In China, almost every traditional festival is associated with festive food. There is no exception for Qingming Jie, also known as Tomb Sweeping Festival. Qingtuan, or green rice balls, is the typical food to mark the day. For most of the seniors, it is a must-have offering at the family tombs; while for the children, it's a sweet treat.The custom of making sweet green rice balls dates back to the Zhou Dynasty over ...

The lively, noisy lion dances are seen most commonly during Chinese New Year celebrations. Possibly you are not strange to such performances, which they are always performed in Chinatowns worldwide. Definitely in Guilin, performing lion dances is a most spectacular event in this festival season. First goes a little introduction. The Lion Dance is typically performed by two dancers inside a stylised lion costume wh ...

Zongzi are Chinese rice dumplings traditionally eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival (Duanwu Jie) on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar year. Actually, People are not eating zongzi, but culture. Zongzi has been handed down as a traditional food for about 1,700 years. Everyone loves talking about them, making them and passing them out as gifts, or receiving them. At the most basic level, a zongzi consist ...

Those who have traveled in China must know some kinds of glutinous rice food, like tang-yuan, zongzi, and niangao, etc. However, have you heard of wuse nuomifan ((五色糯米饭), or "five-colored glutinous rice"? I think you could say, Not yet; this food wasn't any you're likely to see in most parts of China. The five-colored glutinous rice is a traditional festival food for the Zhuang ethnic group in South China ...

Chinese festivals are always packed with good-luck foods. Surely, for Spring Festival, the auspicious food is essential to a healthy, happy new year in Chinese tradition. As China is a vast country, cooking varies widely depending on the region of China you're in. When in Guilin, eat as the locals do. Some typical Guilin dishes are served throughout the 15-day New Year celebration.A family reunion dinner on New Yea ...

Whenever Chinese lunar New Year is mentioned, the first thing that comes to the minds of most people is, "What year is this?" According to Chinese Zodiac Calendar, 2014 is considered as the Year of the Horse which begins on January 31, 2014, and ends on February 18, 2015.The Chinese zodiac is represented by 12 animals; and each New Year ushers in a new zodiac animal. The 12-year cycle of animals are, in order, the ...

Chinese people celebrate Laba Festival 腊八节, which falls on January 8 this year, by eating rice porridge. La 腊 in Chinese means the 12th lunar month and ba 八 means eight. The Laba Festival, which falls on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, marks the official start of Spring Festival celebration. Eating porridge on the day of Laba is a traditional custom in China, which delivers good prospects for the co ...