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"You can take the girl out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the girl.""
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What Do People Do
Many people clean their homes to welcome the Spring Festival. They put up the red posters with poetic verses on it to their doors, Chinese New Year pictures on their walls, and decorate their homes with red lanterns. It is also a time to reunite with relatives so many people visit their families at this time of the year.In the evening of the Spring Festival Eve, many people set off fireworks and firecrackers, hoping to cast away any bad luck and bring forth good luck. Children often receive “luck” money. Many people wear new clothes and send Chinese New Year greetings to each other. Various activities such as beating drums and striking gongs, as well as dragon and lion dances, are all part of the Spring Festival festivities.
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As Thanksgiving approached, family and friends assembled at the patriarchal homesteads. Thanksgiving balls were very popular, and women made sure that their clothes were the best and newest possible, despite grumbling about impious frivolity among the more devout. On the day itself, the more respectable attended morning service in the meetinghouse, before returning for the customary feast prepared by the women and servants of the household. The significators of a true New England Thanksgiving dinner were firmly established by the time of the American Revolution: the all-important turkey in place of honor, the massive chicken pie flanked by ducks, geese, and cuts of "butcher's meat," plum pudding, bowls of vegetable and fruit "sass" (sauce), and of course the pies. Following the dinner, the company might relax around the fire with wine or cider, dried fruits, and nuts to play games, tell stories, or in more pious households, to continue their religious exercises in the private sphere and welcome the minister's evening call.
Mangyan children in the Philippines
Luksong-Tinik
Etymology
The game's name comes from the Tagalog words lukso, meaning “jump”, and tinik, meaning “thorns”. The imagery of thorns is evoked by the players' hands and feet, which are vertically arrayed, end-to-end, with fingers splayed.Setup
Two players are assigned to serve as the fence over which the other players will jump over. These two form a base by placing the soles of their feet together, A distance from the fence is then designated for the jumping players as a runway. In some games, the best jumper is designated as a “mother”.Initially, the players who will act as the fence are determined randomly with a coin toss or jack-en-poy (rock-paper-scissors)
Rules
The players are to jump over the fence without touching it. As each round is cleared, the fence gets higher as a hand is added. This continues until the players who act as the fence run out of hands and feet to add. If any part of a jumping player's body or clothing touches the fence, that player is out. In variants of the game with a designated “mother”, that player has a chance to save a failed jumper by attempting the jump herself. If she fails, the game resets with the failed jumpers forming the fence.Consequences
Apart from playing as the fence in the following game, the failed jumpers can also be asked to play a round of “truth or consequence”, giving them a choice to answer a question honestly or undergo a task given by the other players. These questions and tasks are usually harmless but embarrassing, such as revealing who one is infatuated to or rolling in the dirt.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Christmas Season
“Family traditions help define who we are; they provide something steady, reliable, and safe in a confusing world.” This holds true, especially during Christmas, because each family has its own set of traditions that help make being together with their loved ones more special.
These dishes are made more special because of the love and effort put in by your loved ones in making them, and are family staples that you won’t be able to experience anywhere else. Dishes like this and other family favorites made at home help make Christmas reunion celebrations truly worth coming home to!
Lechon
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