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The Dragon Boat Festival
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Write 1 or 2 sentences to introduce Dragon Boat Festival.
The Dragon Boat Festival, also called the Duanwu Festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. This festival is to commemorate the death of QU Yuan, an upright and honest poet and statesman who is said to have committed suicide by drowning himself in Miluo river.
THE INTRODUCTION
Task 1 Listen and fill in the blanks
In ancient time, there was a great poet called Qu Yuan. He couldn't bear the anguish when his mother land was invaded, so he drowned himself in the river. Local residents rode boats to salvage him and drop the rice balls into the river to distract fishes' attention from Qu’s body. Later people memorialized Qu's patriotism by rowing and making Zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival, Duanwujie. That's how the tradition of dragon boat racing and eating Zongzi were started.
origins
Task 2 Watch and guess the meaning of red words
In ancient time, there was a great poet called Qu Yuan. He couldn't bear the anguish when his mother land was invaded, so he drowned himself in the river. Local residents rode boats to salvage him and drop the rice balls into the river to distract fishes' attention from Qu’s body. Later people memorialized Qu's patriotism by rowing and making Zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival, Duanwujie. That's how the tradition of dragon boat racing and eating Zongzi were started.
pain
attacked
save
take away
remembered
great love for his country
origins
origins
Although it’s universally acknowledged that Dragon Boat Festival is related to Qu Yuan, there are still a lot of little-known origins.
During Spring and Autumn Period, people in Central China already formed the custom of celebrating this important day. But it was not until Han Dynasty that the day was formally recognized as a festival.
customs
customs
eat rice dumplings
drink realgar wine
race dragon boats
hang moxa and calamus
wear perfumed medicine bags
make an egg stand at noon
hang pictures of Zhongkui
fetch noon water
tie five color silk thread
customs
pack and eat Zongzi
How to introduce Zongzi to your foreign friend
Zongzi is pyramid-shaped dumplings made of glutinous rice, stuffed with different fillings and wrapped in bamboo leaves.
shape
raw material
what’s inside
what’s outside
customs
pack and eat Zongzi
How to describe the process of packing Zongzi
customs
pack and eat Zongzi
How to describe the process of packing Zongzi
1.Rinse and then soak the bamboo leaves and glutinous rice
2.Overlap two leaves and fold them into a cone
3.Add the fillings and press gently
4.Cross the leaves to form a triangle to seal
5.Tie the string around the Zongzi
6.Boil them for 2 hours
7.Dip in sugar if you like sweet
summary
1.surpass its role as mere food
2.become a cultural code woven through thousands of years of history
3.The wisdom of wrapping rice in leaves reflects both respect for nature and rememberance of ancestors
Today, Dragon Boat Festival in the Chinese people is still a very popular grand festival. Country attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage. May 20, 2006, the State Council approved the inclusion of this folk in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage.
时至今日,端午节在中国人民中仍是一个十分盛行的隆重节日。国家非常重视非物质文化遗产的保护,2006年5月20日,该民俗经国务院批准列入第一批国家级非物质文化遗产名录。
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The Dragon Boat Festival