Chhau dance is intimately connected to regional festivals, notably the spring festival Chaitra Parva.
The private back rooms of Beijing restaurants, usually so boisterous before the Spring Festival, are strangely quiet this year.
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She expects pork prices to rise to 28 or 29 yuan before leveling off and declining after the Spring Festival holiday next year.
The spring festival was the first occasion for Japanese lawmakers to make a formal visit to the shrine since Mr. Abe's party returned to power in December after three years in opposition.
The spring festival was the first occasion for Japanese lawmakers to make a formal visit to the shrine since Mr. Abe's party returned to power last December after three years in opposition.
Mr. Wang also declined to offer specifics on Mr. Buffett's appearance, including whether it would also appear on the Spring Festival television special, a four- to five-hour series of songs and skits produced by the state broadcaster that is watched by 700 million people in China and might be the world's most-viewed TV show.
The timing of Spring Festival must always be taken into account when analyzing vehicle sales in the first two months of the year in China, but by any measure, passenger car sales were very strong in January.
Further inflaming the situation, 168 Japanese ruling and opposition party lawmakers on Tuesday visited the shrine for the last day of its three-day annual spring festival, the largest group of politicians ever to visit and more than double the number reported for the event last year.
In the city of Yichang, located in Hubei province, labor officials told the paper that they plan to hold 57 job fairs from Spring Festival until the end of March, each fair offering an estimated 40, 000 jobs.
Imagine us as Australians, though, and the hyperborean blast must mean a heatwave scorching over from Java's scented isle, just as (though neither actually happens) Father Christmas should arrive half-clad on waterskis, and Easter should recall, to anthropologists, not the Adonis festival and the rebirth of spring but some autumn feast that has lost its way, or why not?
The 10th annual Dumfries and Galloway Wild Spring Festival is hoping to find the next Chris Packham or Sir David Attenborough.
The trust is also holding a Living Churchyards spring festival day to showcase the work of the project on 23 March at Llanasa.
Chicago's famous comedic names and ensembles descend on stages around the city for the Chicago Improv Festival every spring.
Since 2004, the Collective has been the ensemble-in-residence at SFJAZZ, an organization which presents more than 200 concerts a year, including the San Francisco Jazz Festival in the fall and SFJAZZ in the spring.
This Hindu festival marks the start of spring and is celebrated throughout India.
At the nearby Landao Department Store, sales topped 6.13 million RMB, nearly 1.5 million RMB above the record set at the height of this year's Spring Festival shopping season.
Previously held on Spring Bank Holiday Monday, the festival was the victim of its own popularity in 2009 when 15, 000 spectators turned up to a venue equipped to hold only 5, 000, resulting in the cancellation of the 2010 event.
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Mike Yavonditte is quick to dismiss chatter about his 5-month old company Hashable, a mobile networking site, becoming the darling or breakout company of the 2011 South by Southwest Festival (SXSW) in Austin, the so-called spring break for geeks.
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Today, brass bands still invigorate the streets during Mardi Gras, French Quarter jazz clubs deliver the best in live improvisation on any given night, and the Jazz and Heritage Festival brings together the past, present and future of American jazz every spring, proving year after year that New Orleans is still the jazz mecca of the world.
More than 100 of Spring Airlines' seats dedicated to the festival have been sold so far.
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In his statement, which was repeated by the state-run Xinhua news agency, Mr. Wang said Mr. Buffett would sing a song and play guitar in the online version of this year's Spring Festival gala.
At a spring festival gathering in February, the Hong Kong Pui Ching Alumni Association ordered a 10-course meal but opted to replace the shark's fin soup with a chicken, fish belly and abalone soup.
On Monday night, Mr. President, we shall celebrate Passover, the Festival of Freedom, the Celebration of Spring.
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Romantic comedies and other genre films that premiere at the festival could be released as early as this spring, but most movies with Oscar ambitions probably won't make it to theaters until the fall of 2012, when the lead-up to nominations begins.
The mid-April price decline also came at a key period for seasonal demand due to spring weddings in India, as well as the May 13 Akshaya Tritiya festival, auspicious for gold buying.
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Late spring and early summer, when the weather is at its most pleasant, is prime festival season in the city.
These four-day barrel tastings, begun as a very insider-y trade presentation for wine merchants interested in selling Bordeaux futures, had become a 4, 500-person slurping festival, a rite of spring for Thai hoteliers, Texas liquor store owners and the nephew of someone's Swedish distributor.
Last year Interactive got attention for a community effort that was completely unplanned and that didn't spring from the fest itself: After earthquakes and tsunamis devastated Japan on the opening day of the festival, attendees launched "SXSW4Japan, " which raised funds for relief efforts.
One of my favorite Rite of Spring memories is of Leonard Bernstein rehearsing the piece with an orchestra of young musicians at the Schleswig Holstein Festival in Germany.
In an article on Tuesday in China Daily, reporter Chen Xin interviewed a 35 year old mechanic named Zhang Hongbo who reportedly returned to his hometown Nanchong in Sichuan province for Spring Festival and decided not to go back to his ten year job in Guangzhou, one of the three major Eastern cities.
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