4.Each year, the Tibetan people celebrate the Tibetan New Year, the Sour Milk Drinking Festival, the Butter Lamp Festival, the Bathing Festival, the Ongkor (Bumper Harvest) Festival and the Damar Festival in their time-honored ways.
7.For persimmon farmers in Xin Pu, fall is the joyful harvest season. To visitors who come for the annual Persimmon Festival, fall is also a feast for the senses.
8.Festivals in an agricultural society coincide with the change in the seasons. After a bumper harvest in autumn and the Winter Solstice, people begin to feel increasingly excited about ushering in the Spring Festival, or Chinese New Year, as the weather gets colder.
9.This festival is intended to ring out the old year and usher in the new, to celebrate the bring-in of the harvest and to pray for good luck in the coming year.
10.Some Canadian Thanksgiving traditions grew out of an old English festival called Harvest Home.In 1578 the English explorer Martin Frobisher held Thanksgiving in Northern Canadain.This is the earliest record of Thanksgiving by Europeans in North America.
