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1、Spring Festival,-folk-custom,Part A Name (名称),What do we usually call 春节 ? Chinese New Year Lunar New Year the Spring Festival,Warm-up (准备工作) Vocabulary :(相关词汇),过年 春联 年画 灯笼 烟花 爆竹 拜年,1.celebrate the spring festival 2.spring festival couplets 3.new year paintings 4.lantern 5.fireworks 6.firecrackers 7
2、.pay new years call / give new years greetings,大扫除 团圆饭 年夜饭 守岁 去晦气 祭祖宗 压岁钱 舞狮 杂耍,1.spring cleaning 2.family reunion dinner 3.the dinner on new years eve 4.staying-up 5. get rid of the ill-fortune 6.offer sacrifices to ones ancestors 7.pocket money; red envelope 8.lion dance 9.variety show,vaudeville,
3、Blessings: 金玉满堂Treasures Fill The Home 生意兴隆Business Flourishes 岁岁平安Peace All Year Round 恭喜发财Wishing You Prosperity 和气生财Harmony Brings Wealth 心想事成May All Your Wishes Come True 吉祥如意Everything Goes well,国泰平安The Country Flourishes And People Live In Peace 招财进宝Money And Treasures Will He Plentiful 一帆风顺Wi
4、shing You Every Success 步步高升Promoting To A Higher Position 出入平安Safe Trip Wherever You Go 祝你新的一年快乐幸福Wish you happiness and prosperity in the coming year! 事业成功，家庭美满Wish you success in your career and happiness of your family!,Part B(1) Group Celebrations（集体庆祝活动）,How does group usually celebrate it ? d
5、ancing, singing, playing, lion dance, variety shows,vaudeville stilt-walking(踩高跷）,Part B (2) Family Celebrations家庭庆祝活动,How does family celebrate the Spring Festival ? getting together, family reunion, feasts, watching CCTV New Years show playing cards/majiang ,giving gifts to making New Years visits
6、, sending New Years greetings, giving pocket money to worshipping ancestors and deceased（已去世的） family members putting up New Year couplets（对联）,Part B (3) Children Celebrations,getting red envelope/ pocket money / gifts from parents / relatives setting off fireworks/ firecrackers playing games,Part C
7、 Food,What do we usually eat during the Spring Festival ? various dishes: chicken ; fish; pork dumplings steamed bread niangao,Some kinds of dumplings,Dumplings are cooked balls of dough. They are based on flour, and may include meat, fish,or sweets. They may be cooked by boiling, steaming, frying,
8、or baking. Dumplings may be sweet, spicy or savoury. They may be eaten alone, in soup, with gravy, or in manyother presentations .,Making of Dumpling,Chinese dumplings are not only delicious but also easy to make. First, make the filling. 首先做馅 Second, make the dough. 其次，做Finally ,make the dumplings
9、最后 包饺子 Once the dumplings are finished ,boil them in boiling water until they are cooked . 包完饺子放在沸水里煮。,Customs Of The Spring Festival,The Spring Festival is a traditional Chinese festival and also the most important one of the whole year. Through the development of thousands of years, a series of cu
10、stoms are still the same as before.,Sweeping the Dust( 扫尘 ) “Dust” is homophonic(同音) with “chen”（尘）in Chinese, which means old and past. In this way, “sweeping the dust” before the Spring Festival means a thorough cleaning of houses to sweep away bad luck in the past year. This custom shows a good w
11、ish of putting away old things to welcome a new life.,Pasting/putting up Spring Couplets(贴春联),On the eve of the Spring Festival, every household will paste on doors a spring couplet written on red paper to give a happy and prosperous(繁荣的) atmosphere of the Festival.,Pasting Paper-cuts and “Up-sided
12、Fu”(贴窗花和“福”字 ),Paper-cuts, usually with lucky patterns, give a happy and prosperous atmosphere of the Festival and express the good wishes of Chinese people looking forward to a good life. In addition to pasting paper-cuts on windows, it is common for Chinese to paste the character “fu（福）”, big or s
13、mall, on walls or doors. “Fu” shows peoples yearning(向往) toward a good life. Some people even invert (倒置）the character “fu” to mean that blessing has arrived because “inverted(倒转的)” is a homonym(同音) for “arrive” in Chinese.,Staying Up Late on New Years Eve(守岁) The tradition of staying up late to see
14、 New Year is originated from an interesting folk tale. In ancient China there lived a monster named Year, who was very terrible. Year always went out from its burrow(洞穴) on New Years Eve to eat people. Therefore, on every New Years Eve, every household would have supper together. After dinner, no on
15、e dared go to sleep and all the family members would sit together, chatting and emboldening(壮胆) each other. Gradually the habit of staying up late on New Years Eve is formed. Thus in China, “celebrating the Spring Festival” is also called “passing over the year (guo nian)”.,看春节联欢晚会 The CCTV New Year
16、s Gala,The New Years Gala is a variety show held by China Central Television (CCTV) since 1983. For every year at the turn of the Lunar New Year, the program begins at 8:00PM and lasts five or six hours. It brings laughter to billions of people and creates many popular words. For over twenty years, its value has gone far beyond a variety show. It is essential entertainment for the Chinese both at home and abroad. Many Chinese would like to watch the gala while having the dinne
