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浙江省绍兴市柯桥区2024-2025学年九年级上学期11月期中考试英语试题
From April 12 to 17 this year, the Dai people celebrated their biggest event: the Water Splashing Festival.
There are more than one million Dai people in China. Most of them live in Yunnan Province. They hold the festival every year for three to seven days in mid-April.
The tradition of water splashing began in Persia the fifth century. Later, it gradually became a folk tradition of the Dai people. The festival is also widely celebrated in Thailand, Laos and some other Asian countries.
They also hold activities of celebration. Many people send out burning lanterns into the sky. They sing and dance in the streets. And colorful dragon boat races take place on the Lancang River.
The most exciting moment of the festival is, of course, water splashing. People first go to temples and wash Buddha statues(佛像) with clean water. After that, the joyful and messy water splashing begins. People use all kinds of containers(容器) to hold water. They flood the streets to chase and play with each other. Splashing water expresses wishes to wash away illness and disaster. The wetter one gets, the more wishes they receive.
A. Dai people clean their houses and get haircuts. B. Everyone gets wet from head to toe. C. It also carries the wish of a happy life. D. It is part of the Dai New Year celebrations. E. It spread to China at the end of the twelfth century. |
Do you like the Water Splashing Festival? Why?(不超过15词)
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