Transcript Festivals/Food/Celebrations

The Adventures of Chinese
Foods and Celebrations
By: Ines Daguillard & Madison Murphy
Introduction
Are you ready to read about festivals and foods?
Chinese foods and festivals all are very important, all
have a reason to be celebrated, and special foods honor
ancestors. Chinese New Year is the most important
festival in China. Sit back and please enjoy this power
point with all very interesting information. 
Chinese New Year
 Chinese New Year is the
most important festival in
China. It is the most
exciting and most colorful
time of the year. Inside of
a house on Chinese New
Year you will see apples
and oranges for good
luck, blossoming and
blooming flowers for
beauty. They give out
envelopes with coins in
them, to make the bad
spirits be afraid of them.
People clean their houses
also to remove the evil
spirits in their house.
Special Food for Chinese New Year
 Displaying and eating
oranges and apples is said to
bring wealth and luck.
According to the Chinese
culture and traditions, the
word orange and gold
sound alike in Chinese
language, but do NOT put
them in groups of 4. If you
put them in groups of 4, you
are associated with death!!!!
Special Foods for Chinese New Year
continued
Long noodles stand for a long
life. Jiaoz is similar to sticky
rice. They also eat dumplings
and rice. Last but not least,
SWEETS! Serving deserts bring
a very sweet life in the Chinese
New Year. Gong (a famous
writer) writes that that his
childhood favorite was “flaky
cookie pocket.” The cookies
are filled with peanuts
coconuts and sesame seeds.
Dragon Boat Festival
 The Dragon Boat Festival is
celebrated in southern
China. They held the Dragon
boat festival to remember
Qu Yuan. Qu Yuan threw
himself into a 98 ft deep
river. The people threw rice
cakes into the river so the
fish won’t eat Qu Yuan’s
body.
Dragon Boat Festival continued
 For the Dragon Boat
Race, in the finish line
they have someone
pretending to be Qu
Yuan. He is pretending to
be drowning there, and
the first boat who passes
the fish line gets to save
Qu Yuan’s life.
Special Food In China
 People that are poor eat
grains, beans, and other
vegetables. Rich people
eat meat, deer, pork,
duck, snake but that is
not all! They also eat dog
and bear paws. Dumpling,
shrimp, and sushi are the
most popular.
Special Foods In China continued
 Lots of people put flavor
in there foods such as,
honey, cinnamon,
peanuts, ginger and salt
added too. Each culture
has its own favorite food
and own preparation of
dishes. Thousand year
eggs or century eggs are
popular foods.
Special Foods In China 3
 One of the ingredients in
thousand year old eggs is
clay (yucky) Sounds
yummy right? These are
especially popular foods
in China.
 *The End* 