The Effective Chinese Culture

Have you ever wondered how festive Chinese culture truly is? China’s culture has always been very festive, and a place where tradition is valued greatly. China celebrates many festivals as the year passes; festivals such as: Spring Festival, Winter Solstice Festival, Lantern Festival, and many more. These festivals are celebrations for things such as the seasons changing or other events. These celebrations call to wear traditional clothing most of the time, and are usually full of color, music, and activities. It is important to learn about the way China celebrates festivals, and how they treat tradition to really get a perspective on how they live. To take a look into China’s festivals is to take a look into the lives of the Chinese. All festivals …show more content…
It is one with the Chinese New Year, and since ancient times this has been a festival that means a tremendous deal to China. This festival originated from all the way back in the Shang Dynasty, which is believed to have been around in 1600 B.C-1100 B.C. The Spring Festival is looked to be equivalent to American Christmas; the family members that moved away come back home, and families get together to celebrate. The Festival starts in the early days of December, and is celebrated all to New Years and into the new month. Preparations begin early in December, family begins to come and festivities begin. On the 23rd of December many families make a portage called laba for preliminary eve, this is a dish consisting of glutinous rice, millet, seeds of Job 's tears, jujube berries, lotus seeds, beans, longan and gingko. Everyone gets a week off from work and all normal activity. When New Year’s Eve comes family usually eats an extravagant meal together. Then on New Year’s everyone dresses up and greets family, then goes out to greet others. On New Year’s people like to wear their finest clothing, it is a very special day to them. Gifts are passed around, and there are tons of fun activities to …show more content…
This traditional festival is over 2,000 years old and, originated in times that were ruled by a man named Qu Yuan. A part of the tradition for this festival is that tams get together, and have an annual boat race. A group of people get together and join in a dragon shaped boat that is colorful, then when the referee of the race says everyone is ready they fire a gun to start the race. When the race starts team’s row across rivers and rapids to get to the finish line, teams work together and try to get to the end the fastest then winners win prizes. Another tradition that is tied with this festival is that parents must dress their kids up with silk pouches. This is supposed to ward off any evil spirits, the pouches are made of silk cloth with perfume or herbs in the bag, and then it is sewn up with silk