Traditional Festivals 传统节日.pptVIP

* 马瑜苹 808班 2008146 China’s major traditional festivals include the Spring Festival, the Lantern Festival, Qingming Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, and the Mid-Autumn Festival. Spring Festival ,also called the Chinese New Year, is China’s most important festival that falls on the 1st day of the 1st lunar month each year. Section one: Origin Spring Festival is also called guonian, which means keeping the monster Nian away. Once upon a time, there was a monster. It was called “Nian”. “Nian” was very ugly. It had a big mouth and it always went out to eat people. People were afraid of it and they dared not go out. One day, an old man came and he decided to help the people. He said to the people, “‘Nian’ is afraid of the red color, it won’t come back when it sees it.” So people went home and put up some red paper decorations on the windows and doors, they really want to frighten “Nian” away. On the last day of that year, “Nian” came again, but when it saw the red paper, he was so scared and ran away. From then on, people began to celebrate the New Year. It is the reason why Chinese people like wearing red clothes, setting off fire crackers and putting up couplets on lunar New Year’s Eve. Section two: customs paste spring couplets 贴春联 Spring Festival couplets are popular. These are Chinese good luck proverbs on red paper, often with golden trimming and are usually about happiness, wealth, longevity. a satisfactory marriage, and more children. Some Spring Festival couplets are pasted or pinned in kitchen or on doors, while others can be placed anywhere. Although they are usually taken down after the New Year celebrations, some remain all year in the hope of attracting ongoing good fortune. paper-cuts 剪纸 putting the “Fu” character up side down 倒贴“福”字 The traditional Chinese paper-cuts with intricate patterns are a traditional item for decoration. There are single and compound versions. Compound paper-cuts depict series of folk