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The Festival of Grapes Passes in China

From August to September in Chinese town Turpan, located on east of province of Xinjiang, the annual festival of grapes passes. For tourists it is not just occasion to know more about the main agricultural culture of region, it's possibility to become acquainted with life of remote province.

For travel to this mysterious and surprising country it is necessary for you to have the China visa. Before the beginning of registration of the visa it is necessary to familiarise with the china visa information.

Holiday of Spring - (Chinese New Year by a lunar calendar)

Time ( 1st day of 1st month on a lunar calendar). The ceremony of offerings to the ancestors and spirits is underlaid at the heart of Holiday of Spring, existing at a primitive-communal line-up. How is a holiday of Spring celebrated from a dynasty Sya ( 21-16 centuries B.C.). This measure settled down in the last month of the year after completion of the field works in gratitude for an abundant harvest. Presently a holiday of Spring is the most important traditional holiday from Chinese.

Then the Chinese cycle originated from the names of 12 animals, deifying them and applying their appearances for denotation of years, coming from astronomic supervisions.

The sequence of cycle of animals is such : rat, bull, tiger, hare, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, cock, dog, pig. In eve of holiday people do numerous purchases, sew new clothes, accomplish the ceremonies of offerings God of hearth and ancestors, necessarily gathering all family at the festive table, covered enormous the amount of dishes.

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