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  • China the Beautiful: Chinese New Year
    Includes a printable monthly calendar, common questions about Chinese New Year, and zodiac information.
    www.chinapage.com/newyear.html
  • Chinese New Year
    Offers a look into the 15-day celebration of Chinese New Year and its traditional foods, decorations, taboos, and superstitions.
    www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/438/CHINA/chinese_new_year.html
  • Southwest Airlines Chinese New Year Festival & Parade
    Annual event held in San Francisco's Chinatown. Includes a schedule for the festival and parade, culture resources, local history, and recipes.
    www.chineseparade.com
  • Wikipedia: Chinese New Year
    User-created article about the Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival. Includes Chinese New Year dates, traditional menus, and an analysis of traditional greetings.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_new_year
  • Wikipedia: Lantern Festival
    About the festival of lanterns celebrated on the 15th day of the Chinese New Year. Lantern Festival is also known as the Little New Year.
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantern_Festival
  • Chinese Dragon Boat Festival
    With photos and a brief explanation.
    www.ncsu.edu/midlink/dec97/holiday/boatz.html
  • 123 Chinese New Year.com
    Celebrate the Lunar New Year with eCards.
    www.123chinesenewyear.com
  • Kaboose: Chinese New Year
    Features crafts, recipes, and activities for Chinese New Year.
    crafts.kaboose.com/holidays/chinese_new_year.html
  • Chinese Festivals: The Mid-Autumn Festival
    Describes origins of the festival and the different celebrated forms.
    www.chinavoc.com/festivals/Midautumn.htm
  • Harvest Moon Festival
    The legend, lanterns, and moon cakes.
    www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/438/CHINA/moon.htm
  • Holidays and Festivals in Taiwan: Mid-Autumn Festival
    Explaining the legends of the Moon festival including eating moon cakes, Chang O flees to the Moon, Wu Kang chops down the Cassia tree, and the jade rabbit grinds medicine.
    www.gio.gov.tw/info/festival_c/moon_e/moon.htm
  • Family Culture: Vietnamese Mid-Autumn Festival
    Family holiday with star lanterns and mooncakes.
    www.familyculture.com/holidays/tettrungthu.htm
  • Chinese New Year eCards
    Collection of eCards for the occasion of Chinese New Year.
    www.chinesenewyearecards.com
  • Tomb Sweeping Day
    Includes video clips of the rituals.
    www.gio.gov.tw/info/festival_c/tomb_e/tomb.htm
  • Family Culture: August Moon Festival
    Provides mooncake recipes and the legend of the Moon Maiden.
    www.familyculture.com/holidays/augustmoonfest.htm
  • 101ChineseNewYear.Com
    Chinese New Year greeting cards.
    www.101chinesenewyear.com
  • About.com: Moon Festival
    Includes legend of the Mid-Autumn festival and recipes of variety of moon cakes.
    chinesefood.about.com/library/weekly/aa091099.htm
  • Moon Festival, The
    Offers a brief introduction to the holiday and poems.
    www.chinavista.com/experience/moon/moon.html
  • Chinavoc.com: Lantern Festival
    About the Chinese Festival when people try to solve puzzles on the lanterns and eat Yuanxiao dumplings.
    www.chinavoc.com/festivals/lantern.htm
  • Chinese Festivals, The
    About different chinese festivals like Chinese New Year, Ching Ming, and Tin Hau, as well as some interesting information about Chinese culture.
    www.edunetconnect.com/categories/originals/chinafest/chinesef.html
 




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