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Unit 14
Festivals
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)
The Chinese Festivals:
New Year’s Eve
the Spring Festival
the Lantern Festival
Tomb Sweeping Day
the Dragon Boat Festival
Mid-Autumn Day
May 1st National Day New Year’s Day
 Foreign
Festivals:
Christmas Day (Dec.25)
April Fool’s Day (April.1)
Valentine’s Day (Feb.14)
Halloween
(Nov.31)
Thanksgiving Day (Last Tuesday in
November),
Mother’s Day
(the Second Sunday in
May)
Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday), Ramadan,
Easter
Behind the name...
Halloween, in Ireland ,
means All Hallows Eve, or
the night before the 'All
Hallowmas', or 'All Saints',
or 'All Souls' Day.
 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.
 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.
 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.
 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.
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.
 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.
 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.
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.
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.
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.
Halloween
 Hold
fancy balls; dress up in the
ghost costumes; noisy parade; openair 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