Events and Happenings

In the summer, Beijing's streets are strewn with piles of watermelons for sale. Watermelon Festival was started in 1987. Watermelon fairs have been held in the villages of Da Xing ...

Celebrated on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, this major annual event is known as the Spring Festival by the Chinese, and is normally said ...

Mid- Autumn Festival celebrates the autumn harvest; it comes on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month at the time of brightest full moon of the year. ...

October first is China's national day, the anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic by Mao Zedong in 1949. After every five years there is ...