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2021年1月25日发(作者：电影英语)
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 distance 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’s the 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 dumpling, which looks like the moon with vegetables and
meat mixed in it.
The Chinese name of dumpling is “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 begins eating dumplings.
Firecracker is also necessary for Spring Festival, the story of
Firecracker is: Long ago, in a small village, there appeared a
savage animal called “NIAN”, this animal always c
ame out to
eat people in the Eve. One day, villagers found three things can
make “NIAN” scared: Red color, Fire and noise. So when “NIAN”
came again, villagers put up red paper on the door and set
firecra
cker everywhere. After that, “NIAN” disappeared from
that village. Now putting up red paper on the door and setting
firecracker becomes Spring Festival customs and people
believe doing these will bring their family safety.

Spring Festival is also the happiest time for children,
because they can get red envelope 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 unhappy.
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 calendar.
The lunar January is the first month of a year and 15
th
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 some fun.
The biggest and most beautiful lantern is the dragon lantern,
which looks like a flying dragon, held by several young guys.
One with a ball in hand leads the dragon to move.
Some lanterns have puzzles on them, called lantern puzzle,
the one who gets the answer could receive small presents and
be happy for his intelligence.
The traditional food for Lantern Festival is rice glue ball.
Rice glue ball is a flavor ball with filling in it, for example, peanut
filling, sesame filling 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 children.
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 ancestors with sacrifice and showed their
missing for ancestors.
Tomb-sweeping Day, are always rainy days, just like the sky
crying for dead people. A Chinese poem described as following:

Qing Ming usually comes with rainy days
Passengers on the way are full of soreness
I ask a Buffalo boy for tavern to release my sadness
He points to the village covered by apricot blossoms
This poem
“
The Day of Qing Ming
”
is written by a poet called
Du Mu in Tang Dynasty. Qing Ming Festival is the day to worship