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 Chinese new years is celebrated for about fifteen days.  On this day people eat more food then any other time of the year, and they usually eat foods.

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2  Chinese new years is celebrated for about fifteen days.  On this day people eat more food then any other time of the year, and they usually eat foods that remind them of people close to then that have died.  People decorate their houses with lots of flowers, candy trays, and oranges and tangerines.  Each day has different kinds of celebrations, and on the 14 th day they get ready for the lantern festival which is held on the 15 th day.

3  15th day of the 1st lunar month. Which is either in February or March.  It’s celebrated my Chinese and Vietnamese people.  Its celebrated in many ways, from firework displays and laser shows.  It takes place under a full moon, and marks the end of the Chinese New Year.

4  Victory day is celebrated on July 27.  Its celebrated for all the wars Korea has been through.  Citizens lay wreaths and flowers at military cemeteries and monuments nationwide.

5  On this day parents work while kids have little celebrations during the day.  A play performance, a writing competition, or a drawing competition would be held.  Its celebrated in Japan and South Korea

6  People that lived along the river put cooked rice in the river as a sacrifice. But then they found that the fish ate the rice so people wrapped the cooked rice in bamboo leaves. Now a days people eat rice-and-meat dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves.  Chinese known as dragon is God of the water world. Today, water remains central to the festival and each year teams compete in dragon boat races.  The celebration's is a time for protection from evil and disease for the rest of the year.

7  To people in China the moon festival is like are Christmas or Thanksgiving.  When a full moon rises families get together watch the moon, eat mooncakes, and sing different kinds of moon poems.  Mooncakes have a golden yellow egg yoke center that look like the moon, they symbolize the gathering if friends and family,  The Moon festival is known as a romantic holiday.

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