文档介绍：中国传统节日目录
TheSpringFestival (春节)
TheLanternFestival(元宵节)
Mid-autumn(Moon)Festival(中秋节)
The laba Rice Porridge Festival(腊八节)
Double-ninthDay(重阳节)
Double Seventh Day(七夕节)
The Dragon Boat Festival(端午节)
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Tomb-sweepingFestival(清明节)
Winter Solstice Festival(冬至节)
Before the Spring Festival,people clean their houses,put red couplets on their gates,and set off firecrackers,according to fairy tale,for driving a demon ,named Nian ,away.
On the eve of the Spring Festival,a get- together banquet is a must, and the most popular food is Dumpling,which is supposed to bring good fortune.
On the first day of the new year,everybody wears new clothes and greets relatives and friends with bows and congratulations wishing each other the best during the new year
Spring festival
Sping festival
The Lantern Festival
元宵节
Custroms
Yuanxiao/rice dumplings/Tangyuan
Watching lanterns and guessing lantern riddles
Performances in street
Fireworks
Lanterns of various shapes and sizes are hung in the streets, attracting countless visitors
Lantern owners write riddles on a piece of paper and post them on the lanterns. If visitors have solutions to the riddles, they can pull the paper out and go to the lantern owners to check their answer. If they are right, they will get a little gift.
It is small dumpling balls made of glutinous rice flour with rose petals, sesame, bean paste, jujube paste, walnut meat, dried fruit, sugar and edible oil as filling. Tangyuan can be boiled, fried or steamed. It tastes sweet and delicious. What’s more, tangyuan in Chinese has a similar pronunciation with "tuanyuan”, meaning reunion. So people eat them to denote union, harmony and happiness for the family.
People will eat yuanxiao, or rice dumplings, on this day, so it is also called the "
Yuanxiao Festival."Yuanxiao also has another name, tan
gyuan.
The Mid-Autumn Festival
中秋节
花间一壶酒,独酌无相亲
举杯邀明月,对影成三人