Chinese Festivals |
Common terms and phrases
15th day ancestral tablets bamboo frame bamboo leaves bargain baskets beggar bolizes bowl of rice bowl of vegetable burned candles Canton carry celebrating CH'i Ch'ing Ming CHINESE FESTIVALS Chu Yuan's contests are held cowherd darkness dead debts decorated door-ways Dragon Boat Festival drums and gongs dumplings eighth month evil family gather Feast of Lanterns fifteenth day fifth day Firecrackers Five Blessings flowers gild graves green leaves greeting Harvest Moon Heaven household gods incense burner Kitchen Kitchen God light magpies Milky monster moon cake MOON FESTIVAL movable needles North China offerings old calendar paper money pasted Peddlars placed power to attract prayer promise of skill reception room red paper regarded as possessing round rowers seventh month shops are open silk spider spins spirit sticks of incense streets tomb stones toys villages wares wealthy weaving maid Willow branches Women put worship wrapped Year's Eve Yuan yueh ping