The-world's-weirdest-festivals(世界上奇怪的节日英语介绍)PPT优秀课件

1、The worlds weirdest festivals 世界上奇特的节日世界上奇特的节日 Place : Spain First staged in 1620, this strange event celebrating Corpus Christi sees grown men dressed as the Devil leaping over a row of babies lying in the street. The Baby Jumping Festival Cheese Rolling Time : June 4 Place : England This popular f

2、estival involves hundreds of contestants chasing a roll of cheese down the steep, muddy Coopers Hill in Gloucestershire. First staged in 1998, the Boryeong Mud Festival now attracts more than a million visitors to the South Korean city. Said to be rich in minerals, the mud for the festival is trucke

3、d in to Daecheon Beach for tourists and locals to enjoy. Time：July 14-24 Place：Boryeong, South Korea (韩国韩国 保宁市）保宁市） Boryeong Mud Festival Monkey Buffet（自助餐）（自助餐） Festival Time： November 25 Place：Lopburi, Thailand（泰国 华富里） Over 600 monkeys are invited to feast on over two tonnes of grilled sausage, fr

4、esh fruit, icea cream and other treats. The locals see it as a thank you to the monkeys which inhabit the village and bring thousands of tourists their each year. La Tomatina番茄大战番茄大战 Time：August 29 Place：Spain The industrial town of Brunol welcomes 20,000 visitors to throw tomatoes at one another in

5、 an oversized food fight. There are differing theories as to how it began, one suggesting that it stems from anti-Franco protests in 1945. Naked Festival裸体节裸体节 Time：February 4 Place：Konomiya, Japan （日本国府宫（日本国府宫 ) Participants will usually dress in a Japanese loincloth(腰腰 带）带）, and throw mud and wate

6、r at one another to symbolise purification. Naked Festivals are held in a number of locations across Japan, usually in summer or winter. Though traditionally a spiritual event, many now join in just for fun. World Gurning Championships Time：September 15 Place：Egremont, Cumbria Come and pull the ugli

7、est face you can muster - those without teeth have an unfair advantage. The event is the highlight of the annual Egremont Crab Fair. As if facial contortions were not enough, theres also a Pipe Smoking Contest and Cumberland Wrestling. Ivrea(意大利的一个小镇）意大利的一个小镇） Orange Festival Every year in the town of Ivrea, residents re-enact an ancient battle in medieval costume, armed only with oranges. Nine teams