On 23th of Septembers in town Shanghai will be celebrating Lunar Festival which is sometimes named Festival of Middle of Autumn. In every family they celebrate the end of harvest. In the folk holiday Chinese eat «lunar patties», this is round rolls with the sweet filling.
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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. People from the different countries make China visa to see this wonderful celebrating, though also process of registration of the visa enough uneasy (to familiarise with the china visa information to pay money and many other things...).
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.
In these days it is accepted to walk in guests, to visit temples. In courts and on streets petards are launched. Appearances of dancings dragons, dancings lions, round dance with singing, exhibitions of paper lanterns, calligraphy and Chinese painting get organized. All these measures have common sense: accompanying an old year, get rid of poverty, all troubles and illnesses, meet New Year, wishing riches, abundant harvest, health and prosperity.
In houses it is accepted to glue paper undercuts from a red paper on windows, cheap popular prints, representing plants, birds, animals, fairy-tale characters. Undercuts create the atmosphere of holiday in a house. It is also accepted to hang out on both sides of entrance in an apartment pair inscriptions of "Chun' lyan'", sense of which contains folk wisdom. Lighting of varicoloured candles with the image of hieroglyphs is popular.