St. Valentine''s Day
February 14
St. Valentine''s Day has roots in several different legends that have found their way to us through the ages. One of the earliest popular symbols of the d

The 15th day of the 1st lunar month is the Chinese Lantern Festival ause the first lunar month is called yuan-month and in the ancient times people called night Xiao. The 15th day is the first night to see a full moon. So the day is also called Yuan Xiao Festival in China.
According to the Chinese tradition, at the very beg

▲ 1, Fang Yu could be a beacon multicolored lights, moving drag you happy heart Lake ripples; knock一acoustic festival Wanzhong, let me love in your heart Jidong! Dynamism happy!
▲ 2, the Lantern Festival bless you, gave you to be a Lantern Festival! Gugu, sweet, and for your feelings Niannian!
▲ 3, th

Fifteenth day
    Lunar fifteenth day is the traditional Chinese Lantern Festival Festival, the festival activities during the festive period will also be on this day reached a climax. Dynamism nights, decorated the streets, people point from the 10,000 lantern carrying out pro-tours with Friends of the

On October 31st, dozens of children dressed in costumes（节日服装）knock on their neighbors' doors and yell "Trick or Treat" when the door opens. Pirates and princesses, ghosts and popular heroes of the day all hold bags open to catch the candy or other goodies that the neighbors drop in. As they give each child a treat the neighbors excl

　农历九月九日，为传统的重阳节。重阳节又称为"双九节""老人节"因为古老的《易经》中把“六”定为阴数，把“九”定为阳数，九月九日，日月并阳，两九相重，故而叫重阳，也叫重九，古人认为是个值得庆贺的吉利日子，并且从很早就开始过此节日。庆祝重阳节的活动多彩浪漫，一般包括出游赏景、登高远眺、观赏菊花、遍插茱萸、吃重阳糕、饮菊花酒等活动。九九重阳，因为与“久久”同音，九在数字中又是最大数，有长久长寿的含义，况且秋季也是一年收获的黄金季节，重阳佳节，寓意深远，人们对此节历来有着特殊的感情，唐诗宋词中有不少贺重阳，咏菊花的诗词佳作。
　　重阳节是杂糅多种民俗为一体而形成的传统节日，同时它也不像春节、端午、中秋等是多民族共同节日，而为汉族所独有。
　　重阳节是一个岁时节日。在中国岁时节令中

Memorial Day（美国阵亡将士纪念日）It was 1866 and the United States was recovering from the long and bloody Civil War between the North and the South. Surviving soldiers came home, some with missing limbs, and all with stories to tell. Henry Welles, a drugstore owner in Waterloo, New York, heard the stories and had an idea. He suggested that all the

Shavuot（息汪月）]Shavuot, the Feast of the Weeks, is the Jewish holiday celebrating the harvest season in Israel. Shavuot, which means "weeks", refers to the timing of the festival which is held exactly 7 weeks after Passover. Shavuot is known also as Yom Habikkurim, or "the Day of the First Fruits", ause it is the time the farmers of Israel w

World Environment Day（世界环境日）]World Environment Day was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. Another resolution, adopted by the General Assembly the same day, led to the creation of UNEP（联合国环境规划署United Nations Environment Programme）.
World En

Flag Day（美国国旗日）]National flags are not merely symbols of a country. Their colors and designs convey past history and future goals. Flags have powerful connotations（内涵）. They speak to the people and politicians. People of one country will burn the flag of another with whose politics they do not ae. To show their anger, students display thei

Deaf-Blind Awareness Week（海伦•凯勒周）June 27, 2000, is the 120th anniversary of the birth of Helen Keller, and each year the week in which her birthday falls is recognized as Deaf-Blind Awareness Week. In honor of Helen Keller -- and other members of the deaf-blind community, this week is dedicated to the deaf-blind.
Every year t

Phi Ta Khon Festival（佛诞节）Everyone loves a good ghost story. The gruesome, the spiritual and the supernatural arouse an instinctive curiosity in all of us. In the west, ghostly fervor reaches a peak with Halloween on October 31. In Thailand, the spirit-world comes closest to us in June with the Phi Ta Khon festival, an event filled with fun

Coming-of-Age Day （日本成人节)The second Monday of January is Coming-of-Age Day, a national holiday to encourage those who have newly entered adulthood to ome self-reliant members of society. The holiday used to be on January 15, but in 2000 it was moved to the second Monday of the month.
Municipal governments host special coming-of-age cere

Dr. Martin Luther King Day（马丁•路德̶
It was December, 1955, and Martin Luther King, Jr. had just received his doctorate dee in theology（神学）. He had moved to Montgomery（ 蒙哥马利）, Alabama to preach at a Baptist church. He saw there, as in many other southern states, that African-Americans had to ride in the back of

Mardi Gras（四旬斋前的狂欢节）]Mardi Gras is a traditional holiday celebrated in many of the southern states of the USA. The most famous celebration takes place in New Orleans, Louisiana. The people there enjoy this celebration by going to parades where they catch "beads, doubloons, cups, and trinkets" that are all thrown from floats.
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