Chinese Qingming Festival

Chinese Qingming Festival

This video will help you understand the custom of Chinese Qingming festival, also known as tomb-sweeping day. It tells you which day is given on Chinese lunar calendar after the Spring Equinox, what people do in the Qingming festival. The video will also share with you the famous Qingming scroll of the ancient Chinese painting, as well as the tang poem titled “QingMing”.

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How Chinese prepare foods and gifts for the spring festival?

chinese spring festival village

Do you know what foods and gifts the Chinese people prepare for the spring festival? Let me share the information with you. Like many other New Year dishes, certain ingredients also take special precedence over others as these ingredients also have similar-sounding names with prosperity, good luck, or even counting money. Some other traditional foods consist of noodles, fruits, dumplings, spring rolls, and Tangyuan which are also known as sweet rice balls. Each dish served during Chinese New Year represents something special. Let me make explanation one by one.

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The legend story of Chinese Lunar New Year

chinese spring festival harvest

Chinese will begin the Chinese lunar new year, same as the spring festival on Feb. 12 (Friday) 2021. It is the first day of the first month of the lunar Chinese calendar. Chinese people will celebrate the spring festival in various traditional ways, such as, lion dances, dragon dances, fireworks, family gathering, family reunion dinner, visiting friends and relatives, giving red envelopes, decorating with chunlian couplets, etc.Do you know how the Chinese lunar new year started? Let me share with you one legend story.

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