China's traditional Qingming Festival, also called Tomb Sweeping Day, usually falls on the first day of the fifth solar term on the lunisolar calendar, and this year, it's the 4th of April. Tomb Sweeping is the most important custom of the festival.

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Showcase of 155 films offers fresh perspective on green, climate change issues Penelope Poulou | Washington, DC 26 March 2010 Photo: Esben Hardt/Ace Ace If global warming continues at the same rate as today, by the end of this century, the Arctic cou

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Each year, the International Bluegrass Music Association honors a festival with their prestigious Bluegrass Event of the Year award. Last year, the honor went to the Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, held each July in a tiny town in upstate New York. The

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Festival Brings Together Two Generations of Rock Fans ARRINGTON, VIRGINIA When musicians over the age of 50 headline a rock concert, you expect to see baby boomer fans in the audience. Boomer rock stars have boomer fans. Millennial rock stars have mi

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Every mid-autumn festival, Victoria Park is lit up in a spectrum of colors. Numerous dazzling lanterns are put on display, telling the stories of ancient China, while at the same time, littering-in modern pop cultural references. Young or old, local

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Todd: OK, Yoko we were just at a festival. Yoko: Yeah! Todd: Do you want to talk about festivals in Japan? Yoko: Yes, OK. So, I think in Fall we have lots of kind of festivals, but it depends on the places. Todd: What are some things that most festiv

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By Behnam Nateghi New York City 29 October 2007 The College Music Journal Music Marathon recently (October 16 - 20) attracted a thousand up-and-coming bands to New York City. Music fans and industry insiders flocked to the annual festival to discover

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The Annual ATT San Jose Jazz Festival is Silicon Valley's favorite annual event. It is the largest free jazz festival in the country! The Festival, held in August in downtown San Jose, draws over 140,000 music lovers and features a minimum of ten dif

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The 12th China International Cartoon and Animation Festival has opened in Hangzhou, with artists and enterprises from 80 countries and regions taking part. The 12th China International Cartoon and Animation Festival has opened in Hangzhou, with artis

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While Chinese people bask in the afterglow of Lunar-New-Year celebrations, a BBC documentary - entitled Chinese New Year, the Biggest Celebration on Earth - is coming to CCTV's documentary channel. It reflects the growing global recognition of the fe

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Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang province on the edge of Siberia, is one of China's coldest places. And when the temperature dips below minus 20 degrees Celsius, the city turns into a wonderland with the creation of castles, towers, and buildings

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Zhang Yu, from Shanghai, has plans to visit cities across the country during the Spring Festival holiday. He is using a new car-pooling service to give rides to others who plan to travel during the holiday. It would be good if I can share my car with

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A female graduate student surnamed Chen bought 4 train tickets and travelled more than half way across China to get home. The journey took her three days, starting at the northern city of Tianjin, via Nanning, the capital city of south China's Guangx

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The Beijing International Comics and Animation Festival, one of the largest annual exhibitions of its kind in China, concluded in Beijing on Sunday. Comics from Japan, South Korea and even the US constitute a large part of the exhibition. Zhao Lingju

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Some of the best theatrical content from the international stage can now be enjoyed at Chinese cinemas. That's thanks to the ongoing International Theatre Live Festival, which aims to introduce famous titles from the U.K. U.S., Russia and France to d

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The Chinese New Year, or the Spring Festival, falls on Feb. 10th this year. Hundreds of millions of people will embark on a journey for family reunion, putting huge pressure on the country's transportation networks. Among them, the railways will hand

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The National Development and Reform Commission, the nation's top economic planner, estimates the population will make some 3.4 billion trips during Spring Festival using cars, buses, trains, airplanes and ships. Comparing to other transportation, som

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While shopping malls and supermarkets have sprung up around Qingdao, an international city in east China's Shandong Province, people are still fond of visiting traditional open air markets in the countryside during the New Year. The Licun village Fai

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As the Spring Festival ends, people have posted various bills of the money they spent during the Spring Festival on the internet. This has stirred heated discussions about the costs of nationwide family-gathering holidays. Gu Jun, who works in the in

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Over 300 million railway trips have been made during this year's spring festival travel rush - though the latest numbers only count until the end of February. The highest single-day travel happened on February 14th - Valentine's Day - with over 10 mi

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