MODERN CHINA

FOOD & FESTIVAL IN CHINESE CULTURE

GROUP MEMBERS
MAMUNA NASRULLAH 1246
MOMINA KHAN 1216
MOHSIN MEHR 1106
 CHINESE FESTIVAL
FESTIVAL

Expressive way to celebrate

• Glourious history
• Heritage
• Culture & Tradition
• Connect with family
• Relief from exuating routine
Many types of festival
• Religious, National, Seasonal, Cultural
Purpose in constant
• Bring happiness
• Strengthen our sense of community
FESTIVALS
1. Chinese new year festival
2. Lantern festival
3. Qingming festival
4. Dragon boat festival
5. Double seventh day festival
6. Mid Autumn festival
7. Laba festival
8. Donghzi festival
9. Double nine festival
10. Hungry ghost festival
 NEW YEAR FESTIVAL (SPRING NEW YEAR 15
DAY )
Origin
• 3000 ago Shang dynasty
• Stories (nian monster)
• Sacrificial ceremony honor to God
Activities
• cleaning & decorations with red color
• Ancestral prayer
• Family reunion
• Lion dragon dance
• Fire works
• Red envelope
FOOD

• Fish
• Dumplings
• Spring rolls
• Tangyaun (sweet rice balls)
SUPERSTITION

• Don’t sweep (your luck away

• Don’t eat porridge for breakfast (poor)
• Don’t wash cloth & hair ( wash your Fortune 🔮
CHINESE ZODIAC

• Each year associated

with an animal
LANTERN FESTIVAL

• 15 day of 1 month in lunar calendar

• Full moon after new year
Origin
• Han dynasty
History
• Buddha enlightenment(35)
ACTIVITIES

• Yuan Xiao dumplings

• lantern
• Praise moon
• Tangyaun
DRAGON FESTIVAL

• On 5 day of the 5 month of lunar calendar

• Sun center in the sky
Origin
• 3 century
• Commemoration of life & death scholar Qu Yuan
• Qing Chu loyal
• Chu kingdom
ACTIVITIES & FOOD

Popular Activities
• Attend a dragon boat race
• Made 18 people team
Food
• Make and eat zongzi gluten base rice dumplings
• Port meat or sugar feeling
 MID AUTUMN FESTIVAL

• Held on 15 day of the 8 month of the Chinese lunar calendar

• Known as moon or moon cake festival .
Origin
• Zhou dynasty
• Pray at the place called altar of the moon
 STORY BEHIND

• Ten sun Resulted strong exposure and hot temperature

• People life a misery
• Brave houyi shut down 9 sun and safe the world
• Queen Mother rewarded Elixir
• His wife drank it and leave Earth
MIRRORING THE MOON

• 3 hollow stone tower in westerly lake

• Mid night the tower light reflect 15 moon
ACTIVITIES

• Reunion of family at dining

• Eating moon cake
• Worship & appreciate moon
• Hanging colorful lantern
• Ousmanthus wine
• Giving gifts
• Pumpkin represent (moon & health wealth)
• Rice
• Message to love ones
QINMING FESTIVAL

• On April 4,5
• Meaning clearness & brightness
Origin & history
• Zhou dynasty 2500 years
• Pay sacrifice to their ancestors
• Duke prince
• Joe Zitui the saviour
ACTIVITIES

• Tomb sweeping
• Putting willow tree branches on gates
• Spring outing
• Kite festival
FOOD

• Cold food one day before tomb sweeping

• Sanzi
• Qinming dumplings
• Chingming cakes
• Sweet green rice balls
DOUBLE 7 DAY QIXI FESTIVAL

• Evening of seventh 7 lunar month

• Title the cowherd & the weaver girl
• Based on romantic legend
• Zhinu & Niulang
FOOD & ACTIVITIES

• Qiaoguo sweet pastry

• Girl pray to zhinu for
• Wisdom
• Good husband
• Happy life
ACTIVITIES
LABA FESTIVAL

• Celebrate on 8 day of last lunar month

• La mean 12 & ba mean 8
History
• Buddha
• Sakyamun Eat rice 7 days
LABA RICE PORRIDGE

1. Gluten rice
2. Red beans
3. Millet
4. Chinese soghum
5. Peas
6. Dried lotus seeds
7. Dried dates ,walnut Almond
8. Shestunt meat
SYMBOL OF CHARITY OR TAKE CARE OTHER LIKE
BUDDHA SPREAD HIS LITE TO ENLIGHTENT THE
WORLD
DONGHZI FESTIVAL

• Winter arrival
• Winter solstice
• Shortest day and longest night
• Han dynasty
• 21 , 22 & 23 Dec
WORSHIPPING HEAVEN

• Since han dynasty

• Becoming year bring good Wealth
• Harvest
WORSHIPPING ANCESTORS
HUNGRY GHOST FESTIVAL

• 15 day 7 month of the lunar calendar

Origin
• Daoism
ACTIVITIES

• Worship ancestors
• Ghost too
• Feed them
DOUBLE NINE FESTIVAL (CHANGYONG)

• 9 day on 9 lunar month

• Senior citizen festival
• 9 number represent long and healthy life
• 1989 Chinese government
ACTIVITIES

• origin
• Customary climb mountain
• Tangyaun pavilion
• Merge
• Chi chikun
• Square dancing
FOOD

• Chrysanthemums beauty (wine)

• Chong young cake
 SOURCES

• https://archive.org/details/chinesenewyear00welc
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Gordon_Melton
• https://gbtimes.com/qixi-festival-and-story-chinese-valentines-day
• http://www.china.org.cn/english/olympic/211929.htm
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Ninth_Festival#cite_ref-Zhao_1-2
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)
• https://web.archive.org/web/20100108101652/http://cn.netor.com/know/tcustom/tcust13.htm
• http://www.china.org.cn/english/features/Festivals/78308.htm
• https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/china/mid-autumn-festival
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Boat_Festival
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