Basic Civil Engineering first year Notes- Chapter 4 Building.pptx
Celebrations Eric
1. Celebrations
A celebration is a special enjoyable event that people
organise because something pleasant has happened
or because it is someone’s birthday or anniversary.
Some of the typical traditional Chinese celebrations
presented below are Spring Festival, Lantern Festival
and Dragon Boat Festival.
2. Spring Festival
In China, Chinese New Year is
also known as the Spring Festival,
It is an important Chinese festival
celebrated at the turn of
the Chinese calendar. The Spring
Festival celebrations traditionally
run from Chinese New Year's Eve,
the last day of the last month of
the Chinese calendar, to
the Lantern Festival on the 15th
day of the first month, making the
festival the longest in the Chinese
calendar. This is also the time all
family members gather together.
3. During the Spring Festival,
windows and doors are
decorated with red color paper-
cuts and couples with popular
themes of good fortune,
happiness and wealth. Other
activities include lighting
firecrackers and giving money
in red paper envelopes which
kids like best.
4. The lion and dragon dance
is usually performed during
the Chinese New Year and
other Chinese traditional,
cultural and religious
festivals. The Lion and
Dragon Dance is a form of
traditional dance in Chinese
culture and other Asian
countries in which
performers mimic a lion's
movements in a lion
costume.
5. Lantern Festival
The Lantern Festival is a
Chinese festival celebrated on
the fifteenth day of the first
month in the lunar calendar
marking the last day of
the Lunar New
Year celebration. It is usually
in February or March in the
Gregorian calendar. As early
as the Western Han Dynasty it
had become a festival with
great significance. During the
Lantern Festival, children go
out at night to temples
carrying paper lanterns and
solve riddles on the lanterns.
6. The 15th day marks the first
full moon after the Spring
Festival and of the New Year,
also known as meaning “ first
night of the full moon". The
day is as well known as
Lantern Festival day.
Another reunion dinner is held
with lanterns and oranges
being a large part of the
celebrations.
7. In Lantern Festival, it is customary to
eat special sweet dumplings resembling
the shape of the full moon. These round
balls are made of glutinous rice flour
stuffed with sugar fillings, symbolizing
reunion.
8. Dragon Boat Festival
The Dragon Boat Festival, is a
traditional and statutory holiday
originating in China.
The festival now occurs on the
5th day of the 5th month of the
traditional lunar calendar, the
source of its alternative name,
the Double Fifth Festival. The
focus of most celebrations
involves eating a kind of sticky
rice treat wrapped in bamboo
leaves and racing dragon boats.
