大学英语口语教程 Spring Festival 教学课件.ppt

* * Welcome to My Class Lantern Festival Mid-Autumn Festival Qingming Festival Dragon Boat Festival Spring 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  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 bags 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 illness away. 8th - Smooth Stars Day: After the dark, stars coming out in the sky, every family will provide the star-shape cakes with 49 lamps or 108 lantern on the table. Everyone will wish their dream come true from the stars of their own January 9 - 14 9th - Birthday of Jade Empero