第1个回答 2013-11-12
Pure Brightness Festival; Qingming Festival (a traditional Chinese festival on the 106th day after the winter solstice, occurring on April 4 (leap years) or April 5 (other years) of the Gregorian calendar. It marks the middle of spring and above all, a sacred day of the dead)本回答被网友采纳
第2个回答 2019-07-19
Many of foreigners may hear of Lunar New Year, but few people know about other traditional festivals in China. There are seven important festival, which include New Year’s Day, Lunar New Year, Qingming Festival, Labour Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day, in Chinese daily life. On these important festivals, families stay together to celebrate for fun.
Today, let’s see what do Chinese do in Dragon Boat Festival. It is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese calendar. As you may know that Dragon Boat Festival is mainly to memorize the death of great poet Quyuan, who is said to committed suicide by drowning himself in a river.
First, people attend Dragon Boat races to express their attempts to rescue Quyuan. But today, the Dragon Boat races are more likely to symbolize how unit people are through the competition.
Besides, people eat Zongzi on this day. Zongzi is a kind of food which people mix sticky rice and other food material. In northern China, people usually make sweet flavor Zongzi by add beans or sugar while in southern China, people prefer salt flavor Zongzi by add meat, salted egg and so on.
And most important, people make herbs packages that allowed to be hanged in windows or in handbags. Also, some people boil the herbs like artemisia to show themselves. The herbs are believed to keep a healthy body and prevent bad luck.