The festival celebrates ancient agrarian Chinese culture, and while some of traditional ways to celebrate it are no longer practiced, others persist. The most famous tradition is getting a haircut.

The festival, meaning “clean” and “bright” in Chinese, is considered auspicious, or lucky, and will be observed on April 5 this year. The ancient celebration dates back more than 2,500 ...

Like many age-old practices, the Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Double ... as the fifth lunar month in Chinese culture was an unlucky month, and the fifth day an unlucky day.

This guided the ancient Chinese on when to perform various ... Can you identify which Chinese festivals always appear around the same Gregorian calendar dates, and why? Content provided by Young ...

The flower festival, held the second month of the ... (618-907), and the folk music duet in the Gold Plaza blends ancient Chinese music with modern melodies, drawing large crowds.