1、Spring Festival,Customs,Brief introduction,The Chinese zodiac,Outline,Food,1.Spring Festival,The Spring Festival，also called “the Chinese New Year”，has been the most significant and celebrated holiday of the year for the Chinese nationality. According to the traditional custom, the Spring Festival l

2、asts from the 23rd day of 12th lunar month to the 15th day of 1st lunar month, and the climax should be the New Year Eve and the first day of first lunar month.,The Spring Festival is the most important festival for the Chinese people and is when all family members get together, just like Christmas

3、in the West. New Year is the time of harvest,clean our house,make dumplings,visit our friends,What we usually do in spring festival ?,give children Lucky Money,set off firecrakers,watch fireworks,The Spring Festival is on lunar 1st of January. At the Spring Festival, people have lots of food and fru

4、it, and may give children lucky money in red paper. People studying or working in other cities and countries will come back home and have fun with their families and friends. People ,especially children ,will dress up during the Spring Festival. On New Years Eve, people will have a dinner , watch th

5、e Spring Festival program, watch fireworks.,2.Customs:,Spring Festival, Spring Festival couplets New Year paintings Paper cuttings New Years visit Family reunion dinner gift money / lucky money （money given to children as a lunar New Year gift）red packets (cash wrapped up in red paper, symbolize for

6、tune and wealth in the coming year.),Spring Festival couplets,Spring Festival couplets,Wish you prosperity!,Everyehing goes well!,lucky money,money given to children as a lunar New Year gift,New Year paintings,During the Spring Festival , it is traditional to decorate the homes with new year paintin

7、gs.,Paper cuttings,Paper cuttings,reunion dinner of the New year eve,Family reunion dinner,On Spring Festival Eve, all family members eat dinner together.,1) Fish:,2) pudding niangao means higher and higher, one year after another.,3) dumplings People have dumplings to express wishes for getting mor

8、e money in the new year.,Its based on a 12-year cycle. Each animal stands for one year. These animal are the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, cock, dog, and boar .,4.The Chinese Zodiac,The Chinese zodiac paper-cut,rat,ox,tiger,rabbit,dragon,snake,The Chinese Zodiac,cock,h

9、orse,sheep,monkey,dog,boar,This year is the yearofdragon Next year is the year of,2012,Spring Festival,When?,Delicious food,Visit friends and families,Dress up,Watching the Spring Festival program,Have fun with,Red packet,spring cleaning,Spring Festival couplets,New Year paintings,Paper cuttings,Spring Festival,on the first day of the lunar year,last fifteen days,do spring cleaning