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Comparisons Between Chinese and Western Festivals
Chinese tranditional festivals
Spring Festival 春节
Lantern Festival 元宵节 Tomb-sweeping Festival 清明节 Double-ninth Day 重阳节
Different Consuetude Between Spring Festival and Christmas
• Spring Festival
• A huge clean-up gets underway days before the New Year, when Chinese houses are cleaned from top to bottom, to sweep away any traces of bad luck, and doors and windowpanes are given a new coat of paint, usually red. The doors and windows are then decorated with paper cuts and couplets（对联） with themes such as happiness, wealth on them. The eve of the New Year is perhaps the most exciting part of the event, as anticipation creeps in. Here, traditions and rituals are very carefully observed in everything from food to clothing. Dinner is usually a feast of dumplings（饺子）, signifying different good wishes.
• Chinese kids can get “lucky money” in red envelopes from their parents and relatives. • Then the family begins to say greetings from door to door, first to their neighbors and then their relatives, saying some congratulations to each other.
Spring Festival
Spring Festival: source
• The most important feast in China. • The origin of the Chinese New Year is too old to actually be traced. It is popularly recognized as the Spring Festival and celebrations last 15 days. Preparations tend to begin a month from the date of the Chinese New Year (similar to Christmas), when people start buying presents, decorative materials, food and clothing.
Summary
• Although people with different culture celebrate their festivals in different ways, the same goal is sharing happiness with their families and friends, and hoping for a better life.
Double Seventh Festival
Dragon Boat Festival 端午节 Mid-Autumn Day 中秋节
Contents
• 1.Origin of festivals;
• 2 . The contrastive analysis of three groups of famous festivals;
• For example, • May you be happy and prosperous.------恭 喜发财。 • May all your wishes come true.-------心想 事成。 • Good luck and happiness to you.-----吉祥 如意。 • Safe trip wherever you go. ----出入平安。
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• Spring Festival
Christmas
Christmas: source
• To memorise the birth of Jesus. • The history of Christmas dates back over 4000 years. Many of our Christmas traditions were celebrated centuries before the Christ child was born. The 12 days of Christmas, the bright fires, the Yule log(圣诞柴), the giving of gifts, carnivals (parades) with floats（游行）, carolers who sing while going from house to house（唱圣歌）, the holiday feasts, and the church processions can all be traced back to the early Mesopotamians.
Halloween Day
• On this day, people can disguise themselves freely and make trouble to their heart’s content. On many public occasions and home compound, people lay out different kinds of decorations in the windows and doors, such as pumpkin lights, a scarecrow and even the skeleton. Every family will hold a dressing ball, and put on fruit and other crops on the table.
• Water-Sprinkling Festival 泼水节
Double Ninth Festival 重阳节
To memorise the heroes（纪念英雄人 物）
Dragon Boat Festival 端午节 日
Good Friday 耶稣受难
Now, let’s see some specific examples
Halloween Day
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ZhongYuan festival
ZhongYuan festival（鬼节）
• On Lunar Jul.15th is the ZhongYuan festival, in that day every family will prepare many offerings and sacrifice these good to their relatives or friends who come from the nether world.
• The end of the New Year is marked by the Festival of Lanterns, which is a celebration with singing, dancing and lantern shows. At that day, people in China usually eat a kind of food which is called “Yuan Xiao”.
Santa Claus
• The concept of the American Santa Claus （圣 诞老人）originated with St. Nicholas, who was born in Asia Minor in 280 A.D. He was known as a kind, benevolent man; indeed made a saint because of his generosity. • Dutch immigrants to the United States brought with them their version of the gift-giving St. Nicholas, known as Sinter Klass. Americans, unaccustomed to the Dutch pronunciation, turned this into Santa Claus, who is beloved as a symbol of Christmas by children of all ages.
• Double Seventh Festival •
• • Western
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Valentine’s
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Double Seventh Festival
• Double Seventh festival becomes the Chinese Valentine’s Day, which originated in the legend of the Niulang meeting Zhinv on the magpie bridge.
