New Year is the most celebrated festival of all important festive seasons in China. It is time for the family reunion, visiting relatives and friends. The holiday will start few days before the New Year to prepare and get ready for a long up coming holiday. People will do shopping for food and cloths.

Christmas is synonymous with food, so don't feel guilty about enjoying it. Acupuncturist and Chinese medical practitioner Claire Donaldson offers some tips to deal with all that festive indulgence.

The Foreign Ministry reminded people heading to Australia for the Sept. 25 Mid-Autumn Festival of strict quarantine laws which prohibit the import of a wide range of food for fear of diseases such as bird flu, Newcastle disease and foot and mouth. The strict quarantine laws carry fines of up to $49,000 and 10 years' jail ...

Hundreds of Tibetans who had already converged on the town of Golog for the annual horse racing festival were called by cellphone following an argument between a man from Gade (in Chinese, Gande) county who said he found a human tooth in his daughter's food at a Muslim restaurant.

The festival was to introducing Balinese specific food and delicacies to the people of China so that Chinese tourists were already familiar with local food when they visited the island paradise.

The Ghost Festival (simplified Chinese: 中元节; traditional Chinese: 中元節; pinyin: zhōngyuánjié)is a traditional Chinese festival and holiday, which is celebrated by Chinese in many countries. In the Chinese calendar (a lunisolar calendar), the Ghost Festival is on the 15th night of the seventh lunar month.In Chinese tradition, the thirteen day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar (Buddhist rituals are held on the fourteen day) is called Ghost Day and the seventh month in general is regarded as the Ghost Month (鬼月), in which ghosts and spirits, including those of the deceased ancestors, come out from the lower world. During the Qingming Festival the living descendants pay homage to their ancestors and on Ghost Day the deceased visit the living. On the thirteen day the three realms of Heaven, Hell and the realm of the living are open and the Taoists and Buddhists would perform rituals to transmute and absolve the sufferings of the deceased. Intrinsic to the Ghost Month is ancestor worship, where traditionally the filial piety of descendants extends to their ancestors even after their deaths. Activities during the month would include preparing ritualistic food offerings, burn incense, and burn joss papers, including bags containing clothes, gold and other fine goods made out of paper for the visiting spirits of the ancestors. Elaborate meals would be served with empty seats for each of the deceased in the family treating the deceased as if they are still living. Ancestor worship is what distinguishes Qingming Festival from Ghost Festival because the former includes paying respects to all deceased, including the same and younger generations, while the latter only includes older generations. Other festivities may include, burying and releasing miniature paper boats and lanterns on water, which signifies giving directions to the lost ghosts and spirits of the ancestors and other deities.The Ghost Festival shares some similarities with the predominantly Mexican observance of El Día de los Muertos. Due to theme of ghosts and spirits, the festival is sometimes also known as the Chinese Halloween, though many have debated the difference between the two.