The Dragon boat Festival is a festival that has long been popularly celebrated in mainland China. But it was only in 2008 that it was given recognition by the Chinese government by declaring it as a public holiday. It is also alternatively called Double Five Festival or Duan Wu Festival because following the Chinese lunar [...]
Poson is one of the main Buddhist festivals in Sri Lanka which is only be second to the Wesak festival in terms of importance. Poson festival is only celebrating in Sri Lanka because it is the full moon day that Sri Lanka was gifted Buddhism from India. So usually Sri Lankan Buddhists celebrate this festival [...]
I know that this is not something common in Russia and that’s why I specially thought to write about this today. Yesterday 17th May 2011, Buddhist people live in Moscow celebrated Wesak festival. I also got an invitation for it, but I didn’t go because I live too far from Moscow, almost more than 500 kilometers. [...]
Hello everyone, Today I’m going to tell you about one of the biggest and widely celebrated celebrations in Russia. It was just finished yesterday 9th May and today I took some photos of the places where people celebrated it. This is the Victory day in Russian Federation. It marks the capitulation of Nazi Germany to the [...]
King coconut is some kinda coconut that you can find commonly in Sri Lanka. I think many of you don’t know about king coconuts, because it’s not common everywhere in the world, even in India. So today I’m going to share some information about it. Hope this will be useful for many readers who come [...]
Wesak is the biggest festival in Sri Lanka after the Sinhalese new year festival. Not only Sri Lankan Buddhists, but Buddhists in all over the world celebrate it. Celebration customs can be different from one country to another, but the meaning of the festival is same everywhere. With this short article, I’m going to tell [...]
I know many of you don’t like this topic including me, but I thought to share some information about these dog meat shops in China just to give you some knowledge about it. If you go to Asian countries like China, Korea, Philippines, or Vietnam, you can see lot of meat shops where they sell dog [...]
Spring festival is the biggest and the most widely celebrated festivals in people’s republic of China. Countries like Vietnam and Mongolia also celebrate this festival. So unarguably, it is the biggest celebration in Asia. More than 1 billion Asian people celebrate it every year and the celebrations continue for several days. I also celebrated Chinese spring festival [...]
Рябина Ресторан (Ribena restaurant) is situated in Tambov, Russia; nearby the Tambov state technical university building “A”. If you wish to visit Tambov one day, it’s better for you to know about this restaurant. It’s not a big one, but it’s very popular among people here. Just before few hours I went nearby the restaurant and took the [...]
Holi festival is primarily observed in India, Nepal and in some parts of Sri Lanka. But other countries with large Indian populations such as South Africa, UK, USA, Malaysia, Singapore and etc also celebrate it. Russia hasn’t a big Indian population, but still Indian people live in Russia celebrate the festival. From this article, I’m [...]
