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Festivals. and Celebrations. Brainstorming. What kinds of traditional Chinese festivals do you know?. Spring Festival. Lantern Festival. Mid-Autumn Festival. National Day. Women’s Day. Double-Ninth Festival. Tree-planting Day. CHINESE FESTIVAL. Teachers’ Day. Tomb-sweeping Day.
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Festivals and Celebrations
Brainstorming What kinds of traditional Chinese festivals do you know?
Spring Festival Lantern Festival Mid-Autumn Festival National Day Women’s Day Double-Ninth Festival Tree-planting Day CHINESE FESTIVAL Teachers’ Day Tomb-sweeping Day Party Day Army Day Children’s Day May Day Dragon Boat Festival Double-Seventh Festival
What festivals of foreign countries do you know? Valentine’s Day Carnival Christmas festivals Thanksgiving Day Easter Fool’s Day Father’s Day Halloween Mother’s Day
Spring Festival lucky money fireworks
the end of winter,arrival of spring, Lunar New Year,reunion with family and relatives give money in red envelopes to children; see dragon dances; eat fish,prawns and dumplings; visit family members Spring Festival January/ February
Tomb Sweeping Day sweep the tombs; give flowers honour the dead and satisfy the ancestors 5th April
in memory of the beloved poet Qu Yuanwho died in 278 BC the fifth day of the fifth month in lunar calendar eatzongzi;watch dragon-boat races;throw rice wrapped in reed leaves into water in memory ofQu Yuan; put herbs on doorways for good health Dragon Boat Festival/Duanwu Festival
(in China and Japan ) Mid-Autumn Festival celebrate the harvest; ◆ admire the moon and enjoy mooncakes ◆
Fill in the following form. give and eat mooncakes; watch the full moon with family and friends the beauty of the full moon, harvest, time with family and friends Mid-Autumn Festival autumn/fall