中秋和端午.ppt

朱元璋与月饼 Dragon Boat Festival * * The Midautumn Festival Double Fifth Day 制作者：王韵依、罗嫚、刘颖、黄莉、杨晶 Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the four major traditional festivals The joyous Mid-Autumn Festival was celebrated on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, around the time of the autumn equinox 秋分 . Many referred to it simply as the Fifteenth of the Eighth Moon. In this day,people ,espically family members will have a happy get-together.So Chinese people vaule this festival for its important meaning of reunion.And the mooncake is the symbolic food.It represents the reunion just like the full moon. Moon Cakes月饼 There is this story about the moon-cake. during the Yuan dynasty A.D. 1280-1368 China was ruled by the Mongolian people. Leaders from the preceding Sung dynasty A.D. 960-1280 were unhappy at submitting to the foreign rule, and set how to coordinate the rebellion without being discovered. The leaders of the rebellion, knowing that the Moon Festival was drawing near, ordered the making of special cakes. Backed into each moon cake was a message with the outline of the attack. On the night of the Moon Festival, the rebels successfully attached and overthrew the government. Today, moon cakes are eaten to commemorate this legend and was called the Moon Cake. For generations, moon cakes have been made with sweet fillings of nuts, mashed red beans, lotus-seed paste or Chinese dates 枣子 , wrapped in a pastry. Sometimes a cooked egg yolk can be found in the middle of the rich tasting dessert. People compare moon cakes to the plum pudding and fruit cakes which are served in the English holiday seasons.  中秋的传说 Mooncakes are to Mid-Autumn Festival what mince pies are to Christmas. The seasonal round cakes traditionally have a sweet filling of lotus seed paste or red bean paste and often have one or more salted duck eggs in the center to represent the moon. And the moon is what this celebration is all about. Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the 8th month it