The Different Cultures Of Festival Between East And West 。,二（8）班,1,Eastern and western festivals,Spring FestivalThe Lantern FestivalTomb-sweeping dayDragon Boat FestivalThe Mid-Autumn festivalLunar chung yeung festivalChinese torch festival . . ,Christmas Thanksgiving Easter April Fools Day All Saints Day Fathers day mothers day ,The spring festival in Chinaese.The Christmas in west conutrys.,Contents,一. The Spring Festival and Christmas began and background.二. The Spring Festival and Christmas foods.三. The Spring Festival and Christmas customs.四. The Spring Festival and Christmas entertainment,The Spring Festival began and background.,The Chinese New Year is now popularly known as the Spring Festival because it starts from the Begining of Spring (the first of the twenty-four terms in coodination with the changes of Nature). Its origin is too old to be traced. Several explanations are hanging around. All agree, however, that the word Nian, which in modern Chinese solely means “year“, was originally the name of a monster beast that started to prey on people the night before the beginning of a new year.,The Christmas began and background.,The name christmas is short for “christs mass“. a mass is a kind of church service. christmas is a religious festival. it is the day we celebrate as the birthday of jesus. there are special christmas services in christian churches all over the world. but many of the festivities of christmas do not have anything to do with religion. exchanging gifts and sending christmas cards are the modern ways of celebrating the christmas in the world.,6,The Spring Festival and Christmas foods.,7,Spring Festival food,dumplings,eight-treasure rice pudding,dumplings made of sweet ric,New Year cake,8,fish,the mutton string,red dates,red melon seed,9,The Christmas food.,Turkey,Salmon(三文鱼）,Smoked ham（烟熏火腿）,10,The Christmas pudding,Pumpkin pie,Christmas candy,11,The Spring Festival customs.,The Spring Festival is the most important festival in China.People usually decorate the doors and windows with red papercuts.becouse red means good luck.People usually clean house too.becouse they want to sweep away bad luck.Children can get some new clothes or presents from their parents and grandparents.,12,On New Years Eve,family always have a big dinner.Everybody are watch TV and talk.In the midnight,there usually fairworks.,13,On New Years Day,people usually put on their new clothes and visit their femily and friends.They usually say:“Happy New Years Day.“ The Spring Festival finishes at the Lantern Festival after two weeks.People usually eat a kind of rice dumpling called yuanxiao.It can take people good luck all the year round.,14,On New Years day, people offer sacrifices to their ancestors to express thoughts and respect .,15,Christmas customs.,Most children believe that Santa Claus lives at the North Pole. All year he lists the names of children, both those who have been good and those who have been bad. He decides what presents to give to the good children. Each child hung a stocking, or sock, over the fireplace. Santa entered down the chimney and left candy and presents inside the socks for the children. On the morning of Christmas day. Each child cant wait to open his or her eyes to see what Santa has left in the stocking.,Another important custom of Christmas is to send and receive Christmas cards, which are meant to help express the sentiment of the season. Americans begin sending Christmas cards early in December to friends, acquaintances, and co-workers. The post office advises customers to mail early in the season and avoid the Christmas rush. Some people heed the advice; others wait until the last minute and then are upset when their loved ones have not received the greeting card or the present which they sent.,Christmas Eve is vulgar to say Christmas Eve evening . In this evening will see a group of cute little boys and little girls, holding poetry piano to guitar, singing the poetry of one a good news report.,The Spring Festival entertainment,Like Chirstmas in the United States,the Chinese New Year is a time for family gaiherings and hoilday meals. .After dinner,people play cards,play mahjong,and watch TV until midnight.Some people stay up all night.,lion dance (The lion is believed to be able to dispel evil and bring good luck.),dragon dance (to expect good weather and good harvests),exhibit of lanterns,traditional opera,variety show,fireworks,Christmas entertainment,The church will arrange in church, with many Christmas activities in the church choir will sing Christmas carols. On Christmas Eve and Christmas, special activities including the midnight mass.,Relatives and friends get gather to attend the Christmas party . They are dancing and singing and tell each other heart sings. They express their care for eatch other and wishes the life more and more beautiful.,Thank you for listening,