Part C
Do research on any 2 festivals which you and your team mates have celebrated. Pick out interesting details to blog about and include your personal opinions about them. You may include photos and pictures in your blog. (20m)
Christmas
Christmas is an annual holiday on 25th december which most students love it. Not only we can enjoy our holiday, we also exchange presents with one another. We also have a christmas tree! We love decorating the tree with sweets, ornaments with a big STAR on the top of the tree. Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. The specific date of celebration for Jesus' birth is traditional, and is generally believed to have been influenced by the dates of pre-Christian festivals. Modern customs of the holiday include gift giving, church celebrations, and the display of various decorations. The jolly mythological figure Santa Claus, or Father Christmas, is also a major aspect for Christmas. Christmas is celebrated throughout the Christian population, but it is also celebtrated by many non-Christian. The word Christmas originated as a contraction of "Christ's Mass". It is derived from the Middle English Christemasse and Old English Cristes mæsse, a phrase first recorded in 1038, compounded from Old English derivatives of the Greek christos and the Latin missa. We really had an enjoyable time during Christmas and we received lots of wonderful presemts too.
Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year is also known as Spring Festival. It is also called the Lunar New Year especially by people outside China. Celebrated in areas with large populations of ethnic Chinese, Chinese New Year is considered a major holiday for the Chinese and has had a strong influence on the new year celebrations of its geographic neighbours, as well as cultures with whom the Chinese have had extensive interaction. It's is celebrated all over the world. We really had an enjoyable time during Chinese New Year and we received lots of red packets too. But we thnk that Chinese New Year is not just receiving red packets and go another house, and take red packets, and this process repeats continuously. To us, we think that Chinese New Year is about eating tuan yuan fan on New Year Eve and building our relationships between our relatives and friends.