Other festivals

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@Shelley wrote: (http://www.chinese-forums.com/index.php?/topic/38727-ghost-days/)

This is very interesting. I have always wondered what other things like this there are but noone seems to write them down or talk about them.

Maybe I will start collecting these various festivals and other such things.

Any body know of any others?

Sorry to hijack this thread, maybe i should start a new one

One other which occurred just last week was Chinese Valentine's Day, 七夕。

A friend told me she went to buy flowers for her house and found that red roses were twice their usual price because of increased demand. China celebrates Valentine's Day twice, once on the "imported" date in February, and once in the seventh lunar month.

I bought some chocolates and gave them to a lady friend after I found out.

[liuzhou]

noone seems to write them down

There are dozens of sites on the internet listing and explaining them. A basic search for Chinese festivals will turn them up.

Wikipedia has a partial list here and some more here.

[skylee]

China celebrates Valentine's Day twice, once on the "imported" date in February, and once in the seventh lunar month.

There is also 元宵, the first full moon of the year. The poem says it all - 月上柳梢頭，人約黃昏後.

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The poem says it all - 月上柳梢頭，人約黃昏後.

Is that from the 李白 poem about the traveler and the full moon?