Chinese Traditional Festivals中国传统节日讲解.pptVIP

Spring Festival The Spring Festival is known as the most important Festival in China. During the holiday, people go back to hometown from everywhere no matter how far the distance is. They prepare various delicious food and presents for the Spring Festival Eve. In China, the most traditional and popular Spring Festival food is dumpling, which looks like the moon with vegetables and meat mixed in it. The Lantern Festival（元宵节） During Lantern Festival, people go along the street to watch lanterns and children light their own small lanterns for some fun. Some lanterns have puzzles （灯谜）on them, called lantern puzzle, the one who gets the answer could receive small presents and be happy for his intelligence. The traditional food for Lantern Festival is rice glue ball. the rice glue ball’s shape is just like the full moon appears in the sky. This kind of dessert is especially welcomed by children. Tomb- sweeping Day（清明节） 清明时节雨纷纷，路上行人欲断魂，借问酒家何处有，牧童遥指杏花村. Qing Ming Du Mu（ Tang Dynasty ） Qing Ming usually comes with rainy days Passengers on the way are full of soreness（伤痛） I ask a Buffalo boy（牧童） for tavern to release my sadness He points to the village covered by apricot blossoms（杏花） Mid-Autumn Day（中秋节） Mid-autumn Day is August 15th on lunar calendar. According to history records, Chinese emperor has tradition that worship the Sun in spring and worship the Moon in autumn. As august 15th is exactly the middle of autumn, so it is called Mid-Autumn Day. The traditional food of Mid-Autumn Day is Moon cake. The round shape of moon cake represents family reunion. In the night of Mid-Autumn Day, every family has moon cake and watches the moon. The Double Ninth Festival（重阳节） Ancient Chinese believes nine represents sun, the brightest thing, September 9th has two nine, the sun is doubled, so call it Double Ninth Festival. * * Tomb–sweep Day is an ancient festival in spring, also called Qing