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Unit 13: Festivals 绵摆届无绒目忍糖芹誓敦滓抱霸晌晨斯剖葫坡消靛薄绰供从丫琐仕苹洗碍161festivals161festivals Chinese festivals 廷和脆顺咐若缠诗该语痔讼腑旦状嫩封锈更还椰哉音株冗矮潦泻介狐咆庚161festivals161festivals 1. Spring Festival---the first day of the Chinese lunar calendar the most important festival for the Chinese people the end of an old year and the beginning of a new one all family members get together (family reunion); the busiest time for transportation systems raise two red lanterns on both sides of the front door post Spring Festival couplets and Chinese character “fu” (meaning blessing or happiness); upside down, fu comes big dinner on the Spring Festival Eve(New Year’s Eve feast); dumplings; New Year cake Spring Festival gala, lucky money, pay new year calls stay up to see the New Year in burn fireworks; drive away evil spirits 妖棠蝶痈槽纂骗煽妨每概锋右臼炭坦憎腕分兽舞鳖慢坛调铣歹鲜消馁撬喷161festivals161festivals 2. Lantern Festival---15th lunar January worship Buddha watch lanterns; light fireworks, eat yuanxiao, or rice dumplings (These lanterns are signposts to guide guests and spirits of ancestors to the Lunar celebration. After a sumptuous fifteen-day feast, these lanterns light the way for the spirits back to the world beyond) watch a dragon lantern dance, a lion dance, a yangge dance, walking on stilts guess lantern riddles 氓硷闹搞鳞恭箔统违肿灼蜂露虾历煮头翠挺辙漆鼻疑搭踏超掘掸沿炯哮晃161festivals161festivals Buddhism first entered China during the reign of Emperor Mingdi of the Eastern Han Dynasty. That was in the first century. However, it did not exert any great influence among the Chinese people. one day, Emperor Mingdi had a dream about a gold man in his palace. At the very moment when he was about to ask the mysterious figure who he was, the gold man suddenly rose to the sky and disappeared in the west. The next day, Emperor Mingdi sent a scholar to India on a pilgrimage（朝圣）to locate Buddhist scriptures. After journeying thousands of miles, the scholar finally returned with the scriptures. Emperor Mingdi ordered that a temple be built to house a statue of