[實用英文] Weird and wonderful festivals of the world內文

 

Weird and wonderful festivals of the world

Mass water fights

When visiting Thailand in April .you may need a raincoat. The rainy season is still a few months off but you will still get wet. This is the time when Thailand celebrate Songkran, the Thai New Year. Songkran is also called the “water festival” because people celebrate by throwing water at friends, strangers, and almost everyone.

Songkran is like a huge party-a huge water party. People hold parades and cheerful splash one another in the streets. The parades often turn into a good-natured water fights, where it is impossible to stay dry. Only older people are spared, out of respect, family members pour scented water only on their hands.

Foreign tourists are favorite targets. They get splashed everywhere they go. But visitors should not worry. This is just a Thai way of saying, “Welcome to our community.”

Festivals like these seem strange to outsiders, but nearly every country has them- and often loves them for their strangeness. Can you think of any in you country?


 Cheese Rolling

Imagine grown men and women rolling large wheels of cheese down a hill- and then chasing them. Welcome to the annual Cheese Rolling Festival, held in Gloucestershire, England. This is one of the many festivals around the world that seem odd, to outsiders. Though they seem strange, the festivals usually keep alive the memory of important evens or local traditions.

 Gloucestershire is a famous for its delicious Double Gloucester cheese. Its Cheese Rolling Festival is hundreds of years old. Some say it goes back to Roman times.

A seven-pound cheese is rolled down a hill and contestants chase after it. There are men’s and women’s races. The first to the bottom of the hill gets to keep the cheese.


[實用英文] Weird and wonderful festivals of the world內文

 

Weird and wonderful festivals of the world

Mass water fights

When visiting Thailand in April .you may need a raincoat. The rainy season is still a few months off but you will still get wet. This is the time when Thailand celebrate Songkran, the Thai New Year. Songkran is also called the “water festival” because people celebrate by throwing water at friends, strangers, and almost everyone.

Songkran is like a huge party-a huge water party. People hold parades and cheerful splash one another in the streets. The parades often turn into a good-natured water fights, where it is impossible to stay dry. Only older people are spared, out of respect, family members pour scented water only on their hands.

Foreign tourists are favorite targets. They get splashed everywhere they go. But visitors should not worry. This is just a Thai way of saying, “Welcome to our community.”

Festivals like these seem strange to outsiders, but nearly every country has them- and often loves them for their strangeness. Can you think of any in you country?


 Cheese Rolling

Imagine grown men and women rolling large wheels of cheese down a hill- and then chasing them. Welcome to the annual Cheese Rolling Festival, held in Gloucestershire, England. This is one of the many festivals around the world that seem odd, to outsiders. Though they seem strange, the festivals usually keep alive the memory of important evens or local traditions.

 Gloucestershire is a famous for its delicious Double Gloucester cheese. Its Cheese Rolling Festival is hundreds of years old. Some say it goes back to Roman times.

A seven-pound cheese is rolled down a hill and contestants chase after it. There are men’s and women’s races. The first to the bottom of the hill gets to keep the cheese.