David's Homework

An Introduction Of Chinese Traditional Festivals

NOTES-TAKING：
1：Describe the Chinese traditional festivals
essential part of Chinese culture, for thousands of years, not put in law, but observed by a lot of people, major traditional Chinese holidays, Chinese New Year Eve, Mourning Day, Dragon Boat Festival，

Mid-Autumn Festival and so on.

2：What will people do in these festivals
Chinese New Year Eve：cleaning the house，fireworks, whole family together, watching the Spring Festival Gala.
Mourning Day：visiting, cleaning, hold a memorial ceremony for forefathers, pay respects to forefathers at his tomb
Dragon Boat Festival：dragon boat racing，eating rice dumpling，commemorating the ancient poet Qu Yuan
Mid-Autumn Festival：eating mooncake, family union meal, admire the full moon

3：The crisis of the Chinese Traditional Festivals
western festivals are more and more popular, young people interest in western festivals, the government set legislation to protect the Chinese traditional festivals


Summary：
The Chinese Traditional Festivals have been part of Chinese tradition for thousands of years; they are an essential part of Chinese culture. Major Chinese Traditional Festivals such as Chinese New Year Eve, Mourning Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are very popular in Chinese people. People in China even in some other eastern Asia countries will do some special things in these festivals. However, as China is more international, the western festivals are more and more popular, some of the Chinese traditional festivals have changed a lot, or even nearly been forgotten. It is bad for an old country's cultural continuity.

Reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_holidays
http://www.chinatownconnection.com/holidays-chinese.htm
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Traditional_Chinese_holidays


PLAN:

A：Introduction
What I will put into induction：The description of Chinese traditional festivals (the history, the development)with some examples to assist; Specific description of major Chinese traditional festivals(about the date, the meaning, the things people will do in that day); current situation of the Chinese traditional festivals(less popular than before, the western festivals'impact).

B：Body
1：What is Chinese Traditional Festivals
(1) brief introduction about the meaning of Chinese Traditional Festivals, the importance for Chinese people (for example, even people in abroad will celebrate these festivals, even bring it to other countries)
(2) specific describe the major Chinese traditional festivals(such as Chinese New Year Eve, Mourning Day, Dragon Boat Festival，Mid-Autumn Festival),the information about history, dates, how to celebrate, the relation with the Chinese traditional culture.(use some stories to describe the relation with the Chinese traditional culture)
(3) the change in today’s Chinese traditional festivals compared with what it was past(use some examples to show the change in the way to celebrate, the dates and the meaning)

2：The crisis of the Chinese Traditional Festivals
(1) use some examples about some of the Chinese traditional festivals are not so popular to show the crisis do exist and serious
(2) the reason why some of the Chinese traditional festivals are not so popular
a) internal factor：old-fashioned，the idea changes，some policy(use some examples)
b) external factor：the western festivals, other countries'culture
(3) The crisis will influence to Chinese culture (summarize the bad influence to Chinese culture and signposts to the next part about how to protect our traditional festivals)

3：Protect the Chinese Traditional Festivals
(1) directly protect：the government set some policy to protect(use some example to describe whether it is quite useful or useless)
(2) indirectly protect：put the stories or detail information in school books, let the young people know more about Chinese traditional festivals；not need to work in these days, so you have free time to join the celebrations
(3) Others：learn the way to celebrate from western festivals(such as the Christmas sales and other ways )

C：Conclusion
1) the Chinese traditional festivals enrich the people life；it is an essential part of Chinese culture；
2) it has crisis and we should do something to protect it.