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1、Spring FestivalThe 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 distanee is. They prepare various delicious food and presents for the Spring Festival Eve. Chinese will have a happy family union

2、in the Spring Festival Eve, they believe that s the end day of last yearand they will stay up for good luck until the first day of next year.In China, the most traditional and popular Spring Festival food is dumpli ng, which looks like the moon with vegetables and meat mixed in it. The Chinese name

3、of dumpling is“JIAO ZI ”，” JIAO”means” cross ” , ” ZI ” is Chinese traditional time represents “24:00 ” , so the Chinese word “JIAO ZI ” means “cross 24:00 ” , just the dividing point of last year and next year. So when it comes to 24:00, every family beg ins eat ing dumpli ngs. Firecracker is also

4、n ecessary for Spring Festival, the story of Firecracker is: Long ago, in a small village, there appeared a savage ani mal called“ NIAN , this animal always came out toeat people in the Eve. One day, villagers found three things can make“NIAN scared: Red color, Fire and noise. So when “NIAN came aga

5、in, villagers put up red paper on the door and set firecracker everywhere. After that,“NIAN disappeared from that village. Now putting up redpaper on the door and setting firecrackerbecomesSpring Festival customsand people believe doing these will bring their family safety.Spring Festival is also th

6、e happiest time for children,because theycan get red en velope containing money as a gift from the elder. During the Spring Festival, any unfortunate word cannot be heard because it will make people upset and un happy. People also make use of this holiday to visit their relatives and bring them some

7、 presents and well-wishing.1. The Lantern FestivalThe Lantern Festival is January 15 on the lunar cale ndar. The lunar January is the first month of a year and 15th is the first day of full moon. Therefore, Lantern Festival is an important Festival right after Spring Festival.During Lantern Festival

8、, people go along the street to watch lanterns and children light their own small lanterns for somefun. The biggest and most beautiful la ntern is the drag on Ian tern, which looks like a flyi ng drag on, held by several young guys. On ewith a ball in hand leads the drag on to move.Some lanterns hav

9、e puzzles on them, called lantern puzzle, the one who gets the an swer could receive small prese nts and be happy for his in tellige nee.The traditionalfood for Lantern Festival is rice glue ball. Rice glueball is a flavor ball with filli ng in it, for example, pea nut filli ng, sesamefillingand jam

10、 filling,the rice glue ball s shape is just likethe full moon appears in the sky. This kind of dessert is especially welcomed by childre n.2. Tomb- sweeping DayTomb- sweep Day is an ancient festival in spring, also called Qing Ming Festival. In ancient China, the emperor worshipped heaven and earth

11、in order to bless for harvest. People worshipped their an cestors with sacrifice and showed their miss ing for an cestors.Tomb-sweep ing Day, are always rai ny days, just like the sky crying for dead people. A Chin ese poem described as follow ing:Qing Ming usually comes with rainy daysPasse ngers o

12、n the way are full of sore nessI ask a Buffalo boy for taver n to release my sad nessHe points to the village covered by apricot blossomsThis poem “ The Day of Qing Mi ng ” is writte n by a poet called Du Mu in Tang Dyn asty. Qi ng Mi ng Festival is the day to worship his mother with family, but the

13、 writer goes alone in the rainy days as a passe nger far from his hometown, he felt deeply upset and sorrowed. He has to find a tavern to have a drink, perhaps in this way he will release himself from sad ness.3. The Dragon Boat FestivalThe Drag on Boat Festival is in May 5 th on the lunar cale ndar

14、. The beg inning of this festival is in memory of Qu Yua n, a wise mi nister and poet in Chu dyn asty, who jumped in to Mi Luo River in lunar May 5th fordespair of coun try, un fair treat and defamatio n. People threw rice dumplings to River to protect his body from eating by fish and showedtheir re

15、spect for Qu Yuan s noble spirit.In rece nt China, people also eat rice dumpli ngs in Drag on Boat Festival.From the name, we can directly know the campaign of this festivalis Drag on Boati ng. A team of stro ng menon the Drago n Boat will try their best to win 1 st and show Chinese strongest spirit

16、s.People use moxato clean themselves and use five-color thread crossing small childre n s arms and fin gers to keep ill ness far away.5. Mid-Autu mn DayMid-autumn Day is August 15 th on lunar calendar. According to history records, Chinese emperor has tradition that worship the Sun in spring and wor

17、ship the Moonin autumn. As august 15th is exactly the middle of autumn, so it is called Mid-Autumn DayThere are a lot of stories about the moon since ancient China.Onemost famous story is Chang e flying to the moon. Thousands of years ago, there were 9 suns in the sky, many people felt too hot to li

18、ve. A young man called Yi was brave eno ugh and shot 8 suns to the ground and saved people. On eday Yi got a poti on of elixir from Quee nM other and gave his wife Chang e to keep. A man named Peng Meng knew about the elixir and wan ted to get it from Chang e. One day whe n Yi was out for hun ti ng,

19、 Peng Mengwent to rob the elixir. In order to protect the elixir,Chang eswallowed all of the elixir the n flied to the moon.In memory of Chang e, she is recognized as the goddess of the moon.The traditional food of Mid-Autumn Day is Moon cake, a round baked cake with filli ngs in it. The round shape

20、 of moon cake represe nts family reunion. In the night of Mid-Autumn Day, every family has moon cake and watches the moon.6. The Double Ninth FestivalThe Double Ninth Festival is an important traditional Chinese festival in September 9 th on lunar cale ndar. It is the ninth day of the ninth lunar mon th, ancient Chin ese believes nine represe nts sun, the brightest thing, September 9 th has two nine, the sun is doubled, so call it Double Ninth Festival. Nine also means Long in Chinese words, so the Double Ninth Festival is also recognized The Old Festival.In Double N