出国前英语培训_2.ppt

Words The organs of the body: Words 公共标识 Chinese Traditional Festivals 1. The Spring Festival Spring Festival, the traditional Chinese New Year’s Day, is China’s most important national holiday. Almost everyone in China’s cities enjoys at least 3 days off work to celebrate Spring Festival, and the celebration lasts even longer in rural areas. On the day before New Year’s Day, many families decorate their front doors with a pair of couplets designating good fortune. Children set off firecrackers, play games and carry colorful lanterns in hand as they visit friends. Dumplings are an indispensable food for northerners during their New Year’s celebration. Following dinner, most families watch special holiday variety shows on television, which last well into New Year’s Day. Many families stay up very late, some even stay up all night, playing cards, laughing, chatting, telling stories to the children. On New Year’s Day, the children receive gifts of money in red envelopes from their parents and grandparents. Southerners like to eat Nian Gao, which is a homonym for “higher each year” and symbolizes improvement in life, year by year. 2. Lantern Festival Lantern Festival has a history more than 2000 years. It is said that people began to mark the Lantern Festival in the Han Dynasty. In the Song Dynasty, the government legally established this custom as a social rule. 2. Lantern Festival Today, in city parks or in the open squares, various kinds of lanterns are highly hung and displayed, and place lantern, running horse lantern, flower-and-plant lantern, etc. At home, people usually eat dumplings and sweet dumplings. 3. The Clear and Bright Festival (Qingming) Qingming is a traditional festival highlighted by worship at ancient graves. 清明是人们祭祀祖先、扫墓的传统节日。 Qingming is not just a day of remembrance, it is also a day to celebrate the coming of spring, often by going out for a picnic. With the coming of sp