Understanding Tomb Sweeping Day in Chinese Culture
Tomb Sweeping Day, also known as Qingming Festival, is a traditional Chinese festival where people honor their ancestors by visiting their graves, making offerings, and performing rituals. This article discusses the significance of Tomb Sweeping Day, the customs involved, and when it is celebrated in different regions. It also includes vocabulary related to health and body parts in Chinese.
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Chinese 1 4-8-12-30 Review unit: Seeing a Doctor Culture: Tomb sweeping Day Review for Seeing a Doctor. Thursday: Oral test Friday: Paper test: Seeing a doctor
Monday objectives: teks: 2a, 2b, 3a, 5a Warm up Review new words Tomb sweeping Day Pair practice with the skit you wrote HW: Review the new words and information about Tomb Sweeping Day http://quizlet.com/_6caof
Monday warm up: put the right pinyin and English to the following Chinese characters. d zi stomach / belly ji n b ng shoulder B i) back T ng/t ng Y ng ) itch Sh nt ) body b sh f not feeling well n l where face (li n) hand (sh u) head (t u) nose (b zi) Eye ( y njing) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. / 18. 19. ( 20. 21. 22. mouth (zu ba) foot (ji o) leg (tu ) hair (t ufa) ear ( r duo) (m i mao) eyebrow ju de v. feel g nju v. think (x g i) knee (y ) tooth
Qingming Festival/Tomb sweeping Day What : The Qingming Festival : for celebrants to pay respect and remember and honor their ancestors at grave sites to 1) pray before the ancestors, 2) sweep the tombs 3) and offer food, tea, wine, chopsticks, 4) light joss paper accessories, and/or pull wine in front of the tomb of the ancestors. 5)Some people carry willow branches with them on Qingming Festival, or put willow branches on their gates and/or front doors. They believe that willow branches help ward off the evil spirit that wanders on Qingming.
When: April 4th: Only in Taiwan, they celebrate the festival on Apr.5th 64 1 2 3 4 5 6 ... 7 8 15 22 9 16 23 ... 10 3 17 24 ... 11 18 25 12 19 26 13 20 27 14 21 28 29 30
Countries and regions that celebrate Tomb Sweeping Day are China, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau.
Review New words: Eye ( y njing) nose (b zi) mouth (zu ba) head (t u) hand (sh u) leg (tu ) foot (ji o) hair (t ufa) ear ( r duo) face (li n) (m i mao) eyebrow (x g i) knee (y ) tooth (d zi stomach / belly ji n b ng shoulder (B i) back / T ng/t ng (Y ng ) itch (Sh nt ) body b sh f not feeling well n l where g nju v. think ju de v. feel
Tuesday objectives: teks: 2a, 3a, 4a, Review the new words about symptoms Review Sentence patterns Learn a poetry: Qingming by Dumu Hw: Review the vocabulary in the test review packet.
Poetry QingMing by Dumu Traditional Chinese Simplified Chinese pinyin English translation q ng m ng sh ji y f n f n A drizzling rain falls on the Mourning Day; l sh ng x ng r n y du n h n The mourner's heart is breaking on his way. Enquiring, where can a winehouse be found? ji w n ji ji h ch y u A cowherd points to Apricot Flower (Xing Hua) Village in the distance. m t ng y o zh x ng hu c n
new words about symptoms: G nm o v.& n. catch Cold/ catching cold. F sh o v.& n. Get fever.; Fever H ul ng t ng n. Sore throat H ul ng y ng , Itchy throat L d zi, v. phrase to have Diarrhea have loose bowels x n v. & n. Nausea Xi ng t v. want to vomit T uy n v.& n. feel dizzy; Dizziness For example : Tom
Review dialogue D: N n l b sh f What bothers you( where do you feel uncomfortable? ) P: W ju de t ut ng, D zi t ng, rduoy ng I feel a headache,Stomach pain, itching ears. D: r ng w k n k n Let me check! rduo y u y di n h ng Your ears are red. H ul ng y udi n h ng. Your throat is red. . Y u m iy u l d zi? Do you have diarriar P: M iy u No D: N g nm ole You catch cold Ch xi y o Take some medicine Du xi x Take more rest! P: Xi xi
Wednesday objectives: Ms. Wu is out today. Be nice to the sub. Please! Practice your review packet. Be nice and work hard!
Thursday objectives 1) Review new words 2) review sentence structures 3) Review dialogue
Dialogue D: N n l b sh f What bothers you( where do you feel uncomfortable? ) P: W ju de t ut ng, D zi t ng, rduoy ng I feel headache/ Stomachache, itching ears. D: r ng w k n k n Let me check! rduo y u y di n h ng Your ears are a little bit red. H ul ng y udi n h ng. Your throat is a little bit red. . Y u m iy u l d zi? Do you have / loose bowels/ diarriar P: M iy u No D: N g nm ole You caught cold. Ch xi y o Take some medicine Du xi x Take more rest! P: Xi xi
Put it in right order N n l b sh f What bothers you( where do you feel uncomfortable? ) H ul ng y udi n h ng. Your throat is a little bit red. P: W ju de t ut ng, D zi t ng, rduoy ng I feel headache/ Stomachache, itching ears. . Y u m iy u l d zi? Do you have / loose bowels/ diarriar D: r ng w k n k n Let me check! rduo y u y di n h ng Your ears are a little bit red. P: Xi xi D: N g nm ole You caught cold. Ch xi y o Take some medicine Du xi x Take more rest! P: M iy u No
Friday: Test day!!! Good luck!!!
