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'The Spring Festival' is the most important day for Chinese people. It truly creates a carnival for unification of family members and for celebration at the end of a year. This book introduces the origin, development, and traditions of 'The Spring Festival,' and it offers readers a panoramic view of this unique Chinese festival. The book - written as an English-Chinese bilingual text - tells the stories behind the festival's name and covers nearly every aspect of the festival. The influence of the festival on ethnic minorities of China and overseas Chinese diasporas is also included. (Series:

Spring festivals --- History.

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Spring is a wonderful time of year. Readers will learn that there are so many wonderful holidays that are celebrated in the spring. St. Patrick's Day is in March. Passover is in March and April. Cinco de Mayo is in May. Ramadan lasts for a month and ends in May.--

Spring --- Holidays --- Spring festivals --- Seasons

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Romanies --- Saint George's Day --- Spring festivals --- Skopje (Macedonia) --- Social life and customs.

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Until the mid-fifties of the twentieth century, the city of Homs celebrated every year a great mawsem , the most spectacular ceremony of which was an impressive procession of Sufi brotherhoods. The author's investigation first consisted of collecting all the information still available on this festival from participants, most of them very old. Over the course of the interviews, it appeared that it was only the last and the best preserved of a series of seven spring festivals whose ethnological literature offers many parallels, in other towns or villages in the Near East. How did these seven spring festivals form a cohesive whole? How did they make sense to the participants? What can we know about their history? How and why did they disappear? Starting from a very local research, the investigation leads us to question certain general aspects of a traditional civilization today dying. Couldn't this glimpse into a lost world also contribute to understanding the crisis in which Near Eastern societies are struggling?

Spring festivals --- Vernal equinox festivals --- Festivals --- Homs (Syria) --- Ḥimṣ (Syria) --- Homs, Syria --- Ḥumṣ (Syria) --- Emesa (Syria) --- Houmousse (Syria) --- Émèse (Syria) --- Social life and customs. --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Manners & Customs --- Syrie --- islam --- printemps --- fêtes religieuses --- religion populaire --- Homs