Chinese Festival: Dongzhi

This app is a useful resource for parents, educators and kids of non-Chinese communities to learn about Chinese Festival of Winter Solstice , also known as Dongzhi.

Dongzhì is an important cultural festive day celebrated by Chinese all over the world during which families gather together to celebrate the good year they have had. This occasion will be observed on December 21, 2014 in East Asia.

Celebrate Dongzhi, with family, friends or students at schools, with stories, food & fun sing-along, Mài Tāngyuán (Selling Rice Balls). Or simply another good reason to spend time to do fun stuff together!

Key features include:

- Origins of practices on Dongzhi

- Sing-along (mp3) with Hanyu Pinyin lyrics & English explanatory notes

- How to make Tangyuan (rice balls) & Jiaozi (dumplings)

- Game 1: Slide Puzzles (Move or swipe each block to its correct place to form desired picture)

- Game 2: Tetris Game (Arrange or turn the blocks to fit orthogonally to each other)