Top Zhangjiajie Seasonal & Special Occasions

Chinese New Year or 'Spring Festival' is China's most important festival and holiday time. Chinese New Year 2020 falls on Saturday, January 25th, 2020, beginning a year of the Rat. Chinese New Year is a time for families to be together. Wherever they are, people are expected to be home to celebrate the festival with their families. The New Year's Eve dinner is called 'reunion dinner', and is believed to be the most important meal of the year.Every street, building, and house where Spring Festival is celebrated is decorated with red. Red is the main color for the festival, as red is believed to be an auspicious color. It has long been a Chinese tradition to set off firecrackers from the first minute of their new year. Fireworks have increasingly been added to the cacophony. Setting off firecrackers and fireworks is an indispensable in this day. Billions of fireworks go up in China at 12am Chinese New Year,

Celebrated on the 15th day of the first Chinese lunar month, the Lantern Festival traditionally marks the end of the Chinese New Year Spring Festival period，(always between February 5 and March 7). It's Friday, February 26th in 2021. Zhangjiajie held a Grand and significant lantern festival every year. More than 300,000 locals and tourists took part in the carnival, and 3,000 performers from more than 5 groups for folk cultural and arts showed their interesting performances during the festival. Lantern Festival customs and activities vary regionally including lighting and enjoying (floating, fixed, held, and flying) lanterns, appreciating the bright full moon, setting off fireworks, guessing riddles written on lanterns, eating tangyuan, lion dances, dragon dances, and walking on stilts.The most important and prevalent customs are enjoying lanterns, guessing lantern riddles, eating tangyuan, and lion dances.