* Bon festival – ( Obon Festival ) is a Japanese traditional buddhist custom, evolved into a family reunion holiday.

In most of East Asia today, the Gregorian calendar is used for day-to-day activities, but the Chinese calendar is still used for marking traditional East Asian holidays such as the Chinese New Year, the Duan Wu festival, and the Mid-Autumn Festival, and in astrology, such as choosing the most auspicious date for a wedding or the opening of a building.

A visit to a Punch and Judy Festival at Punch's " birthplace " in London's Covent Garden will reveal a whole variety of changes that are rung by puppeteers from this basic material and although scripts have been published at different times since the early 19th century, none can be claimed as being the definitive traditional script of Punch and Judy.

The Chinese Spring Festival is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays.

On April 4, 1976, on the eve of China's annual Qingming Festival, a traditional day of mourning, thousands of people gathered around the Monument to the People's Heroes in Tiananmen Square to commemorate Zhou Enlai.

Many traditional customs, such as fortune telling, paper art, feng shui consultations, wearing traditional Chinese dresses for weddings, the use of the traditional Chinese calendar, scholarship in classical Chinese literature and the practice of referring to the Chinese New Year as the “ New Year ” rather than the “ Spring Festival ” have been weakened in mainland China.

The Qingming Festival () is a traditional Chinese festival usually occurring around April 5 of the Gregorian calendar.

On April 5, Beijing citizens staged a spontaneous demonstration in Tiananmen Square in Zhou's memory at the Qingming Festival, a traditional Chinese holiday to honor the dead.

The “ Annual Russian / Slavic Food Festival ,” observed the first full weekend of each November, brings visitors to tour the temple, see traditional Slavic and Russian dances, and sample time-honored ethnic plate lunches and baked goods prepared by the Sisterhood of Saint Olga.

Major annual community events largely reflect traditional small town American life and include the Easter Egg Hunt, Buck Creek Festival, 4th of July Picnic, concert and fireworks, Fall Carnival, Spring Fling, and the Christmas Parade.

A traditional Labor Day Parade & Family Festival held the Saturday before the official holiday pays homage to the significant military history of the town.

The incident occurred on the traditional day of mourning, the Qingming Festival, after the Nanjing Incident, and was triggered by the death of Premier Zhou Enlai earlier that year.

The traditional Soy Bean Festival will not be held in 2011 due to flooding.

Featuring traditional Swedish food and dancing, the Swedish Festival remains a popular attraction to this day, the crowning jewel of which is the Swedish Festival parade.

In recent years Mountain Days now called Mountain Festival has become a more traditional and smaller festival, with music, food and activities for kids and stands selling various local arts and crafts.

The Dulci-More Festival, a music festival dedicated to the Appalachian dulcimer and other traditional musical instruments, was inaugurated in 1995 and takes place each Memorial Day weekend at Camp McKinley, a Boy Scout camp near Lisbon.

Lyons also hosts an annual Fiddle Festival held every September where there is traditional PA Dutch food, crafts, as well as dancing and fiddling contests.

Major festivals and arts events include the Home Water Festival, a two-week extravaganza in the middle of July ; and the Shrimp Festival, celebrating the local and traditional industry, is in the first weekend in October.

The Roan Mountain Rhododendron Festival is held each summer at the lower elevation of Roan Mountain State Park, offering visitors opportunities to sample traditional foods, purchase locally handmade crafts, and listen to a variety of traditional Southern Appalachian musicians, as well as to view the alpine catawba rhododendron gardens whose blooming season usually peaks during the third or fourth weekend in June.

William Styron, while facing the changing economy with a certain uneasy reluctance, insists he is not to be classified as a Southern writer and yet includes traditional Southern concepts in everything he publishes.

One reason is, of course, that the new scepticism has been willing to maintain the general picture of the invasions as portrayed in the traditional sources.

If man is actually the product of his environment and if science can discover the laws of human nature and the ways in which environment determines what people do, then someone -- a someone probably standing outside traditional systems of values -- can turn around and develop completely efficient means for controlling people.

Rexroth is a longtime jazz buff, a name-dropper of jazz heroes, and a student of traditional as well as modern jazz.

Through all this raving, Krim is performing a traditional and by now boring rite, the attack on intelligence, upon the largely successful attempt of the magazines he castigates to liberate American writing from local color and other varieties of romantic corn.

Certainly, it is the traditional clarity of his music which has endeared him to the Western World -- not his experimentations.

The paper has a certain value as a comparatively easy introduction to this approach, particularly since it treats a fairly simple and straightforward phenomenon where it is possible to compare it with a more traditional ( though not structural ) statement.

What is left to traditional systems of philosophy is, in effect, only the history of these fields prior to their becoming rigorous enough to abide by the canons of scientific method.

This explanation is attractive, but is vitiated at least in part by the observation that Cynewulf, though he used kennings in the traditional manner, was a literate man who four times inscribed his name by runes into his works.

A traditional Lao explanation is that the moon was being swallowed by a toad, and the remedy was to make all possible noise, ideally with firearms.

And the rebellion of these third generation Jews is not the traditional conflict of culture but, rather, a protest against a culture that they view as softly and insidiously enveloping.

This conclusion is dependent on the assumption that traditional sex mores will continue to sanction both premarital chastity as the `` ideal '', and the double standard holding females primarily responsible for preserving the ideal.

Gov. Vandiver is expected to make the traditional visit to both chambers as they work toward adjournment.

`` This is a long picture and a controversial one, but basically it is a moral, enthralling and heartbreaking description of humans who have become unlinked from life as perhaps Rome has from her traditional political, cultural and religious glories ''.

If Bultmann's own definition of myth is strictly adhered to ( and it is interesting that this is almost never done by those who make such pronouncements ), the evidence is overwhelming that he does not at all exaggerate the extent to which the mythological concepts of traditional theology have become incredible and irrelevant.

However, even if the latent demand for demythologization is not nearly as widespread as we are claiming, at least among the cultured elements of the population there tends to be an almost complete indifference to the church and its traditional message of sin and grace.

With traditional nationalistic spirit, some Englishmen claim that English Catholicism is Catholicism at its best.

The truth is that any revival of traditional and indigenous religion will serve to promote that sense of identity and Volksgeist which these young nations very much need.

The traditional story about his departure reports that he was disappointed with the direction the academy took after control passed to Plato's nephew Speusippus upon his death, although it is possible that he feared anti-Macedonian sentiments and left before Plato had died.

Lis Paludan theorizes that crochet evolved from traditional practices in Arabia, South America, or China, but there is no decisive evidence of the craft being performed before its popularity in Europe during the 19th century.

These include the half toe loop ( ballet jump ), half loop, half flip, walley jump, split jump ( there are two kinds of split jump, Russian split, performed in a position that is similar to that of a straddle split and ladies split performed in the position of the more traditional split, facing the direction of your front leg ), waltz jump, inside Axel, and one-foot Axel.

It may take place in a hospital, but is usually performed, without anaesthesia, by a traditional circumciser using a knife, razor, or scissors.

It is generally performed by a traditional circumciser, usually an older woman known as a " gedda ," without anaesthesia or sterile equipment, though richer families may pay instead for the services of a nurse, midwife, or doctor using a local anaesthetic.

Immediate complications are increased when FGM is performed in traditional ways, and without access to medical resources: the procedure is extremely painful and a bleeding complication can be fatal.

Some are reserved for men and others for women while some may be performed by either, though these traditional distinctions are breaking down: the Farruca, for example, once a male dance, is now commonly performed by women too.

* They are dances performed at social functions by people with little or no professional training, often to traditional music or music based on traditional music.

Lavani is a combination of traditional song and dance, which particularly performed to the enchanting beats of ' Dholaki ', a drum-like instrument.

In the 20th century, early portrayals of Native Americans in movies and television roles were first performed by European Americans dressed in mock traditional attire.

The first single off the album, " My Love Is for Real " featured a fusion of R & B and traditional Middle Eastern instruments, and was performed with Yemeni-Israeli singer Ofra Haza.

One of the reasons for ragga's swift propagation is that it is generally easier and less expensive to produce than reggae performed on traditional musical instruments.

Often a meal will be prepared of favorite foods of the family's and community's beloved dead, a place set for them at the table, and traditional songs, poetry and dances performed to entertain them.

The album also includes the traditional hymn " I Know I've Been Changed ", performed as a duet by Hammond and Waits.

Eventually, the relatively minor Bishop of Carlisle, Owen Oglethorpe, performed the ceremony ; but when Oglethorpe attempted to perform traditional Catholic parts of the Coronation, Elizabeth got up and left.

The results of the work performed by the GoE are widely recognized and include dissemination of its results on ongoing activities ( benchmarks and indicators, traditional knowledge, early warning systems ).

This work sequence is still performed by the women in the traditional societies of Southeast Asia ; the men might perform the heavier duties of preparing the ground, or of fencing the area to prevent predation by pigs.

; All-Terrain Windsurfing: A sport similar to traditional windsurfing that is performed on land rather than water.

Two types of treble jigs are performed at feiseanna: the traditional and non-traditional ( slow ) treble jigs.

" While all the music is Shaker song performed in a largely traditional manner, the dance intermingles only certain elements of Shaker practice and belief with Saarinen's original choreographic ideas, and with distinctive costumes and lighting.

This ritual is not exclusive to the yakuza — it is also commonly performed in traditional Japanese Shinto weddings, and may have been a part of sworn brotherhood relationships.

On traditional architectures, an instruction includes an opcode specifying the operation to be performed, such as " add contents of memory to register ", and zero or more operand specifiers, which may specify registers, memory locations, or literal data.