Chinese Festivals

Name: Chinese Festivals
Author: Gu-ZT

Chinese Festivals adds Spring Festival and Lantern Festival decorations to the game, reshaping several vanilla items and textures for the Chinese holidays.

FabricForgeNeoForgeQuiltClient-side onlyGNU Affero General Public License v3.0 onlyOpen source1.20.1 – 1.21.1

What it does

Chinese Festivals is a client-side only mod, so only the player's client needs it and servers run without it. The mod changes visuals in vanilla items: item frames gain festive glow and plate models, lanterns and soul lanterns get new models, and rabbit stew and beetroot soup are re-modeled as dumplings and tangyuan sweet rice balls. Four paintings receive new textures with Spring Festival couplets, and creeper firework shapes are altered.

The project is open source under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 only, with public source code and an issue tracker. Builds cover 1.20.1 – 1.21.1 across Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, and the latest NeoForge file, 1.21.1-2.0.0+build.7, is an alpha build from 2026-03-21. Chinese Festivals has no required dependencies, and the mod was first published on 2023-09-27.

Key features

Spring Festival decorations
Spring Festival couplets appear on paintings and the holiday look extends across the decorated items.
Lantern Festival items
Lanterns and soul lanterns use new models that match the Lantern Festival theme.
Festive food models
Rabbit stew and beetroot soup are shown as dumplings and tangyuan sweet rice balls instead of their vanilla appearance.
Re-modeled item frames and fireworks
Item frames get new glow and plate models, and creeper firework shapes are changed to fit the festivals.

Compatibility

Latest build for each game version and loader.

Version

1.21.1Not availableNot available1.21.1-2.0.0+build.7Not available

1.20.41.2.0+build.68Not availableNot available1.2.0+build.68

1.20.31.2.0+build.68Not availableNot available1.2.0+build.68

1.20.21.2.0+build.681.2.0+build.681.2.0+build.681.2.0+build.68

1.20.11.2.0+build.681.2.0+build.681.2.0+build.681.2.0+build.68

ReleaseBetaAlphaNot available

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How it compares

Full comparison

Festival Timer for Fabric is a server-side only, open source Fabric mod under the MIT License, for 1.19.2 – 1.21.4. Maturi Delight is a client and server mod for Forge and NeoForge, open source under the MIT License, for 1.19.2 – 1.20.1. Harvest Reader is not open source, works on client and server with Forge for 1.10.2 – 1.12.2, and is released under All rights reserved.

Mod	Loaders	Game versions	Environment	Updated
Chinese Festivals	Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt	1.20.1 – 1.21.1	Client-side only	2026-03-21
Festival Timer for Fabric	Fabric	1.19.2 – 1.21.4	Server-side only	2025-01-27
Maturi Delight	Forge and NeoForge	1.19.2 – 1.20.1	Client and server	2024-02-09
Harvest Reader	Forge	1.10.2 – 1.12.2	Client and server	2024-02-15