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Maslenitsa（谢肉节） Maslenitsa (Butter Week or also known as Pancake Week) is a Ukrainian religious celebration. The holiday is celebrated the 7th week before Orthodox Easter. Maslenitsa?also used to?be called Myasopust, meaning the time of meat fasting -?Orthodox Christians refrain from eating meat during this week. The key symbol of Maslenitsa are pancakes - round, golden and warm, they represent the sun and the welcoming of spring. The pancakes are served with butter, sour cream, mushrooms?or caviar.? The other symbol of the celebrations is Lady Maslenitsa – a colorfully dressed scarecrow. At the peak of the holiday, poor Lady Maslenitsa is stripped and burnt in a bonfire which is the way of saying goodbye to the winter.?Apart from that, people enjoy the time with carnivals, sleigh-riding, sledding or snowball battles. The last day is called the Forgiveness Day. Everyone asks for forgiveness, people bow to each other and say God will forgive you. That is the end of the Maslenitsa feast. The next day is called Clean day as everybody is clean of their sins. Maslenitsa（谢肉节） The Carrot Festival （萝卜节） 　The Carrot Festival is an unique custom in the beginning of New Year in Wahakan state, Mexico. Spanish colonist imported carrots and radishes in the middle age of 19 century. Having a sudden inspiration, the local people decided to hold this kind festival for congratulating their harvest of carrots and radishes in 1897. From then on, the Carrot Festival has been held every year, knowing by thousands of people all over the world. The carrot sculpture match is the climax of the festival. Hundreds of contestants are preparing their productions for the match before its holding two months ago. Does it look like “carrot and stick”, that usually be used as a proverb? After the match, the dancing carnival, named as the Carrot Night, will be the perfect ending of the whole festival. The Carrot Festival （萝卜节） Easter Day（复活节） Jesus crucified upon a cross, the third day Easter hol