七夕节英语.ppt

1、Double Seventh Day,The Double Seventh Festival, on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month, is a traditional festival full of romance.,Introduction,Do you know the beautiful love story passed down from generation to generation about the Double Seventh Festival ?,Question:,The Romantic story,Long long ago

2、, there was an honest and kind-hearted fellow named Niu Lang .His parents died when he was a child. Later he was driven out of his home by his sister-in-law. So he lived by farming with an old cow.,One day, The magical cow kindly told him a way to find a beautiful and nice woman as his life companio

3、n. Under the direction of the cow, Niu Lang went to the riverside on an evening. This evening the seven fairies left heaven to bathe. He took one of the beautiful silk dresses the fairies had left on the bank.,When the fairies left the water, the youngest couldnt find her clothes and had to see her

4、sisters fly back to heaven without her.,Then Niu Lang came out with the dress and asked the youngest fairy, Zhi Nu, to stay with him. Zhi Nu fell in love with him and came down secretly to earth and married him. So Niu Lang farmed in the field and the Zhi Nu wove at home. They lived a happy life and

5、 had a son and a daughter.,Unfortunately, the God of Heaven soon found out the fact and ordered the Queen Mother to bring Zhi Nu back. With the help of magical cow , Niu Lang flew to heaven with his son and daughter.,At the time when he was about to catch up with his wife, the Queen Mother took off

6、one of her gold hairpins and made a stroke. One river appeared in front of Niu Lang . Niu Lang and Zhi Nu were separated on the two banks forever.,Their loyalty to love touched magpies, so thousands of magpies came to build a bridge for Niu Lang and Zhi Nu to meet each other. The Queen Mother was eventually moved and allowed them to meet each year on the 7th of the 7th lunar month. Hence their meeting date has been called Qi Xi (Dou