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What is Harvest Festival?
2022-06-02
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The Harvest Festival is a festival for people all over the world to celebrate the harvest. It is the tenth day of the tenth lunar month in the Chinese Han and most ethnic minorities. It is the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month for some ethnic minorities such as the She nationality in China. In South India, it is also called "Pongal Festival", which is around the middle of March in the Gregorian calendar.
On June 21, 2018, the State Council released the approval for the establishment of the "Chinese Farmers Harvest Festival", agreeing that starting from 2018, the annual lunar equinox will be established as the "Chinese Farmers Harvest Festival".
The Harvest Festival in South India, also known as "Pongal Festival", is prevalent in South India around the middle of March in the Gregorian calendar. During the festival, every household has to be cleaned, people have to wear new clothes, cook sweet milk rice porridge to worship the sun god, and then share the meal with the whole family. The married daughter will go back to her parents' home for reunion. People also hold cattle worship ceremonies, bathing the cattle, dyeing their horns, waiting for the cattle with good food, morning bull parades or holding cattle races and so on.