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1、Chinese Traditional Festival,2023/5/12,Qingming Festival,Qingming Festival,also known as Pure Brightness Festival,is a traditional Chinese Festival,and is one of the 24 segments of the Chinese calendar.,Brief instruction,It normally falls in early spring,on the 106th day after the winter solstice.an

2、d is a time to pay respects to ones ancestors and to tidy their gravesite.,5,Origin,Qingming is popularly associated with Jie Zitui,who lived in Shanxi province 600B.C.Legend has it that Jie saved his starving lords life by serving a piece of his own leg.But,finally died in a big fire put by the lor

3、d.,6,To commemorate Jie,the lord ordered that fires could not be lit on the day of Jie Zituis death.From this comes Hanshi Day that occurs on the eve of Qingming and is often considers part of the Qingming festival.,The custom,Tomb Sweeping The major custom in Qingming Festival is tomb sweeping.Peop

4、le will set out offerings of fresh flowers and paper money to their ancestors.,Because Jie Zitui died embracing a willow tree,the willow is believed to have powers against evil.,Planting Willow Trees,Spring OutingDuring March,everything in nature takes on a new look,as trees turn green,flowers bloss

5、om,and the sun shines brightly.,Dragon Boat Festival,Chinese Traditional Festival,The fifth of May,Zhang Zhou,Introduction,The Dragon Boat Festival is also called Double Fifth Festival.It is celebrated on the 5th day of the 5th month in the Chinese lunar calendar.Today,Dragon Boat Festival in the Ch

6、inese people is still a very popular grand festival and has been officially included in the national holidays.,CONTENTS,Origin,Custom,2023/5/12,3,ORIGIN,The origin of Dragon Boat Festival,There are many legends about the evolution of the festival,such as Qu Yuan and WuZixu.Scholars has provided many

7、 explanations about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival.,The story of Qu Yuan,The story of WuZixu,Qu Yuan jumped off river,Qu Yuan,Qu Yuan,an honest,upright,loyal minister of the Kingdom of Chu who is said to have committed suicide by drowning himself in the Miluo river.In order to avoid his body

8、 to be eaten by fish and shrimp,people cast many of bamboo rice into the river,and compete to row(acetate ship)hoping to rescue and recover the body of Qu Yuan.,Starting from that time to this day,people commemorate patriotic poet Qu Yuan through dragon boat races,eating rice dumplings,and several o

9、ther activities on the anniversary of his death.,Wu Zixu,Wu Zixus death anniversary,Its a legend that after He Lu,the king of Wu died,the prince Fuchai ascended the throne,send armed forces to suppress Yue and won.Goujian,the king of Yue please reconciliation,Fuchai didnt listen but agreed treachero

10、us official and judged Wu Zixu commit suicide.And jumped his body into river on May 5,since then people commemorated him on Dragon Boat Festival.,CUSTOM,The custom of Dragon Boat Festival,Eating Rice Dumplings,Dragon Boat Racing,Different kind of rice dumplings,The main ingredient of glutinous rice

11、dumplings are red jujube and bean paste or meat,CUSTOM,dragon boat race,The festival is best known for its dragon boat races which are the most exciting part of the festival,especially in the southern provinces where there are many rivers and lakes.,As the gun is fired,people will see competing team

12、s drive their colorful dragon boats forward to a drumbeat racing to reach the finish end first.,The Mid-Autumn Festival,Hu Tianwei,Introduction,Legends,Custom,Poems,“Zhong Qiu“,which is also known as the Mid-Autumn Festival,is celebrated on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar(日历）.It

13、is a time for family members and loved ones to congregate and enjoy the moon.This night,people look up the bright moon,will naturally look forward to family reunion.People who are far away from home,also take this way to express their thoughts of home and family affection.,Introduction,Beautiful Leg

14、ends,Hou Yi shoots down nine suns.,后羿射日,According to Chinese mythology,the earth once had 10 suns circling over it.One day,all 10 suns appeared together,scorching the earth with their heat.The earth was saved when a strong archer,Hou Yi,succeeded in shooting down 9 of the suns.Yi stole the elixir(长生

15、药）of life to save the people from his tyrannical rule,but his wife,Chang-E drank it.Thus started the legend of the lady in the moon to whom young Chinese girls would pray at the Mid-Autumn Festival.,Change flies to the moon.,嫦娥奔月,Customs,moon walk(走月亮)eat moon-cake(吃月饼)fire the tower light(点塔灯)fire

16、Douxiang(烧斗香)put the sky lights(放天灯)plant the Mid-Autumn(树中秋)enjoy the moon(赏月),eat moon-cakesOn the Mid-Autumn Festival,people have to eat moon cakes to show Reunion.,Assorted Nuts Mooncake五仁月饼 Do you like me？,put the sky lights(放天灯，又称孔明灯),The Poems,但愿人长久，千里共婵娟。May the people live forever,and share

17、 the moon shine across vast distances together.,As the moon rises above the sea,we share the same time though we are far apart.,On festive occasions more than ever one thinks of his dear ones far away.,每逢佳节倍思亲,The Spring Festival,Yin Chaoyi,The origin of Spring Festival,So how did year come from?The

18、re are two kinds of claims:one kind of saying is that in ancient times,there was a fierce monster called year,and every thirty months of the month,the monster went to the village,to find the meat of the food,and to destroy the living spirit.One of the twelfth lunar month thirty in the evening,the ye

19、ar to a village,coincides with the two cowboys in game bull whip.Year smell the air sounded firecrackers scared Wangfengertao biansheng.Then gradually evolved into the custom of the new year.Another argument is that Chinas ancient book of the word“years”on the“He”,in good weather,a bumper grain harv

20、est.As a result,the valley is usually a mature year.The year was extended to a year of age.,The culture of Spring Festival,Bite and SupCustom,Bite and Sup,Rice cake:A kind of cake steamed with sticky glutinous rice or rice flour,in the Spring Festival,many areas in our country are fastidious about e

21、ating New Year cake.,Bite and Sup,Dumpling:Take more years jiaozi,so welcomed by ordinary people.The folk saying tastydumplings is a common saying.Every Spring Festival,dumplings become an essential food.,Bite and Sup,Custom,the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar monththe twenty-fifth day of the

22、 twelfth lunar month,Custom,the twenty-six day of the twelfth lunar monththe twenty-seven day of the twelfth lunar month,Custom,the twenty-eight day of the twelfth lunar monththe twenty-nine day of the twelfth lunar month,Custom,the thirty day of the twelfth lunar monthChinese lunar new year,Thank you！,