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Happy Holidays!
By: Starflame Date: September 11, 2015, 2:09 pm
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So this a thread where, if you are celebrating a particular
holiday, you can wish people a happy holiday here! It can be a
holiday specific to your religion, nationality, city, culture,
etc., just so long as it doesn't celebrate anything
inappropriate in chat.
You can wish a happy holiday to explain why the day is important
to you, talk about the culture/country/religion, or just give
people an excuse to party :p
I'll start! This Sunday is Erev Rosh Hashanah, or New Years Eve
for the Hebrew Calendar! It uses the Lunar calendar, and will be
year 5776. A fun new-years tradition is to eat apples and honey
together, to represent the coming of a sweet new year. From that
day (the 13th) to the 22rd are known as the High Holy days,
where if you're Orthodox (I'm not :p ), you'd probably go to
temple and pray most of the day. The final day, the 23rd, will
be Yom Kippur, which translates to the Day of Atonement. Imagine
Lent (since that's more well known), but squished down into one
day and put on hard mode. Basically, Jews over the age of 13 who
aren't sick/elderly/nursing are supposed to fast (no food or
water) from sundown on the 22nd to sundown on the 23rd, to
repent/apologize for any transgressions of the prior year.
So, Happy New Year to you all!
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Re: Happy Holidays!
By: TigerPower Date: September 22, 2015, 12:26 am
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The date for the Mid-Autumn Festival changes each year,
determined by the Chinese lunar calendar, but it always falls in
September or early October.
This Sunday Sept. 27th, 2015 is the moon festival. The
Mid-Autumn festival is an important event on the Chinese and
Vietnamese calendars, a time of family reunion and celebration.
It is a lunar harvest festival and has rituals that date back as
long ago as 3,000 years. The festival is held on the fifteenth
day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar, falling close
to the autumnal equinox. It is a time of lanterns,
story-telling, mooncakes, dragon or lion dancing and
matchmaking. This festival has equivalents in other countries,
such as Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines and South
Korea.
Gazing at the Moon: The origins of appreciating the moon as a
custom can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty (618–907).
Nowadays, people still like appreciating the moon on Mid-Autumn
Festival in China. Chinese family members have dinner together
in the evening of Mid-Autumn Festival. After the dinner, they
may talk about their work, the children, and their future plans.
Sometimes, people go to a park to see the decorations made for
the festival.
Eating Moon Cakes: Eating mooncakes is the most popular
celebration of the day. Mooncakes are traditionally Chinese
pastries, which is made of wheat flour and sweet stuffings such
as sugar and lotus seed powder. Moon cake is a symbol of family
reunion, and the cake is traditionally cut into pieces that
equal to the number of people in the family.
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Re: Happy Holidays!
By: Starflame Date: October 31, 2015, 2:23 pm
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Wishing everyone a happy and spooky Halloween! I don't know the
actually history behind it buuuut traditions now include
dressing up, carving pumpkins, and eating lots of candy.
*hands everyone bags of tricks and treats*
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