Year 8 : Chinese Special Days

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  1. 5. Typical festive activities include trick-or-treating,attending costume parties, decorating, carving pumpkins into jack-o'-lanterns,lighting bonfires and so on
  2. 6. the first day of the year
  3. 7. people celebrate it by going on a journey,ascending height,inserting cornel,appreciating chrysanthemum and drinking chrysanthemum wine
  4. 8. a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year
  5. 10. The festival originates from the legend of the loyal love between Niulang (cowherd) and Zhinv (weaving girl)
  6. 12. celebrate the birth of Jesus,a major festival and public holiday in countries around the world
  7. 14. The sovereign's birthday
  8. 15. to celebrate the foundation of People's Republic of China
  9. 17. be celebrated on January 15 of Chinese lunar calendar
  10. 19. among which people eat rice dumplings (zongzi)
  11. 20. also known as the Hungry Ghost Festival or Yu Lan
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  1. 1. the most important day for people to offer sacrifice to ancestors
  2. 2. be celebrated annually on 26 January
  3. 3. a holiday celebrating mothers and motherhood
  4. 4. the most important and ceremonious traditional festival in China
  5. 9. a celebration honoring fathers and celebrating fatherhood
  6. 11. a festival and holiday celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead
  7. 13. a time for family reunion, also called "Reunion Festival"
  8. 16. It is the day when the Northern Hemisphere has the shortest daytime and longest nighttime in the whole year
  9. 18. marks the anniversary of the first campaign that led to major casualties for Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War