The Duanwu Festival, which is also called the Dragon Boat Festival, is an ancient Chinese traditional festival, celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. For thousands of years, various celebrating activities are held all around the country. Eating zongzi and racing dragon boats are ...
Diwali is a symbol of the triumph of good over evil and light over darkness. It is celebrated by many different religions in India and each religion has different pretexts for celebration. They celebrate this festival based on their own religious legends/histories and what is seen as important...
All Saints' Day, also known as All Hallows' Day, is a Christian holiday that is observed on November 1st in Western Christianity. All Saints' Day is a Christian memorial day celebrating the honor of all church saints, whether known or unknown. It is a day set aside to honor all the sa...
The history of Halloween and why we celebrate it is spookier than you know. Learn more about the origins of the October 31 holiday here.
The holiday is celebrated mostly in Mexico on November 1st and 2nd and focuses on family reunions – with dead ancestors as the special guests. Many traditions are associated with the Day of the Dead, such as making altars or ofrendas to honor ancestors and decorating graves with flowers and ...
Ease yourself into the weekend with one of the most celebrated movies of the last years. Based on Patricia Highsmith’s novel “The Price of Salt,” this film follows Carol, an upper-class woman in Manhattan who, stuck in an unhappy marriage falls in love with another woman against the ba...
Many believe that Halloween originated with the Celts, who lived two centuries ago in the areas now known as Ireland, England and northern France. On October 31, they celebrated the festival of Samhain (pronounced SAH-win) to mark the end of summer before the new year started on November 1...
Halloween, traditionally called “All Hallows’ Eve,” is celebrated on the evening before the Christian holy day of All Hallows’ Day or All Saints’ Day (November 1). Therefore, Halloween is always celebrated onOctober 31. When Is Halloween This Year?
There are lots of theories surrounding the origins of the day, but one explanation is connected with the change in the calendar in the 16th century, which meant that April 1st was no longer the beginning of the year. Those who still celebrated the New Year on 1st Apr...
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