Chinese Festivals:
• Spring Festival (Lunar New Year/Chinese New Year)

• Qingming Festival
April 5th of the solar calendar.
Ancestral remembrance, grave yard cleaning.

• Summer Festival (Dragon Boat Festival)
Fifth Moon Fifth Day of the lunar calendar (around May 22 - June 22 of the solar calendar).
Dragon boat competition, rice wine drinking to prevent deceases.

• Mid-Autumn Festival:
Eighth Full Moon (around September 22 - October 22 of the solar calendar).
Moon cake, family round-table dinner.

• Chongyang Festival:
Ninth Moon Ninth Day (around October 07 - November 07 of the solar calendar).
Late autumn hiking, picnic, and, sometimes, grave yard cleaning.

• Winter Festival (Winter solstice/shortest day):
December 21st/22nd of the solar calendar.
Business lunch/dinner (December 21st/22nd of the solar calendar).

Chinese New Year:
The Chinese calendar is made up of a combination of lunar and solar movements, with the lunar cycle lasting on average 29.5 days. The Chinese New Year begins with a New moon and lasts 15 days, ending with the appearance of a full moon marked by the lantern festival. It is said to have first taken place in 2000 BC but has been held on different days under different emperors over the ages.

Legend has it that the festival marks the destruction of the beast Nian by an old man. The Chinese lunar calendar is named after the twelve animals that came to the Buddha before he departed the Earth. They are as follow: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Boar.