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36710Double Seventh Festival is also called Young Girls’ Festival, and the most prevalent custom is that girls pray to Weaver Maid for skillful hands for sewing.

36711Double Ninth Festival is also called Senior’s Day, which not only contains the original meaning of the festival, but also expresses the common respect for the aged people and good wishes for prosperity.

36712During the Chinese traditional festivals, people pay more attention to group activities, and always join these activities with their family members.

36713Traditional festivals are the historical products of a nation’s development.

36714Western culture is structured on the foundation of religion. The religion has an intensive impact on western people's life, and the belief in Christianity is the source of formation of most western traditional festivals.

36715Influenced by the main concepts of Confucianism, the Chinese show their feelings and thoughts freely and directly during the festivals.

36716A famous Chinese saying “the whole year’s work depends on a good starting in spring” reflects that the Chinese place so much emphasis on the springtime, and thus Qingming Festival is treated as such an important festival.

36717The agricultural civilization is the foundation of most Chinese traditional festivals, and expectation for harvest is their origination.

36718There are many differences between Spring Festival and Christmas. However, both festivals are a time of warmth and gaiety, love and laughter, hospitality and goodwill.

36719In respect of the colors and decorations, during both the Spring Festival and the Christmas season, red and gold are the most typical colors.

36720According to “Yes, Virginia”, there is a Santa Claus, he exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist. If there were no Santa Claus, there would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence.

36721There are various symbols associated with Halloween, such as bats, witches, owls, black cats, ghosts, skeletons, the spider and web, scarecrows, vampires, werewolves, haunted houses, and so on.

36722It is widely believed that Halloween traditions originated from ancient Celtic harvest festivals, particularly the Gaelic festival Samhain.

36723Easter customs vary across the Christian world and include decorating Easter eggs, egg hunting, and so on, because the egg is a symbol of longevity.

36724The first recorded association of Valentine's Day with romantic love is in Parlement of Foules by Geoffrey Chaucer.

36725In 1863, Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November to be Thanksgiving Day.

36726April Fool’s Day originated in Germany. When the German first adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1564, some people continued to use the old calendar to celebrate New Year’s Day on April 1st, and these people were called April Fools.

36727The Times Square Ball located high above is lowered at midnight, with a countdown from ten seconds until one second, when it reaches the bottom of its tower.

36728The formation of the festivals actually has something to do with ancient people's beliefs.

36729The origin of Dragon Boat Festival centers around a scholarly government official named Qu Yuan, and most widely-accepted customs are eating green glutinous ball and Dragon Boat Race.

36730Tomb Sweeping Day is on the 15th day from the Spring Equinox, usually occurring around April 5th of the lunar calendar.

36731Spring Festival or the Chinese New Year falls on January 1st, and ends on January 15th.

36732Some solar terms related festivals have evolved into traditional festivals, such as Qingming Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival.

36733To understand the origin of Chinese Festivals, we may first know about the ancient Chinese calendar system which is known as the Agricultural Calendar.

36734In both Chinese and western culture, strict table manners should be observed.

36735The beauty of food image can not be detected in traditional Chinese poems and proses.

36736“Delicious food matching fine utensil”（美食配美器）is not highly valued in traditional culinary culture .

36737The aesthetic appetite of Chinese food culture lies on its flavor, cooking, look, utensil器具, name and cultural image.

36738Different natural geographical environment, climatic conditions, resources, specialties, custom and unique historical development experience have created different food cultures in different countries and regions in the world.

36739Homology of food and medicine is a principle of Chinese food culture, by which the nutrition of food is well perceived through traditional medicinal concept.

36740According to Chinese food culture, food is the paramount necessity of people.

36741American people favor fast food like Burger King, KFC, MacDonald’s etc.

36742The flavor of food in China basically includes sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty.

36743Boston is famous for its roast potatoes and blue crabs.

36744As a nation of immigrants, there are diverse types of food in America.

36745Fast food and carbonated drinks are numerous in America, but there is no drive-in fast food stores.

36746British people would like to go to the pub to have some drinks, play games and communicate with friends.

36747Pub is short for public house .

36748High tea is usually served on high table at 6 p.m. in the living room.

36749British afternoon tea is eaten from the top to the bottom.

36750The most popular dish in Britain is fish and chips.

36751Red boiled eggs are usually cooked and served to celebrate the birth of a new baby.

36752The principle of homology of medicine and food is not used now in China.

36753Yi Yin admired Lao Zi for his governing a great nation just like cooking a small delicacy

36754Shen Nong tasted herbs to distinguish the poisonous and edible ones.

36755There are five features of Chinese food culture, they are nutrition, flavor, regionalization, variety and folk custom.

36756Noodles are the symbol of longevity in Chinese culture.

36757Food served on the Eve of the Lunar New Year is usually full of symbolism

36758Based on regional feature, Chinese cuisines have been divided into eight main schools: Shangdong Cuisine, Sichuan Cusine, Guangdong Cuisine, Fujian Cusine, Jiangsu Cusine, Zhejiang Cuisine, Hunan Cuisine, and Shanxi Cuisine.

36759The western education system allows students to learn at their own pace, through trial and error, gaining experience by dealing with and overcoming problems.

36760Classrooms in western schools can be full of lively and engaging discussion, but it's a rude way to disagree with teachers, or challenge them.

36761In US and UK, students beginning in a school are grouped into classes and they remain in those classes for the entire time in that school.

36762Co-educational schools or mixed schools are those schools where both boys and girls are admitted.

36763It was later realized that Eight-part Essay was harmful because it stifled both creativity and imagination.

36764In Ming Dynasty, the Imperial Examination System reached its period of full bloom, which consisted of four levels: the County Exam, the Provincial Exam, National Exam, and the Palace Exam.

36765In ancient China the success of examination candidates was proudly called stepping into the dragon's door.

36766In the Wei and Jin Period and Southern and Northern Dynasties, actually, local government authorities were given the task of selecting talented candidates, then categorizing them into nine grades depending on their abilities.

36767Quite a number of American students work part-time during their school years.

36768American schools stress the ability of memorization of facts rather than cultivating the students' independent thinking ability.

36769Individualized instruction within a classroom is an important idea in American education and learning by doing remains a highly respected approach to child development

36770Religious doctrine can be taught in American public schools.

36771There is a national education system providing uniform standards for schools in all the states of America.

36772There is actually no definite area that can be called campus in Oxford and Cambridge University.

36773In Britain, a Master's degree requires three years of full time study

36774Admission to British university is by selection based on A-level results.

36775For those people who have missed the opportunity for higher education, the open university provides a second chance.

36776The lectures provide the students with a platform for sharing their views on a given topic.

36777Private schools in UK are somewhat confusingly called public schools.

36778In Britain the accent you speak with, the clothes you wear and the schools you attend are all markers that identify your social class.

36779Under a ban on the sea, officials of Qing government were prohibited from going out to sea privately, but the civilians were allowed to conduct foreign trade.

36780The Qing government adhered to the policy of emphasizing commerce and restraining agriculture, claiming that commerce is the foundation of all .

36781The direct cause of the First Opium War was Chinese official seizure of opium stocks at Canton to stop the banned opium trade.

36782The First Opium War, also known as Anglo-Chinese War was fought between Britain and the Qing dynasty of China. It marked the start of the Century of Humiliation.

36783Pilgrim Fathers are a group of Puritans who came to America to avoid persecution in England.

36784President Roosevelt applied New Deal to deal with the problem of the Great Depression.

36785The German air raid on Pearl Harbour was the direct cause for America’s entrance into the war.

36786In Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln said “Government of the People by the People and for the People shall not perish from the earth”

36787Abraham Lincoln issued Emancipation Proclamation to grant freedom to all slaves.

36788The first shots of the American War of Independence were fired in Lexington.

36789The first English colony in America was founded at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1607, known as the mother state.

36790The Second Continental Congress was held in Philadelphia, and the Continental Army and Navy were founded under the command of Thomas Jefferson.

36791America was named after Amerigo Vespucci, who arrived on the new continent after Columbus.

36792The end of the Wars of the Roses led to the rule of the House of Anjou.

36793Black Death spread through Europe in the 14th century, and swept through England in 1348 without any cure, killing half of the population and causing enormous economic losses.

36794The Hundred Years’ War was a series of wars fought between England and Normans for trade and territory.

36795In 1066, Duke William of Normandy crossed the channel, defeated the English army at the battle of Hastings, thus beginning the Norman Conquest of England which marked the establishment of feudalism in England.

36796The Bill of Rights granted the townspeople freedom of trade and self-government, which is regarded as the foundation of the British constitutionalism.

36797The Anglo-Saxons came to Britain in the mide-5th century.

36798The name of Britain came from a Celtic tribe—the Britons.

36799The three jewels of the Taoism are compassion, moderation and filial piety.

36800Bacon has been called the father of empiricism.

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