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1、Foreigner festival,Table of contents,Halloween Christmas day Fools day Thanksgiving Day Easter,Halloween is an autumn holiday that Americans celebrate every year. It means “holy evening,“ and it comes every October 31, the evening before All Saints Day. However, it is not really a church holiday, it
2、 is a holiday for children mainly.,万圣节前夕是美国人年年都会庆祝的秋季节日。它的意思是“神圣的夜晚”，在每年的10月31日，也就是万圣节前夜。但实际上这不是一个真正的宗教节日，而主要是孩子们的节日。,Every autumn, when the vegetables are ready to eat, children pick large orange pumpkins. Then they cut faces in the pumpkins and put a burning candle inside. It looks as if there wer
3、e a person looking out of the pumpkin! These lights are called jack-o-lanterns, which means “Jack of the lantern“.,每年秋天蔬菜成熟可以食用的时候，孩子们就会挑出大个儿的橙色南瓜。然后在南瓜上刻上一张脸，把一根点燃的蜡烛放在里面。看起来就好像有人在向南瓜外面张望。这些灯就叫做“iack-o-lantems”，意思也就是“杰克的灯”。,The children also put on strange masks and frightening costumes every Hallo
4、ween. Some children paint their faces to look like monsters. Then they carry boxes or bags from house to house. Every time they come to a new house, they say,“Trick or treat! Money or eat!“ The grown-ups put treat-money or candy in their bags.,每年万圣节前夕孩子们还戴上奇怪的面具，穿上吓人的服装。有些孩子把脸刷成怪物。然后他们拿着盒子或袋子挨家挨户串门。
5、每来到一个新房子他们就说：“不款待就捣乱!给钱还是吃的!”大人们就会把用来招待的钱或糖放在他们的袋子里了。,back,It is said that there was a farmer served a poor boy on a cold windy Chrismas Eve and gave him a big chrisemas meal. The boy cut a Fir trees branch and inserted it into the earth.He said, “every year this time. there will be many presents in
6、 this branch. I wish I can pay back to your favor by this beautiful Fir tree. “ After the boy left, the farmer discovered that the branch had grow up as a big tree. Then he realized that the boy was an envoy of the god. This is the origin of the chrismas day. In western countries, Whatever you are,
7、everyone will prepare a chrismas tree to increase the happiness of the chrismas day. Chrismas trees are made of evergreen tree like Fir trees and they represent the long lives.People put candles,flowers,toys,stars on the tree and they put chrismas present on the tree. On Christmas Eve,people sing an
8、d dance happily and they enjoy themselves around the tree.,据说有一位农民在一个风雪交加的圣诞夜里接待了一个饥寒交迫的小孩，让他吃了一顿丰盛的圣诞晚餐，这个孩子告别时折了一根杉树枝插在地上并祝福说：“年年此日，礼物满枝，留此美丽的杉村，报答你的好意。”小孩走后，农民发现那树枝竟变成了一棵小树，他才明白自己接待的原来是一位上帝.,Christmas,。这个故事就成为圣诞树的来源。在西方，不论是否基督徒，过圣诞节时都要准备一棵圣诞树，以增加节日的欢乐气氛。圣诞树一般是用杉柏之类的常绿树做成，象征生命长存。树上装饰着各种灯烛、彩花、玩具、星星
9、，挂上各种圣诞礼物。圣诞之夜，人们围着圣诞树唱歌跳舞，尽情欢乐,愚人节起源于法国。1564年，法国首先采用新改革的纪年法-格里历(即目前通用的阳历)，以1月1日为一年之始。但一些因循守旧的人反对这种改革，依然按照旧历固执地在4月1日这一天送礼品，庆祝新年。主张改革的人对这些守旧者的做法大加嘲弄。聪明滑稽的人在4月1日就给他们送假礼品，邀请他们参加假招待会并把上当受骗的保守分子称为“四月傻瓜”或“上钩的鱼”。,April Fools Day is a day to play jokes on others, No one knows how this holiday began but peop
10、le think it first started in France. In the 16 th century, people celebrated New Years Day from March 25 to April 1. In the mid1560s King Charles IX changed it from March 25 to January 1. But some people still celebrated in on April 1, so others called them April Fools. Each country celebrates April
11、 Fools Day differently. In France, people call the April Fools “April Fish”. They tape a paper fish to their friends backs to fool them. When he or she finds this , they shout “April Fish!”,In England, people play jokes only in the morning. You are a “noodle” if someone fools you. In Scotland, April
12、 Fools Day is 48 hours long. They call an April Fool “April Gowk”. Gowk is another name for a cuckoo bird.,In the America, people play small jokes on their friends and any other people on the first of Aprol. They may point down to your shoe and say, “ Your shoelace is untied.” If you believe them an
13、d look down to see, you are an April Fool then.,During their first winter, over half of the settlers died of1 starvation or epidemics. Those who survived began sowing in the first spring. All summer long they waited for the harvests with great anxiety, knowing that their lives and the future existen
14、ce of the colony depended on the coming harvest. Finally the fields produced a yield rich beyond expectations. And therefore it was decided that a day of thanksgiving to the Lord be fixed2. Years later, President of the United States proclaimed the fourth Thursday of November as Thanksgiving Day eve
15、ry year. The celebration of Thanksgiving Day has been observed on that date until today.,感恩节是美国国定假日中最地道、最美国式的节日，而且它和早期美国历史最为密切相关。 1620年，一些朝圣者（或称为清教徒）乘坐“五月花“号船去美国寻求宗教自由。他们在海上颠簸折腾了两个月之后，终于在酷寒的十一月里，在现在的马萨诸塞州的普里茅斯登陆。 在第一个冬天，半数以上的移民都死于饥饿和传染病，活下来的人们在第一个春季开始播种。整个夏天他们都热切地盼望着丰收的到来，他们深知自己的生存以及殖民地的存在与否都将取决于即将到
16、来的收成。后来，庄稼获得了意外的丰收，所以大家决定要选一个日子来感谢上帝的恩典。多年以后，美国总统宣布每年十一月的第四个星期四为感恩节。感恩节庆祝活动便定在这一天，直到如今。,Christian feast commemorating the Resurrection of Jesus. 复活节纪念耶稣复活的基督教节日 The day on which this feast is observed, the first Sunday following the full moon that occurs on or next after March 21. 复活节日举行此盛会的日子，这个日子是
17、3月21日或其后月满之后的第一个星期天,Easteris the anniversaryof the Resurrectionof Jesus Christ.It comes on the first Sunday after March 21 st every year.On that morning people in new clothes go to churchThey children get up early and look around everywhere for the East eggs.They think the Easter bunny will bring the eggs to them.In fact some eggs are real eggs. Some are made of chocolate,
