Chinese New Year
During Chinese New Year, there are many of these including not washing, sweepings, or taking out the garbage on the first day of the lunar year.
What are superstitions or taboos?
Washing hair or clothes is not allowed on the first day of the lunar year because it is seen as “washing one’s fortune away” at the beginning of the year. Sweeping up and taking out the garbage symbolize removing the good luck from the house, so people don’t do that either.
Hanukkah is celebrated for this many nights to commemorate how long a holy light burned in the temple when there was only enough oil for one night.
What is 8 nights?
These 3 colors associated with Kwanzaa are a reflection of the Pan-African movement representing unity for people of African descent worldwide
What are Black (for the people), Red (for the noble blood that unites all people of African ancestry), and Green (for the rich land of Africa)
Winter Solstice is the point at which the path of the sun in the sky is farthest south, resulting in this.
What is the shortest day of the year (in the Northern Hemisphere)?
Every Chineses New Year starts a new animal's zodiac year, 2022 is the year of this animal.
What is the Tiger?
To celebrate Hanukkah, families light candles on a candelabra with 9 candles called this.
What is a Menorah?
The word Kwanzaa mean "first fruit" in this language, the most spoken language on the African continent
Swahili
Yule is an ancient festival celebrating the rebirth of this in northern Europe.
What is the sun?
Though celebrated in winter, Chinese New Year is also referred to by this "seasonal" name.
What is "Spring Festival"?
"Start of Spring" is the first of the terms in the traditional solar calendar marking the end of the coldest part of winter.
Hanukkah is a holiday commemorating the triumph of a band of rebel Jews known as the Maccabees in reclaiming their temple for the greek-Syrians. "Hanukkah" means this in Hebrew.
What is "dedication"?
A professor at Cal State Long Beach created Kwanzaa in 1966 as a way to bring African Americans together as a community following this event in Los Angeles.
What are the Watts riots?
In Korea, it's tradition to eat this kind of porridge to exorcise devils.
What is red bean porridge?
What is 3.5 billion?
To celebrate the miracle of the oil lasting eight days, many of the holiday's festive foods are prepared in oil. Over 17.5 million of this sweet treat are consumed in Israel throughout Hanukkah.
What are jelly donuts?
One of the seven principles or ideals emphasized during the seven days of Kwanzaa.
What is....
Unity, Self-determination, Collective Work and Responsibility, Cooperative Economics, Purpose, Creativity, Faith
In Iran, the Winter Solstice eve is called Yalda night. Yalda means this.
What is "new birth"?
Iranians think this night is the longest and darkest night of the year. Therefore, the Iranians family members get together to dispel the melancholy and suffocation of the night.