[哲学]中国传统节日_Chinese_traditional_festials.ppt

Traditional Chinese festivals The Spring Festival People in northern China will eat dumplings, for breakfast, people eat it and wish for money and treasure. Southern Chinese eat Lunar new years cake on this occasion, because as a homophone, Lunar new years cake means higher and higher, one year after another. All the door panels will be pasted with Spring Festival couplets, highlighting Chinese calligraphy with black characters on red paper. The content varies from house owners wishes for a bright future to good luck for the New Year. At that time, all family members eat dinner together. The meal is more luxurious than usual. Dishes such as chicken, fish and bean curd cannot be excluded, for in Chinese, The Lantern Festival Tang Yuan in Chinese has a similar pronunciation with tuan yuan”, meaning reunion. So people eat them to denote union, harmony and happiness for the family. Tang Yuan are rice balls made of glutinous rice flour served in soup, they have different stuffing, such as sugar ,sesame or sweetened bean paste. Tomb-sweeping Day On each Qingming Festival, all cemeteries are crowded with people who came to sweep tombs and offer sacrifices. After slightly sweeping the tombs, people offer food, flowers and favorites of the dead, then burn incense and paper money and bow before the memorial tablet. Green cake Green cake is made of glutinous rice flour mixed with juice of a kind of green wild vegetable. People usually eat green cake on that day. There are many legends about the evolution of the festival, the most popular of which is in commemoration of Qu Yuan (340-278 BC). he advocated enriching the country and strengthening its military forces so as to fight against the Qin. Zong Zi is an essential food of the Dragon Boat Festival. it was only glutinous rice dumplings wrapped in reed or other plant leaves and tied with colored thread, but now the fillings are more diversified, including jujube and bean pas