Spring Festival 春节.ppt

1、,Spring Festival,What is Spring Festival?,Spring Festivalalso called Chinese New Year; Its the most important traditional Chinese holidays. Spring Festival traditionally start from the last day of previous year to fifteenth days of new year of Chinese calendar,Origin of the Spring Festival,Tradition

2、ally, the festival was a time to honor deities as well as ancestors. Spring Festival celebrations traditionally ran from Chinese New Years Eve, the last day of the last month of theChinese calendar , and it usual celebration in late January or early February of Western calendar.,What Chinese do at S

3、pring Festival?,Preceding days,Buying: Chinese will buy lots thing for Spring Festival as food and clothes and so on traditional things , just like westerner prepare Christmas . Chinese called those “Nianhuo”. Cleaning: Chinese families give their home a thorough cleaning for sweeping away the bad l

4、uck.,Eve Of Spring Festival,Reunion dinner: Chinese families get together and have reunion dinner, and the biggest event of any Chinese New Years Eve is the Reunion Dinner. In northern China, it is customary to make dumplings. in the South, it is customary to make a glutinous new year cake (niangao)

5、. Play firecrackers: after dinner, some families set off firecrackers to pray for a prosperous new year,Dumplings,Niangao,What Chinese do at Spring Festival?,Play firecrackers,Reunion dinner,Red envelopes: which are passed out during the Chinese New Years celebrations, from married couples or the el

6、derly to unmarried juniors. It is also common for adults or young couples to give red packets to children.,Bainian : Chinese visiting friends and relatives with gift for contacting feelings from first day until Fifteenth day, and Chinese called this “Bainian”.,What Chinese do at Spring Festival?,Yuanxiao Festival,The fifteenth day of the new year is the last day of Spring Festival and celebrated asYuanxiao Festival,Rice dumplings tangyuan:a sweetglutinous riceball brewed in a soup, are eaten this day.,This day is celebrated as theLantern Festi