Every ethnic and religious group in China has its own special festivals, as the Water-Sprinkling Festival of the Dai and Corban of the Muslims. These form an important part of the cultural and spiritual life of the groups concerned.
Many of these holidays had been observed for thousands of years until they mysteriously and suddenly fell out of practice during the Cultural Revolution. Despite the fatuous decling in the observance of traditional Chinese holidays, after all, 99 percent of the conversations you have with Chinese people are like the topic of traditional Chinese holidays.
Today, besides the summer and winter vacations, Chinese kids only get off from school for ten officially recognized national holidays every year, but there are many more folk holidays that are taken with varying degrees of seriousness throughout China. China is an agricultural society, so it should be no surprise that most traditional Chinese folk holidays revolve around the lunar calendar in China.
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