Decorations include spring couplets, New Year pictures, posters of door gods and paper-cuts. Day 29 of the 12th month On the 29th day of the 12th lunar month people visit the graves of their ancestors ...
The Spring Festival, also known as Chinese New Year or the Lunar New Year, is the most important and joyous of Chinese traditional holidays. The date of the new year is still determined by the ...
Fancy that Oktoberfest feeling in spring? The first big folk festival on Munich's Theresienwiese runs from April to beginning of May: At the Spring Festival, two marquees and over 100 showmen with ...
For many Chinese, the term Spring Festival Gala creates a magical feeling. It triggers nostalgic memories of when family members gathered around their TV sets with snacks, ready to catch every ...
It’s the ideal cure for cabin fever!” Where does Maifest originate? History shows the German festival dates back to the 18th century, when villagers and townsfolk celebrated the end of winter and the ...
Madeira has long worn the nickname “Island of Eternal Spring”. This rather underplays the beauty of summer among the volcanic slopes of Portugal’s most southerly Atlantic outcrop, but it also neatly ...