Section VI Promote Your Cultural- awareness

1. Section VI Promote Your Cultural- awareness Art Zone 2.Listen for Further Knowledge. Before the Spring Festival On the 8th day of the 12th _____month, many families make laba porridge, a delicious kind of porridge made with glutinous rice, millet, seeds of Job's tears, jujube berries, lotus seeds, beans, longan and gingko. lunar click

2. Section VI Promote Your Cultural- awareness The 23rd day of the 12th lunar month is called Preliminary Eve. At this time, people offer sacrifice to the kitchen god. Now however, most families make delicious food to ________ themselves . After the Preliminary Eve, people begin ___________for the coming New Year. This is called Seeing the New Year in. click enjoy preparing click

3. Section VI Promote Your Cultural- awareness Spring Festival Couplets People ___________ clean their rooms featuring an atmosphere of rejoicing and festivity. All the door panels will be pasted with Spring Festival Couplets, highlighting Chinese calligraphy with black characters on red_______. completely click paper click

4. Section VI Promote Your Cultural- awareness The content varies from house owners' wishes for a bright future to good luck for the New Year. Also, pictures of the god of doors and wealth will be ______ on front doors to ward off evil spirits and welcome peace and abundance. click pusted

5. Section VI Promote Your Cultural- awareness Chinese Character “fu”   The Chinese character “fu”（meaning blessing or happiness）is necessary. The character put on paper can be pasted normally or _________ down, for in Chinese the “reversed fu” is homophonic with “fu comes”, both being ___________ as “fudaole”. upside click pronounced click

6. Section VI Promote Your Cultural- awareness What's more, two big red lanterns can be raised on both sides of the front door. Red paper-cuttings can be seen on window glass and brightly colored New Year paintings with auspicious meanings may be put on the _______ . click wall

7. Section VI Promote Your Cultural- awareness Spring Festival Eve People ____________ great importance to Spring Festival Eve. At that time, all family members eat dinner together. The meal is more __________ than usual. Dishes such as chicken, fish and bean curd cannot be excluded, for in Chinese, their pronunciations, respectively “ji”, “yu” and“doufu”, mean auspiciousness, abundance and richness. imperative click luxurious click

8. Section VI Promote Your Cultural- awareness After the dinner, the whole family will sit together, __________ and watching TV. In recent years, the Spring Festival party broadcast on China Central Television Station（CCTV）is ___________ entertainment for the Chinese both at home and abroad. According to custom, each family will stay up to see the New Year in. chatting click click essential

9. Section VI Promote Your Cultural- awareness 2.Translate the following passage into English and the words may be helpful for your translation.

10. Section VI Promote Your Cultural- awareness On a dark night, there were ghosts who have the green surface and ferocious fang , the red hair and green eyes want to eat peach. Master Chen Tu and Yu Lei used the peach sticks to beat ghosts, and used the straw rope to bound them to feed the tiger.

11. Section VI Promote Your Cultural- awareness Since then, the name of the two brothers make ghosts fear, they died into special gods punishing the evil spirits. Later people used one inch wide, seven or eight inches long peach wood painting Chen Tu and Yu Lei hang on both sides of holding two immortals like, to eliminate pathogenic devils, the peach wood is called “peach wood charms against evil.”

12. Section VI Promote Your Cultural- awareness As the change of the times, the peach wood charms against evil is changing. People wrote two fairy's name on the peach wood charms against evil instead of picture, and then developed to “The topic peach wood charms against evil”, the word is equal, symmetric structure, meaning the corresponding short poems inscribed on the peach wood charms against evil, this is the predecessor of the Spring Festival Couplets.

13. Section VI Promote Your Cultural- awareness 3.Translate the following passage into Chinese. 在中国最重要的节日是春节，也被称为中国的新年。对于中国人来说，春节跟西方人的圣诞节一样重要。这个一年一度的庆典日期是根据农历而不是公历，所以春节假期的时间是在一月底到二月初之间。

14. Section VI Promote Your Cultural- awareness 对于普遍的中国人来说看，节日实际上开始于农历新年前夕和结束于农历第一个月的第五天，是第一个月的15日，通常被称为元宵节，意味着春节在这个国家的许多地区正式结束。春节是中国最重要和最受欢迎的节日。在春节之前，人们通常打扫和装饰他们的房子，他们去花市买一些花。春节期间，大人通常给孩子压岁钱。人们经常聚在一起吃一顿大餐。有些人吃饺子作为晚饭。