The Dragon Boat Festival, also called the Duanwu Festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese calendar. For thousands of years, the festival has been marked by eating zong zi (glutinous rice（糯米）wrapped...
-The 15th day of the 1st lunar month is the Chinese Lantern Festival because the first lunar month is called yuan-month and in the ancient times people called night Xiao. The 15th day is the first night to see a full moon. So the day is also called Y...
Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon（新月）on the first day of the new year and ends on the full moon（满月）15 days later. The 15th day of the new year is called the Lantern Festival（元宵节）, which is celebrated at night with la...
Anchor: When the Christmas carol is sounding everywhere in the United States to highlight the holiday season, some economists in the country are giving dismal predictions that this could be the worst holiday shopping season since 1991. The shopping s...
BBC Learning English On The Town 都市掠影 About this script The Royal Festival Hall 皇家节日音乐厅 John: Hello, this is On the Town from BBC Learning English where we take you out on the streets of London to explore some of the big landmar...
Todd: OK, Yoko we were just at a festival. Yoko: Yeah! Todd: Do you want to talk about festivals in Japan? Yoko: Yes, OK. So, I think in Fall we have lots of kind of festivals, but it depends on the places so... Todd: What are some things that most f...
People joke that no one in Los Angeles reads; everyone watches TV, rents videos, or goes to the movies. The most popular reading material is comic books, movie magazines, and TV guides. City libraries have only 10 percent of the traffic that car wash...
[00:00.00]After several nights,Nian finally ran back [00:04.14]into the mountains and was never seen again. [00:07.70]That winter,the people celebrated [00:10.06]with special food,dancing and singing. [00:14.04]That is why the Chinese Spring Festival...
[00:00.00]Module 14 FESTIVE SEASONS [00:05.43]UNIT 2 Why do we celebrate the Spring Festival? [00:10.18]1 Read and answer [00:13.17]Read the story and answer the questions [00:15.53]on the next page. [00:17.44]Circle the correct letters [00:19.56]The...
Moon festival Moon festivals a big holiday for Chinese. I took a day off so as to keep myself away from the traffic jam. As I got home, I found there were many moon cakes which were given by my parents friends. I tried to eat up as many moon cakes as...
