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What are the foreign festivals and Chinese festivals?

Foreign festivals include Christmas, Valentine's Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving Day, etc.

Chinese festivals include New Year's Day, Chinese New Year, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, etc.

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1, Christmas? December 25

The name is an abbreviation of "Christ Caesar". For the abbreviation of Christ Mass, that is, for the celebration of the birth of Jesus, and therefore also known as Christmas

Festival, is the traditional Christian Church holiday, but also the international nature of the entertainment festival. The Church did not have a Christmas festival until about a hundred years after the ascension of Jesus. It is said that because the Bible does not specify when Jesus was born, the date of Christmas varies from place to place.

In 440 A.D., December 25 was designated as Christmas Day by the Holy See.

2. Valentine's Day ?February 14

People in order to commemorate this respect for love, the fight against tyranny of the priests, will be every year on February 14 as Valentine's Day, that is, Love

Valentine's Day.

3, Halloween?November 1

Halloween is also known as "Ghost Day", it is said that people used to believe that the souls of the deceased would visit the world on the eve of Halloween. So people

dressed up as ghosts and demons on this night to scare the ghosts away, and walked on the street with lights to scare the ghosts away, but also

to light up the route for the ghosts and guide their return.

4, New Year's Day (January 1)

New Year's Day, that is, most countries in the world commonly known as "New Year", is the first day of the new year of the Gregorian calendar. Yuan, said "first" said "day";

"New Year's Day" means "first day". The term "New Year's Day" first appeared in the Book of Jin, but its meaning has been used for more than 4,000 years.

5, Spring Festival

In modern times, people set the Spring Festival on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, but generally at least until the first month of the fifteenth (on the Yuan Festival) New Year's Day before the end of the

Bundle, in folklore, traditionally, the Spring Festival refers to the Lunar New Year from the Lunar New Year's wax festival or Lunar New Year's twenty-third or twenty-fourth sacrificial stove, and has been to the

Nineteenth day of the first month of the first year.