Unit 14 Festivals

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Unit 14 Festivals
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• Do you know any festivals?
• Discuss with your partners and write down the
  names as many as possible on the exercise
  books.(including foreign ones and Chinese ones)
• Competition(groups)

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The Chinese Festivals

• New Years Eve the Spring Festival
  the Lantern Festival
• Tomb Sweeping Day
• the Dragon Boat Festival
• Mid-Autumn Day
• May 1st National Day New Years Day

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• Foreign Festivals
• Christmas Day (Dec.25)
• April Fools Day (April.1)
• Valentines Day (Feb.14)
• Halloween (Nov.31)
• Thanksgiving Day (Last Tuesday in
  November),
• Mothers Day (the Second Sunday in May)

Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday), Ramadan, Easter
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Halloween

• Behind the name... Halloween, in Ireland ,
  means All Hallows Eve, or the night before the
  'All Hallowmas', or 'All Saints', or 'All Souls'
  Day.

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Origin 1

• the American version of Halloween Day celebration
  owes its origin to the ancient (pre-Christian)
  Druidic fire festival called "Samhain",
  celebrated with fires by the Celts in Scotland,
  Wales and Ireland.

Celts
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Origin 2

• The Romans observed the holiday of Feralia,
  intended to give rest and peace to the departed.
  Participants made sacrifices in honor of the
  dead. Roman Catholics used to observe All Hallows
  Day to honor all Saints in heaven, known or
  unknown.

Roman Catholics
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Obon

• Obon is a Buddhist festival during which memorial
  services are held for the deceased ancestors. It
  is said that on Obon, the ancestors' spirits
  return to this world and visit their relatives.
  People traditionally hang lanterns in front of
  their houses in order to guide their ancestors'
  spirits.

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Obon

• Food offers are made at house altars and at
  temple, and special dances (bon-odori) are
  performed. At the end of the festival, floating
  lanterns are put into rivers and seas to guide
  the spirits back into their world.

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Obon

• Obon takes place in the middle of August (or July
  according to the lunar calendar). The Obon week
  is one of the few occasions of the year when a
  large number of Japanese can take holidays.

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Day of the Dead

• More than 500 years ago, when the Spanish
  Conquistadors landed in what is now Mexico, they
  encountered natives practicing a ritual that
  seemed to mock death.

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• The ritual is celebrated in Mexico and certain
  parts of the United States. Today, people wear
  wooden skull masks and dance in honor of their
  deceased relatives.

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• Sugar skulls, made with the names of the dead
  person on the forehead, are eaten by a relative
  or friend. The skulls were used to symbolize
  death and rebirth to honor the dead.

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• They decorate gravesites with marigold flowers
  and candles. They bring toys for dead children
  and bottles of wines to adults. They sit on
  picnic blankets next to gravesites and eat the
  favorite food of their loved ones.

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Compare a Chinese festival with a foreign
festival
Tomb Sweeping Day
Visit the family graves, pulling weed, sweeping
away dirty, offerings of food and spirit money
To honor past ancestors to celebrate the rebirth
of nature to mark the beginning of the planting
season and other outdoor activities.
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Halloween

• Hold fancy balls dress up in the ghost costumes
  noisy parade open-air performance ghost story
  tricks of children

To keep the living body away from being possessed
by spirits of all those died/ drive away the
spirits