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  • Marriage customs in Yuhuan

    2019-02-19

    According to traditional marriage customs in Yuhuan, a county-level city of Taizhou, Zhejiang province, in the first step of a marriage, a boy's family and a girl's family, under the negotiation of a matchmaker, will exchange birthday letters bearing the boy's and the girl's birthday and birth hour respectively.

  • Customs and etiquette in Taizhou

    2019-01-15

    Customs and etiquette of marriage, giving birth, birthday celebrations, funerals, house building and house warming in Taizhou.

  • Customs of Winter Solstice in Taizhou

    2019-01-23

    The Winter Solstice is among the twenty four solar terms of the Chinese lunar calendar, created by farmers in ancient China.

  • New Year's Eve customs in Taizhou

    2019-01-23

    The last day of the twelfth lunar month is called "New Year's Eve". The twenty-fourth day is called the Minor New Year's Day.

  • Customs at Lantern Festival in Taizhou

    2019-01-18

    ​The Lantern Festival, a traditional Chinese festival, falls on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

  • "Lantern Festival on the Second of the Second Month of the Lunar Year" in Ningxi town

    2019-01-28

    Although lantern festival events are usually held on the 15th of the first year of the lunar year almost everywhere in China, Ningxi town of Taizhou, Zhejiang province holds theirs on the second of the second month of the lunar year.

  • Customs at Qingming Festival in Taizhou

    2019-01-18

    At the Qingming Festival, every household in Taizhou, Zhejiang province makes Qingtuan (salty) and Qingbing (sweet) as cold food.

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