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3.The Dragon Boat Festival
TheDragon Boat Festival is in May 5thon the lunar calendar. The beginning of this festival is in memory of Qu Yuan, a wise minister and poet in Chu dynasty, who jumped into Mi Luo River in lunar May5thfor despair of country, unfair treat anddefamation. People threwrice dumplingsto River to protect his body from eating by fish and showed their respect for Qu Yuan’s noble spirit.
There are a lot of stories about the moon since ancient China.
One most 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 tolive. Ayoung man called Yi was brave enough and shot 8 suns to the ground and saved people. One day Yi got a potion ofelixirfrom Queen Mother and gave his wife Chang’e to keep. A man named Peng Meng knew about theelixirand wanted to get it from Chang’e. One day when Yi was out for hunting, Peng Meng went to rob theelixir. In order to protect theelixir, Chang’e swallowed all of theelixirthen flied to the moon.
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 fillingand jamfilling…,the rice glue ball’s shape is just like the full moon appears in the sky. This kind of dessert isespeciallywelcomed by children.
People usemoxatoclean themselves and use five-color thread crossing small children’s arms and fingers to keep illness faraway.
5.Mid-Autumn Day
Mid-autumn Day is August 15thon lunar calendar. According to history records, Chinese emperor has tradition that worship the Sun inspringand worship the Moon in autumn. As august 15this exactly the middle ofautumn, so it is called Mid-Autumn Day
Spring Festival is also the happiest time for children, because they can get red envelope containing money as a gift fromtheelder. During the Spring Festival, any unfortunate word cannot be heardbecauseit 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.TheLantern Festival
TheLantern Festival isJanuary 15 on the lunar calendar. Thelunar Januaryis the first month of a year and 15this 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 watchlanternsandchildrenlight their own small lanterns for some fun. The biggest and most beautiful lantern is the dragon lantern, which looks like a flyingdragon,held byseveralyoung guys. One with a ball in hand leads the dragon to move.
In recent China, people also eat rice dumplings in Dragon Boat Festival. From the name, we can directly know the campaign of this festival is Dragon Boating. A team of strong men on the Dragon Boat will try their best to win 1stand show Chinese strongest spirits.
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.
Passengers on the way are full ofsoreness
I ask a Buffalo boy fortaverntoreleasemysadness
He points to thevillagecovered by apricot blossoms
This poem“The Day of QingMing”is written by a poet called Du Mu in Tang Dynasty. Qing Ming Festival is the day to worship his mother with family, but the writer goes alone in therainydays as a passenger far from his hometown, he felt deeply upset andsorrowed.He has to find a tavern to have a drink, perhaps in this way he will release himself from sadness.
SpringFestival
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 happyfamily unionin 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 meatmixedin 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 familybeginseating 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 came 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 setfirecracker everywhere. After that, “NIAN” disappeared from that village. Now putting up red paper on the door and setting firecracker becomes Spring Festival customsand people believe doing these will bring their family safety.