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Dragon Boat Festival
Ladies and Gentlemen, I am happy to stand here. first of all, please allow me give you a brief self instruction. My name is Yan ming li ,I come from Hebei university of economic and business, my major is Human Resourse management, and my major is sino America, so, I wish I can speak perfect English, most importantly ,I want to introduce our traditional culture to Americans, Let Americans have a comprehensive understanding of the Chinese. Today, let me introduce you the Dragon Boat Festival.
Dragon Boat Festival, often known as Duan Wu Festival, is a traditional Chinese festival held on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar. It is also known as the Double Fifth.
The exact origins of Duan Wu are unclear, but one traditional view holds that the festival memorializes the Chinese poet Qu Yuan of the Warring States Period. He committed suicide by drowning himself in a river because he was disgusted by the corruption of the Chu government. The local people, knowing him to be a good man, decided to throw food into the river to feed the fishes to prevent them from eating Qu's body. They also sat on dragon boats, and tried to scare the fishes away by the
thundering sound of drums aboard the boat and the fierce looking dragon-head in the front of the boat.
In the early years of the Chinese Republic, Duan Wu was also celebrated as \Day\due to Qu Yuan's status as China's first poet of personal renown.
The customs vary a lot in different areas of the country, but most of the families would hang the picture of Zhong Kui people eat zongzi (the food originally intended to feed the fishes) and race dragon boats in memory of Qu's dramatic death. the Dragon Boat Festival is still a very popular among the Chinese people's grand festival. The Dragon Boat Festival from 2008 for national legal holidays. Country attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage, 2006 May 20th, the custom is approved by the state council on the first national.
It’s noticable that western holidays are becoming increasingly popular day by day, while chinese traditional festivals are being somewhat neglected. Not long before about 10 Doctors in Beijing university and Qinghua unversity announced that we should reject the invasion of western holidays ,because they regard western holidays as an challenge against our traditional
festivals and culture.
Frankly speaking, I don’t quite agree with them.Indeed, we should never neglect or even discard our traditonal festivals as
China boasts a brilliant history and splendid traditions. (examples).But why can’t we absorb the meaningful western holidays and culture.
There are obvious reasons why some western holidays are so popular in China. On the one hand, some of the western holidays which we Chinese don’t have are reasonable and meaningful, such as Father’s Day and April Fool’s Day etc. On the other hand,the prevalence of globalization enables western culture to prevail in China. Overwhelmed by such a
trend,Chinese unconsiciously get involved in western holidays and culture.
With the further development of the whole world, the cultural communication between different countries and nations becomes faster and more and more important. We are indeed from different nations, but we are the citizens of the same world, so the outstanding culture of different nations is the commom wealth of everyone on the earth.The only way for us to protect our traditional culture is to reject the foreign culture? The answer is definitely no. What we ought to do is to spare no
effort to educate Chinese to get to know and treasure our splendid traditions instead of rejecting foreign culture. Only by educating can we set our confidence and belief towards our culture. Only by educating can we preserve and promote the wealth that our ancesters left for us.
At last I’d like to share a famouse saying of Gandhi with all of you ,that is:If you want to change the world, then you must change yourself first.”