春节spring_festival（用）.pptxVIP

Happy new year!Happy new year!Happy New YearHappy new year!What is the longest and most important festival in China? 春节chūn jié The Spring FestivalIt falls on the first day of the first Chinese lunar month and the celebration lasts from the 23rd of the 12th lunar month up to the 15th of the first lunar month next year. What do you do in the Spring Festival?春节习俗 Customs of the Spring FestivalThe Spring Festival is a traditional Chinese festival and also the most important one of the whole year. Through the evolvement of thousands of years, a series of customs are spreading far and wide.扫尘 Sweeping the Dustwe clean our houses and sweep away bad luck, and then we paint doors and windows red. 我们打扫房子的卫生，将霉运扫走，然后我们将门和窗户刷成红色 扫尘 Sweeping the Dust“Dust” is homophonic with “chen”（尘）in Chinese, which means old and past. In this way, “sweeping the dust” before the Spring Festival means a thorough cleaning of houses to sweep away bad luck in the past year. This custom shows a good wish of putting away old things to welcome a new life. In a word, just before the Spring Festival comes, every household will give a thorough cleaning to bid farewell to the old year and usher in the new.春联 spring festival couplets 对联 duìlián / 春联chūn lián TOPknowledge学 书booksea海 山mountaindon‘t have无 有haveborder涯 路wayeffort苦 勤diligencemakes做 为becomesboat舟 径path BOTTOM贴春联 Pasting Spring Couplets“The Spring Couplet”, also called “couplet” and “a pair of antithetical phrases”, is a special form of literature in China. The Spring Couplet is composed of two antithetical sentences on both sides of the door and a horizontal scroll bearing an inscription, usually an auspicious phrase, above the gate. The sentence pasting on the right side of the door is called the first line of the couplet and the one on the left the second line. On the eve of the Spring Festival, every household will paste on doors a spring couplet written on red paper to give a happy and prosperous atmosphere o