英文介绍清明节o.ppt

Qing Ming FestivalBY Group TwolQing Ming festival also know as tomb sweeping day,is one of the most important traditional chinese festivals.lQing Ming is a time to remember the dead and the dearly departed.More important,it is a period to honour and to pay respect to ones deceased ancestors and family members.Because it reinforces the ethic of filial IntroduceDuring the Period of Spring and Autumn in the Jin Kingdom,one of the Kings sons was called Chong Er.An official named Jie Zitui took great pain to cut some flesh from his thigh and cooked it for Chong Er.As Chong Er became king,However his invitation was refused and he flared up.Soldiers were ordered to burn up the mountain to force Jie to come out.Finally they found Jie and his mother scorched under a willow.He would rather die than yield to the power.So every year on that day folks mourned for him and the day before ate cold meals,which avoided making fire.originactivitiesplaying on a swing（荡秋千）（荡秋千）flying kites（放风筝）（放风筝）tug-of-war(拔河拔河)Qingming Day,the traditional tomb-sweeping day,falls on April 4-6 each year.It is a time for remembering loved ones who have departed.People visit their ancestors graves to sweep away the dirt.go out for a walk in nature of spring Tomb Sweeping Day,again call have an outing stanza,is exactly a bright spring days plant to vomit a green seasonal changes,is exactly also the good time that peoples spring swims(ancient times call have an outing),so the ancients is pure and clear to have an outing,and open the custom of the exhibition a series of athletics activity.Down to date,the Tomb Sweeping Day fiesta does obeisance ancestry,grieve over have already died of close relatives of custom still very widely accepted.Qingming fruit(or Qingming guo).It looks like dumplings in shape,but tastes different from dumplings.the wrapper of Qingming fruit is made from squeezed wormwood,rice and glutinous rice.Finally,it is stuffed with bean filling and cooked by steaming.Aside from sweet fillings,people also use diced bacon,dried bamboo shoot,diced mushroom and dried beancurd as substitutes。Food in qingming festivalEating Sanzi(or deep-fried dough twist)on Qing Ming Festival is a convention throughout China.Sanzi is a kind of fried food.People called it cold food in the old days。Wuren rice（乌稔饭）is common for She Nationality,who mainly live in East Fujian,including Fuzhou and Ningde.On the Tomb-sweeping Day,every family will cook Wuren Fan and exchange the food with each other as a present.Wuren Rice is made from glutinous rice and leaves of vaccinium bracteatum or Wuren tree。poem清明清明（唐）杜牧（唐）杜牧l清明时节雨纷纷，清明时节雨纷纷，l路上行人欲断魂。路上行人欲断魂。l借问酒家何处有？借问酒家何处有？l牧童遥指杏花村。牧童遥指杏花村。The day of clear and brightlAround clear and bright showers are so frenquentlWayfares on the rode feel despondentlTell me,buffalo boy,is a tavern somewherelThe lad pointed to a hamlet with blossoming apricot trees way down the rode.Group two