CELEBRATIONS IN CHINA

Legal holidays in China are New Year (January 1st), a national one-day holiday; Spring Festival (New Year by the lunar calendar), a national three-day holiday; International Working Women's Day (March 8th); Tree Planting Day (March 12th); International Labor Day (May 1st), a national one-day holiday; Chinese Youth Festival (May 4th); International Children's Day (June 1st); Anniversary of the Founding of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) (August 1st); Teacher's Day (September 10th); and National Day (October 1st), a national two-day holiday.

China's major traditional festivals include the Spring Day Festival, the Lantern Festival, Pure Brightness Day, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Double Ninth Festival. Ethnic minorities have also retained their own traditional festivals, including the Water Sprinkling Festival of the Dai people, the Nadam Fair of the Mongolian people, the Torch Festival of the Yi people, the Danu (Never Forget the Past) Festival of the Yao people, the Third Month Fair of the Bai people, the Antiphonal Singing Day of the Zhuang people, the Tibetan New Year and Onghor (Expecting a Good Harvest) Festival of the Tibetan people, and the Jumping Flower Festival of the Miao people.

NATIONAL MUSIC

Guoyue are basically music performed on some grand presentation to encourage national pride. Since 1949, it has been by far the most government-promoted genre. Compared to other forms of music, symphonic national music flourished throughout the country. In 1969 the cantata was adapted to a piano . The Yellow River Peno Concert was performed by the pianist Yin Chengzong, and is still performed today on global stages. During the height of the Cultural Revolution, musical composition and performance were greatly restricted

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Traditional music

Traditional music in China is played on instruments or in small ensembles of plucked and bowed stringed instruments, flutes, and various cymbals, gongs, and drums. The scale is pentatonic. Bamboo pipes and are among the oldest known musical instruments from China; instruments are traditionally divided into categories based on their material of composition: skin, gourd, bamboo, wood, silk, earth/clay, metal and stone. Chinese orchestras traditionally consist of bowed strings, woodwinds, plucked strings and percussion.

HONG KONG

Locator map for Hong Kong, a special administrative region in the southeast of China. The region is made up of Hong Kong Island, the mainland Kowloon Peninsula and New Territories, and many small islands. Ships in Aberdeen Harbour, Hong Kong. The world's largest floating restaurant is moored in this ancient fishing port on the southern side of the island. Aerial view of Hong Kong at night. The harbour and skyscrapers are brilliantly lit, enabling the life of the city to continue around the clock.

Hong Kong Island is connected with Kowloon by undersea railway and ferries. A world financial centre, its stock market has four exchanges. Main exports are textiles, clothing, electronic goods, office machinery, clocks, watches, cameras, and plastic products; tourism is also important to the economy.

CHINA

China is a beautiful country, it is the 4th more big of the world. China has one of the world's oldest people and continuous civilizations, consisting of states and cultures dating back more than six millennia. the capital China is Pekin. it´s in the Pekin the "temple of the ski". The temple is located in the south of the city, near of this place this the Housanhai lake, to ten minutes this the "temple of the sky" constructed in the year 1420.

China enjoys a moderate maritime climate characterized by moderate winter, fresh summer and a lack of extreme temperatures.

The Chinese people are very hardworking and all the time they are fighting for the country and for preserve their culture. They protect their beliefs and want that everybody knows their religion, rituals and all the amazing things that have China.

MY PROFILE

My name is Ricardo Cardenas, I have 23 years of age, am of bogota though lived 17 years in Gacheta Cundinamarca. I am a student of medicine of the university of the Sabana and am in 5 semester. My hobbies are the football, the cycling and to go to cinema.
I do not have girlfriend but I am charmed with going out with my friends to dance and Iam going to drink with my friends.