春节习俗英文版.ppt

Content Origin of the Spring Festival (legend) Custom of the Spring Festival 1.The Laba rice porridge Festival 2. Preliminary Eve 3. Prepare for the Spring Festival 4. The Spring Festival Eve 5. New Year Day Origin of the Spring Festival  The Chinese New Year is now popularly known as the Spring Festival because it starts from the Begining of Spring （the first of the twenty-four terms in coodination with the changes of Nature）。 Its origin is too old to be traced. Several explanations are hanging around. All agree that the word Nian， which in modern Chinese solely means year， was originally the name of a monster beast that started to prey on people the night before the beginning of a new year. Origin of the Spring Festival  Too the ancient times period, there is a kind of fierce monster, reside in deep mountain woods, the people call them year. Its look is ferocious, the natural disposition is bloodthirsty, it is designed to eat anything alive, one day a change of pace , let the person talk about year color changing. It preyed on people every 365 days. Once, year broke into a village,met a man in red by chance who was burning bamboo heating and made the noise of explosin and glowing, year was scared and ran away. The Spring Festival falls on the 1st day of the 1st lunar month, often one month later than the Gregorian calendar. It originated in the Shang Dynasty (1600 BC-1100 BC) from the peoples sacrifice to gods and ancestors at the end of an old year and the beginning of a new one. Strictly speaking, the Spring Festival starts every year in the early days of the 12th lunar month and will last till the mid 1st lunar month of the next year. Of them, the most important days are Spring Festival Eve and the first three days. The Laba Rice Porridge Festival On the 8th day of the 12th lunar month, many families make laba porridge, a delicious kind of porridge made with glutinous rice, millet, seeds of Jobs tears, jujube b