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1、Cultural notesCultural notesTemple fair(庙会):The temple fair began as groups of vendors（小贩）who did business near temples when many pilgrims（朝圣者）came to pay tribute to the gods during traditional festivals.The practice grew,gradually turning into a regular event.The fairs have lots of games to play,fo
2、od to eat,performances and lots of people.You can taste numerous kinds of snacks,court food and other dishes.第1页/共21页Cultural notesCultural notes Zodiac animals(十二生肖):12 animals represent the rotating（循环）12-year cycle.第2页/共21页Oral practicePicture DescriptionPicture Description Describe the following
3、 pictures according to the sample given below.Some useful words and phrases are given to you in the Information Box for reference.第3页/共21页Information BoxSpring Festival 春节 lunar new year农历新年paper-cuts 剪纸 feast 盛宴spring couplets春联 set off firecrackers放鞭炮Spring Festival Gala 春晚 make jiaozi 包饺子第4页/共21页
4、Spring Festival,the traditional Chinese New Years Day,is Chinas most important national holiday.The date is the first day of the lunar new year.Before Spring Festival,people will clean their houses,decorate them with paper-cuts,shop for special Spring Festival foods and gifts,and begin preparing the
5、 New Years feast.On the day before New Years Day,many families decorate their front doors with red couplets to give a happy and prosperous atmosphere.Children set off firecrackers while their parents keep busy preparing the New Years Eve dinner and making jiaozi.第5页/共21页On the New Years Eve,most fam
6、ilies watch Spring Festival Gala on television,people work far away from home will manage to come back,regardless of long-distance travel,so the Grand Dinner on New Years Eve is also called Family Reunion Dinner.Whatever the financial condition is,every family will make the dinner the most sumptuous
7、（豪华的）and ceremonious（隆重的）one in the year.At twelve oclock,when a new year drives off the old,every family will shoot off firecrackers to greet new days and send off old ones.According to history records,the Spring Festival derives from god and ancestor worships in the Shang dynasty.Nowadays,this sup
8、erstitious meaning has faded away and is replaced with a symbol of unification（统一）,happiness and hope.第6页/共21页Dragon Boat Festival 端午节The fifth day of the fifth lunar month 农历五月初五patriotic poet Qu Yuan 爱国诗人屈原dragon-boat races 龙舟赛Zongzi 粽子glutinous rice 黏米wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves 用竹叶或芦苇叶包裹foo
9、d for fish and shrimp to keep them from eating Qu Yuans body Information Box第7页/共21页 The Dragon Boat Festival,also called the Duanwu Festival or Double Fifth Festivel,is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese calendar.This festival is to commemorate the death of QU Y
10、uan,an upright and honest poet and statesman who is said to have committed suicide by drowning himself into a river.The most important activity of this festival is the Dragon Boat races.It symbolizes peoples attempts to rescue Qu Yuan.In the current period,these races also demonstrate the virtues of
11、 cooperation and teamwork.第8页/共21页 Besides,the festival has also been marked by eating zong zi(glutinous rice).Zong zi is made of glutinous rice stuffed with different fillings and wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves.People who mourned the death of Qu threw Zong zi into the river to feed his ghost ever
12、y year.With the changes of the times,the memorial turns to be a time for protection from evil and disease for the rest of year.People will hang healthy herbs on the front door to clear the bad luck of the house.Although the significance of the festival might be different with the past,it still gives
13、 the observer an opportunity to glimpse a part of the rich Chinese cultural heritage.第9页/共21页Tomb Sweeping Day 清明节between April 4-6ancestral graves 祖坟fly kites 放风筝 a memorial day 纪念日martyr 烈士 public cemetery 公墓a bouquet of flowers 花束willow branches 柳枝express ones esteem 表达尊敬Information Box第10页/共21页T
14、omb Sweeping Day,also called Cold Food Day,is the most important day for people to offer sacrifice to ancestors.It started from the Zhou Dynasty,with a history of over 2500 years.Qingming is one of the 24 solar terms in China,indicating the coming of late spring,thus the best plowing and growing tim
15、e,while Cold Food Day is a day when folks sweep the ancestors tombs and eat cold food.Qingming was adjacent（临 近）to Cold Food Day,so later on they gradually became one festival,and thus Cold Food became another name for Qingming,and dusting the tomb and eating cold food turned into the customs of Qin
16、g Ming.Qing Ming has evolved into a culture-rich and meaning-deep remembrance day.第11页/共21页Since people with weak constitutions（体质）might get hurt by eating cold raw food on Qingming,when the weather is still cold,various activities were invented for body-building,like stepping-the-green outgoing,swi
17、ng,Chinese football,polo（水或马球）,willow-planting,tug-of-war（拔河）,and rooster-fighting（斗鸡）,etc.Since the ancient times,there have been a lot of works of art and poems about Qingming,manifesting the emphasis and passing-on of the Chinese people on Qingming.Of these,Tomb Sweeping Day by Du Mu in the Tang
18、Dynasty is a poem of household fame.第12页/共21页Double Ninth 重阳节The ninth day of the ninth lunar month 农历九月九Climb mountains 爬山 breathe fresh air 呼吸新鲜空气 warm sunshine in full bloom 开花 keep fit 保持健康chrysanthemum 菊花respect of the aged 敬老Information Box第13页/共21页Each ninth day of September in Chinese lunar
19、calendar is the Double-Ninth Day,a traditional festival of China.Having undergone a history of more than 2,000 years,the Double-Ninth Day was formally set down as a folk festival in the Tang Dynasty and both Emperors and civilians alike should celebrate the festival following the etiquette and custo
20、m.As time goes by,the Double-Ninth Day has gradually formed the celebrating conventions of going on a journey,ascending height,inserting cornel,appreciating chrysanthemum,eating Double-Nine cake,and drinking chrysanthemum wine.On that day,people always gather the whole family to spend the festival t
21、ogether,while those far from their homes will generally become more homesick on that day.As the figure 9 also stands for longevity and health in the traditional concept of Han people,the Chinese government set September 9 in the lunar calendar as the Elders Festival in 1989.Now,the Double-Ninth Day
22、has been enlisted as Intangible Cultural Heritage of China第14页/共21页第15页/共21页Information BoxDouble Seventh Festival七夕节July 7th on the lunar 农历七月初七Niulang(cowherd)牛郎Zhinv(weavingmaid）织女grape trellis or melon trellis葡萄架或瓜架magpie喜鹊needlework缝纫sewing kits裁缝装备第16页/共21页Qiqiao Festival(Chinese:乞 巧 节),or Dou
23、ble Seventh Festival(Chinese:七夕节),is known as Chinese Valentines Day nowadays,which is a most romantic festival in China particularly popular among young girls.Qiqiao Festival is related to a beautiful love story between Niulang(cowherd)and Zhinv(weaving maid)handed down for thousand of years.Accord
24、ing to the legend,a cowherd in the earth and a fairy from the heaven fall in love with each other.After their marriage,the cowherd cultivates and the weaving maid weaves and they live happy with a son and a daughter.However,they are forbidden to marry according to the law of heaven.And their marriag
25、e is found finally and they are separated by a river on the heaven by the queen of the heaven第17页/共21页Moved by their love,they are allowed eventually to meet each other once each year at the night of July 7th on the lunar calendar.It is said that at that night,all the magpies in the earth will fly u
26、p to the heaven to build a bridge over the river for the cowherd and weaving maid;and people can hear their whispers under the grape trellis or melon trellis.According to customs,Qiqiao festival celebrated at the night,girls offer their sewing kits as well as fruit and flowers to the Altair and Vega
27、 stars,known as Cowherd Star and Weaving Maid Star in China,to pray for intelligence and smart skill in needlework as well as a marital happiness.Today,Qiqiao Festival is celebrated as a romantic valentines day in China particularly among young people,that many people express their love to their sweetheart with gifts,chocolates,flowers and romantic dinners.第18页/共21页Saint Valentines Day 情人节 February 14th 2月14日Send greeting cards,roses,chocolate or other gifts 送贺卡、玫瑰花、巧克力等Information Box第19页/共21页第20页/共21页感谢您的观看！第21页/共21页