Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations and Dong Culture Tourism Festival 2016
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Dong Culture Tourism Festival in Liping County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Feb. 14, 2016. The Dong Culture Tourism Festival opened here on Sunday.
Many attractive cultural and art activities have taken place during the festival such as music performance,
Also, 43rd Chinese New Year Parade at the Chinatown in Vancouver, Canada, Feb. 14, 2016.
And also, People celebrating dragon dance and special performances, the lion dance to celebrate Chinese Lunar New Year at the Chinatown in Ottawa, Canada, Feb. 14, 2016.
People perform special lion dance during the celebration for the Chinese Lunar New Year.
Dong culture son :
The culture is best known for Dong Son drums: distinctive, giant ceremonial bronze drums lavishly decorated with ritual scenes and depictions of warriors.
Dong Son II culture. Mid-1st millennium BC. Bronze. The Đông Sơn culture (literally East Mountain culture, but from the name of Đông Sơn village) was a Bronze Age culture in ancient Vietnam centered at the Red River Valley of northern Vietnam from 700-500 BC until the first century AD.
Dongson culture (sometimes spelled Dong Son, and translated as East Mountain) is the name given to a loose confederation of societies who lived in northern Vietnam likely between 600 BC-AD 200.
The Dongson were late bronze/early iron age metallurgists, and their cities and villages were located in the deltas of the Hong, Ma and Ca rivers of northern Vietnam: as of 2010, more than 70 sites had been discovered in a variety of environmental contexts.
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Chinese New Year celebrations 2016:
The Year 2016 is the 4713th Chinese year. The Chinese believe that the first king of China was the Yellow King (he was not the first emperor of China).
The Yellow King became king in 2697 B.C., therefore China will enter the 4713th year on February 8, 2016. Also, the Chinese Year uses the cycle of 60 Stem-Branch counting systems and the Red Fire Monkey is the 33rd Stem-Branch in the cycle. Since (60 * 78) + 33 = 4713, therefore 2016 is the Fire Monkey year, which is the 4713th Chinese Year.
2016 is the year of Monkey. Some people say 2016 is a Red Monkey or Fire Monkey year.
Chinese New Year marks the first day of the New Year in the Chinese calendar, which differs from the Gregorian calendar. It is also known as the Spring Festival or the Lunar New Year. Every year is represented by a zodiac animal sign.
The Chinese New Year, which is the first day of the first month, in the Chinese calendar is assigned to an animal. According to one belief, Buddha promised gifts to all animals that would pay him homage. Only 12 animals came to honor Buddha so, to favor these 12 animals, each one was given one of the 12 years of the Chinese zodiac. People born during one of the animal's years are said to inherit distinctive characteristics of that animal. The signs repeat every 12 years.
The Chinese year, Chinese months are reckoned by the lunar calendar, with each month beginning on the darkest day. New Year festivities traditionally start on the first day of the month and continue until the fifteenth, when the moon is brightest.
Chinese New Year is celebrated worldwide to mark the first day of the New Year in the Chinese calendar, which differs from the Gregorian calendar.
It is also known as the Spring Festival or the Lunar New Year and celebrations can last for about 15 days.
Chinese New Year is a time for families to be together. Wherever they are, people come home to celebrate the festival with their families. The New Year's Eve dinner is called Reunion Dinner, and is believed to be the most important meal of the year.
Chinese New Year is the most important and longest of all Chinese festivals, celebrated in Chinese communities worldwide.
Chinese New Year activities include:
1. Making offerings to household deities.
2. Wearing new clothes, particularly in red.
3. Hosting a large banquet for family and friends.
4. Taking part in lion and dragon dances, as well as festive parades featuring acrobatic demonstrations, beating gongs, and clashing cymbals .
Many children receive “lucky money” in red envelopes and household doors are open to let good luck enter on Chinese New Year. Chinese New Year may also include a lantern festival, where people hang decorated lanterns in temples and carry lanterns to an evening parade.
The 2016 Chinese New Year Day is on February 8, 2016. This day is a new moon day, and is the first day of the first Chinese lunar month in the Chinese Lunar Calendar system.
Zhaoxing - Gaoan, China (zhaoxing china, zhaoxing regione cina, bus laibin macao)
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Zhaoxing
(Rosie Says) From Chongan, we took 3 bumpy buses to Zhaoxing.The whole journey took about 10 hours, and it was a real eye opener, as this is the poorest province in China. I saw lots of people building their own houses, and everybody, including 3 year-old kids were helping out. Lots of people live in wooden shacks and keep one cow for the family to survive. It reminded us that although Chinas cities are developing very quickly, the economic benefits aren't reaching the majority, who live in the countryside. People now have to pay for schools and healthcare, and we saw a lot of children whose parents can't afford to send them to school, and they have to work in the fields or on building sites. Anyway, We thought we were going to Zhaoxing but we ended up in another village where pigs were running about. We asked for Zhaoxing, and everybody pointed the same way but we couldn't see a bus. We asked if it was far to walk and they laughed. People offered to take us by rickshaw but we couldn't fit, so we stood by the side of the road for a bit feeling folorn. Eventually we hitched a lift in a posh car and the guy charged us 20 yuan which is a lot for here but never mind! When we arrived we were pleased we had gone to all the bother. It is a very special place. The people here belong to the Dong tribe, and they mostly have the same surname which is Lu. Whereas the Miao people's speciality is embroidery, the Dong people are noted for their beutifully designed wooden buildings. They speak Dong language and have a different dress code to the Miao people. The women all have very long hair which is tied on top of the head and held in place with a chopstick or a comb. They make their own cloth from hemp and die it with indigo paste (secret recipe). In this village there are five wooden bridges (all very ornate) and five drum towers (tall pagoda-like buildings. All the buildings are made from wood in the traditional dong style, even the new ones, so it makes it look very impressive. Most of the work in the village seems to be done by the women (Washing, making clothes and cooking) while the men play cards. What can I say? no surprise. We decide to stay here for 2 nights.
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Photos from this trip:
01. Bus to Zhaoxing
02. Pig in mystery village
03. Zhaoxing at last !
04. Drumtower in Zhaoxing
05. Dong lady working hard
05. Drumtower detail
06. Zhaoxing at night
07. sleepy cat in the market
08. By the river
09. Riverside house
11. little emporer
12. Young women of the village
13. Dong men in the village parade
14. Cows and baby in a basket.
15. Woman dying cloth.
16.Cloth dyeing process.