中国传统节日英文ppt课件

1、Chinese Traditional Festival,2021/1/28,Qingming Festival,Qingming Festival, also known as Pure Brightness Festival, is a traditional Chinese Festival, and is one of the 24 segments of the Chinese calendar,Brief instruction,It normally falls in early spring, on the 106th day after the winter solstice

2、. and is a time to pay respects to ones ancestors and to tidy their gravesite,5,Origin,Qingming is popularly associated with Jie Zitui, who lived in Shanxi province 600B.C. Legend has it that Jie saved his starving lords life by serving a piece of his own leg. But, finally died in a big fire put by

3、the lord,6,To commemorate Jie, the lord ordered that fires could not be lit on the day of Jie Zituis death. From this comes Hanshi Day that occurs on the eve of Qingming and is often considers part of the Qingming festival,The custom,Tomb Sweeping The major custom in Qingming Festival is tomb sweepi

4、ng. People will set out offerings of fresh flowers and paper money to their ancestors,Because Jie Zitui died embracing a willow tree, the willow is believed to have powers against evil,Planting Willow Trees,Spring Outing During March, everything in nature takes on a new look, as trees turn green, fl

5、owers blossom, and the sun shines brightly,Dragon Boat Festival,Chinese Traditional Festival,The fifth of May,Zhang Zhou,Introduction,The Dragon Boat Festival is also called Double Fifth Festival .It is celebrated on the 5th day of the 5th month in the Chinese lunar calendar. Today, Dragon Boat Fest

6、ival in the Chinese people is still a very popular grand festival and has been officially included in the national holidays,CONTENTS,Origin,Custom,2021/1/28,3,ORIGIN,The origin of Dragon Boat Festival,There are many legends about the evolution of the festival ,such as Qu Yuan and WuZixu. Scholars ha

7、s provided many explanations about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival,The story of Qu Yuan,The story of WuZixu,Qu Yuan jumped off river,Qu Yuan,Qu Yuan , an honest ,upright ,loyal minister of the Kingdom of Chu who is said to have committed suicide by drowning himself in the Miluo river. In orde

8、r to avoid his body to be eaten by fish and shrimp, people cast many of bamboo rice into the river, and compete to row (acetate ship) hoping to rescue and recover the body of Qu Yuan,Starting from that time to this day, people commemorate patriotic poet Qu Yuan through dragon boat races, eating rice

9、 dumplings, and several other activities on the anniversary of his death,Wu Zixu,Wu Zixus death anniversary,Its a legend that after He Lu ,the king of Wu died , the prince Fuchai ascended the throne, send armed forces to suppress Yue and won. Goujian ,the king of Yue please reconciliation , Fuchai d

10、idnt listen but agreed treacherous official and judged Wu Zixu commit suicide. And jumped his body into river on May 5, since then people commemorated him on Dragon Boat Festival,CUSTOM,The custom of Dragon Boat Festival,Eating Rice Dumplings,Dragon Boat Racing,Different kind of rice dumplings,The m

11、ain ingredient of glutinous rice dumplings are red jujube and bean paste or meat,CUSTOM,dragon boat race,The festival is best known for its dragon boat races which are the most exciting part of the festival, especially in the southern provinces where there are many rivers and lakes,As the gun is fir

12、ed, people will see competing teams drive their colorful dragon boats forward to a drumbeat racing to reach the finish end first,The Mid-Autumn Festival,Hu Tianwei,Introduction,Legends,Custom,Poems,Zhong Qiu “,which is also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival ,is celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th m

13、onth of the lunar calendar(日历）. It is a time for family members and loved ones to congregate and enjoy the moon . This night, people look up the bright moon, will naturally look forward to family reunion. People who are far away from home, also take this way to express their thoughts of home and fam

14、ily affection,Introduction,Beautiful Legends,Hou Yi shoots down nine suns,后羿射日,According to Chinese mythology, the earth once had 10 suns circling over it. One day, all 10 suns appeared together, scorching the earth with their heat. The earth was saved when a strong archer, Hou Yi, succeeded in shoo

15、ting down 9 of the suns. Yi stole the elixir(长生药） of life to save the people from his tyrannical rule, but his wife, Chang-E drank it. Thus started the legend of the lady in the moon to whom young Chinese girls would pray at the Mid-Autumn Festival,Change flies to the moon,嫦娥奔月,Customs,moon walk(走月亮

16、 ) eat moon-cake(吃月饼) fire the tower light(点塔灯 ) fire Douxiang(烧斗香 ) put the sky lights(放天灯 ) plant the Mid-Autumn(树中秋 ) enjoy the moon(赏月,eat moon-cakes On the Mid-Autumn Festival , people have to eat moon cakes to show Reunion,Assorted Nuts Mooncake五仁月饼 Do you like me,put the sky lights(放天灯 ，又称孔明灯

17、,The Poems,但愿人长久， 千里共婵娟。 May the people live forever, and share the moon shine across vast distances together,As the moon rises above the sea, we share the same time though we are far apart,On festive occasions more than ever one thinks of his dear ones far away,每逢佳节倍思亲,The Spring Festival,Yin Chaoy

18、i,The origin of Spring Festival,So how did year come from? There are two kinds of claims: one kind of saying is that in ancient times, there was a fierce monster called year, and every thirty months of the month, the monster went to the village, to find the meat of the food, and to destroy the livin

19、g spirit. One of the twelfth lunar month thirty in the evening, the year to a village, coincides with the two cowboys in game bull whip. Year smell the air sounded firecrackers scared Wangfengertao biansheng. Then gradually evolved into the custom of the new year. Another argument is that Chinas anc

20、ient book of the word “years” on the“He”, in good weather, a bumper grain harvest. As a result, the valley is usually a mature year. The year was extended to a year of age,The culture of Spring Festival,Bite and Sup Custom,Bite and Sup,Rice cake: A kind of cake steamed with sticky glutinous rice or rice flour, in the Spring