The 15th day of the 8th lunar monthThe joyous Mid-Autumn Festival was celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, around the time of the autumn equinox(秋分). Many referred to it simply as the Fifteenth of the Eighth Moon. This day was also...
复活节的英语说法：Easter复活节的来历复活节规定了这个节日必定是在星期日举行的。在西方社会，复活节是重大节日。复活节假期通常都是由星期五开始，直至星期一。为何只有星期日一天...
Halloween has always been a holiday filled with mystery, magic and superstition. It began as a Celtic end-of-summer festival during which people felt especially close to deceased relatives and friends. For these friendly spirits, they set places at t...
万圣节(All Hallow's Day)是西方的鬼节，时间是每年公历的11月1日，庆祝活动从10月31日晚开始，称为万圣节前夜(Halloween)。目前流行在习惯说英语的一些国家。在前夜，人们会按照风俗带上面具、...
Halloween Comes to AmericaAs European immigrants came to America, they brought their varied Halloween customs with them. Because of the rigid Protestant belief systems that characterized early New England, celebration of Halloween in colonial times w...
本文介绍万圣夜的来源和历史。 Ancient Origins of HalloweenHalloween's origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in). The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingd...
April Fools' Day is celebrated in the Western world on April 1st of every year. Sometimes referred to as All Fools' Day, April 1st is not a legal holiday, but is widely recognized and celebrated as a day which tolerates practical jokes and general fo...
Although the name of the event is usually understood as a plural possessive (i.e. day belonging to fathers), which would under normal English punctuation guidelines be spelled Fathers' Day, the most common spelling is Father's Day, as if it were a si...
Every February 14, across the United States and in other places around the world, candy, flowers and gifts are exchanged between loved ones, all in the name of St. Valentine. But who is this mysterious saint, and where did these traditions come from?...
本周日(5月13日)就是母亲节了，你选好礼物了吗?据美国零售业联合会预计，今年母亲节期间美国人的花费将高达190亿美元。那么如何才能在母亲节花对钱、买对礼物呢?如果你的礼物清单上有以...
The seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar is known as Qi Xi Jie or 七夕节, a traditional holiday that has been recently called China's Valentine's Day. The 2,000-plus-year-old holiday marks the star-crossed love between a cow herd...
As with almost all Christian holidays, Easter has been secularized and commercialized. The dichotomous nature of Easter and its symbols, however, is not necessarily a modern fabrication. 和其它基督教节日一样，复活节正慢慢被世俗和被...
关于六一儿童节的由来有两种说法： 第一种说法： The International Children's Day had its origin in Turkey in 1920 (April 23, 1920) and later in the World Conference in Geneva, Switzerland,which 54 representatives from different co...
World Environment Day(世界环境日)World Environment Day (WED) was established by the UN General Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. Commemorated yearly on 5 June, WED is one of the principal...
Today's Traditions of HalloweenThe American tradition of trick-or-treating probably dates back to the early All Souls' Day parades in England. During the festivities, poor citizens would beg for food and families would give them pastries called soul...
