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  72. 								<td width="80%"><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Decorating doors with couplets is traditional on Spring Festival </font><font size="+1">春节</font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">, (chūnjié) what we call Chinese New Year. A traditional <strong>Spring Festival eve dinner</strong> starts in the afternoon and ends at midnight.</font></td>
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  80. 								<td width="80%"><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">During <strong>Spring Festival</strong> it was traditional for temples to hold fairs. The tradition continues but usually the fairs, called </font><font size="+1">庙会</font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> miàohuì, are held in parks. This is the miaohui at <strong>Ditan</strong> </font>地坛 <font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Dìtán (Deetan) - a park that once was the <strong>Temple of Earth</strong>.</font></td>
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  96. 								<td valign="top" width="80%"><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong>Lantern Festival</strong> </font><font size="+1">元宵节</font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Yuánxiāojié or </font><font size="+1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">灯节</font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Deng Jie occurs on the fifteenth day of the Chinese New Year. 2008 was a year when <strong>fireworks</strong> prevailed.</font></td>
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  159. 								<td valign="top" width="80%"><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">One of the popular sports in China is playing with the <strong>Chinese yo-yo</strong> </font><font size="+1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">抖空竹</font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> dǒukōngzhú.  Sometimes called the diabolo, it was imported to Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries and became very popular in the 1800s.</font></td>
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