口语-spring-festival.pptVIP

more time for rest Welcome to My Class Spring Festival Lantern Festival Qingming Festival/Tomb-sweeping day Dragon Boat Festival Mid-Autumn Festival Western festivals Christmas Easter (耶稣)复活节 Halloween万圣节前夕 Valentine’s Day情人节 Thanksgiving Day感恩节 …… Spring Festival The Origin of Chinese New Year Nian, a monster beast  people put up red paper decorations on their windows and doors at each years end to scare away Nian because red is the color the beast feared the most . the tradition of observing the conquest of Nian is carried on from generation to generation. Before New Year Eve Before Chinese New Year - every family is busy giving its house a thorough cleaning, hoping to sweep away all the ill-fortune and make way for the wishful in-coming good luck. Decorate the doors and windows with “Spring couplets Celebration Speak complimentary and fortune words Display the Tzun-Lien (Spring Couplets) Firecrackers Red packets Dine together January 1st It is also called “Four Starts” - start of Year, Month, Day and Hour. Worship your ancestors/gods (sky and earth) Set off the firecrackers to welcome the spring Greeting/visiting to receive red bags (Walking in the Spring, Bai-Nien) January 2nd/3rd Daughter-Coming-Home-Day Dog day - dogs get best treatment from human-beings. It is believed that the second day is the birthday of all dogs Mice-wedding-day: the entire family go to bed earlier, not to disturb the wedding and have salt, rice and cake to show the harvest and shared with mice January 4th/5th/6th 4th: Greeting gods - this is the day all the gods back to work, since they go back to heaven and report to the ‘Jade Emperor” 5th: people stay home to welcome the “God of Wealth”, shops are open on this day 6th : now you can broom and clean your house. January 7th/8th 7th - “Human Day” - according to old Chinese sayings, the human being was born after Heaven, Earth, chicken, dog, hog, goat, cow and horse. You should eat a soup with seven vegetables to keep all the il