中国少数民族文化(英语)Culture_of_Chinese_Ethnic_Minorities.ppt

Besides water splashing, there are a lot of other conventions in the Water-splashing Festival. Children will cut down bamboos to make squirt gun（水枪） and play water game. People without reference to age and sex are all dressed up and climb up the mountain in groups to pick up wild flowers to make flower house. Young people who are not married throw specially-made bags to pay court to（追求，求爱） each other. And people let off（放…） Gaosheng fireworks and Kongming Lamp to memorialize the wisdom of Zhuge Liang in the ancient Three Kingdoms Period. Additionally, there are some other conventions such as Dragon Boat Race, Release of Paper-made River Boat, Peacock Dancing and Cockfighting. In the festival, people will decorate their own residence ceremoniously so that the doorframe and window of every household（家庭，户） are pasted with various paper cutting. Decorated archways（拱门）, whose top stands a golden peacock that symbolizes happiness and good luck, are also put up at the main streets in the town. ? Water-Splashing Festival was once a religious ceremony in Indian Brahmanism （所罗门教）and then absorbed by Buddhism and passed to the Dai region in Yunnan Province via Burma. It has enjoyed a history of seven hundred years up to now. At present, the convention of water splashing has actually become a form of mutual wishing between one another. In the eye of the Dai People, water is a symbol of sanctity, beauty and brightness. Only water can help everything on the earth grow, so water is the god of life. ? Korean ethnic minority The ancestors of the Korean minority in China emigrated（移民） from the Korean Peninsula（半岛）. The Korean ethnic minority in China has a population of 1,923,842 (as of?2000), mainly living in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture (延边朝鲜族自治州）in Jilin Province. ??? Korean clothing has distinctive national features which are plain and neat (素 净), quietly elegant(淡雅） , lightsome（轻盈）. clothing The introduction of dress! die