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This poem by Chinese poet Xu Xuan (916-991 CE) honors the transition from winter to spring. According to the Chinese Almanac, March 21 is the first day of the season
As the most important traditional Chinese holiday, Spring Festival is the biggest time for family reunions.
In fifth grade, in the midst of Lunar New Year festivities, I spent hours and hours after school with my friend working on our lantern to enter in a contest held by my elementary school in Taiwan.
The Kallawaya people, who make their home high in the Bolivian Andes, developed intricate systems of traditional medicinal practices and belief.
One day during the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, a group of participants in the Hungarian Heritage program staged a wedding procession wearing costumes typical of the Szék region of Transylvania, Romania.
International Women’s Day marks an opportunity to take a stand for equality and emancipation
Every Mardi Gras in New Orleans for the past 100 years, the Krewe of Zulu parades through the streets in blackface, wearing grass skirts, and throwing coconuts.
The Bhutanese New Year’s festival, called Losar, is celebrated between February and March depending on the lunar calendar.
January 25 is Dydd Santes Dwynwen, or Saint Dwynwen’s Day, the Saint Valentine’s Day of Wales
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