CHINESE FESTIVALS!!

ABOUT THE SPRING FESTIVAL

• The spring festival falls on the 1st day of the 1st lunar month
• This festival is important to Chinese people b/c it's a time when all family members get together
• This festival originated in the Shang Dynasty

FOODS PEOPEL EAT AT THE SPRING FESTIVAL

• On the 8th day of the 12th lunar month,many families make LABA PORRIDGE
• Laba porridge is a delicious kind of porridge made with glutinous rice, millet
• ,seeds of Job's tears, jujube berries, lotus seeds, beans, longan, and gingko

NORTHERN CHINA SPRING FESTIVAL FOOD

• People in northern china will eat jiaozi (dumplings)

SOUTHERN CHINA SPRING FESTIVAL FOOD

• Souther Chinese eat nian gao
• Nian gao is a new year cake made of glutinous rice flour

BUYING THINGS FOR THE SPRING FESTIVAL

• Everybody goes out to purchase necessities for the new year.
• Materials not only include: edible oil, rice, flour, chicken,
• ,duck, fish, and meat but also fruit, candies, and kinds of nuts
• They also buy decorations, new clothes and shoes for the children
• As well as gifts for the elderly, friends, and family .

CUSTOMS

• Before the new year comes, the people completely clean
• The indoors and outdoors of their home.
• Then people begin decorating their clean rooms featuring an atmosphere
• Of rejoicing and festivity

FIREWORKS!!

• Burning fireworks was once the most typical custom on the spring festival
• Then it was forbidden in big cities once the gov't took security,noise,
• and pollution factors into consideration.

DANCING

• Lion dancing
• Dragon lantern dancing
• Lantern festivals
• And temple fairs will be held for days.

THE MID AUTUMN FESTIVAL

• The story of how the festival started is that there was a man
• Named Hou Yi. He was a hero for shooting down nine suns that burned
• The crops and dire the poverty. Peng Meng was jealous of him. Then one
• Day he ran into the empress of Heaven Wangmu, and gave him a parcel
• Of elixir and said one would ascend immediately to heaven & become

CONTINUED…

• A celestial being. Hou Yi did not want to be away from his wife,
• So he gave the elixir to her for safe keeping. Latter Hou Yi was hunting
• When Peng Meng went to his wife and demanded her to give him the elixir
• She refused and took it herself. Hou Yi came home and heard what happened
• From the maid servants. He looked up at the sky and called her name.

CONTINUED…

• The moon was especially clear and bright and on it was a swaying shadow
• That was exactly like his wife. Hou Yi had an incense table arranged in the
• Back garden that his wife loved, and put sweet meats and fresh fruits so
• She would enjoy.

HOW POEPLE STARTED CELEBRATING!!

• People heard the story & did the same thing Hou Yi did for his wife
• They prayed for the wife to have good fortune and peace.
• The custom of worshiping the moon spread among the people

CONTINUED …

• People in different places follow different customs, but
• All show their love and longing for a better life.

FOODS!😋

• Moon cakes are eaten to celebrate the mid autumn festival

CHINESE PAINTING!!

CHINESE PAINTING TOOLS

• The two main mediums used in all Chinese painting and calligraphy
• are paper and silk.
• The silk is used for painting and calligraphy is a Chinese invention
• Pine scoot ink is usually used in Chinese painting
• Scoot is bound together using many glues, then compressed into sticks

COLORS

• All colors are mineral pigments ground into a fine powder
• and suspended in a wet medium that makes colored paint
• Malachite is for green, azurite for blue, cinnabar for red,
• the colors will never fade.

BRUSHES!!

• The brush used has a long handle made of wood or bamboo
• with animal hairs
• Fancy brush handles can be ceramic, jade or lacquer
• The tip can be long, short, thick, thin, stiff, soft.

LANDSCAPES

• There are 3 genres, landscape, figure painting, and bird & flower painting
• Landscape paintings are given the place of highest honor for representing
• the principals of nature.
• Figure painting brings into focus about man depicted as a tiny spec a midst
• the creative forces of the universe.

CONTINUED…

• Bird and flower paintings focus the beautiful/details of nature
• that mankind appreciate.

THE END!!

SOUCES

• Www.china.org.cn/English/ features/ festivals/78322.htm
• www.2liu.edu/cwis/cwp/but06/hillwood/chinese/essays/no_essays_02.html