1. Unit Ten Festivals and Holidays

2. 哈尔滨学院 外语学院重点课程 主讲人：常 雁 徐晓丹 李人侠 郭明辉 孙 婕 Special Days in China  1.New Year ’ s Day  2. The Spring Festivals  3.The Lantern Festival  4. Women ’ s Day  5. Pure Brightness Day  6. Labor ’ s Day  7.Dragon Boat Festival  8. Children ’ s Day  9. Party ’ s Day  10. Army ’ s Day  11. Teacher ’ s Day  12. National Day  13. Double Ninth Festival.  14. Mid-Autumn Day

3. 哈尔滨学院 外语学院重点课程 主讲人：常 雁 徐晓丹 李人侠 郭明辉 孙 婕 Special Days in the West  1. Christmas Day  2. New Year ’ s Day  3. Valentine ’ s Day  4. Women ’ s Day  5. April Fool  6. May Day  7. Mother ’ s Day  8. Children ’ s Day  9. Father ’ s Day  10. Independence Day  11. Veteran ’ s Day  12. Halloween  13. All Saints ’ Day  114. Thanksgiving Day

4. 哈尔滨学院 外语学院重点课程 主讲人：常 雁 徐晓丹 李人侠 郭明辉 孙 婕 Para1 Christmas  Christmas is a Christian festival celebrated in memory of the birth of Jesus Christ---Dec.25 th.

5. 哈尔滨学院 外语学院重点课程 主讲人：常 雁 徐晓丹 李人侠 郭明辉 孙 婕 Para2 History  December 25 was not set in the West until about the middle of the 4 th century and in the East until about a century later.

6. 哈尔滨学院 外语学院重点课程 主讲人：常 雁 徐晓丹 李人侠 郭明辉 孙 婕 Para3 Christmas — Holy Day& Holiday  For Chris ’ s birth brought a new spirit of joy into the world, and from the first story about the birth of Jesus Christ, man has added endless variations.

7. 哈尔滨学院 外语学院重点课程 主讲人：常 雁 徐晓丹 李人侠 郭明辉 孙 婕 Christmas Conventions  The English adapted many older folk festivals to their Christmas.  In the Middle Ages, English Christmases were times of great fun and good cheer and big and vast banquet.

8. 哈尔滨学院 外语学院重点课程 主讲人：常 雁 徐晓丹 李人侠 郭明辉 孙 婕 Para5 Yule log  Burning the Yule log was adapted to English custom from the ancient Scandinavian practice of kindling hug bonfires in honor of the winter solstice---the shortest day in the year.

9. 哈尔滨学院 外语学院重点课程 主讲人：常 雁 徐晓丹 李人侠 郭明辉 孙 婕 Yule log cake  Celtic and Teutonic tribes honored these plants  as the symbols of eternal life.

10. 哈尔滨学院 外语学院重点课程 主讲人：常 雁 徐晓丹 李人侠 郭明辉 孙 婕  The evergreen holly was worshipped as a promise of the sun ’ s return. Some say that Christ ’ s crown of thorns was made of holly.  Holly

11. 哈尔滨学院 外语学院重点课程 主讲人：常 雁 徐晓丹 李人侠 郭明辉 孙 婕 Christmas wreath  Legend tells that the berries were once white, but when the crown was pressed upon Jesus ’ s brow, the drops of blood turned the berries bright red.

12. 哈尔滨学院 外语学院重点课程 主讲人：常 雁 徐晓丹 李人侠 郭明辉 孙 婕 Martin Luther  The origin of the Christmas tree was believed that Martin Luther began the custom in Germany.

13. 哈尔滨学院 外语学院重点课程 主讲人：常 雁 徐晓丹 李人侠 郭明辉 孙 婕 Christmas Father  The beloved image of Santa Claus as a fat, jolly, bearded old man derives from St. Nicholas, a fourth century Christmas bishop of Asia Minor, who was noted for his good works

14. 哈尔滨学院 外语学院重点课程 主讲人：常 雁 徐晓丹 李人侠 郭明辉 孙 婕 Washington Irving  American writer presented St. Nicholas as a laughing holiday figure. Home

15. 哈尔滨学院 外语学院重点课程 主讲人：常 雁 徐晓丹 李人侠 郭明辉 孙 婕 Thomas Nast  The image of Santa in fur-trimmed dress that ultimately captured the imagination was drawn  By the cartoonist Thomas Nast in 1863.

16. 哈尔滨学院 外语学院重点课程 主讲人：常 雁 徐晓丹 李人侠 郭明辉 孙 婕 Para8 Resurrection  When the Puritans came to power in England under Oliver Cromwell in 1642, Christmas celebrations were banned as evidences of anti-religious.

17. 哈尔滨学院 外语学院重点课程 主讲人：常 雁 徐晓丹 李人侠 郭明辉 孙 婕 pumpkin