Mandarin lesson in hong kong -Traditional Chinese festivals

Mandarin Lesson

Chinese traditional festivals are very colorful, they are very important elements of Chinese culture. Most of these festivals have their own special cultural content, which is a coherence of Chinese knowledge, and has reflected the charactristic of Chinese culture. Although Hong Kong and Macau Special Administrative Region have been seperated from the motherland of China, they still have kept some of the most important Chinese traditional festivals. Whenever the Chinese New Year, Tomb Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival take place, the Chinese people in every corner of the world will organize all kinds of activities to celebrate the festivals. It is said that no mater where the Chinese travels, they will always bring their culture and festivals to that place.

中國的傳統節日形式多樣,內容豐富,是中華文明的重要組成部分。不少流傳至今的節日風俗,都具有特定的文化內涵,凝聚著中華民族的智慧,體現著中華文明的特點。香港特別行政區和澳門特別行政區雖在近代曾脫離母體很長時間,但一直保留著一些重要的傳統節日。各地華人每逢春節、清明節、端午節和中秋節,也會舉行各種各樣的活動。可以說,華人走到哪裡,就會把重要的傳統節日帶到哪裡。