In the People's Republic of China, the Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday in June.

Asia
China (Republic)
In the Republic of China on Taiwan is the Father's Day on 8 August celebrated. This is because the "eight" in Chinese ba (Chinese: 八, ba) is pronounced and the eighth day of the eighth month is therefore in brief baba, what both the Chinese pronunciation for "father" (Chinese 爸爸, baba ) is similar.

China (People's Republic)
In the People's Republic of China, the Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday in June.

Iran
In Iran, the Father's Day is celebrated on the anniversary of the birth of the first Shiite imam, Ali. This day shifts on the basis of the Islamic calendar and the lunar calendar from year to year.

Japan
In Japan, the Father's Day is celebrated on the third Sunday in June. In Japan these days is called "chichi no hi" and is not a public holiday.

South Korea
In South Korea there is no "Father's Day," but a "Children's Day on 5 May, which will serve as a public holiday to ensure that fathers have time for her family. On top is the eighth May, although not legally, as "Elterntag.

Thailand
In Thailand, the Father's Day and called Wan phosphorus is a national holiday. He is the birthday of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, 5 December committed. On this day, "outstanding fathers of the country" (awarded in varying number). In 2004 there were 327 fathers. If the fifth December fall on a Sunday, Father's Day is celebrated on the following Monday, regardless of the birthday of the king.

Turkey
In Turkey, the Father's will ("babalar Günü") on 3 Sunday in June. It is celebrated not a "day of the men," but the equivalent of Mother's Day.
Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatertag

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celebrate the Sugar Feast

The celebration of the Sugar Feast
The first morning of the Sugar Feast men visiting the mosque for joint prayer for this special holiday. Women and children are exempt from this obligation would normally be home, because of the large crowds in the mosque, others such as Indonesia are typically does anyone go to the mosque. Before the prayer is expected that those who can afford it pay a contribution to the value of a meal (about 5-7 euros). This can be passed around the mosque, so that this requirement may be fulfilled. Then the proper utilization of funds provided.

The rest of the day, if possible in one family visit. To celebrate the Sugar Feast to sweet dishes and delicacies like Lokum eaten and gives one another and the poor presents. Many women decorate their hands with henna. Both men and women usually attract new clothes and the house is thoroughly cleaned before further this holiday.

As for symbolism, the Sugar Feast somewhat similar to carnival, but that feast before Lent occurs.
Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suikerfeest

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Controversy over the date of Easter

Easter in church history
Controversy over the date of Easter

Easter is one of the movable feasts, the calendar date varies each year. Easter Sunday will depend on the first spring full moon, with the beginning of spring is fixed at 21 March and is calculated differently than in the Jewish calendar.

After it had been decided at the First Council of Nicaea in 325, a first universally binding rules, it came with the introduction of the Gregorian calendar again to a different date for Easter. to the Eastern Churches (with the exception of the Finnish Orthodox Church and the East Syrian Church) took the Gregorian calendar to calculate the moving parties not to, so that the date of Easter western Christendom from that of the Orthodox and ancient Eastern churches to deviate up each other for five weeks.

All other movable Christian holidays are calculated on Easter Sunday off.

Holy Week
The Easter Festkreis begins in the Western churches since the year 1091 with Ash Wednesday, followed by a 40-day fasting period. This recalls the 40 years the Israelites in the desert and on the 40 days that Jesus fasted in the wilderness and prayed. Lent, also known as Lent ends with the 40th Day on Holy Saturday. The Eastern Christianity expects the Sundays of Lent, also included, but the other one the week before Easter Sunday, not with the 40 days of fasting, but as a distinct time period.

This last week before Easter Sunday, Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday, which Christians celebrate Jesus' entry into Jerusalem. On Maundy Thursday Christianity celebrates the Last Supper of Jesus with his disciples.

On Good Friday following the death of Jesus is commemorated on the cross, the grave on Easter Saturday is rest, and on the third day, Easter Sunday, finally celebrated the resurrection of Jesus from the dead.

Easter Liturgy
Easter was the first Christian centuries, the only ordinary Tauftermin. Since Carolingian times the Easter games meet for the mostly uneducated faithful catechetical an important role, as the liturgical celebration of the Resurrection Church on West Klerikerliturgie stunted, which was already on vorgefeiert Karsamstagmorgen.

The Eastern churches, by contrast, have until today at the celebration, as the vigil held on the evening till morning, while in most churches of the West was to restore the Easter Vigil liturgy, the "Day Mass (High Mass), the climax of Easter.

As the joy of Easter time began after the testimony of the New Testament, early on the first day of the week with the discovery of the empty tomb of Jesus, the Easter Vigil liturgy ends at sunrise with the celebration of the Eucharist. The Dawn, the appearance of the light after dark night is, in many hymns, literary works and artistic representations of recurring symbol of the resurrection of Christ and the coming resurrection of all people.

Thus in the Ambrose of Milan, and attributed to the 4th or 5 -Century hymn rutilat Aurora lucis, which is sung to the Lauds of Easter Sunday:

"The morning becomes red and glowing, the whole sky sounds of praise, exulting in joy on the ground, groaning and lamenting the underworld.
The sharp, royal hero broke the spell of severe death. His foot crushed the power of hell: For hard bondage we are liberated.
He whom the stone was sealed, and the one still in the grave guarded, he rises from the grave as the winner goes on in glorious triumph.
Even all complaints are muted, transformed into joy, the pain, for resurrection is the Lord, a bright angel does it manifest.
The Lord be praised and glory, the rose from the grave, the father and the spirit at the same time, through all time and eternity. Amen. "

Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostern

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Taraxacum sect. Ruderalia Uses

The early appearance of his flower is the dandelion is an important bee pasture, the development of colonies used in the spring, but also allows for larger deposits Frühtracht a honey crop. visit for 1 kg of honey bees must be a more than 100,000 people dandelion flowers.

Children in particular make use of the inflorescence stem, which at one end results in a gespleist Minitröte. Tear it into strips the peduncle and then places them into the water, formed by the difference in absorbency of the inner and outer wall spirals.

Food and beverages
The yellow flowers are suitable for making a tasty, honey-like syrup or jelly spread on toast. The young, slightly bitter-tasting leaves can be processed as a salad. With a bacon cream sauce will be considered a delicacy. From the dried root of the plant was in the postwar period produced a coffee substitute (Zichorienwurzelersatz).

Rubber Replacement
During the Second World War has been used in Russia and in the German Reich (here under the project Kok sagyz) as dandelion rubber substitute. Among other things, was established in 1942 in Auschwitz, a research station for plant rubber, were used in the 150 to 250 forced laborers from the camp.

Based on the research will be dandelion for some years back considered as potential raw material for rubber plant and researched in Europe and North America. The aim of the research is to gain from Russian dandelion (Taraxacum kok-saghyz) recoverable dandelion rubber used today as an alternative to natural rubber from the latex of rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) and synthetic rubber.

Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gew%C3%B6hnlicher_L%C3%B6wenzahn
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The Scale Bar Plant

The scale bar (Centaurea calcitrapa) is an annual or biennial plant that belongs to the composite family (Compositae or Asteraceae). It is a plant of dry food and calcareous soil. The plant is native to Europe but has also spread in North-America. In the Netherlands, the plant in southern Limburg. The species is on the Dutch Red List of plants as very rare and very much reduced.


The plant is 1915-1960 cm high and forms a rosette. The rising and twisting stems are almost bare, furrowed and branched shrub. The lower leaves are broken and some parts of the upper leaves are lanceolate or linear and have a prickly point. At flowering, the lower leaves have died.


Trip lime blooms from July to September, with pink or purple, sometimes white flowers. Inflorescence a head. The flower heads are 6-8 mm in diameter and 1.5 to 2 cm long. The carpels have a straight top, above the foot are slightly waisted and have above a prickly appendix. At the top of the outer carpels about a 1 to 2.5 cm long spine.


The fruit is 2.5 to 3.5 mm long, white or brown nut without gestreepd Pappus. On the fruit contains an ant sandwich.



Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalketrip


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Chestnut

Chestnut (Castanea sativa) is a deciduous tree from the napjesdragersfamilie (Fagaceae), native to the Mediterranean. The tree can reach a height of about 25-35 meters. Chestnut has a lifetime of about 500-1500 years. There is a famous chestnut who stands in the town of Sant'Alfio in Sicily (on the slopes of Mount Etna) and an estimated 2000-4000 years old.


In the Netherlands and Belgium, the feral tree and go on to old estates. He is here introduced by the Romans, who were fond of the fruit. Particularly in the southeast of Netherlands are pretty much older chestnuts to be found. Monumental copies are available at Beek-Ubbergen (in the Gnome Tree Kastanjedal), in Arnhem and in various locations in Limburg.


The fruit of the chestnut is a capsule (shell). The seeds (chestnuts) can, after the prickly husk is removed, roasted and eaten, in contrast to the toxic Horse chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum), which also in a completely different plant family, the soap tree family (Sapindaceae). Most chestnuts are found in October.


Easier than it is to roast the chestnuts to cook. It is difficult to hot, cooked chestnuts peel. In France people eat like chestnut purée (crème de marron). It is there canned sale.


The wood of the tree is excellent timber, it is similar in color and texture of oak. The specific gravity is slightly lower, but it has a high durability because much tannic acid in the (core) wood is. This will cause the wood in contact with iron. It is widely used for making fences.


His name has chestnut probably due to the Greek city Kastaneia in Pontus, a historical region on the coast of the Black Lake, where he was widely cultivated. The Romans changed its name to Castanea. The word means sativa cultivated, useful or satiating.




Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamme_kastanje


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The Nordic Stripe Fern

The Nordic stripe fern (Asplenium Sept. trio regional) is a rare fern in the family line fern (Aspleniaceae). The plant is found in rocky, poor calcium and sunny places. In Belgium, the Netherlands and rare species that is very rare.

The Nordic stripe sailing is a perennial plant. The whole looks like a gray-green, tangled mass of narrow, forked leaves, stems and dark brown spores, which usually depend on the rocks and to a few decimetres long.

The dark green to gray-green leaves are fork-shaped branched into narrow, wedge-shaped lobes up to 20 cm long and only a few millimeters wide. The top of the panties could again toothed or deeply incised are. The stem is short and dark.

The spore cases are in narrow elongated piles on the underside of the leaf segments. At full maturity, it seems the whole plant covered. The spores are ripe from July to October.

The Nordic stripe sail for what is his preferred habitat of the show in line with most other ferns. The plant prefers rocky limestone places silicaatrijke and poor (eg granite or schist) in full sunlight. The species is often found on old walls like vines, garden walls and quay walls.

The Nordic sail stripe occurs worldwide in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, North America through Europe to Central Asia. The plant is preferably in mountainous regions for.

In Belgium, the plant is rare or very rare in Wallonia and in several places in Flanders. In the Netherlands the species found only a few times, including in Rotterdam, Maastricht and Zwolle.

The northern line is unmistakably sail. Because of his unusual appearance and differential habitat selection, he is often not even recognized as a sail.

The Nordic stripe sailing on the Flemish Red List (plant) are listed as "endangered."



Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noordse_streepvaren


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The Flat Trim Plant

The flat trim (Blysmus compressus, synononiemen: cariciformis and Scirpus Scirpus planifolius) is a perennial plant, which belongs to the cypergrassenfamilie (Cyperaceae). The species is on the Dutch Red List of rare plants and moderately decreased. The plant is native to Eurasia.


The plant is 10-45 cm tall and short forms, straw brown, a few millimeters thick rhizomes. The light to dark brown, erect or ascending stems are 0.5 to 1.5 mm thick. They are roundish cross section is compressed and the top triangular stump. The 3-4 mm wide, gray to green grass leaves are up to the middle of the stem and are at the bottom keeled. The leaf edge is rough. The leaf sheath is closed and netnervig. The tongue (ligule) is short and blunt.


The flat trim blooms from May to September. At the end of the flower stalk is a kafjesachtig bract that exceeds the inflorescence. The red-brown inflorescence is a spike 1-4 x 0.8-1.2 cm, which in two rows of five to twelve are spikelets. The reddish brown, pointed, about 4 mm long kafjes are oblong-lanceolate, have five to seven veins, a clear edge and a narrow green keel. The flower container is three to six rough brushes. Per flower, three stamens and two stamps.


The chestnut brown, flat-reverse-ovoid fruit is a nut, that without the long beak 2 mm long. At the base is the stem nut shaped narrowed.


The plant is found on wet, low fertilized meadows and dune valleys.




Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platte_bies

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The Pennyroyal

The pennyroyal (Mentha pulegium) is a toxic, perennial plant which belongs to the mint family (Labiatae or Lamiaceae). It is a plant of wet, winter flooded, nutrient-rich soil in floodplains, along lakes and grasslands. The plant is native to Eurasia. The species is on the Dutch Red List of plants as very rare and very much reduced.

The plant is 15-30 cm high and is above-ground shoots. The soft, square stems root easily. The narrow-oval leaves are 5-10 mm wide and have a shallow jagged-toothed edge or an edge almost smooth edges.

The pennyroyal blooms in August and September with light purple flowers 4-6 mm long. The crown is within bare tube. The unequal vijftandige bowl is approximately bilabial in the throat with a ring of long white hairs, throat closing time in the fruit. The flowers appear in whorls. The top ring is less apparent and armbloemiger than sitting underneath, making the stem ends below in a small group of leaves.

The fruit is a four-part split fruit. The light brown, oval seeds are about 0.75 mm.

The plant is used in the ornamental garden.

Of the dried tea leaves can be drawn. In Spain this is a very common herb that is widely available.

The plant essential oil is extracted, which is colorless or light yellow color. The oil has a heavy mint smell and is mainly used in detergents and cheap perfume. It consists of pulegone plantengif that menstruation can also promote abortion can bring.




Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polei

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The Carthusian Pink Flower

The Carthusian pink (Dianthus carthusianorum) is a plant belonging to the carnation family (Caryophyllaceae). The species is on the Dutch Red List of plants as very rare and very much reduced. The plant is spread and is more common in Amsterdam. The plant is native to Central and Southeast Europe, especially on mountain slopes. The plant is found in monastery gardens and by the Carthusian monks used for soap because of saponins, but also against rheumatism.


The plant is 30-45 cm high. The narrow leaves are long and the leaf sheaths 1-2 cm long. The Carthusian pink blossoms from June to August with red, rarely white, flowers 2-2,5 cm wide. The petals are serrated and the membranous scales under the calyx are brown and suddenly a narrow 2-4 mm long section. Inflorescence with short-stemmed flowers, head-like flowers with four to fifteen. One gram of seeds contains about 1000 seeds.


The Carthusian pink is for the grass on sandy soils. It is a host for the moth Coleophora dianthi.




Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kartuizer_anjer

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The Eenarig Wool Grass

Eenarig wool grass (Eriophorum vaginatum) was a poll-forming perennial, which belongs to the cypergrassenfamilie (Cyperaceae). The species is on the Dutch Red List of plants as relatively rare and moderately decreased.

The plant is 30-60 cm high and has no rhizomes. Tillering is formed by a pin. The stem is filled to the top triangular stump. The oblong, triangular-shaped brush blade is V-shaped. The upper stem leaf blade and does not consist only of an inflated leaf sheath.

Eenarig wool grass blooms from March to May with a eindelingse up to 2 cm long, oblong-oval ear. The kafjes sit in a circle and are eennervig. The spike has numerous brushes (transformed bracts), which grow to 2.5 cm long, white hairs. It has the name of the plant due wool grass.





Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eenarig_wollegras

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The Field-Dog Chamomile

The field-dog chamomile (Anthemis arvensis) is a plant of the family Asteraceae (Asteraceae).

As sites are lands, wastelands and roadsides, particularly preferred to lime-free, acidic soils. This species is common throughout Europe.

The one-year herbaceous plant with branched, erect or spreading stems height reached 10-50 cm. The alternate leaves are pinnate and radiate when rubbed repeatedly no characteristic odor.

Körbchenförmige The inflorescence is composed of white tongue and yellow tubular flowers and has a diameter of about 2-3 centimeters. The flower head is in contrast to the genuine chamomile (Matricaria recutita) inside filled pithy. The bracts are up about margin entire or toothed.

The flowering period is from June to September (Germany / Austria).



Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acker-Hundskamille

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Leonurus japonicus

Leonurus japonicus, commonly called Chinese motherwort, is a herbaceous flowering plant native to Asia, including Korea and Japan, China to Cambodia. It has escaped cultivation and become naturalized in other parts of the world including South and North America, Europe and Africa. It is one of the 50 fundamental herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine, where it is called yìmǔcǎo (Chinese: 益母草), literally "beneficial herb for mothers".

Plants are annual or biennial, growing from taproots. The stems are upright growing to a height of 30 to 120 cm. The flowers are sessile and produced in verticillasters. The calyx is tubular-campanulate shaped and 6-8 mm long with broad triangle shaped teeth. The corolla is white or reddish to purplish red in color. Plants bloom from June to September.

Health claims
Functions: Smooth menses; Regulate menses; Invigorate blood circulation; Move blood; Reduce masses; Promote urination; Reduce swelling; Disperse phlegm; Disperse edema.

Indication: Menstrual disorders, delayed or absent menses, irregular menses, amenorrhea, dysmenorrha, endometriosis, infertility, PMS, lower abdominal pain, placenta leakage, dystocia, retained placenta, postpartum abdominal pain due to blood obstruction, postpartum pain and bleeding, hematuria, hypertension, nephritis, kidney stones, edema, dysuria, hematuria (blood in urine), lump in the breast, skin infections, skin eruptions.

The leaves are diuretic and are placed in bath water to relieve itching and painful shingles.

The dried flowers are emmenagogue and are also used in pregnancy and to help expel the placenta after giving birth.

The juice of the stems is vulnerary.

The fruit is antibacterial, diuretic, emmenagogue, hypotensive, ophthalmic and vasodilator. It is used in the treatment of abnormal menstruation, nebula and conjunctivitis.

The seed is aphrodisiac, diuretic, emmenagogue, ophthalmic and is also used in the treatment of various women's complaints. The plant was ranked number one in a survey of 250 potential antifertility plants in China. The seed is used in the treatment of conjunctivitis and night blindness.

The aerial parts of the plant are alterative, antibacterial, antifungal, depurative, diuretic, emmenagogue, hypotensive, vasodilator and vulnerary.

The whole plant is decocted, either on its own or with other herbs, as an ophthalmic. It is used in the treatment of abnormal menstruation, postpartum abdominal pain, tumours, uterine bleeding, oedema, eczema and purulent abscess. It is also used externally as a poultice for bruises.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonurus_japonicus
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