Notice of Qingming Festival Holiday

Dear all,

Please be informed that our office will be closed on April 7th (Monday) for Qingming Festival (also known as Pure Brightness Festival). We will resume work on April 8th(Tuesday).

Any questions concerning this, please contact with us. Thanks for your cooperation!

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第二篇：Cultural Events-festival-holiday

Do you often go to the theatre / the opera /concerts/ exhibition?

Tips

? Yes, I love going, music can be so much better live! All the energy around you is amazing.

? If you average it out, about one every month and a half. ? Tickets are typically around 20 bucks.

? Depending on the season, between 2 a week and 1 every two weeks. Sometimes more or less often than that. Tickets are usually in the $10-15 range, but can go anywhere from free or donation-based to about $35

? Well it depends on who's playing when, but normally about_______. Most tickets I buy are ________, the most I’ve paid to date is_________.

Your own answer:

Is it expensive to go to such events?

Compare the price to the average salary of your city. Your answer:

Do you think that such events are important in people’s lives?

Practical: promoting tourism…

Emotional: relaxing people…

Your answer:

Do you celebrate festivals in your culture/country? Tips

The spring festival

lantern festival

dragon boat festival

mid-autumn festival

Tomb-sweeping Day

Dragon Boat Festival

Lunar calendar

Solar calendar

Gregorian calendar

Your answer:

Do these festivals have special meanings?

Tips

? The Spring Festival: The Spring Festival is the most important festival for the Chinese people and is when all family members get together, just like Christmas in the West. All people living away from home go back, becoming the busiest time for transportation systems of about half a month from the Spring Festival. Airports, railway stations and long-distance bus stations are crowded with home returnees. The Spring Festival falls on the 1st day of the 1st lunar month, often one month later than the Gregorian calendar. It originated in the Shang Dynasty from the people’s sacrifice to gods and ancestors at the end of an old year and the beginning of a new one.

? The Dragon Boat Festival: people celebrate this festival to pay tribute to the ancient poet Qu Yuan, who worried about his country so much that he drowned himself in the river.

? Mid-autumn Day: is a popular harvest festival celebrated

by Chinese people, dating back over 3,000 years to moon worship in China's Shang Dynasty. The Mid-Autumn Festival is held on the 15th day of the eighth month in the Chinese calendar, which is in September or early October in the Gregorian calendar. It is a date that parallels the autumnal equinox of the solar calendar, when the moon is at its fullest and roundest. The traditional food of this festival is mooncake. The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the few most important holidays in the Chinese calendar.

? Qingming Festival / Tomb Sweeping Festival: one of the 24 segments of the Chinese calendar, Qing means clear, Ming means bright. Qingming, meaning clear and bright, is the day for mourning the dead. It falls in early April every year. It corresponds with the onset of warmer weather, the start of spring plowing, and of family outings. Your answer:

What special things do people do during festivals? Tips

? The Lantern Festival: appreciate lanterns, solve lantern

puzzles, and eat sweet dumplings…

? The Spring Festival: purchase new things, sweep the house, paste paper-cut decorations, pay the new year’s call and express the new year’s blessings to friends and relatives, fire firecrackers & fireworks, watch New Year’s Gala on CCTV (a traditional variety show of China’s Central Television, which includes singing, dancing, magic, Chinese comic dialogue, acrobatics, etc. )

? The Mid-autumn Festival: eat moon cakes, appreciate the moon.

? Duanwu Festival / Dragon Boat Festival: eat glutinous rice balls (usually wrapped in reed leaves), have dragon boat racing.

? Qingming Festival: sweep the tomb, mourn the dead. Your answer:

Which is your favorite festival?

Your answer:

Do you celebrate any foreign festivals?

Tips

? Thanks giving day, Easter, Halloween, Christmas, Valentine’s Day…

? How? Karaoke evening, big dinner, give gifts, go watch a movie…

Your answer:

9. Festival/Holiday

Which festival is your favourite?

Why you like this festival?

When you go travelling, with who do you usually prefer to go?

When you have holidays, do you prefer to do things alone or with others?

Who do you prefer to spend you holidays with?