U1 Chinese Festival

Solor Calendar (Gregorian calendar)

Lunar Calendar

Willow branches(柳树)

ascending a height(登高)

The Spring Festival

fall on (节日在哪一天？)

Busy transportation: Spring Festival travel rush(春运)

prelude(前奏) to the celebration:

1. doing thorough cleaning
   1. getting rid of the old to make way for the new and driving out diseases and epidemics
2. making special pruchases for the Spring Festival
   1. fresh flowers → festival atmosphere
   2. Liquor, wine and beverages
   3. Various snacks
      1. chocolates, sweetmeats(蜜饯), scisps…
   4. Fruit, vegetables and meat
3. “Red things”
   1. the Spring festival couplet
   2. the chatacter “Fu”
      1. upside down
   3. Paper-cuts
      1. intangible / lose its inheritor
   4. Chinese knots
      1. Ruyi/ Reunion/ TrueLove/ Ping’an
   5. Red envelopes
4. right line/ left line/ central line
   1. 新年纳余庆，嘉节号长春
   2. blessing
   3. sum up, theme
5. 祭灶神 (worshiping the Kitchen God)
   1. offerings
   2. speak ill = say bad words
6. offer sacrifices to the ‘ancestors
   1. dumplin - gold ingots
   2. bidding farewell to the old and ushering in the new
   3. mental power
7. giving red envelopes

端午

five poisons

Chinese mugwort

perfume pouch

five yellows