There are many celebrations around the world, for instance, Mother’s day and New Year’s Eve in Chinese. However, there are still lots of unknown celebrations in obscure countries, and these are the main points I’m going to say. The first unknown festival is Singles Day on December 11, which is originated among Chinese younger. This celebration is used to manifest people’s pride in being single, and point out that it’s not shameful living without spouses. The way to celebrate is eating four Youtiao (deep-fried dough sticks) representing the four "ones" in "11.11" and one Baozi (steamed stuffed bun) representing the middle dot.
The other festival, called Almabtrieb, is an annual event in the alpine regions in Europe. Almabtrieb can be divided into four main theme based on four seasons. Nonetheless, except for four themes there still exists one similarity—decoration of alpine regions cow. We can see fake cows adorned with many special totems, like planets and tassels on cows. Recently, this activity spread throughout the globe; we can also see this in Australia and world exhibition. By the way, Taiwanese also attend to this activity, using many symbolic food and notional phonetic alphabets.
Interesting festivals can always draw people’s attention, just like the above-mentioned two examples. To see is to believe; maybe we should spare some time to experience them in person, feeling the expressive atmosphere.
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