英文季节海报

APRIL FOOL’S DAY When did this custom start? According to a well-researched story of the origin of the day, it was started in 1545 by a rather unfortunate accident. A Norwegian scientist, Loof Lirpa, was staying in London, where he was trying to find the secret of how to fly. The scientist was eccentric, but there was no doubt that he was clever. It seems that his experiments were successful: King Henry VIII received a letter from Mr Lirpa, in which he announced that he had finally solved the secret of flight. He asked the king to be present at a demonstration flight at Westminster on April 1. So the king and the leading politicians of the day stood outside the Palace of Westminster on April 1 and waited for Mr Lirpa to come flying past. But nothing happened and it became the tradition afterwards to play tricks on people in the same way on this day. Recent evidence, however, shows that Loof Lirpa was not playing a trick: he was in fact telling the truth. He had learnt how to fly, the reason that he didn’t appear at Westminster was that his flying-machine had crashed into a tree, and he had been killed. It was a tragedy for science. Most people believe that the first airplane flew in 1903, but this is not true. It flew 358 years earlier in 1545. If Mr Lirpa had lived, our technology would now be much more advanced than it is. The scientist, unfortunately, was very secretive: he hadn’t kept any notes, and hadn’t trusted anyone else with the knowledge of how his flying-machine worked. When he died, the secret died with him. Although most people in Britain haven’t heared of Lirpal, he is very famous in Norway. April 1 is a national holiday, and people remember his flying trip by having ski-jump competitions. They also eat a special Loof Lirpa cake, which was invented by the scientist, and consists of fish, bananas, honey and chocolate. Actually, “Loof Lirpa” wasn’t his real name: if you say the two words backwards, you’ll find out what his name really was—April Fool.

Spring Festval is the most important traditional holiday in China.People can enjoy a seven day vacation.It comes in January or February.people begin to prepare for it one month before.There a lot of celebrations during the Spring Festval like the dragon and lion dance and the Latern Festval.They make delicious food, clean houses and go shopping.Jiaozi is the most typical of all food.

On the eve of the Spring Festval,people put on their new clothes and all family members get-together for a big dinner party greeting the new year.At midnight people burn crackers and fireworks to welcome their gods and make best wishes for the new year.Then they cook jiaozi and encourage one another to eat more for good luck.It is the custom that children get lucky money from their parents and grandparents with a happy new year to them and people say Happy New Year to each other when they meet wishing good luck in the new year.

Now Spring Festval has become a symbol of Chinese culture.