春节英文详细介绍ppt课件.ppt
Our teams subject is,the Spring Festival,Team Division,summarization,North-South differences,Chinese & Western,summarization,legend of “yeah”,In ancient times there was a monster called “yeah” which was very fierce .古时候有一种叫“年”的怪兽，凶猛异常。Year living in the sea and climbed the bank until end of year, devoured the animals and harmed human life. “年”居于海底，每年年底才爬上岸，吞噬牲畜伤害人命。It is said that year fear red, flames, and fried in particular. 据说，年最怕红色、火光和炸响。,Therefore on New Years eve,people put red couplets , setting off firecrackers in every home .从此每年除夕家家贴红对联，放鞭炮。To be exact , chinese New Year Fireworks custom dates from the Han dynasty . 确切的说，春节燃放鞭炮的风俗始于汉代。People in this way to ward off evil ghost, hoping that auspicious happiness in the coming year .以此辟邪驱鬼，期盼来年吉祥幸福。,legend of “yeah”,Custom,Offer Sacrifices to the Kitchen God（祭灶）Preliminary Eve &Spring Cleaning（小年和扫尘）Spring Festival Couplets （春联）Pasting Paper-cuts and “Up-sided Fu”（贴窗花和“福”字 ）Give New Years Greetings（拜年）Red Pocket （红包）Food（食物）,Offer Sacrifices to the Kitchen God （祭灶）,Spring Festival in China is generally from December 23 or 24 of each year. 中国的春节一般从每年的腊月23或者24开始。,There is a so-called “官三民四船家五”.which said is that The Government Offer Sacrifices to the Kitchen God in December 23 , the common people Offer Sacrifices to the Kitchen God in December 24, the boatman Offer Sacrifices to the Kitchen God in December 25”. After “Offer Sacrifices to the Kitchen God”, Every household would do the preparations to the new year Officially.有一种说法叫“官三民四船家五。就是说官府祭灶在腊月23，老百姓家在腊月24，渔家在腊月25.,People would be burning a paper effigy of Zao Jun（ the Kitchen God ) to send him to the heaven . so that the Kitchen God can report to the Jade Emperor(玉帝) of the family households transgressions and good deeds. 人们会燃烧“灶君”的纸像，把她送到天堂。因此，“灶君”会向玉帝汇报这家的不良行为和良好行为。Families often offer sweet foods (such as candy) in order to “bribe” him to reporting good things about the family. 家庭往往提供甜的食品 （如糖果) 以贿赂他要报告有关家庭的好事。,Preliminary Eve &Spring Cleaning（小年和扫尘）,“Dust” is homophonic with “chen” in Chinese, which means old and past.在中国，“灰尘”的“尘”和“陈”是同音，意味着过去。,In this way, “sweeping the dust” before the Spring Festival means a thorough cleaning of houses to sweep away bad luck in the past year. This custom shows a good wish of putting away old things to welcome a new life.按这种方式理解，春节前的“扫尘”意味着对房子的彻底清扫以清除过去一年的坏运气。这种风俗展现了除旧迎新的美好向往。,Spring Festival Couplets （春联）,The spring festival couplets are from the “peach tree branches”(桃梗） more than 2000 years ago.春联是从2000多年前的“桃梗“演变而来的。The first spring festival couplet from one emperor of five dynasties whose name is Meng Xu . 最早的春联出自五代时期一个叫孟旭的皇帝之手。,As regards the name of spring festival couplets was born in Ming dynasty Officially. 至于春联的这一名称的正式诞生则在明朝。The founding emperor of the Ming dynasty Zhu Yuanzhang Once Order “公卿士庶之家，须写春联一副，以缀新。” After established his dynasty in jinling. Since then , spring festival couplets got promotion ,even now, Households should be posted Spring Festival couplets .明朝开国之君朱元璋定都金陵之后下旨说：“公卿士庶之家，须写春联一副，以缀新。”从此，春联得以推广，沿袭至今，家家户户都贴春联。,Pasting Paper-cuts & “Up-sided Fu”（贴窗花和“福”字 ）,Paper-cuts, usually with lucky patterns, give a happy and prosperous atmosphere of the Festival and express the good wishes of Chinese people looking forward to a good life. 剪纸通常带有吉祥的图案，传递快乐和祥和的春节气氛，并且传达中国人对美好生活的向往。,In addition to pasting paper-cuts on windows, it is common for Chinese people to paste the character “fu（福）”, big or small, on walls or doors.除了在窗户上贴剪纸外，在墙上或者门上黏贴或大或小的“福”字，在中国也是很常见。,“Fu” shows peoples yearning toward a good life. Some people even invert the character “fu” to mean that blessing has arrived because “inverted” is a homonym for “arrive” in China. “福”字显示了人们对美好生活的向往。很多人甚至倒置“福”字，以此暗含福已经到了，因为倒转的“福”在中国和“福到了”是同音的。,Give New Years Greetings（拜年）,According to the records of The beans of Miscellanies ,the custom of give new years greetings first appeared in the Ming dynasty .根据菽园杂记的记载，拜年的风俗最早出现在明朝。,Now, no matter in the city or in the countryside,all the people will do one thing that is to extend Spring Festival greetings. This activity beginsat first between family members. 不管是城里人，还是在农村，人们都要做的一件事就是拜年。民间流行的拜年活动先是从家里开始的。,Normally we will extend our Spring Festival greetings to our elders, such as our parents, uncles and aunts. Relatives will drop each othera visit during the Spring Festival to give their best wishes. 一般是我们晚辈要给长辈拜年，比如给父母和父母的兄弟姐妹，大爷、大妈等拜年。,Red Pocket （红包）Babies love,Actually, sui has a homonym which means evil spirit which means to get rid of this evil spirit and bad luck. So people give some money to bring good luck.实际上，“岁”就是鬼鬼祟祟的“祟”，意思就是祛除“鬼祟之气”和“霉气”，于是就给些钱带来好运。,In fact, at first people did not give money but other symbolic gifts. Then, they give money. No matter how big or small the amount is, it has a symbolic meaning.实际上最早不是钱，它是一些象征性的物，后来，就给点钱，不管多少，有象征意味。,Food,What do we usually eat during the Spring Festival ?春节期间我们经常吃什么?Various dishes: chicken ; fish; pork各种大餐：鸡、鱼、肉Dumplings水饺Steamed bread花馒头Niangao年糕,dumplings,The tradition of having dumplings is very important during the Spring Festival. You cannot have a complete Spring Festival without having dumplings.,steamed bread,“nian gao”,Thank you!,
