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    Xue Hua Piao Piao, Bei Feng Xiao Xiao
    Xue Hua Piao Piao, Bei Feng Xiao Xiao
    Xue Hua Piao Piao, Bei Feng Xiao Xiao
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    Xue Hua Piao Piao, Bei Feng Xiao Xiao

    By Santiago Acevedo

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    A fiction book about the Chinese Dongzhi Festival, in the middle of the COVID-19 crisis. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherA Primary Source is a Secondary Source
    Release dateApr 17, 2022
    ISBN9798201273217
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      Xue Hua Piao Piao, Bei Feng Xiao Xiao - Santiago Acevedo

      FOREWORD

      The Dongzhi Festival is a celebration that takes place in China, Asia. In addition to worshiping ancestors, people in China acknowledge the festival on Winter Solstice day to celebrate the arrival of a new and more prosperous season - spring.

      The celebration is believed to have started 2,500 years ago when an individual named Zhougfong used a sundial to identify the shortest days of the year ("Dongzhi Festival - Winter Solstice Festival Celebrated in China''). Typically, myths like the one about a healer, Zhang Zhongjing, are brought up to understand one of the largest traditions of the Dongzhi festival - dumpling feasts (Jiang).

      Around 200 CE, Zhang Zhongjing asked his apprentice to cook warm bowls of dumplings and soup

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