中國傳統(tǒng)節(jié)日英文介紹--traditional-chinese-festival課件

1、Festivals and CustomsClass：NO.：Name：Cultural notesTemple fair(廟會): The temple fair began as groups of vendors（小販） who did business near temples when many pilgrims（朝圣者 ）came to pay tribute to the gods during traditional festivals. The practice grew, gradually turning into a regular event. The fairs h

2、ave lots of games to play, food to eat, performances and lots of people. You can taste numerous kinds of snacks, court food and other dishes.Cultural notes Zodiac animals(十二生肖): 12 animals represent the rotating（循環(huán) ）12-year cycle.Oral practicePicture Description Describe the following pictures accor

3、ding to the sample given below. Some useful words and phrases are given to you in the Information Box for reference.Information BoxSpring Festival 春節(jié) lunar new year農(nóng)歷新年paper-cuts 剪紙 feast 盛宴spring couplets春聯(lián) set off firecrackers放鞭炮Spring Festival Gala 春晚 make jiaozi 包餃子Spring Festival, the tradition

4、al Chinese New Years Day, is Chinas most important national holiday. The date is the first day of the lunar new year. Before Spring Festival, people will clean their houses, decorate them with paper-cuts, shop for special Spring Festival foods and gifts, and begin preparing the New Years feast. On t

5、he day before New Years Day, many families decorate their front doors with red couplets to give a happy and prosperous atmosphere. Children set off firecrackers while their parents keep busy preparing the New Years Eve dinner and making jiaozi.On the New Years Eve ,most families watch Spring Festiva

6、l Gala on television,people work far away from home will manage to come back, regardless of long-distance travel, so the Grand Dinner on New Years Eve is also called Family Reunion Dinner. Whatever the financial condition is, every family will make the dinner the most sumptuous（豪華的） and ceremonious（

7、隆重的 ）one in the year. At twelve oclock, when a new year drives off the old, every family will shoot off firecrackers to greet new days and send off old ones.According to history records, the Spring Festival derives from god and ancestor worships in the Shang dynasty. Nowadays, this superstitious mea

8、ning has faded away and is replaced with a symbol of unification（統(tǒng)一）, happiness and hope.Dragon Boat Festival 端午節(jié)The fifth day of the fifth lunar month 農(nóng)歷五月初五patriotic poet Qu Yuan 愛國詩人屈原dragon-boat races 龍舟賽Zongzi 粽子glutinous rice 黏米wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves 用竹葉或蘆葦葉包裹food for fish and shrimp

9、 to keep them from eating Qu Yuans body Information Box The Dragon Boat Festival, also called the Duanwu Festival or Double Fifth Festivel, is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese calendar. This festival is to commemorate the death of QU Yuan, an upright and honest

10、 poet and statesman who is said to have committed suicide by drowning himself into a river. The most important activity of this festival is the Dragon Boat races. It symbolizes peoples attempts to rescue Qu Yuan. In the current period, these races also demonstrate the virtues of cooperation and team

11、work. Besides, the festival has also been marked by eating zong zi (glutinous rice). Zong zi is made of glutinous rice stuffed with different fillings and wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves. People who mourned the death of Qu threw Zong zi into the river to feed his ghost every year. With the changes

12、of the times, the memorial turns to be a time for protection from evil and disease for the rest of year. People will hang healthy herbs on the front door to clear the bad luck of the house. Although the significance of the festival might be different with the past, it still gives the observer an opp

13、ortunity to glimpse a part of the rich Chinese cultural heritage. Tomb Sweeping Day 清明節(jié)between April 4-6ancestral graves 祖墳fly kites 放風箏 a memorial day 紀念日martyr 烈士 public cemetery 公墓a bouquet of flowers 花束willow branches 柳枝express ones esteem 表達尊敬Information BoxTomb Sweeping Day, also called Cold F

14、ood Day, is the most important day for people to offer sacrifice to ancestors. It started from the Zhou Dynasty, with a history of over 2500 years. Qingming is one of the 24 solar terms in China, indicating the coming of late spring, thus the best plowing and growing time, while Cold Food Day is a d

15、ay when folks sweep the ancestors tombs and eat cold food. Qingming was adjacent（臨近） to Cold Food Day, so later on they gradually became one festival, and thus Cold Food became another name for Qingming, and dusting the tomb and eating cold food turned into the customs of Qing Ming. Qing Ming has ev

16、olved into a culture-rich and meaning-deep remembrance day.Since people with weak constitutions（體質(zhì)） might get hurt by eating cold raw food on Qingming, when the weather is still cold, various activities were invented for body-building, like stepping-the-green outgoing, swing, Chinese football, polo（

17、水或馬球）, willow-planting, tug-of-war（拔河）, and rooster-fighting（斗雞）, etc.Since the ancient times, there have been a lot of works of art and poems about Qingming, manifesting the emphasis and passing-on of the Chinese people on Qingming. Of these, Tomb Sweeping Day by Du Mu in the Tang Dynasty is a poem

18、 of household fame. Double Ninth 重陽節(jié)The ninth day of the ninth lunar month 農(nóng)歷九月九Climb mountains 爬山 breathe fresh air 呼吸新鮮空氣 warm sunshine in full bloom 開花 keep fit 保持健康chrysanthemum 菊花respect of the aged 敬老Information BoxEach ninth day of September in Chinese lunar calendar is the Double-Ninth Day,

19、a traditional festival of China. Having undergone a history of more than 2,000 years, the Double-Ninth Day was formally set down as a folk festival in the Tang Dynasty and both Emperors and civilians alike should celebrate the festival following the etiquette and custom. As time goes by, the Double-

20、Ninth Day has gradually formed the celebrating conventions of going on a journey, ascending height, inserting cornel, appreciating chrysanthemum, eating Double-Nine cake, and drinking chrysanthemum wine. On that day, people always gather the whole family to spend the festival together, while those f

21、ar from their homes will generally become more homesick on that day. As the figure 9 also stands for longevity and health in the traditional concept of Han people, the Chinese government set September 9 in the lunar calendar as the Elders Festival in 1989. Now, the Double-Ninth Day has been enlisted

22、 as Intangible Cultural Heritage of ChinaInformation BoxDouble Seventh Festival七夕節(jié)July 7th on the lunar 農(nóng)歷七月初七Niulang (cowherd)牛郎Zhinv (weavingmaid） 織女grape trellis or melon trellis葡萄架或瓜架magpie喜鵲needlework縫紉sewing kits裁縫裝備Qiqiao Festival (Chinese:乞巧節(jié)), or Double Seventh Festival (Chinese:七夕節(jié)), is kn

23、own as Chinese Valentines Day nowadays, which is a most romantic festival in China particularly popular among young girls.Qiqiao Festival is related to a beautiful love story between Niulang (cowherd) and Zhinv (weaving maid) handed down for thousand of years. According to the legend, a cowherd in t

24、he earth and a fairy from the heaven fall in love with each other. After their marriage, the cowherd cultivates and the weaving maid weaves and they live happy with a son and a daughter. However, they are forbidden to marry according to the law of heaven. And their marriage is found finally and they are separated by a river on the heaven by the queen of the heavenMoved by their love, they are allowed eventually to meet each other once each year at the night of July 7th on the lunar calendar. It is said that at that night, all the magpies in the earth will fly up