【精选】法国礼仪与禁忌.pptVIP

French Cultural Taboos ● Men can’t sent flowers to married women. ●Yellow was regarded as unfaith. ●”13”and “Friday” is unlucky About gifts. ●Cant send knife, swords, or something sharp . ●When giving gift, you had better not take the companys logo, otherwise the French think you not give gifts, but advertise . ●Dont send vinous liquor, vinous liquor in France is goods at low price. ●If you want to give colleagues’children gifts, you had better send a popular toys. But Chinese must be careful, must not give gift before the baby born, because of the French people think that may bring them bad luck. Similarly, you mustn’t give gift before they marriage.  French Traditional Festivals ? New Years Day: January 1st ? Imperial Festival(帝王节): January 6th ? Saints Waxes Festival （圣蜡节）：February 2nd ? Carnival(狂欢节)：March ? Easter （复活节）:Full moon after the vernal equinox that month, every year the first Sunday, between March 22 and April 25 between the Monday holiday the next day. ? April Fool‘s Day：April 1st ? May Day: May 1st ? Ascension Day（耶稣升天节）: between May 1st and June 4th ? National Day: July 14th ? Assomption(圣母升天节)：August 15th ? Toussaint(诸圣节): November 1st ? Christmas : from December 25 a holiday for two days  ? Men can kiss girls on the street arbitrarily on New Years Eve. ? New Years Eve, the French family sit around tables and swig champagne, according to tradition, every family should drink all the possession of alcohol, to avoid the bad luck coming year; all people should drink, so the new one years will have a new beginning. ? Young men and women before marriage to organize their friends were buried bachelor life, and the farewell party, to make a symbolic coffin to hold a funeral, entertained friends and relatives, and then played the funeral music, burning candles, holding safety the soul of prayer, people another coffin to the garden, field buried, or thrown into rivers. ? No matter