高考英语作文话题中国传统节日介绍.ppt 文档全文预览

* 高考英语作文话题三：中国传统节日介绍 Chinese traditional festival New Year s Day The Spring Festival First Day of the First Month of the year The Lantern Festival Yuanxiao Jie 元宵节 15 th Day of the First Month of the year 3.Qingming 寒食、清明 4.Dragon Boat Festival Duanwu Jie 端午节 5th Day of the 5th Month of the year 5.Festival of Qi Xi Jie 乞巧节 the Chinese Valentine s Day 7th Day of the 7th Month of the year 6.Moon Festival, Mid Autumn Festival 15th Day of the 8th Month of the year 7.Double Nineth Elder Day 重阳节 9th Day of the 9th Month of the year 中国传统节日 元宵节素材展示 The Lantern Festival falls/occurs/takes place/ falls/is celebrated on the 15th day of the 1st lunar month, usually in February or March in the Lunar calendar. As early as the Western Han Dynasty 206 BC AD 25, it had become a festival with great significance. This day s important activity is watching lanterns. Lanterns of various shapes and sizes are hung in the streets, attracting countless visitors. Children will hold self made or bought lanterns to stroll with on the streets, extremely excited. Guessing lantern riddles is an essential part of the Festival. Lantern owners write riddles on a piece of paper and post them on the lanterns. If visitors have solutions to the riddles, they can pull the paper out and go to the lantern owners to check their answer. If they are right, they will get a little gift. As riddle guessing is interesting and full of wisdom, it has become popular. People will eat yuanxiao, or rice dumplings, on this day, so it is also called the Yuanxiao Festival. Yuanxiao also has another name, tangyuan. It is small dumpling balls made of sticky rice flour with different filling. Tangyuan can be boiled, fried or steamed. It tastes sweet and delicious. What s more, tangyuan in Chinese has a similar pronunciation with tuanyuan”, meaning reunion. So people eat them to represent union, harmony and happiness for the family. *