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Spring Festival

The Spring Festival is known as the most important Festival in China. During the holiday, people go back to hometown from everywhere no matter how far the distanee is. They prepare various delicious food and presents for the Spring Festival Eve. Chinese will have a happy family union in the Spring Festival Eve, they believe that end day of last year

and they will stay up for good luck until the first day of next year.

In China, the most traditional and popular Spring Festival food is dumpli ng, which

looks like the moon with vegetables and meat mixed in it. The Chinese name of dumpling is

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“JIAO ZI ”，” JIAO”

means” cross ” , ” ZI ” is Chinese traditional time represents “24:00 ” , so the Chinese word “JIAO ZI ” means “cross 24:00 ” , just the dividing point of last year and next year. So when it comes to 24:00, every family beg ins eat ing dumpli ngs. Firecracker is also n ecessary for Spring Festival, the story of Firecracker is: Long ago, in a small village, there appeared a savage ani mal called animal always came out to

eat people in the Eve. One day, villagers found three things can make

“ NIAN' , this

“NIAN' scared: Red color, Fire and noise. So when “NIAN' came again, villagers put up red paper on the door and set firecracker everywhere. After that, “NIAN'

disappeared from that village. Now putting up red paper on the door and setting firecracker

becomesSpring Festival customs

because they

and people believe doing these will bring their family safety.

Spring Festival is also the happiest time for children,

can get red en velope containing money as a gift from the elder. During the Spring Festival, any unfortunate word cannot be heard because it will make people upset and un happy. People also make use of this holiday to visit their relatives and bring them some presents and well-wishing.

1. The Lantern Festival

The Lantern Festival is January 15 on the lunar cale ndar. The lunar January is the first month of a year and 15 is the first day of full moon. Therefore, Lantern Festival is an important Festival right after Spring Festival.

During Lantern Festival, people go along the street to watch lanterns and children light their own small lanterns for somefun. The biggest and most beautiful la ntern is the drag on Ian tern, which looks like a flyi ng drag on, held by several young guys. On ewith a ball in hand leads the drag on to move.

Some lanterns have puzzles on them, called lantern puzzle, the one who gets the an swer could receive small prese nts and be happy for his in tellige nee.

The traditional

food for Lantern Festival is rice glue ball. Rice glue

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ball is a flavor ball with filli ng in it, for example, pea nut filli ng, sesamefilling


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and jam filling

…,the rice glue ball ' s shape is just like

the full moon appears in the sky. This kind of dessert is especially welcomed by childre

2. Tomb- sweeping Day

Tomb- sweep Day is an ancient festival in spring, also called Qing Ming Festival. In ancient China, the emperor worshipped heaven and earth in order to bless for harvest. People worshipped their an cestors with sacrifice and showed their miss ing for an cestors.

Tomb-sweep ing Day, are always rai ny days, just like the sky crying for dead people. A Chin ese poem described as follow ing:

Qing Ming usually comes with rainy days Passe ngers on the way are full of sore ness

I ask a Buffalo boy for taver n to release my sad ness He points to the village covered by apricot blossoms

This poem “ The Day of Qing Mi ng ” is writte n by a poet called Du Mu in Tang Dyn asty. Qi ng Mi ng Festival is the day to worship his mother with family, but the writer goes alone in the rainy days as a passe nger far from his hometown, he felt deeply upset and sorrowed. He has to find a tavern to have a drink, perhaps in this way he will release himself from sad ness.

3. The Dragon Boat Festival

The Drag on Boat Festival is in May 5 on the lunar cale ndar. The beg inning of this festival is in memory of Qu Yua n, a wise mi nister and poet in Chu dyn asty, who jumped in to Mi Luo River in lunar May 5

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despair of coun try, un fair treat and defamatio n. People threw rice dumplings to River to protect his body from eating by fish and showedtheir respect for Qu Yuan ' s noble spirit.

In rece nt China, people also eat rice dumpli ngs in Drag on Boat Festival. From the name, we can directly know the campaign of this festival

is Drag on Boati ng. A team of stro ng menon the Drago n Boat will try their best to win 1 and show Chinese strongest spirits.

People use moxato clean themselves and use five-color thread crossing small childre n ' s arms and fin gers to keep ill ness far away.

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5. Mid-Autu mn Day

Mid-autumn Day is August 15 on lunar calendar. According to history records, Chinese emperor has tradition that worship the Sun in spring and worship the Moonin autumn. As august 15 is exactly the middle of autumn, so it is called Mid-Autumn Day

There are a lot of stories about the moon since ancient China.

Onemost famous story is Chang' e flying to the moon. Thousands of years ago, there were 9 suns in the sky, many people felt too hot to live. A young man called Yi was brave eno ugh and shot 8 suns to the ground and saved people. On eday Yi got a poti on of elixir from Quee nM other and gave his wife Chang ' e to keep. A man named Peng Meng

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knew about the elixir and wan ted to get it from Chang ' e. One day whe n Yi was out for hun ti ng, Peng Mengwent to rob the elixir. In order to protect the elixir, swallowed all of the elixir the n flied to the moon.

In memory of Chang ' e, she is recognized as the goddess of the moon.

The traditional food of Mid-Autumn Day is Moon cake, a round baked cake with filli ngs in it. The round shape of moon cake represe nts family reunion. In the night of Mid-Autumn Day, every family has moon cake and watches the moon.

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6. The Double Ninth Festival

The Double Ninth Festival is an important traditional Chinese festival in September 9 on lunar cale ndar. It is the ninth day of the ninth lunar mon th, ancient Chin ese believes nine represe nts sun, the brightest thing, September 9 has two nine, the sun is doubled, so call it Double Ninth Festival. Nine also means Long in Chinese words, so the Double Ninth Festival is also recognized The Old Festival.

In Double Ni nth Festival, people go to their an cestors worship with coat for winner.

The campaig n for Double Ninth Festival is climb ing mountain and planting a kind of plant called

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' tombs to

“Zhu Yu” . A poemwritten by famous Tang

dyn asty poet Wang Wei is as follow ing:

I stay alone as a visitor in a country foreign The festival makes me feel homesick and miss ing

My brothers must have already climbed to High Mountain Every one can pla nt ZhuYu there except me, a Ion ely pers on This poem ' s name is Day thinking of my

brothers ” . This poem is full of sadness and homesick.

In autumn, chrysanthemum is in blossom. People can look at the beautiful flowers and climb mountains as they like.

“On the Double-ninth

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