"Spring Cleaning" takes on a more symbolic meaning as part of Chinese New Year traditions. Families thoroughly clean their homes as a symbolic gesture of "sweeping away" the past year's bad luck. According to Chinese New Year traditions and beliefs, the start of the New Year is also a ...
We used thematic content to analyze data, and an a priori coding framework was created utilizing the pertinent literature. Beliefs regarding pregnancy and postpartum positively affect maternal health, such as family support, prolonged rest for health recovery, and specific dietar...
Chinese New Year celebration activities in 2025 will span 15 days, from New Year's Eve on January 28th to the Lantern Festival on February 12th. Each day during this period will have a unique custom.
The first day of the new year is best started by viewing the new year’s first sunrise, hatsuhinode and many people stay up to do so. Some observatories open for this tradition, but as these are often very popular, it is difficult to get one of the limited tickets. Other people prefe...
Reading literature is more than fun; it also enables us to acquire knowledge. As a general rule, literature represents a language or a people, and it often gives us an insight(洞察)into the traditions, customs, beliefs, attitudes and values of the age in which it wa...
AGENT: That's an interesting distinction to make. How would you identify your religion? USER: I'm Jewish. I wish I knew more about Jewish traditions. AGENT: Were you raised religiously? USER: Yes, I was. Clearly, things are already getting pretty deep here. While the sample size of an...
With an annual growth rate of 2.3 percent, the population topped four million by 1992 and is expected to grow to more than five million by the year 2000. Around 85 percent of the population lives in small villages and rural outposts; the other 15 percent is concentrated in ten major ...
Produced by OECD’s Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), this estimate of adult skills comes only a few weeks after the latest release of the results of the Trends in Mathematics and Science Survey (TIMSS), which assesses the skills of 15 year-olds (Around...
What do these two Amish groups have in common? Like the Old Order Amish, New Order Amish use the horse-and-buggy, dress plainly, and hold many of the same customs, traditions and beliefs as Old Order Amish. At the same time, New Order Amish differ from Old Order Amish in key ways....
Emily Perkinsis an award-winning writer living in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Her books include the Women’s Prize longlistedThe Forrests, Novel About My Wife,winner of the Believer Book of the Year Award and the Montana Medal for Fiction, and the short story collectionNot Her Real Name,winner ...