中国传统节日英文介绍traditionalchinesefestival

Cultural notes
• Zodiac animals(十二生肖): 12 animals represent the rotating（循环 ）12-year cycle.
Oral practice
Picture Description
• Describe the following pictures according to
paper-cuts 剪纸
feast 盛宴
spring couplets春联 set off firecrackers放鞭炮
Spring Festival Gala 春晚
make jiaozi 包饺子
• Spring Festival, the traditional Chinese New Year’s
• According to history records, the Spring Festival derives from god and ancestor worships in the Shang dynasty. Nowadays, this superstitious meaning has faded away and is replaced with a symbol of unification（统一）, happiness and hope.
Festivals and Customs
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• Temple fair(庙会): The temple fair began as groups of vendors（小贩） 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 have 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.
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Dragon Boat Festival 端午节 The fifth day of the fifth lunar month 农历五月初五 patriotic poet Qu Yuan 爱国诗人屈原 dragon-boat races 龙舟赛 Zongzi 粽子 glutinous rice 黏米 wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves 用竹叶或芦苇叶包裹 food for fish and shrimp to keep them from eating Qu Yuan’s
the sample given below. Some useful words and phrases are given to you in the Information Box for reference.
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Spring Festival 春节 lunar new year农历新年
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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 poet and statesman who is said to have committed suicide by drowning himself into a river.
Day, is China’s 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 Year’s feast. On the day before New Year’s 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 Year’s Eve dinner and making jiaozi.
• On the New Year's Eve ,most families watch Spring Festival 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 Year's Eve" is also called "Family Reunion Dinner". Whatever the financial condition is, every family will make the dinner the most sumptuous（豪华的） and ceremonious（隆重的 ）one in the year. At twelve o'clock, when a new year drives off the old, every family will shoot off firecrackers to greet new days and send off old ones.