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1、传统节日Traditional Festivals THE SPRING FESTIVALChinese traditional culture paper-cut The Chinese New Year is traditional festival that China is rich with most the special features. It symbolizes the lunar calendar for old year to end. New year has already start. The people will take leave cold monoton
2、ous of winter, greet the organic full of life spring. Days before the New Year celebration, Chinese families are busy giving their home a thorough cleaning . In many homes, doors and windowpanes get a new coat of red paint. The home is decorated with paper-cuts and poems called couplets of “happines
3、s“, “wealth“ and “satisfactory marriage with children“. No matter in the city or in the countryside, all the people will do one thing that is to extend Spring Festival greetings. This activity begins at first between family members. No matter in the city or in the countryside, all the people will do
4、 one thing that is to extend Spring Festival greetings. This activity begins at first between family members. the Lantern FestivalChing Ming Festival; Tomb-Sweeping DayThe Dragon Boat Festival The Double Fifth DayThe Double Seventh Festival Chinese ValentineS Day七夕The Mid-autumn Festival1.The Spring
5、 Festival, The New Years Eve and The Lantern Festival Key Words: 农历 正月 初一Lunar calendar lunar January ； the first month by lunar calendar the beginning of New Year 年糕 团圆饭 年夜饭 八宝饭 什锦糖 Nian-gao; rice cake; New Year cake family reunion dinner the dinner on New Years Eve eight treasures rice pudding ass
6、orted candies (sweets) Food Names Custom 对联 剪纸 年画 买年货 红包 辞旧岁 扫房 poetic couplet: two successive rhyming lines in poetry paper-cuts New Year paintings special purchases for the Spring Festival ;do Spring Festival shopping red packets bid farewell to the old year spring cleaning; general house- cleanin
7、g Custom 舞狮 舞龙 戏曲 杂耍 拜年 去晦气 祭祖宗 压岁钱 lion dance Dragon dance traditional opera variety show; vaudeville pay New Years call; give New Years greetings; New Years visit get rid of the ill- fortune offer sacrifices to ones ancestors gift money; money given to children as a lunar New Year gift The Day of
8、Clear and Bright Du Mu清明时节雨纷纷, Around Clear and Bright and showers are so frequent 路上行人欲断魂. Wayfarers on the road feel despondent.借问酒家何处有,Tell me, Buffalo boy, is there a tavern somewhere:牧童遥指杏花村.The lad pointed to a hamlet withblossoming apricot trees waydown the road.It is the traditional day on w
9、hich lovers express their love for each other; sending Valentines cards or candy. It is very common to present flowers on Valentines Day. The holiday is named after two men, both Christian martyrs named Valentine. The day became associated with romantic love in the High Middle Ages, when the traditi
10、on of courtly love flourished. Valentines day The Easter Day On Easter Sunday children wake up to find that the Easter Bunny has left them baskets of candy. He has also hidden the eggs that they decorated earlier that week. Children hunt for the eggs all around the house. Neighborhoods and organizat
11、ions hold Easter egg hunts, and the child who finds the most eggs wins a prize At the beginning of 17th century, Englands Puritan encounter the persecution. In September, 1620, 102 Puritan mounted “in May flower“ the sailing ship, arrived USS plymouth port on December 26, the preparation started the
12、 new life. However, these immigrations basic are ill should the local environment, after the first year winter passes, only some 50 people fortunately survive. The second year spring, the local Indian gives them very many essential items, and how the church do they cultivate on this land. This year
13、autumn, the immigrants have obtained bumper crop, at the end of November, the immigrants please come the Indian to share the corn, the pumpkin, the turkey and so on the delicacies which manufactures, thank their help, thank God to grant bumper crop. From now on, Thanksgiving Day turned USAS fixed ho
14、liday. Christmas Day Westerners in red, green and white three colors for Christmas colors, Christmas comes every family should use Christmas colors to decorate. red Lubricious have Christmas flower and Christmas candle. Green is the Christmas tree. It is the main Christmas decorations, with cut to f
15、ir, Nai gives the evergreen tree of a class of decorate and become. The overhanging colorful lights, gifts and flowers, also lit holy Christmas candle. Red and white christmastime is Santa Claus, Christmas activities in the most popular figure. Western children in Christmas Eve before going to sleep, should be in the fireplace or pillow next to put a sock, waiting for Santa Claus in their little presents Fill it in. In the west, Santa is also a custom.
