Chinesetraditionalfestivals实用实用教案

1、1第1页/共37页第一页，共38页。2 Chinese New Year, known in China as Spring Festival, is the most important festival of the traditional Chinese holidays. It is sometimes called the Lunar New Year, especially by people outside China. The festival traditionally begins on the first day of the first lunar month in t

2、he Chinese calendar and ends on the 15th.第2页/共37页第二页，共38页。3 Chinese New Years Eve is known as Chuxi in Chinese. It literally means “Lunar New Year Eve”. According to tales and legends, the beginning of Chinese New Year started with the fight against a mythical beast called the Year or “Nian” in Chin

3、ese. Nian would come on the first day of New Year to devour 吞食(tnsh) livestock, crops, and even villagers, especially children.第3页/共37页第三页，共38页。4 To protect themselves, the villagers would put food in front of their doors at the beginning of every year and believed that the Nian wouldnt attack any m

4、ore people after eating the food they prepared. Once people saw the Nian was scared away by a little child wearing red, they then understood that the Nian was afraid of color red. Hence, every time when New Year was about to come, the villagers would hang red lanterns and put up spring festival coup

5、lets on windows and doors.第4页/共37页第四页，共38页。5 People also used firecrackers to frighten the Nian and from then on, the Nian never came to the village again. The Chinese New Year celebrations are marked by visits to relatives and friends, a practice known as “new-year visits”. New clothes are usually

6、worn to signify a new year.第5页/共37页第五页，共38页。6 The color red is liberally used in all decorations. Red packets are given to juniors and children by the married and elder. Chinese New Year is observed as a public holiday not only in China but also in a number of countries and regions where a sizable C

7、hinese population resides.第6页/共37页第六页，共38页。7第7页/共37页第七页，共38页。8 The Lantern Festival, a Chinese festival, is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in the Chinese calendar. It is different from the Mid-Autumn Festival, which is also sometimes known as the “Lantern Festival” in locat

8、ions such as Singapore, and Malaysia. During the Lantern Festival, children go out at night to temples carrying paper lanterns and solve riddles on the lanterns. It officially ends Chinese New Year.第8页/共37页第八页，共38页。9 Those who do not carry lanterns oftern enjoy watching informal lanterns parades. In

9、 addition to eating tangyuan, another popular activity at this festival is guessing lantern riddles, which often contain messages of good fortune, family reunion, abundant harvest, prosperity and love.第9页/共37页第九页，共38页。10第10页/共37页第十页，共38页。11“Long Tai Tou”, meaning “Dragon Raises Its Head”, is celebra

10、ted every year on the second day of the second month in the Chinese lunar calendar. People believe that a haircut on that day will bring luck to them.第11页/共37页第十一页，共38页。12第12页/共37页第十二页，共38页。13 The Qingming Festival, meaning Clear and Bright Festival, is a traditional Chinese festival on the 104th da

11、y after the winter solstice 冬至. Every leap year 闰年(rnnin), Qingming is on April 4. Astronomically, it is also a solar term 节气. Its name denotes 代表 a time for people to go outside and enjoy the greenery of springtime, and also to pay homage to the pass-away ones. Qingming is a statutory 法定的public hol

12、iday in China.第13页/共37页第十三页，共38页。14第14页/共37页第十四页，共38页。15 Dan Wu (Dragon Boat Festival) is a day to commemorate 纪念(jnin) the Chinese patriot 爱国者 and poet, Qu Yuan. Falling on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, it is a day to remind oneself of ones duties and obligations to the nation. Other than

13、 eating rice dumplings and participating in dragon boat races, this occasion ought to be used to commemorate the national patriots and to emphasize the importance of loyalty and commitment to the community.第15页/共37页第十五页，共38页。16第16页/共37页第十六页，共38页。17 The Night of Sevens, also known as Magpie 喜鹊(x que)

14、 Festival, falls on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month on the Chinese calendar, named after the day. It is sometimes called Chinese Valentines Day in recent years. Young girls traditionally demonstrate their domestic arts on this day and make wishes for a good husband. 第17页/共37页第十七页，共38页。18

15、It is also known by the following names: the Festival to Plead for Skills (乞巧(qqio)节), The Seventh Sisters Birthday (七姐诞) and The Night of Skills（巧夕）.第18页/共37页第十八页，共38页。19第19页/共37页第十九页，共38页。20 The Ghost Festival is a traditional Chinese festival. In the Chinese calendar, the Ghost Festival is on the

16、 15th night of the seventh lunar month. In Chinese tradition, the fifteenth day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar if called Ghost Day and the seventh month in general is regarded as the Ghost Month, in which ghosts and spirits, including those of the deceased ancestors, come out from the lo

17、wer realm.第20页/共37页第二十页，共38页。21 During the Qingming Festival the living descendants pay homage to their ancestors and on Ghost Day, the deceased visit the living. Activities during the month inclue preparing sacrifices, buring incense, and burning joss paper 祭祀所用(su yn)之纸, 纸钱 , a form of material it

18、ems such as clothes, gold and other fine goods for the visiting spirits of the ancestors. 第21页/共37页第二十一页，共38页。22 In spites of many differences between Chinese and Western traditions, the Ghost Festival is sometimes also known as the Chinese Halloween with the theme of ghosts and spirits.第22页/共37页第二十

19、二页，共38页。23第23页/共37页第二十三页，共38页。24 The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, or in Chinese Zhongqiu Jie is a popular harvest festival celebrated by Chinese people. The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar, which is usually around mid o

20、r late September in the Gregorian calendar. 格列高利(gol)历，阳历The traditional food of this festival is the moon- cake, of which there are many different varieties.第24页/共37页第二十四页，共38页。25 The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the two most important holidays in the Chinese calendar, the other being the Chinese

21、New Year. Farmers celebrate the end of the summer harvesting season on this date. Traditionally, on this day, Chinese family members and friends will gather to admire the bright mid-autumn harvest moon, and eat moon cakes and pomeloes 柚子(yu z) together. 第25页/共37页第二十五页，共38页。26 Shops selling mooncakes

22、, before the festival, often display pictures of Change floating to the moon. 嫦娥(chn )飞月第26页/共37页第二十六页，共38页。27第27页/共37页第二十七页，共38页。28 The National Day of the Peoples Republic of China is celebrated every year on October 1. It is a public holiday in the Peoples Republic of China. The PRC was founded o

23、n October 1, 1949 with a ceremony at Tiananmen Square. The Central Peoples Government passed the Resolution on the National Day of the Peoples Republic of China on December 2, 1949 and declared that October 1 is the National Day.第28页/共37页第二十八页，共38页。29第29页/共37页第二十九页，共38页。30 The Double Ninth Festival,

24、 the ninth day of the ninth month in the Chinese calendar, is a traditional Chinese holiday, mentioned in writing since the East Han period (before AD 25). According to the IChing 易经(y jn), nine is the yang number; the ninth day of the ninth lunar month has too much yang and is thus a potentially da

25、ngerous date. Hence, the day is also called “Double Yang Festival”.第30页/共37页第三十页，共38页。31 To protect against the danger, it is customary to climb a high mountain, drink chrysanthemum wine, and wear the evodia 茱萸(zh y). Both chrysanthemum and evodia are considered to have cleansing qualities and are used on other occasions to air out houses and cure illnesses.第31页/共37页第三十一页，共38页。32 Also on this holiday, some Chinese also visit the graves of their ancestors to pay their resects. In contemporary times it is an occasion for hiking and chrysanthemum appreciation. Stores