what festival you celebrates in your country?what makes it different from other?
By amyson
@amyson (3498)
Philippines
September 19, 2009 10:33pm CST
in my country we celebrates feast of saints to honor them.another we celebrate festival for thankful of good harvest and prosperity.in my community we celebrate the feast of penafrancia.in manila they celebrate the feast of black nazareth,in cebu city they celebrate the feast of sto.nino.people enjoy theses kind of festivitist for many reasons one is to honor their saints,they make wishes from the saint from what they want in their lives.they also prepare foods for the people who will visit there their house.what are your festivals in your country?
10 responses
@solatjumat (312)
• Indonesia
20 Sep 09
we celebrate lebaran or idul fitri
after one month fasting
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@solatjumat (312)
• Indonesia
20 Sep 09
we eat a lot . LOL
because we have fasting for a month. we don't eat and drink from 4am to 6PM.
it happened for a month. when the fasting month is over, we call it Idul Fitri or lebaran.
the best part is, it's a long holiday. so, we can have fun with family.
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@clorissa123 (4926)
• United States
20 Sep 09
In my country, we have moon festivals, which is the celebrating of good harvest and also the great scene of full moons. There were a legend of a lady with a rabbit living on the moon from the Chinese culture folklore. Peopel usually make moon cake and other great meals for that day. Also, we have lunar new year in China too.
@kym123 (8)
• China
20 Sep 09
I'm also a Chinese.
the mid-autumn festival is drawing near, as well as the birthday of PRC! I'm so exciting about it!!
and i think the most important festival in China must be the lunar new year.all families get together and have fun.
i enjoy it very much!!!
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@pooh08 (671)
• Vietnam
20 Sep 09
I have had organize japanese's festival 3 times. I think this festival mean thank god wished for them can have a good air, season, fishing and harvest. In this festival, many groups dance on the road and everybody stand and watch they dance. It' difference from my country is the festival of my country, nobody dance on the road. They only dance in the theatre or some where have mean of history. Every month, it'll be organize a time depend on village. Japanese's festival only organize at the same time in everywhere of japan.
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@Anchopy (1453)
• Paraguay
23 Sep 09
I agree with alexhonig, the festival of Saint John is one of the most popular, but some years ago that I'm not enjoying as I wanted. I guess with the passing of time such events lose their meaning, then that one matures and realizes the true meaning of this event
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@alexhonig (11)
• Paraguay
20 Sep 09
In my country we celebrates feast of Saint John. It's quiet excellent because we do all we want it. For example all night we can play soccer with a flamed ball!! Also we have a 'Judas Kai', that's mean a Fire Judas, where burn a man toy. Also, there are a lot of things to do.
@dilipreddy (36)
• China
20 Sep 09
in india we have many festivals according to the hindu religion and the festivals i enjoy the most are diwali,ganeshchathurdi and sankranthi as per my province and on the eve of sankranthi we celebrate the day by flying kites for which the festival is very famous and we can find the sky filled with kites on that day and there are many organisations which organise competions on flying kites and diwali is what we call as lightening festival and on that day we fire lots of fireworks and make the night glow just like a day and its really a wonderful experience and all the indian festivals are mostly based on two indian epics mahabharath and ramayana.we also have some other famous festivals for which we give a lot of importance like dussera,holi(colours festival),etc
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@VANILLAREY (1470)
• India
20 Sep 09
In India there are many festivals. Almost every state has a festival to offer. The state I live in also has plenty of festivals. Festivals also mean holidays. Some of the famous festivals in my country are Deepavali aka Diwali, Holi, Navaratri, Christmas.
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@joezon50 (378)
• Hong Kong
20 Sep 09
Here in Hongkong,we celebrate the National day on Oct.1,then another one
and the 3rd is the Moon Cake festival.We offer many kinds of fruits with
some chinese tea and enjoy eating them after dinner out in the garden.
While watching how beautiful is the moon on the night.Yes each our country
has it own celebration to celebrate.happy posting my friend.
@janebeth (2032)
• Philippines
20 Sep 09
hi amy,
i am from Cebu so our big festival celebration is "SINULOG", bet you know it..
it is very famous here and it always happen every 3rd Sunday of January..
i am so excited for this coming 2010, another jamming2x with my friends
and hanging around all over the city..
i think ours is Unique and we humbly say that this is one of the best
festives in the country..
janebeth.
@picjim (3002)
• India
20 Sep 09
In my country we have a festival to celebrate the bounty of harvest its called as sankranthi.On this day there is a bull which is colorfully decorated and taken around town.People fly kites with a thread coated fine glass called manja.This is mainly to cut the kite flown by others.A day prior to sankranthi is called Bhogi when women folk colorfully decorate the front portion of the house with rangoli(POWDERED COLOR
STONE)on this day a sweet rice is prepared called pongal.