少数民族的传统节日1.doc解析.ppt

Traditional Festivals of Ethnic Minorities 1.The Dai Water Splashing Festival The origin of the water splashing Festival There is a legend that the devil had commit all sorts of beautiful Xishuangbanna. He grabed seven beautiful girls to be his wives. The girls with hatred, figured out how to kill the devil. One night, the youngest girl with the best wine made the devil completely drunken.That made him reveal his fatal weakness. The devil of fairing nothing, his was faired that hair was reined in his neck. The alert little girl gingerly pulled out a red haired of devil and around his neck.Really, devils head fell off into a ball of fire. Where was the fire, the fire spread to where. The bamboo house was burned and the crop was charred. In order to put out the fire, the little girl grabbed the devils head. The other six girls took turns to kept to the above water. Finally in June of the evil Dai Li put out the fire. The villagers began to live and work in peace life. Since then, every year there Songkran customs. 2.The Torch Festivals of Yi 3、The Nadam Festival of Mongolia 4.The Festival of Hui The primary festivals are Lesser Bairam (End of Ramadan), Corban, and Shengji Festival. During the entire ninth month of to the Hui calendar, men older than 12 and women older than 9 will fast, which means they cannot eat anything from sunrise to sunset. Lesser Bairam is celebrated on the first day of the tenth month and lasts three days. Relatives and friends are served choice beef and mutton, and fired cakes which are their favorite food. Corban Festival is on the tenth day of the last month. The morning of the festival, they do not eat breakfast. After attending the mosque, they kill oxen and then share them with the poor families and relatives. Selling of the oxen is not permitted on this day. Huaer is a form of folklore among Hui people, especially prevalent in Ningxia, Gansu and Qinghai. During festivals and t