right|The traditional Qixi Festival]][[File:qixi2.jpg|thumb|right|The traditional Qixi Festival]] ...'''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 calend
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• Double Ninth Festival
  ...tors considered it an auspicious day worth celebration. That's why ancient Chinese began to celebrate this festival long time ago. On this day, people will eat Double Ninth Gao (or Cake). In Chinese, gao (cake) has the same pronunciation with gao (height). People do so just
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• Laba Festival
  [[File:The Laba Festival.jpg|thumb|250px|Traditional Laba porrige in the festival.]] ...ese holiday celebrated on the eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar Chinese calendar. Laba porridge is the most popular meal in the festival.
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• Wuqiao Acrobatics
  ...very long history and is an excellent and precious cultural legacy of the Chinese nation. There are a lot of acrobatics village in China, e.g. Liaocheng of [ ...rds that lamps lighted up the whole county of Wuqiao for three days during festivals, people set off firecrackers and performed acrobatics, and the local feudal
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• Moon cake
  [[file:Moon cake (月饼).JPEG|thumb|230px|Moon cakes, traditoanl Chinese food.]] '''Moon cake''' ('''月饼''') is a Chinese bakery product traditionally eaten during the [[Mid-autumn Festival]] which
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• The Cold Food Festival
  '''The Cold Food Festival''' ('''寒食节''') is a traditional Chinese festival celebrated for three consecutive days starting the day before [[Qi [[Category: Festivals]]
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• Walking on stilts
  ...means walking on, and ''Gaoqiao'' means stilts. According to the archives, Chinese ancestors began using stilts to help them gather fruits from trees. This pr [[Category:folk customs]][[category:traditional festivals]]
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• Jiaozi
  ...grate." Rather, they say that the dumpling's filling has "burst," which in Chinese is a homonym for the auspicious phrase "to get rich." ...ryone exchanges New Year's greetings and eats boiled dumplings. It is also traditional to set off fireworks and firecrackers on New Year's Eve. As it gets closer
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• Gong
  ...g the Southern and Northern Dynasties (420-589) is the ancestor of today's Chinese gongs. The copper gong unearthed in [[Luobo Bay]] of [[Guangxi Zhuang Auton ...to withdraw troops. Gongs were also used in folk activities such as grand festivals, weddings and funerals, to add a magnificent air to the scene.
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• Lantern Festival
  The '''Lantern Festival''' ('''元宵节''') is a traditional Chinese festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, usually ...fried or steamed. It tastes sweet and delicious. What's more, tangyuan in Chinese has a similar pronunciation with "tuanyuan”, meaning reunion. So people e
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• Dumplings
  ...grate." Rather, they say that the dumpling's filling has "burst," which in Chinese is a homonym for the auspicious phrase "to get rich." ...ryone exchanges New Year's greetings and eats boiled dumplings. It is also traditional to set off fireworks and firecrackers on New Year's Eve. As it gets closer
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• Dragon Dance
  ...ragon Dance enjoys a vast diversity of models and forms. As a totem of the Chinese nation, among farming communities, it is still heralded as a token of the c [[Category:folk arts]][[category:folk customs]][[category:traditional festivals]]
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• Winter Solstice Festival
  ...fter the Winter Solstice, days will become longer and longer. As [[ancient Chinese]] thought, the yang, or muscular, positive things will become stronger and ...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 ancest
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• Ansai Waist Drum Dance
  The drum dance is a traditional Lunar New Year and [[Lantern Festival]] activity in [[Shaanxi Province]]. Y .... It is believed that waist drums were originally used in ancient times by Chinese soldiers stationed at the border to sound alarms, train troops or accompany
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• Qingming Festival
  [[Category:Traditional Chinese festivals]]
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• Baiyun Guan in Beijing
  ...onducts traditional Daoist ceremonies on holy days. The temple fair during Chinese New Year is particularly noteworthy. ...s of Daoist divinities, each representing one year of the 60-year-cycle in Chinese lunar calendar. One can find his personal Daoist divinity according to the
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• Religion in China
  ...amic Association of China]], [[Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association]], [[Chinese Catholic Bishops' College]], [[Three-Self Patriotic Movement Committee of t ...rving Mass, baptising, monkhood initiation, fasting, celebrating religious festivals, observing extreme unction, and holding memorial ceremonies, are protected
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• Huangmei Opera
  [[File:Huangmei Opera.jpg|thumb|300px|A scene of traditional Huangmei Operea]] ...i diao'' and ''Caicha xi'', '''Huangmei Opera''' is one of the most famous traditional operas in [[China]].
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• Chinese Music
  Traditional '''Chinese music''' can be traced back 7,000–8,000 years based on the discovery of a ...eligious melodies were absorbed into Chinese music and were enjoyed by the Chinese people at fairs organized by temples.
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• Dragon Boat Festival
  ...hrimp from attacking his body. An old doctor poured a jug of reaglar wine (Chinese liquor seasoned with realgar) into the water, hoping to turn all aquatic be ...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
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• Chinese Film
  ...n until 1913 when [[Zheng Zhengqiu]] and [[Zhang Shichuan]] shot the first Chinese movie ''[[Marriage without Love]]''. During the 1920s film technicians from the United States trained Chinese in [[Shanghai]], an early filmmaking center, and American influence continu
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• Duanwu Festival
  ...hrimp from attacking his body. An old doctor poured a jug of reaglar wine (Chinese liquor seasoned with realgar) into the water, hoping to turn all aquatic be ...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
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• Daur ethnic group
  ...ing Dynasty as their written language. Since the 1911 Revolution, mandarin Chinese has replaced Manchu. ...o serve in the armies of the Qing emperors and in garrisons all over the [[Chinese empire]]. The Daurs helped to repel Cossack invaders from Tsarist Russia in
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• Zhouzhuang
  An [[Ancient Chinese poem]] describes Zhouzhuang as a little town of "small bridges, murmuring s ...right angle, and their complementary shapes create the image of an ancient Chinese key, which is why Shide and Yongan are also known to the locals as Key Brid
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• Lunar New Year's Eve
  ...('''除夕'''), the last day of the old year, is one of China's most important traditional holidays. Homes are spotless inside and out, doors and windows are decorate ...lets were thought to protect the household from evil. According to ancient Chinese folk beliefs, ghosts and demons fear peach wood. Protective charms made of
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• Spring Festival
  [[Image:Springfestival.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Spring Festival, the Chinese New Year]] ...ralding the beginning of spring, thus it is known as Spring Festival. This traditional festival is also a festival of reunion, just like Christmas in the West. No
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• Mid-autumn Festival
  ...mid or late September according to Gregorian calendar. It is a traditonal Chinese festival during which the most popular food is [[moon cake]]s. [[Category:Traditional Chinese festivals]]
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• Religious
  ...amic Association of China]], [[Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association]], [[Chinese Catholic Bishops' College]], [[Three-Self Patriotic Movement Committee of t ...]], baptising, [[monkhood]] initiation, [[fasting]], celebrating religious festivals, observing extreme unction, and holding memorial ceremonies, are protected
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• Salar ethnic group
  ...al contacts. Nowadays, most young and middle-aged Salars know how to speak Chinese, which is also accepted as the written language of the Salar ethnic group. ...er (flower)," a kind of folksong sung sonorously and unrestrainedly in the Chinese language. However, in most cases it is presented with a sweet, trilling ton
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• Gelao
  ...communicate with each other. For this reason, the language of the Hans, or Chinese, has become their common language, though many Gelaos have learned three or In traditional Gelao clothes, women wore very short jackets with sleeves embroidered with
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• Bouyei ethnic group
  ...uage is of the Zhuang-Dai branch of the Zhuang-Dong group belonging to the Chinese-Tibetan family of languages. In the past, the Bouyeis had no written langua ...as built in the city of Anshun with the help of the local authorities, and traditional technology was improved. Now, batik has become one of their best-selling ha
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• Dong ethnic group
  ...n script of their own before 1949, many Dongs learned to read and write in Chinese. Philologists sent by the central government helped work out a Dong written ...aten with peppers and pickled vegetables. Home-woven cloth is used to make traditional Dong clothing; finer cloth and silks are used for decoration or for making
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• Korean ethnic group
  The traditional Korean dress is white, a symbol of simplicity and serenity. Men wear baggy ...nt of drums and flutes in the fields or on construction sites. Traditional festivals are celebrated heartily, especially the Lunar New Year, and the Mid-Autumn
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• Naxi ethnic group
  ...le trees, as well as many varieties of herbs including fritillary bulbs, [[Chinese caterpillar fungus]] and musk. ...ts of China politically, economically and culturally, the oral and written Chinese has become an important means of communication in Naxi society.
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• Pali Buddhism
  The Chinese character “run” is a term of address used by the Dai people for the Lan The word “zuodi” is the Chinese transliteration of the Myanmese word that means sincerity. Legend has it th
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• Painted Faces
  Three essential characteristics of Chinese opera are beauty, stylization and exaggeration. The facial makeup or "the p Although anyone can enjoy the spectacular beauty of Chinese opera, in order to appreciate the finer elements you should understand that
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• Little New Year
  ...ery few families still make offerings to the Kitchen God on this day, many traditional holiday activities are still very popular. Studies of popular Chinese religion indicate that the Kitchen God did not appear until after the inven
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• Zhuang ethnic group
  ...room, Chinese cinnamon, pseudo-ginseng, Chinese gecko (used in traditional Chinese medicine to help regain vitality), fennal and fennal essence. The last four In 1851, the Taiping Revolution, the biggest of peasant uprisings in Chinese history, broke out in this area. Thousands of Zhuangs joined the Taiping Ar
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