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Table of Contents CHINESE NEW YEAR .......................................................................... 3 INTERNATIONAL CHOCOLATE FESTIVAL..................................... 7 BURNING MAN ................................................................................. 10 HOLI .................................................................................................... 13 COMIC CON ....................................................................................... 16
CHINESE NEW YEAR The Chinese New Year is the most important Chinese holiday. It is defined as the first day of the first month of the year in the traditional Chinese calendar. This celebration starts at the beginning of the New Year's Eve and continues during 15 days until the middle of the next month. The people make an effort to leave the house clean and with decorations.
Chinese New Year Traditions Fireworks: The fireworks are very important in this celebration,
because
the
Chinese
tradition says that this removes the evil far away. Just after midnight of the New Year´s Eve, the fireworks are launched to celebrate the rise of the New Year. The people believe that launching fireworks will bring good luck.
Red Packets The red packets are envelopes with money, but not too much. Traditionally, this is given by the elders persons to the children. The
tradition says this sends away the evil and will keep the children healthy and strong.
Cleaning / Decorations
It is very important to have the house completely clean before the coming of the New Year. After the cleaning, all the people decorate everything with red ornamentation. The most popular decorations are upside- down fu, dui lian, lantern, year paint, papercutting, door god, etc.
Chinese New Year Food New Year's Eve Dinner The most important dinner to the Chinese people are the new year´s eve dinner. The tradition is that all the family are together in this dinner, especially members of the family that are away from home. Generally, in this dinner they eat fish and dumplings, these dishes mean prosperity. The tradition says that this dinner should be at home not in restaurants.
Dumplings: Are cooked balls of dough. They are based on flour, potatoes or bread, and may include meat, fish, vegetables or sweets. They may be cooked by boiling, steaming, frying, or there may be other ingredients mixed into the dough.
New Year Cake: Another very traditional dish is the New Year cake. It is a delicious cake for the children.
Tang Yuan The tang yuan is a little ball of rice’s flour cooked in boiled water. The tradition says you should eat, the 15th of the first month Chinese calendar.
LaBa Congee: It is a mix of rice, nuts and beans cooked together. The laba congee is served generally in the laba festival that is the 8th day of the last month of the year.
of
the
traditional
This is the most important celebration for the Chinese, all year they prepared for Chinese New Year. The red color is a must in all the trimmings. Besides parades and floats are really wonderful. If you want to have a different and enjoyable experience would be interesting to know this celebration.
INTERNATIONAL CHOCOLATE FESTIVAL In Europe the chocolate industry is growing so fast. For this reason entrepreneurs have been organizing a chocolate festival that helps to increase the profits of the industries and to maintain happiness and enthusiasts chocoholic people. Eurochocolate is the biggest chocolate festival in Europe. A lot of people and sellers go there and celebrate this event, they express that these celebration it’s the glory of this creamy brown liquid and solid hunk The main sponsor of Eurochocolate same
is
, the
that pays its
suppliers of cacao about 3% or 4% of the profits. This festival has been organized sinde 1993 by the
architect
Eugebe
Guarducci. Creator of Eurochocolate, he began to develop the idea for this festival after a 1982 trip to Oktoberfes (beer day in Germany).
Eurochocolate is one of the most important event tha were dedicated to chocolate of Umbria, and it’s celebrate in October in Perugia. The capital city of the region of Umbria in central Italy crossed by the Tiber river. Perugia
is
located
about
164
kilometres from Rome in the south, and 148kiometres from Florence in the north. Every year there are many stands whit foods by choco factories that organize many events, shows, cultural events that animate the streets. There are many chocolate sculptures with chocolate theme and other activities such as chocolate art displays and sculpting, chocolate tasting, performances, and even
chocolate
spa
treatments. In some games people could be inside in a competition chocolate products.
an gadgets
win and
Finally, this celebration is recommended all people who like and love the chocolate and want to get out of the routine, it’s a delicious experience with a great travel in an awesome city in the world.
BURNING MAN Talking about festivals around the world is exciting, even more when you find a festival like burning man. This strange festival is amazing; you should know more about it and this is the perfect way to do it. Here we go. The burning man is in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, United States. The event begins on the last Monday in August, and ends on the first Monday in September, which coincides with the American Labor Day holiday. The city is Photo of Black Rock City with its typical form as a C
called Black Rock City (BRC). It northern
Nevada,
but
this
is in
city
is
temporary because it only exists while the festival takes place. The BRC is built by the participants of the burning man every year, but at the end you have to burn all and the city disappear. The name of this festival comes from the ritual burning of a large wooden effigy on Saturday evening.
Burning Man. Before
Burning Man. After
Art is the most important part of this festival. Larry Harvey is the founder of the Burning Man project; he gives a different theme every year. To develop the festival the participants build a largescale art installation, a theme camp, paint their cars, bring gifts
and
depending
do on
the
activities theme.
However, every year people build a temple. This is the most
Art into the community
important construction. It is a big temple and the place where the people can get together. Burning the temple is another important activity in the festival.
2011 Temple. Before
2011 Temple. After
During the week, there are no rules only the ten principles of Burning Man. These are the fundament of the temporary community. The principles are: Radical Inclusion, Gifting, Decommodification, Radical Self-reliance,
Radical
Self-expression,
Communal
Effort,
Civic
Responsibility, Leaving No Trace, Participation, and Immediacy. It is up to each participant to decide how he or she will contribute and what he or she will give to this community.
Arriving in this site is a little difficult. There are two nearby airports; one is the Reno-Tahoe International Airport in Reno, Nevada, approximately a 3-hour drive. The second is San Francisco, seven hours away by car; it is the nearest airport with a high volume of international service. From these airports, there are prepaid shuttles to move the people at the beginning and at the end of the event. In addition, some people use bicycles and do hitchhike to move around.
“The event is described by many participants as an experiment in community, art, radical self-expression, and radical self-reliance� said in the web page. If you want to live an unforgettable experience without rules, with fun, share with many people, being in nature this is the perfect event for you. Nothing could better describe this festival to experience it firsthand. To find more information I recommend the Burning Man Website.
HOLI is a spring festival celebrated as a festival of colour. It is a Hindu religious festival which has also become popular with people of other communities. It is primarily observed in India and Nepal. It is also observed by the minority Hindus in Bangladesh and Pakistan as well in countries with populations following Hinduism, such as Suriname, Malaysia, Guyana, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Kingdom, the United States, Mauritius, and Fiji. The festival of Holi is celebrated because of a story in the old Hindu religion. In Vaishnavism, Hiranyakashipu is the great king of demons, and he had been accepted a boon by Brahma, which made it almost impossible for him to be killed. The boon was due to his long penance, after which he had demanded that he not be killed "during day or night; inside the home or outside, not on earth or in the sky; neither by a man nor an animal; neither by astra nor by shastra". Consequently, he grew arrogant and attacked the Heavens and the Earth. He demanded that people stop worshipping gods and start praising respectfully to him.
Every year, thousands of Hindus participate in the festival Holi. The festival has many purposes. First and main, it celebrates the beginning of the new season, spring.
Originally,
festival
that
it
was a
commemorated
good crop and the fertile land. Hindus believe it is a time of enjoying spring's abundant colours and saying goobye to winter. It also has a religious purpose, commemorating events present in Hinduism. During this event, participants hold a bonfire, throw coloured powder at each other, and celebrate wildly.
The main day is celebrated by people throwing scented powder and perfume at each other. Holi is celebrated at the end of the winter season on the last full moon day of the lunar month. which usually falls in the later part of February or March. In most areas, Holi lasts about two days. Holi lowers (but does not remove completely) the strictness of social norms, which includes gaps between age, gender, status, and caste. Together, the rich and poor, women and men, enjoy each other’s presence on this day. No one expects polite behavior; as a result, the atmosphere is filled with excitement, fun and joy.
Natural colours were used in the past to celebrate Holi safely by applying turmeric, sandalwood paste, extracts of flowers and leaves. As the spring-blossoming trees that once supplied the colours used to celebrate Holi have become more rare, chemically produced industrial dyes have been used to take their place in almost all of urban India. Due to the commercial availability of attractive pigments, slowly the natural colours are replaced by synthetic colours. As a result it has caused mild to severe symptoms of skin irritation and inflammation.
An
alleged
environmental
issue
related to the celebration of Holi is the traditional Holika Dahan bonfire, which is believed to contribute to deforestation. A local tabloid had a view published that 30,000 bonfires each burning approximately 100 kg of wood are lit in one season. Several methods consumption
of
wood
have
been
of
preventing
proposed,
including
this the
replacement of wood with waste material or lighting of a single fire per community, rather than multiple smaller fires. However, the idea of lighting waste material antagonizes large sections of a certain community, who take it as a Western attack to their cultures and traditions citing several examples of similar festivities elsewhere. There is also concern about the large scale wastage of water and water-pollution due to synthetic colours during Holi celebration.
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