Western festivals and traditional festivals,2018-2019英语班 机电系刘德华,In recent days, the friends circle has showed with Christmas photos. In China, western festivals have gradually become a fashion, and traditional festivals have been neglected. 最近几天，朋友圈刷爆了圣诞节的照片。在中国西方节日渐渐变成一种时尚，传统节日受到冷落。,Some people would ask, why? Facing the impact of western festivals and cultures, what should we do?,Dont worry, lets have a look at Who are the western festivals that look like monsters?,the lovers day,Mothers Day,Fathers Day,Halloween,Thanksgiving,There are many other western festivals like Christmas,Lets get to know these festivals,the lovers day,On loves day, young men and young women send gifts to each other to show their love. It has become a popular festival among young people in Europe and America, and has become popular in China.,Mothers Day,Fathers Day,Mothers day is a day to thank mothers. Mothers usually receive gifts from their children on this day. Carnations are the most common gifts.,Fathers day is a day to thank fathers. Fathers usually receive gifts and blessings from their children on this day.,Halloween,On Halloween, children dress up as ghosts and knock on doors, asking for candy or they will trick. Young people wear all kinds of strange clothes. I think that is a festival for young people to cosplayer together.,Thanksgiving day,Thanksgiving Day was originally created by the American people to thank god for the good harvest and the help of the indians. But now I feel the people around me are just buying discounted goods in this day.,I think we have took part in these festivals. Compared with these western festivals, our country have many traditional festivals.,Spring Festival,Spring Festival is the most important festival in China. The Spring Festival is a festival for the reunion of the Chinese. People try their best to go back home and get together with their family on this day to express their best wishes for the New Year.,Pasting Spring Couplet 贴春联,New Year paintings 年画,Family reunion dinner 团圆饭,Firecrackers 爆竹,Lion dance 舞狮,Gift money & Red packets 压岁钱&红包,Tomb-Sweeping Day,The Qingming Festival, also known as Tomb-Sweeping Day in English, is a traditional Chinese festival on the first day of the fifth solar term of the traditional Chinese Lunar calendar. Tomb-sweeping day is a day for ancestor worship and tomb sweeping.,Spring outing 踏青,Tomb-Sweeping 扫墓,Drogan Boat Festival,The Dragon Boat Festival was originally a festival for the Chinese people to prevent diseases. Since the poet qu yuan died on this day, it has become a traditional festival for the Chinese people to commemorate qu yuan.,Dragon Boat Racing 赛龙舟,Rice dumping 粽子,The Mid-Autumn festival probably began as a harvest festival. On this day, every family gets together and enjoys the full moon, which symbolizes completeness and reunion. At this time, adults eat moon cakes while children are playing with lanterns.,Mid-Autumn Festival,Eat the moon cake 吃月饼,Appreciate the moon 赏月,Look at these ，we found that Both western festivals and traditional festivals are great meaningful. In fact, we like a western festival, pay more attention to form, pay little attention to its origin and connotation. For example, this festival “saint valentines day”, do you know what festival is it ?,St. Patricks Day,Memorial Day,National Flag Day,Columbus Day,Forefathers Day,Lets look . Do you know all these festivals?,We dont like it. even we dont know it. So, I think chinese people dont like western festivals, but those festivals that can express our feelings. Whether its Chinese or Western.,If we want to stop fearing the impact of western festivals on our traditional culture, we should make great efforts in the connotation, form and attraction of our traditional festivals.,THANK YOU YOUR SUPPORT,FOR,2018-2019英语班 机电系刘德华,