Holiday: Chinese/Dynasties

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  1. 2. (Spring) cold foods are eaten and gifts of food are left at the graves of ancestors; some foods include rice dumplings, green rice balls, fried dough twists
  2. 5. (5th Day of the 5th Month) spirits of enemy ancestors are combated- endangerment of the rice crop; some foods include tea eggs, garlic chive pancakes, sesame rice balls
Down
  1. 1. foods symbolically represent and evoke hopes for the coming year; some foods include steamed fish, oranges, glutinous rice balls
  2. 3. celebration of the harvest and includes family reunions; some foods include pumpkins, pears, lotus roots
  3. 4. (15th Day, 7th Month) ghosts must be fed so that they will be satisfied in the afterlife and not harm the living; food is served to ancestral spirits