CHINISE FESTIVALS

Chinese New Year

• It is the longest festival for the Chinese.
• A popular treat is a candied Apple on a stick.
• They are celebrated for 15 days, and kids get a month off of school.
• It is celebrated in early February.

LANTERN FESTIVAL

• It is know as the "first night festival"
• Ball dumplings in soup is a common food.
• They are celebrated by making/releasing lanterns.
• It is celebrated in the late February and early March time.

QINGMING FESTIVAL

• It is also known as the tomb sweeping festival
• It is celebrated by worshipping ancestors.
• Sweet green rice balls are eaten.
• It is celebrated on April 4th or 5th.

DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL

• Takes place on the fifth month and the fifth day of the lunar calendar.
• It Celebrates a poet named Qu Yuan.
• People eat rice and dumplings. mostly for the festival

LABA FESTIVAL

• It takes place in early January.
• People celebrate it by eating laba porridge.
• The foods eaten are many types of porridge.