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Lantern Festival & Make the meal

15th days of the first month of the lunar year of the lunar calendar of every year, the Spring Festival just passed, it was the traditional festival of China that was welcomed -- The Lantern Festival.

from YouTube on Wed, Feb 11 2009

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15 Jan 09 visit China braces for 2009 Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) rush  »  YouTube video2009 CCTV Spring Festival Homepage: Hundreds of millions of Chinese studying or working away from their hometowns are rushing home to reunite with their families for the Spring Festival. Since the start of the Lunar New Year rush on Sunday, passenger...
09 Feb 09 visit Chinese Lantern Festival  »  YouTube videoTens of thousands of people in Beijing and Taiwan celebrated the Lantern Festival on Monday by setting off firecrackers and launching lanterns into the night sky. (Feb. 9)
26 Feb 10 visit Fullest moon in 53 years set to light Lantern Festival sky  »  People's Daily The moon for this year's Lantern Festival, January 15 on Chinese lunar calendar, will be the biggest of the Year of the Tiger, and will also the fullest moon on Lantern Festival evening since 1957. It is estimated that the distance from moon to the...
21 Feb 08 visit Push for a Lantern Festival day off  »  Shanghai Daily Netizens on a Chinese portal Website are pushing to have the Lantern Festival designated as a legal holiday. Lantern Festival marks the formal end to the new year festivities. "Lantern Festival, like Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon-Boat Festival and the...
21 Feb 08 visit China lunar probe serenades Earth for Lantern Festival  »  People's Daily All 30 melodies and songs carried on Chang'e-1, China's first lunar probe, were beamed back to Earth on Thursday to express best wishes for the Lantern Festival, the formal end to the Lunar New Year holiday. The music was delivered ...

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