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Unit1 Festivals Around the World-Reading(2)

India has a national festival on October 2 to honour Mohandas Gandhi, the leader who helped gain India's independence from Britain.

Harvest Festivals Harvest and Thanksgiving festivals can be very happy events.

People are grateful because their food is gathered for the winter and the agricultural work is over. In European countries, people will usually decorate churches and town halls with flowers and fruit,

and will get together to have meals. Some people might win awards for their farm produce, like the biggest watermelon or the most handsome rooster.

China and Japan have mid-autumn festivals when people admire the moon and in China enjoy moon-cakes. Spring Festivals

The most energetic and important festivals are the ones that look forward to the end of winter and to the coming of spring. At the Spring Festival in China, people eat dumplings, fish and meat and may give children lucky money in red paper.

There are dragon dances and carnivals, and families celebrate the Lunar New Year together. Some Western countries have very exciting carnivals, which take place forty days before Easter, usually in February.

These carnivals might include parades, dancing in the streets day and night, loud music and colourful clothing of all kinds. Easter is an important religious and social festival for Christians around the world.

It celebrates the return of Jesus from the dead and the coming of spring and new life. Japan's Cherry Blossom Festival happens a little later.

The country, covered with cherry tree flowers, looks as though it is covered with pink snow. People love to get together to eat, drink and have fun with each other.

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