Unit 10 Festivals_and_Holidays英语
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1. Spring Festival / Chinese New Year (1st of the 1st month): It is the biggest and most celebrated festival in China and part of east and southeast Asia. The celebration of the Chinese New Year may last only a few days including the New Year's Eve. The New Year season actually starts from the 15th of the last month and ends at the 15th of the first month of the new year.
Valentine’ s Day
This festival happens in winter. Every family has a feast on this day. Turkey is the most important food on this day. People celebrate it to thank God for a harvest in 1620.
This festival happens in spring.
On this day most people are happy.
Some people may be fooled but they can not be angry.
People can tell lies and play tricks on others without being blamed.
5. The Seventh Eve / Double Seventh Day (the 7th of the 7th month): It is a traditional holiday almost lost to the younger generations today. It originates from a beautiful legend about a cowboy and a fairy who were cruelly separated and reunited once each year on this happy, sad occasion. It is regarded as a Chinese Valentine’s Day.
6. Children's Day (June 1) 7. The CCP's Birthday (July 1) 8. Army's Day (August 1) 9. Teacher's Day (September 1) 10. National Day (October 1)
III. Chinese Traditional Holidays
Unit 10
Festivals and Holidays
Pre-reading tasks
I. Warming-up
Read the following descriptions about western festivals and guess which festival they convey? It is one of the most important festivals in western countries. People usually celebrate it together with their family members. People send cards or gifts to others. A kind-hearted old man put the gifts in the stockings for children secretly at night.
Halloween
II Background information
• Different festivals in USA and in China
I. American holidays
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. New Year’s Day (January 1) Groundhog Day (February 2) Valentine’s Day (February 14) St. Patrick’s Day (March 17) April Fool’s Day (April 1) Easter (the first Sunday that occurs after the first full moon on or after the vernal equinox (春分), which is between the dates of March 22 and April 25)
Most children are excited on this day. They wear black costumes or masks. They would like to dress up as frightening and ugly ghosts or witches. They would like to knock others’ doors and say, “trick or treat”.
6. Mid-Autumn Festival (the 5th of the 8th month): It is second only to the Chinese New Year in significance. The moon on this day is the fullest and largest to the eye. Viewing it by the whole family while feasting on good wine, fruits and moon-cakes features the night event.
Now the big event of dragon boat contest may be a legacy of such activity. People today still eat the bamboo-leave rice dumplings on the occasion today.
II. Official Chinese Holidays
1. New Year’s Day (January 1） 2. International Women's Day (March 8) 3. Tree-Planting Day (March 12） 4. International Labor Day (May 1) 5. Youth Day (May 4)
3. Qing Ming (Pure & Bright in Chinese) / Tomb-sweeping Day (April 4 or 5: 5th of the 24 solar terms): Originally it was a celebration of spring. People used to go out on an excursion to "tread grass". Later, it became the day dedicated to the dear departed. Tidying up ancestors' tombs is its major big event.
By tradition, Chinese will be busy buying presents, decorating their houses, preparing food and making new clothes for the New Year. During that period, all transportation, in particular railway, will be busy bringing Chinese back to their own home town for a family reunion on the Chinese New Year’s Eve.
7. Mother’s Day (the 2nd Sunday of May) 8. Memorial Day (the last Monday in May) 9. Father’s Day (the 3rd Sunday of June) 10. Independence Day (July 4) 11. Labor Day (the 1st Monday of September) 12. Columbus Day (the 2nd Monday of October) 13. Halloween (October 31) 14. Thanksgiving (the 4th Thursday of November) 15. Christmas (Decembestival (15th of the first month): Lantern exhibits, lion and dragon dances, and eating Tang Yuan (ball-shaped boiled sweet rice dumplings with delicious stuffing.) feature this day. It is very much celebrated in the rural areas by farmers. The Lantern Festival also marks the end of the Chinese New Year season.
There is also a beautiful story behind it. Children are told that there's fairy on the moon living in a spacious but cold crystal palace with her sole companion, a jade rabbit. A heavenly general and friend would occasionally pay her a visit, bringing along his fragrant wine. She would then dance a beautiful dance. The shadows on the moon made the story all the more credible and fascinating to the young imaginative minds.
4. Duan Wu (Dragon Boat) Festival (5th of the 5th month): It is said to be in memory of a great patriot poet of the then State of Chu during the Warring States period (475221 B.C.), Qu Yuan (Ch'u Yuan), who drowned himself to protest his emperor who gave in to the bully State of Chin. For fear that fish may consume his body, people of Chu threw launched their boats and started throwing rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves into the river where he was drowned to feed the fish.
This festival happens at the beginning of the spring. Usually most young people are happy on this day. They send flowers and chocolate or some other gifts to the one they love.
Valentine’ s Day
This festival happens in winter. Every family has a feast on this day. Turkey is the most important food on this day. People celebrate it to thank God for a harvest in 1620.
This festival happens in spring.
On this day most people are happy.
Some people may be fooled but they can not be angry.
People can tell lies and play tricks on others without being blamed.
5. The Seventh Eve / Double Seventh Day (the 7th of the 7th month): It is a traditional holiday almost lost to the younger generations today. It originates from a beautiful legend about a cowboy and a fairy who were cruelly separated and reunited once each year on this happy, sad occasion. It is regarded as a Chinese Valentine’s Day.
6. Children's Day (June 1) 7. The CCP's Birthday (July 1) 8. Army's Day (August 1) 9. Teacher's Day (September 1) 10. National Day (October 1)
III. Chinese Traditional Holidays
Unit 10
Festivals and Holidays
Pre-reading tasks
I. Warming-up
Read the following descriptions about western festivals and guess which festival they convey? It is one of the most important festivals in western countries. People usually celebrate it together with their family members. People send cards or gifts to others. A kind-hearted old man put the gifts in the stockings for children secretly at night.
Halloween
II Background information
• Different festivals in USA and in China
I. American holidays
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. New Year’s Day (January 1) Groundhog Day (February 2) Valentine’s Day (February 14) St. Patrick’s Day (March 17) April Fool’s Day (April 1) Easter (the first Sunday that occurs after the first full moon on or after the vernal equinox (春分), which is between the dates of March 22 and April 25)
Most children are excited on this day. They wear black costumes or masks. They would like to dress up as frightening and ugly ghosts or witches. They would like to knock others’ doors and say, “trick or treat”.
6. Mid-Autumn Festival (the 5th of the 8th month): It is second only to the Chinese New Year in significance. The moon on this day is the fullest and largest to the eye. Viewing it by the whole family while feasting on good wine, fruits and moon-cakes features the night event.
Now the big event of dragon boat contest may be a legacy of such activity. People today still eat the bamboo-leave rice dumplings on the occasion today.
II. Official Chinese Holidays
1. New Year’s Day (January 1） 2. International Women's Day (March 8) 3. Tree-Planting Day (March 12） 4. International Labor Day (May 1) 5. Youth Day (May 4)
3. Qing Ming (Pure & Bright in Chinese) / Tomb-sweeping Day (April 4 or 5: 5th of the 24 solar terms): Originally it was a celebration of spring. People used to go out on an excursion to "tread grass". Later, it became the day dedicated to the dear departed. Tidying up ancestors' tombs is its major big event.
By tradition, Chinese will be busy buying presents, decorating their houses, preparing food and making new clothes for the New Year. During that period, all transportation, in particular railway, will be busy bringing Chinese back to their own home town for a family reunion on the Chinese New Year’s Eve.
7. Mother’s Day (the 2nd Sunday of May) 8. Memorial Day (the last Monday in May) 9. Father’s Day (the 3rd Sunday of June) 10. Independence Day (July 4) 11. Labor Day (the 1st Monday of September) 12. Columbus Day (the 2nd Monday of October) 13. Halloween (October 31) 14. Thanksgiving (the 4th Thursday of November) 15. Christmas (Decembestival (15th of the first month): Lantern exhibits, lion and dragon dances, and eating Tang Yuan (ball-shaped boiled sweet rice dumplings with delicious stuffing.) feature this day. It is very much celebrated in the rural areas by farmers. The Lantern Festival also marks the end of the Chinese New Year season.
There is also a beautiful story behind it. Children are told that there's fairy on the moon living in a spacious but cold crystal palace with her sole companion, a jade rabbit. A heavenly general and friend would occasionally pay her a visit, bringing along his fragrant wine. She would then dance a beautiful dance. The shadows on the moon made the story all the more credible and fascinating to the young imaginative minds.
4. Duan Wu (Dragon Boat) Festival (5th of the 5th month): It is said to be in memory of a great patriot poet of the then State of Chu during the Warring States period (475221 B.C.), Qu Yuan (Ch'u Yuan), who drowned himself to protest his emperor who gave in to the bully State of Chin. For fear that fish may consume his body, people of Chu threw launched their boats and started throwing rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves into the river where he was drowned to feed the fish.
This festival happens at the beginning of the spring. Usually most young people are happy on this day. They send flowers and chocolate or some other gifts to the one they love.