Sunday, March 4, 2007

the Chinese lantern Festival

Today is a very important date for all the Chinese. It’s Chinese lantern Festival in Chinese lunar calendar, which has been lasting about 2000 years since its beginning in the Han dynasty. It is generally thought that the lantern Festival is Chinese Carnival and Valentine’s Day in the ancient chinese society. On this night, people enjoy the beautiful night with their families and friends, and celebrate the coming of the spring. There are lots of custom and activities on this festival, including eating glutinous rice balls, Guessing lantern riddles, Enjoying floral lights, Fabulous traditional, and lion dance. This festival is so popular that, Recently, people also call it the little Spring Festival, compared with the formal Spring Festival. In china, people always treat it as the end of the Spring Festival, they will begin to work after this day. Unfortunately, my application of the faculty of the Environmental design is delayed by the long the Spring Festival.

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